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I am not now in an orchestra or chamber group. I am still looking for an orchestra that is near enough to where I am now that could mean that I get back before 11.30 pm !! there must be one nearer than the one I tried!
'A' - is Warwickshire or Coventry near enough? A lot of small orchestra activity here in need of players! (70-90 miles NW of London if you don't know your geog!) |
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« Reply #856 on: 09:53:38, 23-02-2007 » |
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Ian Pace. I love the instruments. The piano looks very good. O how I wish we had something like this here. We have only one piano (25 years old Steinway) that is reserved for visiting international performers. Since we don't have too many pianists it is just standing there.
Some people perform in public on electic pianos.
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« Reply #857 on: 11:56:54, 23-02-2007 » |
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"Plez cnoke if an rnsr is not requid"
But as rabbit said, "You can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if it's not right."
Then there is always the superb spelling ability of Owl. Indeed....which includes the sign outside his tree house, next to a bell-pull and a door knocker: 'PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSER IS NOT REQUID' The handsome bell-pull, it later turns out (though some of us had the thrill of being ahead of the game by looking at the picture while the parent who was reading was way behind) was none other than Eeyore's lost tail. |
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« Reply #858 on: 12:25:22, 23-02-2007 » |
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Ho Ian, I love the instruments and bow you have posted. I have a Baroque bow now but ( although my violin is dated 1697 ) I don't have a 'real Baroque' violin. The piano looks lovely too ! The bow is most enjoyable to play with... are you a violinist? I find that pressure on this bow doesn't sound like a strangulating hernia but is responsive to dynamics as I have never known before . I am also being trained (  ) to use open strings.. even playing an open e string which is one of those deadly sins in orchestras as I learnt a long time ago!! A |
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« Reply #859 on: 12:26:39, 23-02-2007 » |
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Mmm John, I fear that SE London is a bit of a distance from the places you mention... in fact I was probably nearer to these venues when I lived near Manchester !
Good thought though, I wish it were practical!!
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« Reply #860 on: 12:58:37, 23-02-2007 » |
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A, you can be  , he is a pianist with huge repertoire. May be he plays violin too. Or will I be ? |
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« Reply #861 on: 13:03:41, 23-02-2007 » |
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A, you can be , he is a pianist with huge repertoire. May be he plays violin too. Or will I be ? No - I did study the cello from age 8-10, then dropped that, and studied percussion for eight years, but never the violin. |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #862 on: 13:14:43, 23-02-2007 » |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #863 on: 13:23:08, 23-02-2007 » |
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I love it Ian Pace. I love them so much. Thank you for posting. One is inspired by just looking at them. I can imagine touching them and playing them, my hand touching the keys.
In the first picture there are no pedals. They said in Mozart's time they press pedals with their knee.
I don't see any knee pedals.
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« Reply #864 on: 14:03:34, 23-02-2007 » |
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I love it Ian Pace. I love them so much. Thank you for posting. One is inspired by just looking at them. I can imagine touching them and playing them, my hand touching the keys.
In the first picture there are no pedals. They said in Mozart's time they press pedals with their knee.
I don't see any knee pedals.
The first picture is of a Cristofori piano, the earliest type, which didn't have pedals - they were developed soon afterwards by Gottfried Silbermann. The second piano is a Walter from Mozart's time, which did indeed have knee pedals (but they can't really be seen on that picture). There is a story of Walter Gieseking going to look at one such instrument, not seeing any pedals, and therefore deciding that Mozart should be played without pedal - he didn't notice the knee ones. |
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« Reply #865 on: 14:50:39, 23-02-2007 » |
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"Plez cnoke if an rnsr is not requid"
But as rabbit said, "You can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if it's not right."
Then there is always the superb spelling ability of Owl. Indeed....which includes the sign outside his tree house, next to a bell-pull and a door knocker: 'PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSER IS NOT REQUID' The handsome bell-pull, it later turns out (though some of us had the thrill of being ahead of the game by looking at the picture while the parent who was reading was way behind) was none other than Eeyore's lost tail. Dear George, I am deeply shamed. To be caught not knowing one's Pooh books perfectly is most embarrassing. I was thinking that PLES RING etc. was Christopher Robin. It was, however, CR who wrote; GON OUT BACKSON BISY BACKSON thus giving rise to Owl's invention of the Spotted or Herbaceous Backson. Now that's what I call great literature. P.S. (Joke for easily amused Latin scholars) CUESO SONA AES RSPONSM VIS CUESO PULSA SI RSPONSM NON VIS |
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« Reply #866 on: 15:00:38, 23-02-2007 » |
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It is so funny to read SMS messages on the phone. I am not good at this, but even I write 4 (for u). They should invent dictionaries for mobil phone users. See u all soon.  |
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« Reply #867 on: 15:27:22, 23-02-2007 » |
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They should invent dictionaries for mobil phone users.
Mobil phones should be distinguished of course from Shell phones, the ones where if you type in 71077345 and turn it upside down.... (Or it works with calculators anyway. I don't actually possess a Mobil phone any more. I am now a child of nature and not quite of this world.) |
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« Reply #868 on: 15:33:12, 23-02-2007 » |
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I am now a child of nature and not quite of this world.
Have you been reading too much Herder, George? |
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« Reply #869 on: 15:44:56, 23-02-2007 » |
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To be caught not knowing one's Pooh books perfectly is most embarrassing. I was thinking that PLES RING etc. was Christopher Robin. Dear Mary, Not at all!!! It's embarrassment and sackcloth and ashes for me too, or both of us, or neither. I think I vote for 'neither'. Winnie the Pooh is undoubtedly a work on many levels as I am sure you would agree. I think there are hints throughout the texts which indicate that, at one level, or possibly sediment, all of the sign-writing (I knew semiotics would come in useful somewhere) is done by Christopher Robin*. At the same time though, and at a deeper level and therefore without contradiction, the writing can be attributed to particular characters. It's all terribly relativistic and many-layered so I am sure, with a bit of triangulation, there is a Third Way in which 'Ples cnock....' can be said to be an emanation, simultaneous and parallel, of both WOL and CR .....and AAM too I suppose. Congratulations! We have achieved unanimity on Pooh. (Note. (*) With some subversive category disjunct exceptions such as 'Sanders' and 'Trespassers Will'). |
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