Congratulations and onwards! David
On 11 June 2013 21:37, David Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations on your 400th. Now for the next 400. > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Arto Wikla > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:24 PM > To: baroque-lute mailing-list; Lute List > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] My 400th ;-) > > Dear lutenists, b- and r-, > someone told me that it is something special, when you reach your 400th > playing to y-tube. Perhaps it is, perhaps not. Anyhow, I started by > several "normal" pocket digital cameras with their very lousy sound > quality, did also some (bad) video editing in those days. Then to Zoom > O3. Much better sound, but the automatic volume control spoiled > (nearly) all the tries to piano e forte... You know, what I mean...;-) > Then to the Zoom O3 HD. With that you first give your loudest sound; it > takes that as the volume level. If you do it right, it works. But if > you happen to for ex. to cough, when the recording has started, you'll > get very quiet lute sound...;-) > And then with the baroque lute I had mostly unsuccessful - but very > (too?) persistent - try on the gut strings. There are some quite > ashamed examples there in the y-tube... But I am not going to hide the > history. ;) > In the beginning I recorded many of my own arrangements - which I also > published in my pages - to show that they are playable. > There are pieces to 6-courser, 10-courser in different tunings, soprano > lute, chitarrino - renaissance guitar, theorbo in high d and two in > "normal" a, and a couple 11-coursers, ... > As easily can be seen, I really got addicted to the 11-course d-minor > lute; to me it is by far the most clever tuning to the music of its > time (second is the 6-courser in the 16th century music). > So, my 400th y-tubing is a German aria "Warum Klagstu das du dein > Leben" in the D-LEm ms. II.6.24. > And thus I am not going to complain my life! ;-) > See: > [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmHMv62K5Y&feature=youtu.be > (or [2]http://vimeo.com/68153116, but there it is not the 400th...) > Btw: I never have done any sound editing to my recordings. No echo, no > nothing, just the "living room acoustics". And since the Zoom Q3's, my > video editing has just been clipping the "before" and "after" > movements. > All the best and happy playing, > Arto > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SmHMv62K5Y&feature=youtu.be > 2. http://vimeo.com/68153116 > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
