Regal Tiple http://www.alansondheim.org/tiple.png http://www.alansondheim.org/tiple.mp3 (please everyone, please stay alive, we need to support each other, please seek help if you're feeling otherwise, please) yesterday traded for a 1930s Regal tiple and then last night used an exercise machine (magnetic disk bike) and played the following while pedaling, think I must have bumped my leg as it went round and round. anyway also a picture of the tiple, I've been tuning it in a - oh forgot to mention it's set up for a left-handed player, so I'm working with that - using a different sort of tuning than the usual - 5 drone strings, 3 tuned in resonance with them, two higher. I ended up playing in an odd jump rhythm, moving in and out of that, unusual for me, not in time with the bike but fluid. the tiple's hard for this kind of playing; remembering the Afghani rebab, I stay down near the lower end of the neck - goes way out of tune at the other end, which is a common problem for tiple players, as is playing anything complicated on the thing; needless to say, the instrument isn't great quality, but is all original with the original case, I must sound like some kind of obsessive collector but I only keep what I can play, and try to find great homes for everything else, practicing for hours every day, and what does that get me, I can tell you the satisfaction of an almost meditative state that keeps me going and calm and doing things I never believed I could do, and continue doing, my god I've lost the thread here, anyway there's a picture of me (I know I said this before) with the instrument (I remember where and when I said it (actually wrote it)), showing what it's like - a heavy build, the strings are metal, I have to wear picks so my technique's a bit different, but it's got that old-timey tiple sound, anyway have a listen, love the clankiness of it! _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
