At 8:37 PM -0500 4/25/10, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Is anyone acquainted with the musical use of anvils, and their possible dynamic range? Every instance I can thing of is loud, and I noticed that Wagner does not give any dynamic's for Mime's hammering in Siegfried. Is anyone here familiar with any quiet uses of them?
Certainly they can be played p or mp--just a lighter beater or a lighter stroke. But you're right, mostly when the effect's called for it's for the sound of a Blacksmith at work, which would be loud hits to shape the metal. That's true even in its use in the Neil Diamond song, "Headed for the Future."
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