Confidential to Chris, this is not the worst (not the Best either) of the old recordings. I don't own any of the field recordings under discussion. I have heard enough to lose interest.... The biggest problem in the early recordings is lumpy wheels and squeal. There was something on Youtube of a very pretty girl playing fairly well, but the poor machine was squealing like a pig in a fence. I didn't run that one much, and can't find it now. It sounds to me that Mr. Hogwood is not a HG player, just somebody that was playing at the moment. (Is this this was the same Sir Christopher Hogwood that went on to fame as fortune as a conductor? ) The notes are too passive. I may be spoilt to that zesty, emphatic, precise playing of MM Imbert, Bouffard, Chabenant, et al.
I understand and appreciate your project, but unless you really like scraping the wheel everytime the humidity changes, you really want a twencen laminated wheel. In some of the old instruments, there is some evidence that the shaft was pounded into the wheel... I hope into a pre-drilled hole.... Players that have seen me build, comment on the violence involved, but driving a shaft (pig-iron or wood) into wheel like a nail is too much even for me. I'm not trying to discourage you from something you really want to do, but personally, I wouldn't want an instrument that took all my playing time up in maint. Carved body sounds interesting though. Doing a re-rosin during a performance is par for the course. I never liked performing solo, My first choice for a partner is a good storyteller that can keep an audience enthralled during an emergency re-cotton. I refuse to true an oval wheel on stage. OK call me a snob... Roy On Feb 5, 2008 11:46 PM, Kathy Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Thomas A. Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> and dogs and cats will run from it > > > > Is this a common occurrence when playing the HG? > > > > I ask in all seriousness, because I am quite interested in getting an > HG, > > but if it scares the cats, it won't be welcome in the house. > > We have a number of odd instruments in the house. Besides my harp and > embryonic HG, I also have a circa 1870 Erard grand piano. My husband plays > viola, accordion, tenor saxophone, Irish flute, and smallpipes. My older > daughter is a cellist. My younger daughter is a percussionist, and has in > addition to the standard school-issue snare drum, a bodhran and a medieval > rope tension drum. We have a wooden bucket full of pennywhistles, > recorders, > and bamboo flutes. Out of all these instruments, the only one that affects > the animals (two dogs, eight cats) is a Generation D tinwhistle. I don't > know what it is about this particular whistle, but the minute I start > playing it both dogs put their noses in the air and start howling like > wolves, and the cats all either rush to the door to be let out, or go hide > upstairs. > > I mean, it has to be the instrument, right? It couldn't possibly be my > playing. > > And to the fellow who was going to use that mp3 to scare raccoons out of > the > attic: to me, it kind of sounded like raccoons mating, so I'm not sure it > will have the effect you intended. My attic is actually full of squirrels > right now. and nothing seems to frighten them. > > Kathy Hutchins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
