10 Apr 08
Originally posted by NemesioI'm a reverend and would not lie. Actually she's very hard to get a lesson with as she travels all the time. She lives in Baltimore and recently did a concert in Knoxville. I asked to be part of the master class the next day, but was told it was full but I could get a private lesson with her. Mind you, this was like Curley of the Three Stooges getting a piano lesson from Horowitz. Anyway, she is extremely nice and unpretentious. She focused on my technique and timing. I don't have a lot of musical theory, but dammit, when you get a teacher like this you want to learn quickly. You aim to please.
C'mon now. Shame the devil and tell the truth. She's not your teacher.
10 Apr 08
Originally posted by kirksey957If you study with her, maybe you'll graduate to being like Chico in the Marx Brothers...
I'm a reverend and would not lie. Actually she's very hard to get a lesson with as she travels all the time. She lives in Baltimore and recently did a concert in Knoxville. I asked to be part of the master class the next day, but was told it was full but I could get a private lesson with her. Mind you, this was like Curley of the Three Stooges getting ...[text shortened]... , but dammit, when you get a teacher like this you want to learn quickly. You aim to please.
10 Apr 08
Originally posted by BadwaterDon't be short. It does seem improbable that someone could play every string instrument
Tell you what - the next time you're in Oregon you can just drop by my shop with the stringed instrument of your choice and I'll play it, ok?
because it would demand a reasonably competency (if not fluency) in a number of disparate
musical styles. That is, it's certainly believable that you would play all the members of the viol
family with a certain degree of fluency, but to add the Chinese diyingehu, the Indian sitar, and
the African goje (and their respective repertories) seems a bit extraordinary a claim.
Heck, I know proficient violoncellists who sound pretty mediocre on the viol di gamba.
So, maybe you might clarify your expertise, because it seems pretty vague the way you've stated it.
Or maybe you are claiming to have the highly improbable broad experience with the musics of
other cultures that would be required to play the indigenous string instruments of non-Western
people. As a professional musician myself, knowing the investment it takes to play an instrument
and its repertory fluently, I would have difficulty believing that claim. That having been said,
there exist geniuses who can do this, and maybe you're one of them.
Nemesio