Ego te absolvo. Go and sin not much more... BTW, krumhorns aren't all that loud; you may be thinking of the rauschpfeife, a much louder windcap instrument.
On Sep 9, 2012, at 6:46 PM, A.J. Padilla MD wrote: > I stand, humbly corrected.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf > Of howard posner > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 8:27 PM > To: LuteNet list > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Consort Suggestions Please > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 2:52 PM, A.J. Padilla MD wrote: > >> There's a saying somewhere that if there's a bagpipe in the same room >> with a lute, you can't hear the lute being played, even if the bagpipe is > not. >> Same thing probably applies to the krumhorn! > > > Not quite. The world hardly has need of aphorisms about lutes and bagpipes > in the same room. > > Frankly, it disturbs me greatly when people mangle PDQ Bach, something that > should be held sacred. It's like listening to Republicans trying to quote > the Bible. So, from a reliable source (me in September 2007) here's what > Peter Schickele actually said in the introduction to PDQ Bach's Sinfonia > Concertante for bagpipes, left-handed sewer flute, lute, double-reed slide > music stand, balalaika, and ocarina: > > "The interesting thing about this lineup of instruments is the problem of > balance. When the bagpipe is playing you can't hear anything else, whereas > the lute is such a soft instrument that if there is simply another > instrument in the room with it you can't hear it, whether it's being played > or not. So the problems of combining these into one work are tremendous, as > you can imagine, and they are problems which PDQ Bach found no solution for > whatsoever. But the lute looks nice, and I think that in this day of > recording, that's one thing we've forgotten: the visual aspect of a > concert. It's a very nice lute. We hope you enjoy it. Think of it while > you're listening to the bagpipes." > BTW, if you're used to reading and interpreting scripture you'll immediately > not the ambiguity about whether the it in "whether it's being played or not" > is the lute or the other instrument. > On the recording (An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach), the lute (Stan Beutens) was > quite audible. > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
