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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Dave MacIsaac's Rosin
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 23:18:47 -0400 (EDT)
Dave MacIsaac's Rosin 1. The arrow or bow. http://www.alansondheim.org/arrow.jpg 2. The music. http://www.alansondheim.org/rosin0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/rosin1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/rosin2.mp3 3. The story. We heard Dave MacIsaac and Louis Benoit for the last time Monday night. I brought along my Incredibow, a synthetic 'space-age' bow designed for viola and cello. Dave played after using his rosin on it. The bow was hooked with Dave's rosin, thought I, listening to him and Ashley MacIsaac and Natalie McMaster and so many others on the way back to Providence. So I was determined to channel Cape Breton, with predictably strange and perhaps insane and unclear results, once I returned. 0 and 2 use mutes. I used the Incredibow. The fiddle was tuned to parallel fifths and held vertically, like a cello. I bowed underhand. I kept hearing the rhythms and couldn't sit still. Dave's rosin had a life of its own. The music might be horrendous.
