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[VIHUELA] Re: chitarra da gamba

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



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