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Romy the Cat has found another room. I’ve started a new fiction project under my name, Roman Bessnow. The new work is at MutationsBook.com
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I think that we have to be careful about assumptions. Even back as far as Bach, he had relatively strict rules for imbellishment, but they had notation for it and there were treatises on what exactly to do. So this is much different than the Rennaisa...
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Actually, the cornetto itself is not that hard to play. The difficulties come from "false expectations". Anything in life that we want to do in a virtuosic way requires the proper foundation. Coming from modern trumpet, clarinet, flute playing howeve...
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I am not aware of anyone changing the actual Philips laser control boards. The modifications are generally after the laser head output. This means that recalibration should be a very easy and consistent procedure. This has also been my experience for...
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The only issue that I have ever had was the electronic calibration of the laser. When the drive starts to skip, I put the laser on the oscilloscope and recalibrate it (sometimes just increasing the laser power by a quarter turn is enough)...
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Romy, I did take the opportunity to investigate Dr. Teplov and his work. It is very interesting HOW he followed up on Pavlov. I am not so far as to being conclusive about where this all goes, but the idea of the nervous system being core to our sense...
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Compositions are created by composers for many different reasons. In the earliest days we had church music (sacred) and everything else (vulgar). Whether the composer had a contract or was just composing to get what was in their heads on paper can no...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Robin, when I told you that you do not know how deep the rabbit hole is, I actually meant something. Please take me seriously.I am very familiar with the entire history of keys used in musicality, synesthesia perception, an...
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Eb for instance is bold and majestic, D major is brilliant. Gounod said that God only composes in C major. Here is a list:https://legacy.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.htmlThe association of musical keys with specific emotional or qualitative charac...
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The video deals with specific stimuli but how do we quantify what must be present in a rhythm or melody or harmony? What about discordant music? What about the speed, the register being played. What about pop music that repeats simple patterns?...
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I get it that brass ensembles can produce an exciting sound that appeals to many levels of cognition. This is how groups like Canadian Brass get so much traction. Here at GSC, I think that we want more. We don't want goosebumps, rather food for thoug...
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The Gabrieli/Venice dimension is the most primitive part. The conductor in your link, scratched on the early baroque style being ornate - but his musicians just played the basic notes - everything that Gabrieli would expect for his musicians is simpl...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I will have to paste this in in order to know whether you've already posted it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-vjkpjI0sI remember hearing so much "historical justification" for poorly played Bach in the 60's, and then they mo...
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In the case of these accomplished performers, any choice of gear is guided by a well defined intent. The instruments are chosen on purpose. The goal and the result are also predictable to the performer. Playing "safely" can still be with a purpose de...
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Here are a couple of originals from the 1960s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DgJdrZcYoA&list=PLpYWoOvtxPBcYpRPRmIliEaxtpM1UaDNNhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0n5x1hjUAY&list=PLeyyChFzZ2uIj1aPzXOlxZd5fqxXyA1gvand here are a couple of "per...
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It helps the performer to know what the original expectations of the composer were, extract the musical essence, and then play to serve the music. With the high level of training possibilities, the vast research published in the last 60 years, availa...
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The clarinet is a good example to demonstrate that "gear" does not have to be a search for the holy grail like it is in the audiophile community. In the case of a clarinet (or even more extreme oboe), manipulation of the reed is specifically done to ...
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I see myself in art as well as having art in me. There is a huge difference from being part of an ensemble where the mutual efforts create the result or having the creative juices in me looking for an application. If I think about Shostakovich 8, I a...
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Check out Claudio Roditi.In fact, the modern rotary trumpet is much closer to its piston/perinet relative than to the rotary instruments of Wagner and Brückners time. The historic instruments have specific sounds in each register - full/massive in th...
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I understand this movement as a war machine. Probably not Hitlers (this is too fast to goose step to!), rather Stalins. The machine starts with fast quarter notes played marcatissimo by the strings. You can hear and feel the machine dragging (or perh...
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I did not miss your first sentence and certainly do not disagree, but we are not yet at a point where that would be a next step. History is full of best qualified people for certain challenges, but the logistics were just in the way. I have the suspi...
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Yes, a castle can be bricks, stones, ice, straws - or even melted down old trumpets. Whether that is MY castle depends if I am expecting shelter from the elements, from audio reviewers, from my neighbor lady with her bagpipes or just a playback syste...
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There is a HUGE difference between a moron and an idiot. The moron has limited knowledge "capacity" and therefore is often dependent on others to be functional in society. They can not help themselves and therefore are very vulnerable. I get great jo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] rowuk wrote: I have well formed thoughts on how much is gear, how much is careful selection of media, the amount of research into the works and performances necessary This is what I curious, pretend you have this framework...
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I am leaving these signal chains up for others to Decode what MY level of thinking is in relation to THEIR level of attempted audiophile electroacoustic-synergy sophistication. Do you want me to type out how my ...
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Generally I get a feeling for what the posters are saying/meaning but this thread with multiple "random collections of hardware" and no declared purpose reduce the value of this thread to zero. Sure, using big words or having a photographic memory fo...
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After we have bought and installed a system (regardless of the care taken), the results from that system (regardless of overall quality) are no longer random for us as we acclimate and are creatures of habit. The only way to "randomize" the playback ...
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If we only play casual chess, we can move pieces around a board and after an hour, look back and have enjoyed the side show with whoever we are playing with. If we play casually and get a really experienced competitor, the same activity becomes work ...
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We are the product of all our lifestyles experiences, but in this case, the family did not share the fathers singular vision. I am sure this is not because they were forced to work on the system, rather because the music was obviously not the middle ...
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Currently most organs (pianos, etc) are tuned in a "well tempered" way. This means that they are hardly in tune at all. Before Bach the instruments were "just" tuned, optimized for a couple of key and unplayable for others. When studying the sum and ...
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When we talk about reactions, language in my view comes into the picture. If we have spent any time with hifi, we learn about things like "punch", imaging, "wide frequency response". These parameters are insignificant to hear and appreciate the music...
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