David,
The singing bird no doubt paid as much attention to your playing as any
human singer ever does to his/her accompanist. ;-)
Chris
--- On Tue, 6/30/09, David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: David van Ooijen <[email protected]>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Looting for the truth
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:08 PM
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Ron
> Fletcher<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I have had no lute mail for the past two days.
> Has everyone in the
> > northern hemisphere taken their vacation?
>
> Two concerts last weekend, five more to go coming week. But
> if
> everybody is silent, time for an anecdote. Last Sunday I
> was playing
> baroque and romantic guitar with a singer on an outdoor
> festival in a
> park, Spanish songs. Hot! Out of tune! My turn to play a
> little solo
> in the baroque part. Noisy bird. So, pointing at the bird I
> tell the
> audience I will play a duet with it. Miraculaously, it's
> tweeting an
> a' at 415, in a steady puls I can play Canarios to! Between
> phrases I
> stop to let it tweet a little solo. Best duet partner I
> ever had, and
> it never asked for its share of the concert fee. ;-)
>
> David
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