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Organistin
post Jul 6 2011, 07:36 PM
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I think Mont Blanc would win if you could get a violin up there!

erm....don't mention that as my father does not live too far from the Mont Blanc actually and I am going to visit him this December (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)


Excellent. Up you go then!
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post Jul 6 2011, 07:51 PM
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I think Mont Blanc would win if you could get a violin up there!

erm....don't mention that as my father does not live too far from the Mont Blanc actually and I am going to visit him this December (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)


Excellent. Up you go then!

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post Jul 6 2011, 08:59 PM
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Well the strings would go sharp. I wouldn't fancy gut strings up there.

I once played Handel's Firework Suite on the back of a lorry on the seafront at midnight to accompany the New Year fireworks. The strings went horrifically sharp, and we all ended up playing in half position to compensate. It was

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Another chilly playday was the first of May (which, as Morris dancers will know, is the real May Day). Hubby dances in the dawn every May Day at a remote lighthouse on a cliff top with only the odd sheep for company (and his musician, of course).

We were doing okay until the police turned up......but only to photograph the spectacular sunrise, you understand!!
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post Jul 7 2011, 07:34 AM
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Didn't someone once take a piano up Ben Nevis (or somewhere like that) and play it?

'tis true. Someone claimed to have carted a church organ up there but the photos definitely look like piano remains.

http://www.jmt.org/news.asp?s=2&cat=La...;nid=JMT-N10061
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post Jul 7 2011, 07:39 AM
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Didn't someone once take a piano up Ben Nevis (or somewhere like that) and play it?

'tis true. Someone claimed to have carted a church organ up there but the photos definitely look like piano remains.

http://www.jmt.org/news.asp?s=2&cat=La...;nid=JMT-N10061


I don't even want to think how much that would have hurt lifting that piano up there.
That means there is no excuse for us violinists in our quest for extreme violining!
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post Jul 7 2011, 08:40 AM
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I think we should definitely have a separate woodwind competition... I have played the clarinet sitting on top of our garden shed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jul 7 2011, 08:48 AM
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I think we should definitely have a separate woodwind competition... I have played the clarinet sitting on top of our garden shed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


Fantastic!
I know the Northern Sinfonia went up on the roof of the sage once with their instruments for a photoshoot. I don't know how many of them played up there, but Bradley Creswick certainly did.
Here's the link to the picture
http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/classic-f...rn-sinfonia/30/
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post Jul 7 2011, 02:44 PM
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Have you seen Robert Doisneau's photos of a cellist playing up a mountain.

He did a whole lot of photos with the cellist and comedian Maurice Blaquet that you can often find in good card shops. I've got one somewhere of an arm sticking out of the closing door of an metro train, just unable to reach the cello case standing on the platform... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Some more here.
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post Jul 7 2011, 03:05 PM
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Have you seen Robert Doisneau's photos of a cellist playing up a mountain.

He did a whole lot of photos with the cellist and comedian Maurice Blaquet that you can often find in good card shops. I've got one somewhere of an arm sticking out of the closing door of an metro train, just unable to reach the cello case standing on the platform... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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Great photos. Thanks for that. He is playing somewhere on the Mont Blanc Massif.
Reminds me of that Bond film where they slide down a mountain with a cello as a shield
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post Jul 8 2011, 08:53 AM
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Reminds me of that Bond film where they slide down a mountain with a cello as a shield

that's the only bit I can remember out of all of the bond films....
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post Jul 8 2011, 08:15 PM
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Fun thread!

I just had an image of a violinist on a bucking bronco. Just try keeping the violin (and yourself) in one piece, much less playing it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Jul 13 2011, 05:04 PM
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I was telling my little pupil about this thread yesterday, she's a champion skier and she says she's taking her violin with her next time and will send me the photo (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
(am expecting a phonecall from her mum..whoops!)
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post Jul 13 2011, 05:45 PM
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I was telling my little pupil about this thread yesterday, she's a champion skier and she says she's taking her violin with her next time and will send me the photo (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
(am expecting a phonecall from her mum..whoops!)


Good for you.....encouraging children to do dangerous things.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Just ignore the call (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Jul 13 2011, 06:06 PM
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QUOTE(miffy @ Jul 13 2011, 06:04 PM) *

I was telling my little pupil about this thread yesterday, she's a champion skier and she says she's taking her violin with her next time and will send me the photo (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
(am expecting a phonecall from her mum..whoops!)


Good for you.....encouraging children to do dangerous things.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Just ignore the call (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


Me and Health & Safety - we're like THIS! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fingersCrossed.gif)
This girl just dd her violin exam yesterday with a dislocated thumb and a bow stuck together with Sellotape! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
She doesn't care, nothing stops her, and she's only 10!
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