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[peter_robin]

Random titbit - Piers Adams and few other recorder players appear on the soundtrack to Fantastic Mr. Fox. Was sat watching the film and heard the occasional sound of a recorder and who's name should appear in the end credits.

As for the film, I really enjoyed it, but I've never read the book and like Wes Anderson's films apart from The Darjeeling Limited which bored me silly...

[anacrusis]

*still reeling*

Yesterday I was lucky enough to have got a chunk of time (or rather, two chunks) for tuition with Philip
Thorby, with YAP as my co-soloist - we played a Telemann sonata with a concertante harpsichord and recorder parts: my goodness, what an intense session......he's got a phenomenal mind* as well has superb musicianship, and though I wasl well aware that I was only able to provide a fraction of what he was asking me to do, he managed to get us to play in a much more communicative manner. The difference between playing for pleasure at home, and producing the same in a way which would perhaps persuade an audience to stay and listen (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif).

YAP and AP had to tell me to put the music away last night - I'd have been going round in ever-diminishing circles, trying to hold on to everything that had been said. I'm still trying to work out how we managed to get aTelemann siciliano to sound like a Spanish dance, and then to find a rhumba in another of the movements....and wondering if I can manage to replicate that when I go back to it.

*continues listening to said music buzzing round in her head, trying to remember not to tongue the second phrase so aggressively*

*Philip Thorby that is. Though YAP does too.

[andante_in_c]

*still reeling*

Yesterday I was lucky enough to have got a chunk of time (or rather, two chunks) for tuition with Philip
Thorby, with YAP as my co-soloist - we played a Telemann sonata with a concertante harpsichord and recorder parts: my goodness, what an intense session......he's got a phenomenal mind* as well has superb musicianship, and though I wasl well aware that I was only able to provide a fraction of what he was asking me to do, he managed to get us to play in a much more communicative manner. The difference between playing for pleasure at home, and producing the same in a way which would perhaps persuade an audience to stay and listen (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif).

YAP and AP had to tell me to put the music away last night - I'd have been going round in ever-diminishing circles, trying to hold on to everything that had been said. I'm still trying to work out how we managed to get aTelemann siciliano to sound like a Spanish dance, and then to find a rhumba in another of the movements....and wondering if I can manage to replicate that when I go back to it.

*continues listening to said music buzzing round in her head, trying to remember not to tongue the second phrase so aggressively*

*Philip Thorby that is. Though YAP does too.

Glad it went so well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I remember him finding a jazz riff in The Leaves be Greene one year at the Easter course. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[anacrusis]

Glad it went so well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I remember him finding a jazz riff in The Leaves be Greene one year at the Easter course. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Hehe - it doesn't surprise me - and did he perform it? He was certainly tapping out some very flamenco-ey sounding rhythms when we were going all Spanish: I thought he was going to fall backwards off the stage (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif).

Any tips on how long to leave trying to play the same piece again to let the dust settle, without losing completely what was said and done? I'm still all fuddle-headed, a whole day later (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif).

[Maizie]

The new Red Priest CD arrived at home yesterday...listened to it on the way in this morning, will be humming Toccata and Fugue all day I think. Look forward to listening to the other half of it on the way home.


Completely different observation...
If you go to any cycling forum, it won't be long until you come across someone saying "n+1". This is a shorthand to the well know phenomenon in cycling circles:
q. How many bicycles should I own?
a. n+1, where n is the number of bicycles you currently own.

So someone might be musing about how easy (or not) it will be to take their road-end hybrid bike out on a moutain bike trail, and someone will inevitably post the answer "n+1", i.e. you clearly obviously need a new bicycle for this (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


I have decided that the proper number of recorders to own is n+1...

[katyjay]

Maizie, that is a marvellously accurate calculation. Thank you for that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[andante_in_c]

Maizie, that is a marvellously accurate calculation. Thank you for that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Yep, agree absolutely. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Katyjay and I did some blind testing this week. It was interesting how the recorder which was too edgy for Baroque when close up (my olivewood Denner treble) was fine from further away or on a recording. I now can't decide whether I need a softer or harder treble to complement it, so it might be n+2. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[anacrusis]

In my case, it's n+1.5 though. Having just got a bass, I next need a voice flute with interchangeable middle sections so I can play at a'=415Hz and 440Hz...

The sound experiments with the various trebles are most interesting: apparently the material of a pipe is said not to make any difference to the sound, according to some research done a while back, but I'm afraid I disagree. I certainly seem to be able to tell plastic from wood...

[andante_in_c]

The sound experiments with the various trebles are most interesting: apparently the material of a pipe is said not to make any difference to the sound, according to some research done a while back, but I'm afraid I disagree. I certainly seem to be able to tell plastic from wood...

But that may be because the plastic recorders are of lower quality anyway, and the difference is more pronounced on the larger instruments. It was surprisingly difficult to tell my new Marsyas descant and the Yamaha plastic one apart.

[anacrusis]

Ooh, okay - I was comparing a Yamaha treble with various wooden ones. It was however also fascinating listening (albeit in a rather noisy space) to KJ playing snatches of the same melody on the same models made in different woods - there were at times very noticeable differences in sound quality, and far more obviously so than the differences in the basses I was trying out - where there were only two woods to be compared (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif).

How are your new purchases going, andante-in-c and katyjay? The bass is doing very well at being played in - it'll cope with rather longer than my smaller instruments did, and is continuing to make glorious noises. I can't yet sustain long quick passages for any more than a couple of bars or so, so the prelude to Bach's first cello suite sounds a bit fragmented, but the tone of the thing is fabby - and van Eyck's "Boffons" is, quite literally, a hoot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif).

[katyjay]

The treble is settling down nicely, and the real challenge is putting it down when its 15 minutes are up....

[Maizie]

Hello...

Long shot...

I got an email from the Red Priest mailing list which directed me to some RP ringtones. I went to the site, downloaded them to my PC, but it turned out my five-year-old phone was too primitive to deal with them.

Seven whole pounds later, I have upgraded to another primitive phone, but one that can at least take mp3 ringtones (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Unfortunately, it can't transfer them from my PC to the phone - I need to go to the website via the phone and download directly.

No problem...except I've lost the URL for the ringtones (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

So, does anybody know where they are hiding? The RP website doesn't seem to link them, and Google is not helping much either (lots of Judas Priest ringtones (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif))

[sarah123]

Hello...

Long shot...

I got an email from the Red Priest mailing list which directed me to some RP ringtones. I went to the site, downloaded them to my PC, but it turned out my five-year-old phone was too primitive to deal with them.

Seven whole pounds later, I have upgraded to another primitive phone, but one that can at least take mp3 ringtones (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Unfortunately, it can't transfer them from my PC to the phone - I need to go to the website via the phone and download directly.

No problem...except I've lost the URL for the ringtones (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

So, does anybody know where they are hiding? The RP website doesn't seem to link them, and Google is not helping much either (lots of Judas Priest ringtones (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif))

If you go here: http://www.last.fm/music/Red+Priest , and go to individual tracks, you can download them as ringtones. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Maizie]

But only if you join Jamster at £4.50/week. Obviously can download 3 of my choice for £4.50 then cancel, which I might yet do...see if I can re-locate the free ones from the new album first (cheapskate (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif))

[anacrusis]

*will go and look*....badinerie Preludio