There is a need to further elucidate the function and musical contribution of strings and tailpieces. With this research we are trying to understand the modifications of the cello's sound, as a consequence of tailpiece characteristics (shape of the tailpiece and types of attachments). Modal ...
Levi has always found comfort where most people are uncomfortable. Born to musicians — their mother was a cello teacher and their father, Erik, a pianist and respected scholar of Third Reich-era music — Levi grew up in the London suburb of Surrey, ...
Imagine you are modifying a violin or a cello or something, and the sound post falls down – you really realize that that tiny piece of wood actually had a very important role in the sound of the instrument. These things sometimes are inside the instrument, they’re hidden. You don’t r...
How would you describe this record? Is it fair to say that it’s archival recordings that you finished up in the present day? Marvin Etzioni: I would say that’s pretty fair. We look at it as a new album. But it wasn’t like the four of us got in the room before Don passed aw...
” These terms describe qualities of musical sounds. Although the terms are related, they are used somewhat differently. “Pitch” refers to the sensation of lowness or highness associated with the frequency of a given sound. The greater the frequency, the higher the pitch. The frequency ...
Things can get a little blurry when we try to describe the timbre of an instrument with words that usually are not related to sound. For instance, we could say that the timbre of a French horn has a velvet quality to it. What does that mean in technical terms? Velvet is a really smo...
And that's something we are always trying to mimic with modern string making technology to get the real intricacy of sound and nuance of sound. But really, there are different core types to the strings. So the core is the material that runs end to end from the string that we then gener...
Interviewees describe the Ghostbusters shoot as being raucous yet harmonious, despite the number of big-personality egos involved. “It was . . . open and generous,” recalls Rick Moranis. “These guys are all Second City; the unwritten rule is to make the other guy look good.” Ovitz ...
the effect of the three different types you will find that there is indeed a difference and the ‘sharp’ version might suit ‘happier’ works and the ‘flat’ version suits more depressed pieces (I know these are not the best ways to describe music, but I hope you get the idea anyway...
Christine Devaney’s choreography evokes the mother-child relationship with real heart yet never falls into sentimentality. Gurrutxaga and Earlam portray both mother and baby, switching back and forth again and again in a way that suggests theories of child development that describe how babies ultim...