OK, so let's say it happens. What will the F6 look like?
OK, so let's say it happens. What will the F6 look like?
John A. Karsemeyer
Sorry, Charles.
That was a reference from the Bill Murray movie "Stripes." Meant humorously, not as a put-down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-aXzpQUdw
Chris Cravens
Girouard A5
Montana Flatiron A-Jr.
Passernig Mandola
Leo Posch D-18
Nitpicker!
Technically true, but I think most people not intimately familiar with the history would call it part of the family. A cousin, at least.
Thinking further on this, I can't recall any other instrument in the typical Western orchestra that has a strictly aesthetic feature like the violin family scroll. Well, maybe the pedal harp? Some of those have added decoration. All the other instruments in a modern orchestra have slimmed-down, functional designs. The fiddles are something of an anachronism, like our F5s.
Yes seems true. Maybe this is because on the stringed instruments the sound comes from a box -- that box could take different shapes and still get the sound. But it would (I expect) to change the shape or style of a clarinet or trumpet and still have it work right and sound right would be a real challenge? Except for percussion the strings are the simplest instruments in the orchestra? You could "fancy up" a piano too if you wanted to i guess?
Bernie
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My friends an i were attending a bluegrass festival last summer and
were commenting on the age of the crowd there on a friday evening.
about to go on were the gibson bros. I would say the average age of the audience
was such that about 80 %!of them will not be around in 20 yrs
to enjoy listening to an F5 . Which led us to discuss why we think that is...
Very true. But the Gibson Brothers play their own style of "traditional" bluegrass? Attracting "grey heads"? There are many "jam", "Americana" and "Roots" bands these days that attract a much younger audience and generally have a F-5 in the mix? I did not give any examples of the bands because I did not want to get into which band is which genre?
Bernie
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