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[violachic]

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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[ironheadjane.livejournal.com]

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

[dust-wind-dude.livejournal.com]

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.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! Wow!

That's just amazing.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Would interfere with left hand fingering of the notes.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

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. :-)

[fiddleteacher.livejournal.com]

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.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

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

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

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....

[ironheadjane.livejournal.com]

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

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

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).

[violachic.livejournal.com]

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.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

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

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

I could see that, too.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

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

[violacat.livejournal.com]

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

Thanks!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

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