So what did he have to say about the French baroque repertoire?? Nancy
At 03:29 PM 2/23/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--- Benjamin Narvey ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I use a marker but only colour in about 2 > > inches of string towards the > > middle of the diapason (i.e., well past the first > > nut). > > >Benjamin, > > > I have tried marking my strings exactly where you >have done so, but found that it does me little good. >I used to keep trying to look for the marks with my >peripheral vision, but that's not so accurate for me. >Now I don't bother with marks at all and find that I >do fairly well - mostly I come so close to the actual >string that I intended to hit that I'm usually only a >step or two off in either direction. I figure that's >so darn close that it pretty much counts as the right >note anyway... (I want to say that I'm joking about >that, but its getting uncomfortably close to the truth >for me!) > > > I'm jealous that you got to see PO - why was he > > marking up his lute in the > > concert?! > > > >POD played baroque lute on this concert - all Bach >except for one Weiss suite. He mentioned that he had >found the 13 course lute quite an adjustment. Just >before the last piece, his arrangement of the first >solo violin sonata, BWV 1001, he took out a couple of >different colored markers and began to mark his bass >strings. I was surprised to see him doing this in >concert as if he needed some special marks for that >piece. I meant to ask him about it after the concert, >but our brief conversation strayed to his thoughts on >the French baroque lute repertoire instead. > > >Chris > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org --
