On Jan 12, 2010, at 9:08 AM, David Tayler wrote: I appreciate it when people point out mistakes, but it has to be handled well. For example, there are some videos where people are playing something twice as fast or twice as slow, double or half timing. Now it is obvious in this case that the player is not aware of it, and one *might* send a personal email alerting someone, or then again, not! If I had a glaring error I would probably take the video down and be grateful, or in some cases if it is just a wrong note I would leave it up and say, hey, I played a wrong note.
That exact situation happened to me. I had a video up on the ning lute page playing a fantasia by Huwet. I got this comment from Miles Dempster. I very much enjoyed your performance of the Huwet fantasia, played with panache and understanding! This is has been one of my favourite pieces for a long time, and there are a couple of things that interest me about it that might interest you too. Just in case you haven't noticed them.... 1. There is most likely a mistake in barring/flags in the original at bar 35. The theme appears to be played at twice the speed, when in fact it probably is meant to be played at the same speed. 2. Bars 38-43 (with the repeated rising figures) seem to have the main theme hidden in them - Eliott Chapin pointed this out to me. I will send you my own edited version which reflects the above. Best wishes, Miles Dempster I hope you don't mind my putting this up, Miles, if you are reading. I just wanted to show an example of constructive criticism as it should be done. In fact, after playing the passage as Miles suggested a few times, I was sold and took down the video. Couldn't stand listening to the old way anymore. Oddly, I was inspired to learn the piece when I heard a famous player read through it at a master class. He played the bar twice as fast too. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [1]edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp [2]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- References 1. mailto:edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp 2. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
