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One five-stringed electric cello (or viola de gamba?).

~~Three bows (I think I counted correctly).~~ No, its four.

Four guys.

1/5 of Ravel's Bolero.

(And one string player who actually wears his wedding ring on his left hand!)

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Why wouldn't a string player have their wedding ring on their left hand?

Would interfere with left hand fingering of the notes.

Dude, you know how many gigs I've played with guys who don't wear their wedding rings and then you can't tell they're married and then I crush on them or even flirt with them, and then they mention their wives? Man. Annoying. :-)

Oh, I might have some idea from my own experience! *giggle*

It didn't with my left hand fingering, when I wore a wedding ring...but then, maybe fiddle is different. I know what you're saying though. A lot of guys in the fiddle world don't wear the left hand ring. Women tend to, though, at least it seems that way.

Just what I've heard! :) I'm not married (and I don't wear rings anyway!) so I don't have my own experience to share. I can see especially in higher positions having a ring be a problem....

Ah, thanks!! I was curious as to what it interfered with!

I thought that it was also to protect the instrument, as with wrist watches (shift up -- WHAM! okay, maybe rings, not so much).

I could see that, too.

having been a choir dorkus for half of grade school and all of high school(then the one semester I attended northern), which has nothing to do with anything, I have to say I rather enjoyed that. It was rather a soothing piece, and visually original to watch a 4-on-1 type of......well......orgy.....is the only word that comes to mind.

Holy crap! Wow!

That's just amazing.

I thought a viola de gamba was more of a Renaissance instrument?

That was great. I forwarded it to the cello instructor at UE (where I did my BA).

Sure, but you can electrify anything, really. A five-string cello doesn't exist in the regular classical world either. Whatever this instrument is, its kind of made up.

Viola da gamba is indeed primarily a Renaissance and baroque instrument. It actually has 6 strings.

This is some sort of special 5-string electric cello thingybob. I've seen 5-string violins (which add the viola's low C), but I haven't seen a 5-string cello!

Though, I just did a quick search, and found something quite interesting. There's a company out there who's made a 7-string electric viol...very interesting. But still very different in design than the cello..thing used in that video. Link for the viol: http://www.ruby-gamba.com/index1.html

That was fabulous and about the only way I think I can stand Bolero.

Thanks!

Yes, five minutes of Bolero is about all I can stand, too :-)

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