I assure you that the inability to hear the lute in the situations I
referred to was not due to lack of focus.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: ""Mathias Rösel"" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 4:51 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute volume
Judge for yourself:
http://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=2&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fservice%2Egmx%2Enet%2Fde%2Fcgi%2Fdfstools%3Fopenid%3D30949%2E1287316081%26o%3D959384029%2E1287316082%26cmd%3Dopen%26file%3D04%2BGigue%2BWach%2Bauf%2BMs1645%255FMatthias%2BRebecca%2B%2B%252Emp3%26folder%3D%252F
(last Sunday, Cottbus). In the beginning, or so I was later told, a
woman said, now a mike is needed, but after a short while she could dela
with it. As a matter of fact, there was a lot of echo in the huge
cathedral. But focussing does the trick. Or so I was told >8)
Mathias
"Gary Digman" <[email protected]> schrieb:
As a jazz musician, I play a lot of corporate events and parties. For
years
I thought the crowd would get louder every time we began to play, but now
I
think the perception that the crowd is getting louder is a result of
focus,
i.e. when we begin to play we focus on sound, giving the impression that
all
sounds get louder including the crowd noise.
That being said, I have to admit that I have attended lute concerts given
by
some of the leading lights of the lute world for audiences numbering in
the
hundreds where the lute literally could not be heard at all past the
seventh
or eighth row. Very frustating to pay $35-$80 for a ticket only to find
out
you will not be able to hear the lute no matter how focused you are. I
think
if we're going to play for audiences this large, some sound reinforcement
may become necessary even though it is a compromise. Other instruments
have
had to deal with this problem. Jazz bassists amplify the double bass,
even
though the best and purest sound of the double bass is thereby
compromised,
in order to be heard.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Andrico" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 11:29 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Lute volume
> To All:
> We have a new post on our blog that may be of general lute interest,
> concerning volume in performance.
>
> http://mignarda.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/sound-check-is-it-loud-enough/
> Best wishes,
> Ron & Donna
> www.mignarda.com
> --
>
>
> To get on or off this list see list information at
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
>
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