This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dear List: I just received information (via BMG classical Record Service = Newsletter) that Yo-Yo Ma has recorded and released a recording of Bach = selections and Boccherini concertos performed with the Amsterdam Baroque = Orchestra, Tom Koopman conducting. According to the brochure, he modified his 1712 Strad cello by removing = the endpin, replaced the standard bridge with a thicker, Baroque styled = bridge (giving the fingerboard a different feel), used gut strings and a = baroque bow, and tuned the instrument differently (the article does not = say how). Ma called the result "a warmer and more relaxed sound...Suddenly you get = a different world of sound - a whole world of expressivity, of color. The reviewer said that it is indeed ear-opening. I haven't ordered it yet, but with the many discussions of historical = tunings on the list, I thought many would find it interesting that we = are not the only experimenters and likers of alternate tunings. Dan Hallett, Jr. RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/32/0d/c2/0c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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