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Subject: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 01 Jun 00 - 10:00 PM As the old quote goes, "Music hath charm to soothe the savage breast." It has always interested me to listen to people talk about sounds. Why do some sounds soothe us, and others make us want to break things? I can not abide the hooting of a saxaphone for instance. They sound like a giant kazoo to me. And some half wit wringing the neck off an electric guitar makes me want to commit mayhem. Yet, Heifitz playing Beethovens violin concerto in D turns me into jelly. I also love the Dobro, and, the guitar (acoustic) in the right hands.Any thoughts? MBO? |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: MarkS Date: 01 Jun 00 - 10:39 PM The hammered dulcimer. In the right hands it's captivating. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Escamillo Date: 02 Jun 00 - 12:34 AM I like any instrument which sound is not coming through microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers, especially the guitar. Un abrazo - Andrés |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 02 Jun 00 - 08:09 AM hammered dulcimer..yes. There are a few good players. Ed Trickett is my favorite (probably because he is a friend) |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mooh Date: 02 Jun 00 - 09:51 AM Dobro, particularly wood body ones. In bluegrass especially, sometimes sounds like a pipe organ to me, weird eh. The sound of guns melting and conservative governments falling. Haven't we discussed this recently? Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Wesley S Date: 02 Jun 00 - 10:40 AM Moderation in all things - I understand about the sax. But just about any instrument played with precision and passion can sound wonderful for at least half an hour. For longer periods of time I'll take the guitar, the mandolin family, and the piano. And of course - the Tiple. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: sophocleese Date: 02 Jun 00 - 10:50 AM Somebody else getting dinner ready, the quiet pop a cork makes as it emerges from the bottle, a well played trumpet, clarinet, oboe, cello, viola or harpsichord (Thomas Beecham and I have different views on the subject) these are just some of my favourite sounds. I like them all for different reasons of course, but they can be relaxing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 02 Jun 00 - 11:19 AM Kendall, seems to me the key words in your post are "in the right hands." This goes for ANY instrument! Even saxaphone. Granted, what one usually hears is honk, honk, gasp, rumble, squeak, honk. But if you listen to a properly trained classical saxaphonist (especially if he/she is French, for some reason) the sound is smooth and mellow. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 02 Jun 00 - 11:33 AM Well, I like screaming high-distortiong guitar, with wah-wah pedal, bashola drums, buffalo-fart electric bass, and orchestra brass section, and a harmonica all making the walls rattle with pure unadulterated heavy metal thunder!!! There, I said it! BTW I also like cellos. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 02 Jun 00 - 11:42 AM Mbo, I'll join you----on cellos. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: ceitagh Date: 02 Jun 00 - 12:08 PM I love a well played fiddle, whistle, guitar...that's part of why i'm a folkie. I've also found that I melt when listening to bass instruments...bass viola, bass guitar, bass anything. Envy, i guess, since me and my whistles can't make that sort of sound. Ceitagh |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 02 Jun 00 - 12:20 PM Ooops, did I mention THE GREAT HIELAND BAGPIPES?! Fag an Bealach!
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: TerriM Date: 02 Jun 00 - 12:22 PM " here, I've brought you a cup of coffee" or " We loved your band, here's a recording contract and a million pounds" would do it for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Jun 00 - 12:31 PM Any instrument played with taste (which isn't the same as virtuosity) can do it.
The best sound of all (and the worst) - uilleann pipes, hurdy-gurdy, fiddle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Áine Date: 02 Jun 00 - 12:44 PM Silence . . . the breathing of my children when they deeply asleep . . . a waterfall . . . a running brook . . . the sound of Dear Hubby singing to me . . . laughter . . . the sounds of my friends' singing and playing . . . and the mating calls of the yellow lizards in my backyard, especially when they start singing along with me *BG* -- Áine |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 02 Jun 00 - 01:59 PM Hmmm - Áine has expanded beyond music - so: Musical sounds: I like anything except nasty rap and modern jazz, which I would not consider music but I know others do. I love music that tells a story with words, whether folky or not (Mbo, I like opera too!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Jun 00 - 02:24 PM Mozart of course. Especially played by people who can play Carolan (as is the case with Dordán.
Gregorian chant.
The sound of silence broken by a dawn chorus.
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Rose, at work Date: 02 Jun 00 - 06:44 PM I like the sounds of Buddist monks, well-played old timey fiddle tunes, hot Klezmer bands, an Irish flute playing a fast reel with a bodhran keeping the beat, most things in a minor or modal key, snappy drum and bugle corps, a hot band playing contradance music, Eastern European folk dance music, folk music from the Andes Mountains area, anything played by Jean Pierre Rampal. Rose |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: MarkS Date: 02 Jun 00 - 09:10 PM Kendall - Forgot to add this to my last post. Don't give up on the sax. Find the Candy Dulfer CD "Saxuality" and play "Lily was Here". You may change your mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 02 Jun 00 - 09:48 PM Mbo, do you know the difference between music and noise? Noise is vibrations...music is vibrations. The difference is control. To me, all that junk on an electric guitar is designed to produce noise, not music. I really can not stay in a room where that hideous din that passes for music these days is being forced on me. I become a real life Jekell and Hyde. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: alison Date: 02 Jun 00 - 10:15 PM Bacon sizzling in a pan......... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Cap't Bob Date: 02 Jun 00 - 10:43 PM The sound of a wooden sailboat (maybe a schooner) cutting through the water with a nice breeze blowing through the rigging. Possibly someone below decks playing a hornpipe on a whistle and a few seagulls circling around overhead. Cap't Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 02 Jun 00 - 11:18 PM Kendall, that's just you. C'mon, you don't even like the blues. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: MMario Date: 02 Jun 00 - 11:27 PM not just kendall. I can't stay nearby for most modern music...and there is one bagpipe group I love, but have to watch from about 50 yards away because they amplify to the point where it's painful for me... |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 02 Jun 00 - 11:32 PM Folkies! What can ye do with 'em? **BG** --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mark Clark Date: 03 Jun 00 - 12:33 AM I love to hear most any instrument... in the right hands. I never enjoyed the accordian but when Nathan Abshire played it I was there. Kazoo solos became magical when Maria Muldaur played it with Kweskin. I go into rapture over Bird but please don't play Kenny G when I'm around. There is a young man here in my area that plays an amplified kalimba that is one of the most wonderful sounds I've heard. Some of my least favorite sounds include: harmonica played Bob Dylan style (I love blues harp), four rhythm guitars and a banjo playing bluegrass, out-of-tune autoharps, 12-string guitars that don't sound like Lead Belly's, electronic organs (I love great pipe organs and theater organs). I've concluded that the beauty, or lack of it, comes from the player not the device. I think there exist masters of such stature and ability that when you are in the audience will totally captivate you even if you don't normally care for the genre. At a Bill Monroe concert, you didn't have to be a bluegrass fan to know you were in the presence of a master. Same with Barisnikov, Pavarati, Harry Blackstone, Pablo Picaso, Buckey Fuller, Buddy Guy, Chet Baker, B.B. King, Doc Watson, Stefan Grepelli, Brian Bowers, the list goes on and on... oh, wait I forgot Sidney Bechet and Pete Seeger. My point is that you might even generally dislike what these people did but when they did it, you knew it was wonderful. Every time I've decided I didn't like some instrument or another I wound up eating my words because one of these masters came along took the instrument to another place. Now I try to keep that in mind whenever I'm feeling self righteous and closed minded. - Mark
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 03 Jun 00 - 04:00 AM About the only sound that "makes me want to break things" is the bloody electronic drum machine, which can come near to detroying anything it's played with. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 03 Jun 00 - 08:03 AM You're right Mbo. I dont like the blues. To me it is boring. All in the key of E all the same tempo, all the same theme, one main run,(Well, I woke up this mornin'..unfortunately for some of us) There was one major exception, Gordon Bok doing St. James Infirmry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 03 Jun 00 - 11:35 AM MMario, did I read you right. AMPLIFY BAGPIPE? Now THERE is coals to Newcastle! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 03 Jun 00 - 01:52 PM Why is a bagpipe like coal? no one cries when you burn either of them |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 03 Jun 00 - 02:32 PM Why doesn't any one care when a folkie bites the big one? Because someone's sure to write a 12-minute depressing ballad about them that you'll hear 8 million times. |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Valerie Date: 03 Jun 00 - 03:07 PM And why wont nobody write one when you bite the big one? Because theres not 12 minutes worth, and it wouldnt be depressing |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 03 Jun 00 - 03:15 PM HA HA! Good comeback! I like it! :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 03 Jun 00 - 03:38 PM LOW BLOW.. I wouldn't slam a shit house door that hard!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 03 Jun 00 - 03:44 PM C'mon guys, it was just a joke! One of my favorite songs of all time is an 11 minute ballad of the horrors of war as seen by two people in love, very heart rending, especially the fiddle parts... --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Jeri Date: 03 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM Kendall, world's shortest blues song: "I didn't wake up this mornin'..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 03 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM MBO, I take pride in being an opinionated s.o.b. and a sarcastic curmudgeon too. That means I must allow you or anyone else to be the same. Worse, if you can manage it!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Date: 03 Jun 00 - 04:14 PM Thanks kendall! Can you be my mentor? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Valerie Date: 03 Jun 00 - 04:27 PM And can I be your dementor? |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Date: 03 Jun 00 - 06:47 PM I can stand you both as long as neither of you plays an electric guitar LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST Date: 04 Jun 00 - 05:21 PM McGrath said it: Taste. And right, it's not the same as virtuosity. Whether you're playing something or singing, it doesn't matter whether you can do fancy stuff; what matters is that you project what's at the heart of the tune or song--which is a LOT more than the notes. Of course if you've got that AND virtuosity (not to be confused with virtue) what a good thing! |
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Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: WyoWoman Date: 05 Jun 00 - 12:07 AM Ah, c'mon. A saxophone in the right hands can make a body simply melt. Attitude, delicacy and grace are everything. I agree with the drum machine comment above. I am less morally opposed to some assassinations than others, and I think players of drum machines might make it to the "not SO horrible" list ... right above "those who would amplify bagpipes." WW
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