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Well, it goes without saying, if you don’t spend any time practicing, you can spend all that time promoting yourself.
Yes, I know, it is contradictory, but it is how I was taught to string, and I make them sound as unplasticky as I can. If I could afford gut strings and could find ones with as clear and liquid harmonics, I would use them. Are Concedos different in tone quality? But, then, plastics are natural, in that they are made of petroleum products.
A Byrd in the hand is worth about one page of Purcell. It is very tricky to transcribe this music. Some of it works well, a lot is far too dense with counterpoint and moving bass lines. The technique of composing is called division, which means taking slow themes and putting twice as many notes between them. The most fun pieces are ones like My Ladey Hunsdowne’s Dump.
I am willing to host such a “harmonic convergence”. I think Hugh Brock could clear this up by tracing the poster’s computer address.
Whereever they come from, they are a type of plastic, all right. My friend’s husband works in that field. And plastics give off fumes when fresh.
I suspect a guy who is really into harps and how they are made, who rarely posts here, but wanted to be able to dump off his gossip overload. Still a mystery.
Your photo on the home page is a bit dark, it is a little hard to see you, can you lighten the contrast?
P.S., I have sketched out transcriptions of quite a few of them, if you are willing to wait for them. Grandjany also published a small number of them. I do not recommend the King’s Hunt, though, I do not think it works well at all for harp.
Yes, Byrd can be played on the harp, and other composers of that period. David Watkins published a collection, the first in his four-volume series. You can do one better and get the Dover editions of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, two volumes, with hundreds of pieces, and you can work out the ornamentation yourself, which of course, only begins ON the beat. Ornaments nearly always take their value from the following note.
Somna M. Bulist is fabulous http://www.somna.net
