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When Lully inherited control of the Grande Ecurie de Roy, he discovered he was actually expected to pump-out music for all of the instruments in this strange and exotic ensemble's care. Thus the composer of "Cadmus" and other such delicate works was obliged to produce hurdy-gurdy solos, and a huge manual of "battements" for the solo side-drum....
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They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
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« Reply #61 on: 19:35:56, 09-03-2007 » |
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Anyone here like the toy piano ?
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Anyone here like the toy piano ?
Now we're talking! I can't say it's my favorite instrument, but I find them fascinating... the noisiness, the limitation, the unpredictability, the delightful mistunings. And, as it happens, my desk is currently covered (with a small lacuna for the PowerBook) with a variety of papers comprising the last few months' work on a new piece for toy pianos for this marvelous performer, whom I've known for several years. |
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« Reply #63 on: 21:09:56, 09-03-2007 » |
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Reiner, completely off-topic, but I've just noticed your signature (is it new?), and given our shared 'guilty pleasure' [see that thread] you'll hopefully understand why I now can't stop singing the lines:
They say that travel broadens the mind
Till you can't get your head out of doors
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #64 on: 21:35:13, 09-03-2007 » |
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yup, I caved-in today and added a signature, since everyone else has one :-) I'll try to rotate the text in it now and then, to keep it fresh :-) Nice song-lines!
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« Reply #65 on: 23:20:45, 09-03-2007 » |
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As far as bagpipes are concerned - I actually prefer Northumbrian pipes, although it is not a good idea to express this opinion in Edinburgh....  I like the Northumbrian small pipes, and also the Uillian pipes. Highland pipes sound very harsh in comparison, to my ears anyway. |
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Is there any particular instrument that makes you cringe,? or reach for the off button the moment you hear it? I have a particular dislike for the xylophone....the moment I hear one I know I'm in territory I would rather not be - it is either bang-crash music  , jazz  or awful American "show" music  ...all of which I find difficult to enjoy. How about you ? But do you know that incredible xylophone solo in Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony? Here the instrument is used in a serious symphonic context to great effect. x Jan x |
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« Reply #67 on: 22:29:15, 15-03-2007 » |
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I've always found a saxophone's tone unpleasant. I'm not sure why. Luckily it's an instrument that is very rarely used in the styles of music I prefer. But it does make an awful lot of otherwise good jazz music a bit unlistenable  I agree about the unpleasant tone of saxophones, Ignorant Rock Fan, but do you know the effective use made of them by Vaughan Williams in "Job" to represent the Devil? They do have a place in serious classical music, albeit a restricted one. |
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« Reply #68 on: 22:35:42, 15-03-2007 » |
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Does the human voice count as an instrument? If so, whilst I like some voices, what I find rather vile is a solo quartet loud and with lots of vibrato as one sometimes finds in the finale of Beethoven's 9th! It can really be quite an ugly experience.
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« Reply #69 on: 22:43:18, 15-03-2007 » |
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I want to say that I like xalophone. I would not want to practise one it all day, but as a small child I was given xalophone and I thought it was fun. The sounds are like bells.
Because it has child connection for me I want to defend poor xalophone. I am glad lovedaydewfall says a good word for it.
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« Reply #70 on: 00:35:18, 16-03-2007 » |
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Hmmmmmmmm
Having experienced one first hand, perhaps a chalumeau?
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #71 on: 00:54:03, 16-03-2007 » |
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Well obviously the player you heard on the chalumeau can't have been up to much. Perhaps he was slightly sozzled?  |
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« Reply #72 on: 01:14:05, 16-03-2007 » |
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Maybe schmaybe
Or my ears were malfunctioning....
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« Reply #73 on: 01:18:01, 16-03-2007 » |
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Clearly another possibility
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« Reply #74 on: 08:03:17, 16-03-2007 » |
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It was difficult to judge on a first hearing. It's the first time I've heard the Telemann Sonata for two Chalumeaux played with only one chalumeau but with added drum 'n' bass accompaniment in an unrelated metre. You New Music people, you: always pushing at the boundaries to keep us on our toes.
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