bill kilpatrick
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:34:14 -0800
.. with the icy wind of rejection whistling through their virtual "f" holes these baroque wanna'be's re-live the earliest, early music memories that flash before their modified peg boards and altered nuts ... "perchè?! ..." they resonate bitterly " ... were my origins too down market - my visage not up to snuff? ... were my majors less brilliant - my minors too drab? ... must i be what others say i must be ... may i never be permitted to change!? ..." something new from the códice zuola: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6onE_9pe50 "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand and am also sympathetic, but I am much more fond of "economically built with specific intent" than "cheaply chopped to radically alter function." Best, Eugene At 02:16 PM 2/22/2008, bill kilpatrick wrote: >i, however am sympathetic to this and any other down market attempt at >going baroque. frankenstein was looking for the secret of life and his >monster did, indeed, experience soul. perhaps these deviants will find >themselves sailing into bleak and desolate arctic wastes and end their >wretched existence on a lost and lonely ice flow ... > >"Eugene C. Braig IV" wrote: At 01:00 PM 2/22/2008, bill >kilpatrick wrote: > >interesting curio: > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dvnteWmVLo&watch_response > > >Looks like a weird amateur effort to re-concoct the arepggione of the early >1800s from something that was built with the intent to be something >else. My sense of aesthetics favors the earlier arpeggione. Chop-shop >reworkings of instruments built for other uses rarely appeal to me and, as >far as I'm concerned, are rarely as successful as things finding uses at >least a little closer to a builder's original intent. > >Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=billkilpatrick --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox. --