On 5 January 2012 02:49, Felicia Dale <[email protected]> wrote: Arle, I've noticed that if I play someone else's gurdy that after a little while it starts sounding like my Volksgurdy. This happens whether I do set up on it or not. I don't know why this happens. I've also given my instrument to others to play and after a while it will sound very different and when I take it back it seems to take a few minutes before it starts sounding the way I want it to again. Very strange.
Felicia. Hi Felicia and All, no, this is not strange at all and here some explanations as to why: 1. Dizzy Gillespie let NOBODY touch or play his trumpet. His fellow musicians thought he was a bit eccentric and OTT (over the top) and one quiet night I asked him as to why he was so particular about his beloved trumpet. And he explained to me that when somebody else played his trumpet the vibes changed and that it would take him some time to get HIS sound out of his own trumpet back. Although I nodded, back then I really had no idea what he was talking about (a bit similar to the situation with Felicia in Southampton, when she charged across the room to close a window which I had opened next to her gurdy. Back then I could not understand what damage fresh air could do to an instrument) :-))) 2. Referring to vibes: several experiments have been done with clocks, 15 clocks work fine and when one has been changed either too slow or to fast, within a certain period of time all other 14 clocks adapt the speed of the odd one out. So far nobody knows why. 3. The US institute in Boulder Colorado (www.*heartmath*.org) has been researching the heart intelligence for almost 20 years in order to archive better stress management and also anger control. They scientifically verified that appreciation, gratitude, love etc. produce coherent heart rates (EKG) whereas scorn, critic, anger etc. produce incoherent heart rates and a very different electromagnetic heart field. The coherent heart field is much stronger, balanced and has a wider radius than an angered, disappointed, bitter incoherent heart field and of course both types of electromagnetic heart field influence the body either way: coherent and stress releasing or incoherent and therefore stress supporting. The institute works in many projects throughout the US to help kids in disadvantage backgrounds and also GI's to control their stress levels. According to the research results of Heartmath a coherent heart learns much better and is able to make more balanced observations and therefore also more balanced decisions. 4. Researchers especially in the US and Germany played different types of music to plants. (sps.nus.edu.sg/~tanshenm/2172.pdf<http://sps.nus.edu.sg/%7Etanshenm/2172.pdf>) Overall it can be said that classical music and especially Sitar music stimulate not only germination but also growth; some plants grew around the speakers; whereas some plants did not like heavy metal music for example and grew much slower and also away from the speakers. The same experiment was done speaking to plants, praising or insulting them. The praised plants grew rapidly and looked good whereas the insulted plants grew very little, looked sickly or even died!! 5. Dr. Dean Dauger (http://dauger.com/Dauger.com/ and http://lib.stanford.edu/atom-box-hd-app) wrote a programme about 15 years ago visualising the Hydrogen atomic orbitals, the three-dimensional states that the electron occupies in Hydrogen, a prime and otherwise unwieldy example of Quantum Mechanics. When the hydrogen atom gets exited it changes its orbit and each atom has an unlimited possibility of movements. It blew my mind when I got this programme in 1995/96 and I contacted Dean Dauger who explained his findings and I began to understand that human and other objects are linked, or better influence each other on a much deeper level than I had understood so far. So the "simple" summary is: We play music with our hearts and while doing it we influence the way our instruments work, they way they vibrate. Saludos Christa > On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Arle Lommel wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > Thanks for all this information. I didn't note your mails until today as > my mail program didn't alert me when they came in, so apologies for my > tardy response. Interesting that the person who made the notes (I don't > find the name right off) was aware of the deficiencies. He also notes the > following at the end: > > The hurdy-gurdy used for this recording has a very good rhythmic effect, > clear and strong, but the melody has no volume. The reason is that it was > designed for a D tuning, id set, with two “chanterelles” supporting a high > tension. The G tuning, used by Mr. Vasson on the record, is lower, and the > string vibrations may be improper in comparison of the [sic] body. You may > have noticed it when you first listened to that record. As it was > impossible to make to make Mr. Vasson play on another hurdy-gurdy, we tried > our best with what we had, without using electronic system [sic] to modify > the natural sound. > > > I was talking to Bob Green once and he said that one of his biggest > frustrations in teaching people was that he'd spend a few hours getting > their instruments into what he considered playable shape and by the next > day they’d have them back to the way they were, completely undoing > everything they did. He said the problem was that people knew what they > wanted and would go back to it, even if it wasn't right for the music he > was teaching them. Seems like Vasson knew what his instrument should sound > like and stuck to it, even if others disagreed. > > Best, > > Arle > > > > On Dec 27, 2011, at 20:50 , Kevin Hughes wrote: > > Arle Lommel wrote: > > This one is performed a violone, so you can hear that the wheel is out and > the rosin is less than ideal. > > > This is mentioned in the notes ( > http://lfs.alexanderstreet.com/liner/2dc384e01e7f768afacc547b9b5e8d1c/FW08747.pdf) > : > … > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hurdygurdy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy > > The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at > http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. 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