I didn't hear about Yo-Yo Ma playing a carbon fiber cello. But the army, navy and marine bands also have string orchestras (as well as a chorus) and they were planning on playing on the such string instruments because of the cold. Alas, I missed out. Just this month the music instrument lecture at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was on these string instruments. They're made here in Boston, I think. The MFA bought one. Yes, here it is (item #13):
http://www.mfa.org/tours/package.asp?key=814 You can have the picture sent to yourself. The picture is under the red MFA label. These instruments are made of carbon fiber by the firm of Luis (sic) and Clark in Milton, Massachusetts. The brass players were using plastic mouthpieces to prevent freezing their lips. And they had also rehearsed some piece that the brasses could play if their valves or slide froze up!! Honest! that's what I heard on the news. =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== My Web Page: Scores http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ Other Matters: http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/musexx/ =================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "David van Ooijen" <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:41 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Inauguaral Music OT |I didn't see a thing, nor heard anything, but read the news paper. It | said Yo-yo Ma would play a graphite/composite/carbon/??? cello if the | weather would be Stradivarius-unfriendly. Anybody know anything about | this instrument? I have to play outside somtimes, and Dutch weather | can be as lute-unfriendly as it gets. Not to mention my Japanese | outside gigs where I steamed open an 8-course ... |-( | | David | -- | ******************************* | David van Ooijen | davidvanooi...@gmail.com | www.davidvanooijen.nl | ******************************* | | | | To get on or off this list see list information at | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
