I think this Roman plectrum is becoming too much of a myth ...
Of course you first have to be able to "play" and produce a decent tone and tremolo ... with any style of plectrum!
Only the fact...
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I think this Roman plectrum is becoming too much of a myth ...
Of course you first have to be able to "play" and produce a decent tone and tremolo ... with any style of plectrum!
Only the fact...
I'm very pleased to announce the concert of the Royal Estudiantina "La Napolitaine"
at the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) in Brussels,
on Saturday 24 November 2007, at 3 pm.
The concert will...
Once again, it's the world upside down ... people who continue a tradition are being told that what they're doing is wrong.
This is not hearsay, it's my own experience: twenty years ago I have had...
Yes, but as the title of the thread says: "classical style plectrums".
I will not easily perform modern German works, but only because I don't like most of them. However, if I do like one,...
Well, if we're not talking about classical mandolins or classical mandolin music, there's no need for "the classical mandolin sound" ... which is what I thought this thread was about.
Hello Ali,
I'm sure you don't mind these replies ... it's just because I think we agree more on this subject than what appears from the previous posts ...
I'm sorry, but I don't see it as a...
Yes, I completely agree: as you go further away those clicks and thuds disappear, but the initial sound you make determines what part of the sound does reach the audience.
So if your plectrum...
As for guitar, piano, violin, cello ... also on a mandolin you should only allow the notes to sound as long as desirable, and I think this depends mostly on the harmonisation. It has to do with not...
Yes, they're similar ... this material is different though (not TS) and also the way they're shaped.
About the German "rubber" plectrums I wanted to say that I do agree with Ali about them...
Hello all,
It's been a while since I've been on mandolincafé ... busy summer!
I've been asked to be a member of the jury for the R. Calace competition in Pignola. As mentioned above by Mike,...
There are quite a few advantages to a zero fret (the Embergher workshop even added a zero fret to some older instruments when they came back for repair or maintenance):
- a more accurate datum for...
I've seen that type A in Kurt's workshop last week ... still without frets at that time, so I haven't been able to play it but as far as I could see he did a wonderful job on the restauration and...
Sousa's "El Capitan" has been on the program of La Napolitaine for years.
Our conductor, Henri Gamblin, heard it on the radio and decided to make an arrangement for his orchestra. It was one of the...
Yes, once it was a really nice N°3 ... pity about the damage on the table and scratchplate and the replaced nut. If it were in reasonable condition it would probably have been sold by now, though...
I think this is where the estimated year comes from #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Why do nice mandolins so often get butchered?...
Thanks Plamen,
Yes, of course it is Giacomo Sartori ... I copied the template for the text from the Bottesini and forgot to change the first name #...
Thanks for letting me know, I will correct...
A few more videos from the same concert of La Napolitaine ...
G. SARTORI: "Dolce Visione",
S. RANIERI: "Valse Caprice" (world première of this unpublished piece for mandolin and guitar)
C....
Hello all,
I just posted a video of the world première of Victor's arrangement of Bottesini's "Passione Amorosa", live recorded during a concert of La Napolitaine on 11 May.
As you already know,...
How remarkable that Steffen Trekel shows his wonderful 1904 N.5 concert Embergher on the cover of the CD, but plays a Seiffert ... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
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Dear Victor,
This is of course exactly what we all (should) do ...
I think we mustn't confuse "traditional mandolin techniques" with the techniques that are being used today, both by amateurs and...
Although this is quite possible, I can't really speak of similar experiences as I have been taught to play with these plectrums and technique from the start... so I have never "switched" to a...
Jim,
I must agree with you ... I'm sorry to say that picture shows quite the opposite of what has been taught by the Ranieri school for the past 100 years ...
The index should never be bent that...
Victor,
Maybe you can try to check the braces inside your mandolin (with a dentist's mirror and a light). As you say that the action has not changed, the brace closest to the position of the...
For those who want an impression of my Concert in Ferrara (Palazzo Roverello) with Elisa Franco (piano) on 6 April 2007, I put a recording of Calace's "Danza dei Nani" on YouTube
Here is a...
Trying mandolins at Gabriele Pandini's house ... all handmade by a real artist with the same passion as all the great mandolin makers of the past: ever trying to improve the quality of his...