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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-12-08 07:36
Gee, a Tungsten violin ought to play really great, eh?
Regards,
John
who declines to comment on global warming
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-12-08 12:57
I wonder how a great violin would sound in the hands of a novice player. My point being that only masters currently play these gems and many are actually owned be wealthy persons who are patrons of the arts. The density thing is certainly interesting and probably is one of the variables but wood is such a complicated substance......Anyway, it's food for thought.Thanks.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-08 23:41
GBK - fascinating. Considering, at the time, most of Europe was experiencing a mini-ice-age ...
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-12-09 00:16
No, but I had what my French friends called a "Monday Morning Pugeot"
Bob A
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-12-09 00:20
BobD - a great player (violin) can make a Sky Lark (shudder) sound almost decent ... nothing different here, it's in the player's ability, mostly, the tool is just the vehicle needed to drive around the musical soundscape.
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Author: donald
Date: 2003-12-09 10:20
my friends husband (Sebastian Hess) plays on a fine vintage cello formerly owned by Rostropovich (and loaned by some benevolent arts organisation). The yearly insurance alone is more than a pair of Buffets.
This instrument sounds amazing. Sebastian makes other celli sound quite amazing, but this one "even yet more amazing". The sound when you hear it (especially in live concert) is STUNNING. This aint no Sky Lark, and there's a very good reason there's lots of 00000s after the price tag. In the hands of a novice it would be wasted, in the hands of an artist it makes a significant difference. Apart from anything else, an artist loves a great sound, and if they can make a sublime sound with greater ease they are going to have a richer artistic experience.
Of course, CLARINET PLAYERS will sound the same on any clarinet and mouthpiece, that's why all the best players have Yamaha plastic horns with Rico Graftonite mouthpieces.
hmmmmmmm
donald....
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2003-12-09 14:47
This reminds me of the time I had my teacher play my instrument, thinking that something was wrong with it. Once he started playing - oh my, you could tell who was the master of the instrument. At least a cello would sound the same no matter who stroked the bow across the strings.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-12-09 14:53
Brenda wrote:
> At least a cello would sound the same no
> matter who stroked the bow across the strings.
You wish! String players spend the first few years learning how to hold a bow in an unnatural position, and the rest of their lifetime trying to make it look natural ...
(and the way you hold a bow makes a huge difference in the sound, even on an open string and in the same position on a string. Keeping it perpendicular to the string and in the same place as you move your arm is a lot harder than it looks! Something like golf ... the swing looks so easy until you try it.)
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-12-09 14:54
Donald said in part (with tongue in cheek I hope):
"Of course, CLARINET PLAYERS will sound the same on any clarinet and mouthpiece, that's why all the best players have Yamaha plastic horns with Rico Graftonite mouthpieces. hmmmmmmm"
Sounds like something a basoonist would say ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Bob A
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-12-09 17:16
And all the best players use Rico Plasticover reeds.
You know the ones that splinter in the lip during those exposed solos outdoors during the winter solstice?
David Dow
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