In my younger days, and in a very different life, I was rather deft =20 at playing the stove-pipe, well actually it was a longish drain-pipe =20 tuned to A 440. Any takers for a lute + stove-pipe duet? Anthony
Le 26 sept. 07 =E0 00:36, howard posner a =E9crit : > On Sep 25, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Peter Martin wrote: > >> For more on lutes and bagpipes, see Samuel Pepys' diary for 28 July >> 1666. >> >> "But strange to hear my Lord Lauderdale say himself that he had >> rather hear >> a cat mew, than the best musique in the world; and the better the >> musique, >> the more sicke it makes him; and that of all instruments, he hates >> the lute >> most, and next to that, the baggpipe." > > That's because Lauderdale never heard PDQ Bach's magnificent Sinfonia > Concertante for bagpipes, left-handed sewer flute, lute, double-reed > slide music stand, balalaika, and ocarina (there was no duet for > bagpipe and lute). > > BTW, since we're dealing with Important Historical Stuff, here once > again is what Peter Schickele actually said his introduction to the > 1965 live-performance recording. It's the most famous thing said > about the lute in the last two centuries, and it comes up every few > years on this list, so accuracy is important: > > "The interesting thing about this lineup of instruments is the > problem of > balance. When the bagpipe is playing you can't hear anything else, > whereas > the lute is such a soft instrument that if there is simply another > instrument > in the room with it you can't hear it, whether it's being played or > not. So > the problems of combining these into one work are tremendous, as =20 > you can > imagine, and they are problems which PDQ Bach found no solution for > whatsoever. But the lute looks nice, and I think that in this day of > recording, that's one thing we've forgotten: the visual aspect of a > concert. > It's a very nice lute. We hope you enjoy it. Think of it while =20 > you're > listening to the bagpipes." > > On the recording, Stan Beutens did indeed play the lute, which is > actually quite audible. > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
