Is there still such a thing like instrumentalist snobbery around?

[vurt]

wasn't meant to be serious on my part either...

I know that but it's a good embark point to show other things.

reportedly, before nylon there was 'catgut' for strings! this is not an area I have researched...

it was really sheep gut, but string makers put it about that cat gut was the best, because cats where kind of feared by the superstitious so no one wanted to kill them.
tbf, you probably get more out of a sheep than a cat, plus mutton chops and a jumper!

[jancivil]

Unfortunately, all that makes sense.

[IncarnateX]

Your not playing fair, I said "permanently".

Oh. You did. sorry.
Did I tell that I actually became an average percussionist at music school? Due to one helluva inspiring but rather crazy Afro-American teacher who knew his shit and got me into the (divine) African parameter of 12 and polyrythmics? Never though I would be dragged into anything but 4/4 but this guy was hypnotic. Couldn’t resist. So a pot, a pan and a couple of spoons should do for a start.

[herodotus]

So what happens if the power goes down permanently and the only thing left to make music with are old fashioned acoustic instruments ?

Then I would get so busy trying to save the food in my refrigerator, my freezer, light candles and try to find out when the power will be back that I probably will not think much about making music as long as the power is down. Not something that happens often where I am from. Maybe 3-4 times this decade and only for very short periods. Are you living near stormy coasts?

Your not playing fair, I said "permanently".

what i don't understand is, what kind of artist/musician, has food in a refrigerator or freezer to worry about?

One that has a part time job in a high end catering company.

I just got done eating filet mignon with mushroom ragout.

It's a good grift.

[vurt]

[dellboy]

Your not playing fair, I said "permanently".

Oh. You did. sorry.
Did I tell that I actually became an average percussionist at music school? Due to one helluva inspiring but rather crazy Afro-American teacher who knew his shit and got me into the (divine) African parameter of 12 and polyrythmics? Never though I would be dragged into anything but 4/4 but this guy was hypnotic. Couldn’t resist. So a pot, a pan and a couple of spoons should do for a start.

Actually, earlier on today I was watching street musician's on Youtube who just use pots and pans etc. The really interesting ones use plastic plumbers pipe and make sounds just like a bass synth.

Although I think that all people who love music should at least try to learn to play an instrument, some people are physically disabled, and for them electronic music would be there only outlet.

[IncarnateX]

Although I think that all people who love music should at least try to learn to play an instrument, some people are physically disabled, and for them electronic music would be there only outlet.

Well, I do not think you will get far as a composer if you do not know some basic piano or guitar at least at some mediocre level. After all, when I program my sequencers, I play my keys. I even prefer to use an arpeggiator for fast playing in contrast to the tiresome proces of entering the notes one by one by step sequencing or piano roll.

[herodotus]

Well, most people don't expect music to be intellectually challenging, they just want to hear something to hum/sing along or dance or make out to

Most people have made McDonalds the largest restaurant chain in the world. Why do we have so much regard for what most people like?

Think of the music of the Middle Ages, most of it was simple and jolly, to brighten up the difficult lives of the masses.

We know very little about the music of the middle ages. Most of what we do know concerns church music (Gregorian, Ambrosian, and Byzantine chant). The Reading Rota is really about all we have in the middle of a long blank period in secular music history. I mean, we know stories about it, but almost nothing of what it sounds like, because there are no notated examples. In any case, what we do know of medieval secular music is almost all concerning courtly music, troubadores, truveres, minnesingers and so on. Common people had nothing to do with such music.

[herodotus]

And the cheese! You should see the cheese. Port Salut, Camembert, Boucheron, Humboldt Fog, Gruyere, and my current favorite: Pecorino Toscana.

I could never afford this stuff, the Pecorino is 22$ a pound! But I do a lot of favors for these people, so they dont mind my being a glutton.

When it's busy though, they get me to work way more than I want to, and it's hard work, so it all evens out.

I used to do it full time, but it made me really angry and bitter, so I try to be there as little as possible. But if you are going to have a part time job, it's the way to go.

[vurt]

i do like cheese!

[jancivil]

I don't think of 'jolly' when I think of Middle Ages music, that's for sure.
Generally we think of the later limit for the term to be around 1400, superseded by 'The Renaissance'.


found this: The English word troubadour is an exact rendition from a French word first recorded in 1575 in an historical context to mean "langue d'oc poet at the court in the 12th and 13th century" (Jean de Nostredame, Vies des anciens Poètes provençaux, p. 14 in Gdf. Compl.)

http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/troubadour

and this whole thing is reported to have died out after the Black Death, which isn't so jolly either.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambertin ... tic_career
"His poetry... is skilled and the poet utilised difficult rhyme schemes and alliteration. Rambertino's technical proficiency is evident...

ruhroh

[thecontrolcentre]

Methinks fluffy has been watching ye olde Robin Hood movies

[vurt]

the black death was pretty jolly for those folks that make those masks with the big noses.
they knew their day would come!!!

[jancivil]

death and disease is still quite lucrative

[Woodgardens]

Only need a good hook and uh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAs9HZC9c7Y