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22 Feb 10 - 01:40 PM (#2846825) Subject: truly affordable instruments From: GUEST,leeneia I was searching for videos of recorder music last night and came upon a video by the Flanders Recorder Quartet with new instruments: embasure Do they empty the instruments themselves, I wonder, or let someone else do it for them? One way eases the nerves, the other preserves accuracy in performing. (While you are at it, check out their other videos for some of the world's finest recorder music.) |
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22 Feb 10 - 05:10 PM (#2847042) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: katlaughing That was great! When I first read your note, I couldn't imagine what they would need to empty out of their instruments and then I though, maybe spit? Eewww! So ya got me...good one! |
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22 Feb 10 - 06:11 PM (#2847091) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: GUEST,leeneia it occurred to me later that perhaps they don't empty the instruments completely. Perhaps they merely engage in precision imbibing, then play. |
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22 Feb 10 - 06:31 PM (#2847111) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Amos If they were holding them up instead of down they'd look like the lot at my local... A |
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23 Feb 10 - 12:22 AM (#2847301) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Gurney Serious, skilled musicians. Why didn't they leave some liquid in there and make a xylophone, though? |
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23 Feb 10 - 02:27 AM (#2847325) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Dave Hanson Jug bands beat them to it. Dave H |
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23 Feb 10 - 03:08 AM (#2847345) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: BusyBee Paul That's how to "wet your whistle"! |
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23 Feb 10 - 04:29 AM (#2847373) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Mr Happy .....reminds me of last Christmas with friends. After dinner, we had crackers [the kind you pull] with a music score of 'Jingle Bells' and some single note whistles. There were 10 whistles but only 6 of us, so some of us had to blow 2 whistles. It was hilarious!! |
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23 Feb 10 - 05:57 AM (#2847423) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: GUEST,concerned pink oboe? |
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23 Feb 10 - 10:17 AM (#2847623) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Jack Blandiver See this too: John White's Drinking & Hooting Machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sleSon6U1k The more you drink, the lower it gets... |
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23 Feb 10 - 04:16 PM (#2847998) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the new link, Suibhne. A haunting arrangement, don't you think? |
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23 Feb 10 - 04:29 PM (#2848014) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Bobert Ya'll outta hear the sound I get outta my monnshine jug... Sweet, Lord, what a sound!!! B~ |
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23 Feb 10 - 10:18 PM (#2848335) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: GUEST,leeneia "Sweet, Lord, what a sound!!!" Is that why they wrote the words Yo ho ho hee hee hee little brown jug, how I love thee? ====== It's okay to have the jug, just so you don't put any moonshine in it. That stuff's bad for you. |
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23 Feb 10 - 11:55 PM (#2848379) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Genie I've tried "bottle band" before, folks, and, believe me, that is a helluva lot harder than it looks! Kudos to those excellent (and patient) musicians! Genie |
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24 Feb 10 - 05:29 AM (#2848504) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Acorn4 Certainly different but I'm not sure I could sit through a whole evening of it. I think the New Rope String Band do something similar. |
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24 Feb 10 - 06:19 AM (#2848539) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: Jack Blandiver A haunting arrangement, don't you think? Absolutely, though maybe not quite so haunting as the impromptu performance we did in the very resonant cellars of Belsay Hall in Northumberland several years back - four us, the family band in fact, Rachel & I with my son & daughter, drinking bottles of water to quench our thirsts and hooting merrily into the echoing ambience. Some punters thought it was some sort of art installation (they get used to that on Tyneside) and one couple thought we were doing it to commune with the ghosts of the place! |
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24 Feb 10 - 09:33 AM (#2848675) Subject: RE: truly affordable instruments From: GUEST,leeneia " I'm not sure I could sit through a whole evening of it." Have no fear. No doubt it was a one-off, novelty piece. ======= Suibhne, thanks for the story about your family band. |