Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1210141129260.13570@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the new bow
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:30:59 -0400 (EDT)
the new bow http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/937 (best for listening) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/newbow0.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/newbow1.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/newbow2.mp3 bows can make all the differences, often more than instruments this is a bow i once had and have again, Anton Schroetter, quite old, a short cello bow with wide horsehair and lightness similar to violin. the result is relative smoothness on difficult instruments; here are the Afghan sarinda (or suroz), violin played in an Arabic style and tuning, and sarangi. I quite like these pieces; perhaps you will too. I'm still not used to the right hand rarely touching the strings, but instead working through the intermediary of the bow; there's something uncanny about it, and about the continuous sound that doesn't always require accompaniment or drone, even if a single string is being played.