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In Reply to: Re: I didn't know I had a ghostwriter! posted by Ozzie on December 6, 2006 at 08:37:26:
Well, until recently I had a girlfriend who was a professional violinist. Not only that she played on expensive and rare instruments (yes one was a strad). So in the 4 years we dated I went to probably 100 or more classical concerts with either her playing, to hear someone she knows, or to hear just great music. Not to mention hearing her practice every evening. Then there were the recordings that I made of her solo, with piano, with cello and in a string quartet. I have attended at least 20 large scale orchestral concerts in this time (either at Tonhalle in Zürich KKL in Luzern or a few in churches). All of this unamplified. ALL. The last concert I was at was a Mozart piano concerto and a Haydn Symphony at Tonhalle in October. I have plans to go again soon. In Europe, concert halls like Tonhalle (one of the best in the world) ususally don't use sound reinforcement of any kind. If it is a chamber concert then it is usually simply performed in a much smaller hall (Tonhalle has a small hall as well for chamber and solo music...my ex performed the 24 paganini caprices there).Also, there was until last year a jazz club here in Zürich that was mostly unamplified. Why mostly? Because often the bass player had a bit of reinforcement but the other instruments were more than loud enough for the quite small club. I attended in the last 5 years there at least 30 or 40 concerts. The another Jazz venue here in Zürich is amplified most of the time but not always, depending on the artists. I heard Patricia Barber there last sunday. It was amplified. I would not use what I heard there as a reference but it was fun.
So, it is really not that hard to find live unamplified music, certainly not in major cities. And yes I stick with it as being THE reference. Nothing else makes any sense.
"Looking at many of the inmate's rigs here, most of us undoubtedly have some pretty kick ass sound"
On paper, I would tend to agree with you. However; I have now heard plenty of megabuck systems that simply didn't come close to what you would have expected for the money. Some simply sound wrong. High res, etc. etc. and completely totally wrong! I would swear that some of the people who own such systems have never heard a live trumpet or sax, nor do they know what a violin REALLY sounds like.
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- Re: I didn't know I had a ghostwriter! - morricab 02:49:43 12/07/06 (1)
- Re: I didn't know I had a ghostwriter! - Ozzie 11:12:00 12/07/06 (0)
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