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Hobbes is indeed a cellist, or was anyways. Actually one of my biggest accomplishments in life came in cello form when I got to play at Carnigie Hall.
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A friend of mine in college had one of those...they're very freaky to play on. It felt to me like playing the cello naked...or playing a naked cello. Just not enough physical substance. The sound was pretty good, though!
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I was a sophmore in high school when it happened. A youth symphoney from Flint Michigan was invited to play there (I'm from Colorado) and they got permession to have auditions for a few other "youths" to join them. I was one of the cellists that made it. It's actually way less impressive than it sounds but... well... I like the way it sounds.
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I have to say, that's very, very cool! Cello has gotten me some pretty interesting places (Chile, Russia, the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics), but Carnegie Hall...that's just cool.
My only personally distinctive cello moment is that I once played in a master class for Steven Isserlis...only, it wasn't all that great, since I played VERY badly. To this day, I still can't watch the video of it.
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Cello is one of the most beautiful sounding musical instruments yet devised! I understand that when the violin was first introduced, "women swooned." They called it the voice of the devil!
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I am also a cellist. Wow this is interesting. I played in the same school orchestra as Fugu, and that is where i got to know him. I don't think I will be playing near as much now that I am out of high school though.
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Each time I see this thread I think, "Hey, man, are you cell'in'?" "I'm cell'in' like Magellan."
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Papa Moose, you've just reminded me that I need to visit the "Hatrack, here's your chance to vote for commercials you'd like to see taken off tv" thread!
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It's sad spending so much time and energy playing an instrument in school, and then having practically no opportunities to play anymore afterward.
I played from fifth grade through high school. I was not only in my school orchestras, but took private lessons from three really good teachers, played in district and state honors orchestras, and in a really good (though non-professional) community orchestra, and in the pit orchestras for two musicals.
Then I graduated from high school and, since I didn't choose to go the music major route, didn't have many more chances to be in an orchestra. I had no time for the community orchestra. I was really lucky to get into two more pit orchestras, and to play with another informal orchestra at church a couple of times. I have been asked to either solo or play in small ensembles, or to accompany a choir, in church a handful of times, and that still goes on occasionally. I still have my cello, but it only gets out of its case a very few times a year. Sigh.
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That sounds remarkably like my experience UofU... I've often regretted that I didn't play piano or violin, or something a little more mainstream.
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Wow. He must have pretty good, and have a pretty wealthy patron, for someone to be willing to buy him a Strad. Was he at all famous?
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my guess is that the strad had other things on it's mind than consoling it's owner, they tend to be a little snobbish.
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I entered into a prenuptial agreement (okay, it's not written, but it's no less real) to buy my wife a Steinway as soon as it is economically feasible.
The least she can do is get me an electric cello.
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actually, Stradivarius apparently made some guitars, too... <drool>
The kid was really good, but he was 15 or 16 at the time and not famous to my knowledge... his name was Robin (I never got his last name) and, yes, the patron was wealthy.... I don't remember exactly but I think it might have been Stanley Marcus... I remember he talked extensively of meeting Mr. Marcus. He was a pretty decent kid, too... not nearly the big head you'd expect on someone so blessed...
quote: (players of other, lesser instruments could also contribute, if they saw fit--shoot, I'm talking like a violinist!)
That's because the rest of you do play lesser instruments, the violin is obviously superior.
Btw UofU: that line of yamaha stringed instruments (violins, violas, cellos and bases -to list by size-) while nice as practice instruments, aren't really good for much else, while they are cheap -and i really want one- they aren't good for actual concert playing...they look damn nice though. Satyagraha
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So when am I going to be playing in a concert?
Anyway, I wasn't really talking about any particular brand, just the kind of instrument. I don't know anything about brands of electric cellos. I just found a site that showed some that looked good.
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Which reminds me that I need to take my clarinet in for corks and pads so I can teach it to the kids. Thanks.
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As a violist, I am saddened to see that there is no violist thread, but I freely admit that the cello is the prettier instrument, having more range than any other stringed instrument.
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My cello playing (and ownership) was one of the first things that attracted my wife to me. I remember one of our early dates, when we were just starting to get serious. My family left for the night. I made sweet & sour pork and fried rice. Then, after dinner, I gave her a cello concert/serenade. Swept her off her feet.
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I'm pretty sure on a lot of "Insulting a specific group" jokes you can change the group to just about anything. Like, on a few of those I could change "violists" to "Mormons" and find myself promptly banned from this website. It's kinda funny how formulaic these things get. The best ones are more complex. They have to do more with what the group is or does.
Example of a bad one:
quote: Why don't violists play hide and seek? Because no one will look for them.
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Two speakers, one low and one high, that are on rotating mounts in a speakerbox (usually on which is mounted a hammond B-3 organ) which are independantly adjustable as far as rotation speed goes, allowing for a wide variety of freaky phasing effects.
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