01 Jun 00 - 10:00 PM (#237203) Subject: appealing sounds From: kendall 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? |
01 Jun 00 - 10:39 PM (#237213) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: MarkS The hammered dulcimer. In the right hands it's captivating. |
02 Jun 00 - 12:34 AM (#237269) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Escamillo I like any instrument which sound is not coming through microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers, especially the guitar. Un abrazo - Andrés |
02 Jun 00 - 08:09 AM (#237337) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall hammered dulcimer..yes. There are a few good players. Ed Trickett is my favorite (probably because he is a friend) |
02 Jun 00 - 09:51 AM (#237368) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mooh 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 10:40 AM (#237383) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Wesley S 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 10:50 AM (#237388) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: sophocleese 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 11:19 AM (#237400) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Uncle_DaveO 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 |
02 Jun 00 - 11:33 AM (#237410) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo 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 |
02 Jun 00 - 11:42 AM (#237417) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Uncle_DaveO Mbo, I'll join you----on cellos. Dave Oesterreich |
02 Jun 00 - 12:08 PM (#237428) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: ceitagh 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 |
02 Jun 00 - 12:20 PM (#237436) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Ooops, did I mention THE GREAT HIELAND BAGPIPES?! Fag an Bealach!
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02 Jun 00 - 12:22 PM (#237437) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: TerriM " 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 12:31 PM (#237441) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 12:44 PM (#237450) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Áine 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 |
02 Jun 00 - 01:59 PM (#237492) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Mrr 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!). |
02 Jun 00 - 02:24 PM (#237500) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: McGrath of Harlow 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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02 Jun 00 - 06:44 PM (#237611) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Rose, at work 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 |
02 Jun 00 - 09:10 PM (#237682) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: MarkS 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 09:48 PM (#237711) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall 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. |
02 Jun 00 - 10:15 PM (#237724) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: alison Bacon sizzling in a pan......... slainte alison |
02 Jun 00 - 10:43 PM (#237739) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Cap't Bob 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 |
02 Jun 00 - 11:18 PM (#237751) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Kendall, that's just you. C'mon, you don't even like the blues. --Mbo |
02 Jun 00 - 11:27 PM (#237755) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: MMario 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... |
02 Jun 00 - 11:32 PM (#237758) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Folkies! What can ye do with 'em? **BG** --Mbo |
03 Jun 00 - 12:33 AM (#237776) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mark Clark 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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03 Jun 00 - 04:00 AM (#237806) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
03 Jun 00 - 08:03 AM (#237820) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall 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. |
03 Jun 00 - 11:35 AM (#237855) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Uncle_DaveO MMario, did I read you right. AMPLIFY BAGPIPE? Now THERE is coals to Newcastle! Dave Oesterreich |
03 Jun 00 - 01:52 PM (#237875) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall Why is a bagpipe like coal? no one cries when you burn either of them |
03 Jun 00 - 02:32 PM (#237879) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo 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. |
03 Jun 00 - 03:07 PM (#237888) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Valerie And why wont nobody write one when you bite the big one? Because theres not 12 minutes worth, and it wouldnt be depressing |
03 Jun 00 - 03:15 PM (#237890) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo HA HA! Good comeback! I like it! :) |
03 Jun 00 - 03:38 PM (#237894) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall LOW BLOW.. I wouldn't slam a shit house door that hard!! |
03 Jun 00 - 03:44 PM (#237902) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo 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 |
03 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM (#237914) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Jeri Kendall, world's shortest blues song: "I didn't wake up this mornin'..." |
03 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM (#237915) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall 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!! |
03 Jun 00 - 04:14 PM (#237920) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: Mbo Thanks kendall! Can you be my mentor? --Mbo |
03 Jun 00 - 04:27 PM (#237928) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST,Valerie And can I be your dementor? |
03 Jun 00 - 06:47 PM (#237969) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: kendall I can stand you both as long as neither of you plays an electric guitar LOL |
04 Jun 00 - 05:21 PM (#238185) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: GUEST 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! |
05 Jun 00 - 12:07 AM (#238301) Subject: RE: BS: appealing sounds From: WyoWoman 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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