In article <5073796b$
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Oh, so because I'm not a violin virtuoso, I'm wrong when I say that the
four strings of the violin are normally tuned to G, D, A, and E? I'm
wrong when I say that the correct orchestral term for playing with the bow
is "arco"? I'm wrong when I say that plucking the string is called
"pizzicato"? I'm wrong when I say that the term for bouncing the bow on
the string is "spiccato"? I'm wrong when I say that one can touch the
strings at various points to produce harmonics? I'm wrong when I say that
turning the bow over and striking the string with the wooden part of the
bow is called "col legno"? I'm wrong when I say that drawing the bow
across the string very near to the bridge is called "sul ponticello"?
I'm wrong when I say that Brahms composed a violin concerto in D major?
I'm wrong when I say that Adrian Boult and Pierre Monteux typically seated
the violins differently than most other conductors did at the time,
putting the first violins on the conductor's left and the second violins
on the right, instead of both sections on the left? Are you old enough to
have seen at least one of the many occasions when Monteux conducted the
Boston Symphony and had the violins seated the very way I described,
rather than how the music director of the Boston Symphony Charles Munch
seated them when he conducted during the same years? Am I wrong, just
because I'm not a violin virtuoso, when I say that in authentic
performance practice violinists typically play without vibrato, whereas in
standard orchestral performances they usually play with vibrato?
So, according to you only, and no one else, since I'm not a virtuoso on
the violin, all of the statements I made above are false, even though
every single one of them can be independently verified beyond my word from
many different sources.
Get real.
And this from the man who a week ago stooped to the level of trying to win
an argument with me by claiming I said something I never said, then still
refuses to even admit today that he was mistaken.