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« Reply #45 on: 23:13:13, 06-03-2007 » |
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As for least favourite instruments, I can't stand the vibraphone. Especially with the (shhh) 'motor on'. Even the phrase makes me wince - as if someone had mentioned (shhh again) 'fingernails on a blackboard' ...  |
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« Reply #46 on: 23:18:51, 06-03-2007 » |
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Bagpipes.
They give me the creeps...
(sorry, Caledonian contingent...)
Tubas and saxophones don't do much for me either; except for the bear trainer in Petrushka (tuba) and L'Arlesienne (sax).
Rehearsing with either tubas or piccolos in a small room is a very painful experience (I know, I've had to do it...) My idea of hell is endless repetitions of the Hindemith Tuba Sonata in a room barely big enough for two humans and an upright piano.
But I do like 'most anything else, even vibraphones! (Makes me think of Jacques Tati - M Hulot's 'Oliday!)
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« Reply #47 on: 00:08:51, 07-03-2007 » |
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Agreed, Roslyn - coming from the generation of kids who watched Tony Hart on "Vision On" on tv, I couldn't NOT like the vibraphone  But I like saxophones too, especially in groups of 2-3 (or more)... there's something about the coalescence of overtones involved when multiple saxophones play together that's especially attractive for me? I also like working with saxophonists... perhaps it's for the wrong reasons, because the economics of it mean that there's only enough work around for so very few players, but I've never found a saxophonist who wasn't really outstanding as a musician to work with And I like tubists for the same reason - they are so happy when you say you like what they do, it obviously happens sadly rarely in their lives |
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« Reply #48 on: 00:24:27, 07-03-2007 » |
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Not that wild about the acoustic guitar, nor the harp. Actually, the panpipes suffered from overkill through their excessive use in BBC documentaries in the 1980s (not necessarily with any connection to Peru or anywhere in South America).
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« Reply #49 on: 11:10:12, 07-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #50 on: 11:53:50, 07-03-2007 » |
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Agreed, Roslyn - coming from the generation of kids who watched Tony Hart on "Vision On" on tv, I couldn't NOT like the vibraphone Anyone know what that piece was called/ who it was by? It seems to have acquired an interesting "social trace", if I might put it like that! |
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« Reply #51 on: 12:05:03, 07-03-2007 » |
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 It's just been on R3: R Strauss: Oboe Concerto Heinz Holliger (oboe) Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Michael Gielen (conductor) MMG MCD 10006 |
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« Reply #52 on: 12:09:47, 07-03-2007 » |
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Agreed, Roslyn - coming from the generation of kids who watched Tony Hart on "Vision On" on tv, I couldn't NOT like the vibraphone Anyone know what that piece was called/ who it was by? It seems to have acquired an interesting "social trace", if I might put it like that! Rmuse, I've just checked out the Vision On site! Here: http://www.its-prof-again.co.uk/vision_on.htmThe 'gallery' music is called 'Leftbank 2' by Wayne Hill. So now we know! Sounds a very modernist title... |
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« Reply #53 on: 12:28:08, 07-03-2007 » |
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Thank you Martle! One of life's little mysteries solved (and also proof of a sort that being called Wayne does not necessarily condemn one to a life of slobbishness!)
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« Reply #54 on: 12:31:53, 07-03-2007 » |
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Indeed, Rmuse! And no doubt my all-time favourite sax player Wayne Shorter would agree.  |
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« Reply #55 on: 18:57:31, 08-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #56 on: 12:53:41, 09-03-2007 » |
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Might I just enter a plea here for the idea that it's normally the music that's the problem, not the instrument(s)? Surely there's something beautiful (whatever one might think is beautiful) to be written for and/or played on ANY instrument? At least that's always been an axiom of mine.
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« Reply #57 on: 13:34:49, 09-03-2007 » |
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Surely there's something beautiful (whatever one might think is beautiful) to be written for and/or played on ANY instrument? You've done it now, Richard... stand-by for sob-story letters from players of all the Ugly Duckling instruments, begging you for new works :-) I look forward to your first trios for Strohviol, Musical saw and Concertina... your new Mouth-Organ Concerto (for mouth-organ and cello orchestra)... or Quartet For The End Of Term (for musical glasses, ophicleide, bass mandolin and bagpipes) :-) Still, just think - even Haydn had to write all those Baryton trios :-) |
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« Reply #58 on: 14:57:30, 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....  There is a museum of musical instruments in Brussels, which has a section on folk music (hope I'm not going to be banned from the board for this - I was more or less expelled from LIEDER-L for the offence of mentioning f*** m****!!) and the development of the cornemuse - which was what bagpipes were/are known as in France and French-speaking countries. |
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« Reply #59 on: 15:06:18, 09-03-2007 » |
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...and the development of the cornemuse - which was what bagpipes were/are known as in France and French-speaking countries.
the Chinese name for the chicken, Ho-Heng, meaning literally "winged bagpipe causing maximum distress to philosophers" errors mine: from memory |
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