Peo Kindgren plays Weiss on 7-String Baritone Guitar
JPD
example of why he is so popular. (RMCG recording stars please take
note of his reverberant YouTube sound.)
Tashi
He's a great player! Can't say I'm nuts about that guitar ( Baritone)
never heard of such a thing, what's the purpose behind that, to get a
deeper sounding guitar? Also adding one more string and that makes
playing Weiss Kosher...... hardly!
There really is little benefit explaining what it's like playing
Weiss on 13 strings to guitarists who play only 6 or 8. It's like
explaining to a fish what it feels like to fly.
Tashi
It's amazing what can be accomplished with a good audio software
program......... do you think he uses Pro Tools?
Curmudgeon
As has been mentioned here before, he's also a prolific composer and
arranger. I have a number of his works, and many are not too
difficult. My audience (mostly wife and dog) really likes his stuff.
John Nguyen
Great player with very sensitive sound. I'm curious about the
placement of the guitar. It looks as if he position it on top of some
supporting structure, perhaps a table? It looks very free, and I
notice the guitar rolled back and fore with his movement. Any thought?
Cheers,
John
John Nguyen
Very nice new facial make-up for your blog site, John!
Tommy Grand
Yea, I do like the sound he gets although sometimes I think he lays it
on a little too thick (that video is an example). It's kind of like
the strings in Bridge Over Troubled Water, very nice but a bit
overdone in places.
I'd like to try to rip off whatever it is he's doing to the audio, but
as far as I know he doesn't reveal his methods.
JPD
Thanks, John. I switched the blog over to WordPress from Blogger. The
typography is still a mess, but I'm making little changes day by day
as I learn more and more about WordPress.
JPD
No idea. What I notice most is that he lays on the reverb pretty
heavily. It sounds like way too much if you hear it through sound
system speakers, but it sounds pretty good through my tiny tinny
laptop speakers. Maybe he knows that.
Tashi
I was wondering the same thing.
Tashi
From working with video, I would say that whatever you do on YouTube
should be over done. Allot of nuance gets lost in the compression of
the video and audio. So adding a bunch of reverb might be a good
thing. For Video images I add a 15% sharpening to the video, something
one wouldn't do normally but it works good for the web.
BTW, I feel it was a bit way over done in this video. Reverb will
make just about anything sound good.
Tommy don't you have a built in reverb setting on your Zoom?
MGFoster
His UTube site says the guitar's scale is 705 mm and the tuning is D A
F# C G D C. The luthiers gave it to him for free.
BTW - flying fish know what its like to fly ;-)
---
MGFoster:::mgf00
Oakland, CA (USA)
Alain Reiher
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Nice to hear a guitarist that does play sul tasto more often than usual!
The room and its decor has a "song from the second floor" feel!
Alain
Tommy Grand
> Tommy don't you have a built in reverb setting on your Zoom?
Um, I just read the manual more thoroughly and it turns out there are
tons of effects I haven't tried. For example I can set the preamp to
"AG MICPRE" which will supposedly make the Zoom "optimized for
recording an acoustic guitar". And yes, there are various reverb
settings. I'll try them!
JPD
The guitar moves with his body, yet his body also moves freely behind
the guitar. (See 0:44, 1:37, 3:08, etc.) Rather mysterious, isn't
it....
Andrew Schulman
Andrew
Tommy Grand
wrote:
No, but why are you such a stranger these days?
Tashi
wrote:
Damn, I just sold all my Weiss MS a couple of days ago.
Robert Crim
London Ms. suite 17, page 5 in your staff version. WL43 in the
directory. It was originally in Bb maj.
Robertus
Andrew Schulman
> No, but why are you such a stranger these days?
>
>
few weeks, and I'm happy and lucky to be alive.
Sorry to be so mysterious but I'd rather not say more. So, I haven't
been posting much here but have been checking in daily.
More important though is I wish I could find that Entree!
Andrew
Andrew Schulman
> London Ms. suite 17, page 5 in your staff version. WL43 in the
> directory. It was originally in Bb maj.
>
> Robertus
>
>
Andrew
Alain Reiher
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Andrew
====================================
Mysterious indeed Andrew ... I hope everything is fine.
Maybe one day you will let us know.
Nice to see you back.
Alain
Robert Crim
Bless yourself, Professor. I've got all I can handle right now. I've
got a tumbler of Barbancourt in one hand and a big dog asleep on my
foot....which is rapidly going to sleep as well.
I think you can d a better job on that Weiss with your 8 stringer than
Peo did on his 7 string baritone.
Robertus
Matt Faunce
> No idea. What I notice most is that he lays on the reverb pretty
> heavily. It sounds like way too much if you hear it through sound
> system speakers, but it sounds pretty good through my tiny tinny
> laptop speakers. Maybe he knows that.
The reverb is not set to mimic the sitting position of the view the
camera is giving us (six feet away), or the setting (his living room).
My guess is he is recording the audio for a possible CD, and the video
is just a bonus. When I close my eyes and imagine I'm in a church it
sounds fine to me.
Matt
Andrew Schulman
> Bless yourself, Professor. I've got all I can handle right now. I've
> got a tumbler of Barbancourt in one hand and a big dog asleep on my
> foot....which is rapidly going to sleep as well.
>
>
compliment.
>
>
> I think you can d a better job on that Weiss with your 8 stringer than
> Peo did on his 7 string baritone.
>
>
enjoy his videos.
Andrew
Andrew Schulman
> Mysterious indeed Andrew ... I hope everything is fine.
> Maybe one day you will let us know.
> Nice to see you back.
>
>
I have mixed feelings about telling any of this, based on past
experience here, but there are two things connected to it that have to
do with music, one specifically the guitar, and as I've told a few
RMCG friends privately, and I am basically out of the woods now, here
is a relatively short version of what happened that I will share with
you.
I posted in July that I was taking a month long vacation. Not really
a vacation, but quite a trip.
Last summer a CT scan revealed 2 cysts on my pancreas. A subsequent
biopsy was inconclusive as to whether it was cancer. Another CT scan
was recommended and was done this past June. It revealed a mass in
the tail of the pancreas with all the earmarks of cancer, concurred on
by 4 doctors. It was considered to be 98% likelihood of being
pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is deadly. There is a 4%
survival rate.
The operation took place on July 16th - 6 hours. At the halfway mark
the removed mass and cyst next to it were examined by the pathologist.
I got the 2% deal. It wasn't cancer but rather a rare kind of
inflammation. Indistinguishable from a malignant tumor via a CT
scan. Still, a big operation to do, it had to be removed because the
likely complications later on from it can be fatal.
Fortunately we were lucky to have gotten a recommendation to one of
the best pancreatic surgeons in the country, at Beth Israel Medical
Center in downtown NY. A great human being at that, Dr. Martin
Karpeh. Pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult to do, there aren't
a lot of doctors in that specialty.
However, I didn't get off that easy. There is a 1 in 25,000 chance in
surgery to go into severe anaphylactic shock, and just before the
surgery was over that's what happened. Probably from a miniscule
impurity in a blood transfusion. I was rushed into the ICU and
immediately put into a medically induced coma. For the first 3 days I
was near death. At one point early on my blood pressure was near
zero.
After I was brought out of the coma I spent 3 more days in the ICU,
but recovered so quickly that I was put into a regular room without
going into the intermediate "step down" ward. I was only there 2 days
before being sent home.
Not a single doctor or nurse in the ICU thought I was going to
survive, many of them told me that before I left the ICU. On the
second day after being woken up I took my first walk, using a walker,
like an old man. A young resident walked by and was almost in shock
seeing me alive let alone walking. Which led to the funniest line of
the 12 days when he said, "7 days ago my shoelaces were higher than
your blood pressure". By the way, I never lost my own sense of
humor. I had quite a few good one liners after I woke up. Making
your doctors and nurses laugh is a great thing to do, for them and for
you.
So, how did I survive? That is an unknown but there were a few
factors in my favor.
I had great doctors and nurses in a great teaching hospital. Amazing
people from all over the world.
I've been going to a gym 4-5 days a week for years, and I walk 2 big
strong dogs every day and play rough with them. I was physically very
strong.
My wife was with me most of every day, and whispered in my ear; love,
and explanations of what was happening. And you do hear in a coma,
but it gets translated into a whole inner world. I hesitate to call
them dreams, what you are in is much more vivid then dreams. It is a
reality onto itself. Some of it was delightful, some of it was quite
frightening. And how it connected to what was actually happening
around me was amazing. I remember a great deal of it, maybe all of
it.
I had brought my iPod and on the second day of the coma my wife put
the earphones in and turned it on at the piece I had in place. That
piece was BWV 244, St. Matthews Passion, by J.S. Bach. Listen to the
opening especially and you will hear what hope it will give someone in
that condition. However, in it's entirety it is one of the greatest
pieces ever written and I'm sure it made a difference.
The guitar related aspect: I got home almost 3 weeks ago, after 12
days in the hospital, walked through the front door, walked straight
across the living to the far end where I keep my guitar, picked it up,
sat down, and played Bach's Sarabande from BWV 997. It took a huge
effort to do this, almost having to will each finger to move. I felt
a deep satisfaction to play that music. However, I was very weak and
very tired and put the guitar down.
I played ten minutes the second day. A little more each day, real
practicing. Today was the first day I felt back to what I can do
musically, and almost back technically. It was like being a beginner
again, very hard to do, but it comes back quickly. Today I smiled
when I played.
The hardest part of getting back is recovering from the anesthesia and
all the drugs. It will take months to get it completely out of my
system. It was essentially 7 days of anesthesia.
I was on morphine at one point after the coma and was delighted to
feel how much I didn't like it! But the music that plays in your head
with that is quite amazing. Didn't like all the Percocet either.
Haha, I wasn't going to say any of this here, but for better and for
worse this place called RMCG is a family, and if TG and Alain ask
about me, I guess I have to tell the story.
So, moral of the story - never give up hope. And, Life is Beautiful.
That would probably make a good title for a movie.
Andrew
Tommy Grand
wrote:
> So, moral of the story - never give up hope. And, Life is Beautiful.
> That would probably make a good title for a movie.
Holy smokes, bro! I figured you just quit the group and went to
Delcamp. Congratulations on your miraculous recovery!
Wollybird
wrote:
Wow, what can I say. what a story. I wish you well, Andrew. Life is
good.
Carlos Barrientos
Andresito, Good to have you around... still!
Now get well!
Lotsa love to you and Wendy!
--
Carlos Barrientos
"mailto:carlosgu...@gmail.com"
Phone: (229) 594-6374
John Nguyen
wrote:
Glad you're back! That's a very close call, to say the least, and now
I'm sure you will be indestructible. Please answer honestly: did you
dream about RMG when you're in comma?
Cheers,
John
dsi1
That is a strange tale. You must feel like you've been through the
looking glass. Or at least through the wringer. Or both. You're one
lucky guy and anyway, you can't die until I get my butt over to your
town! God bless you and your family including your big dogs. Take care
Andrew.
Matt Faunce
wrote:
Wow! I'm glad you made it through. Hope you reach 100% soon, too.
> And you do hear in a coma,
> but it gets translated into a whole inner world. I hesitate to call
> them dreams, what you are in is much more vivid then dreams. It is a
> reality onto itself.
I'm glad you wrote that. I've played guitar for people in comas. The
nurses told me they could hear, but I thought "oh, maybe there is 1%
chance they can hear, and if so it would be well worth it to play." So
I went ahead and played some calm major key stuff, like Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring, etc. It's nice to hear from somebody who has been
there that they (probably?) did hear the music.
Matt
Tashi
wrote:
Andy Pandy Poo, I was going to ask what your secret was for going cold
turkey on the RMCG, I didn't expect this! So you were just going to
slip away into the void without telling us?
Glad your still with us, so I have you to push around some more, life
wouldn't be the same without you. I guess no more beers, and pastrami
sandwiches for awhile.
Steven Bornfeld
You've had a heck of a year. Hope you and yours have better and
healthier times.
Steve
Steven Bornfeld
Just read this after replying to your other mysterioso post. I tried
e-mailing you last night but I think I used an old e-mail addy for you
and it bounced.
I don't know if you had the Whipple procedure. I know it's brutal.
However, I know of two people who actually DID have pancreatic cancer in
the past several years who are still alive and apparently well about 5
years later (and one of them isn't Steve Jobs).
Your situation sounds quite similar to that of Robert von Bahr (the
chief of BIS records) who is doing well after the ministrations of those
bad, socialistic Swedish doctors. You can search for some of his
narratives on rec.music.classical.recordings. He did have the Whipple,
apparently they hadn't determined whether he had cancer until afterward.
It was not clear to me that in retrospect the procedure was necessary
or not, but he is back running the company.
http://www.bis.se/bis_pages/bis_contact.php
He did mention that without his pancreas he has much trouble
maintaining weight. I assume he is also insulin dependent, though I
don't remember him speaking about this. In any case, he seems a kind,
open man and I'd bet he'd be willing to compare notes with you.
If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.
Yours for a quick recovery,
Steve
Andrew Schulman
wrote:
> I posted in July that I was taking a month long vacation. Not really
> a vacation, but quite a trip.
>
>
To answer a few questions that were posed:
No, not Delcamp!
No, I didn't dream about RMCG but there was one extended dream about
playing for elderly people at Christmas time, more about that in a
moment.
And yes, the degree of what you can hear in a coma is astonishing;
when I related some of the dreams to my wife and others and how
certain things came directly from events going on around me they were,
well, astonished!
And yes MT, food and drink habits are changed forever. Fortunately it
is unlikely at this point that I will become diabetic. However, I am
doing everything I can not to have a repeat performance at the
hospital. So, alcohol is out, completely. Don't care, sure beats the
alternative. And my diet was generally healthy but portion size is
now the key, and desserts are mostly out. So, I am down 30 pounds
since July 17th, 20 from the 12 days in the hospital, but we are now
eating MUCH healthier. The only downside to that is MT loses one way
of getting down on me, but I have complete faith he will find other
ways!
As far as additional comments on coma patients and patients in
general: What I know for myself is that you can't say thank you
enough. Not to God, not to your spouse or loved ones, not to the
doctors. Talk is cheap. It just so happens that the director of the
surgical ICU at this hospital is a big believer in music as therapy,
and has been wanting to upgrade what they do for some time. He and I
had a conversation about this the day I left the hospital and will
speak again soon. I am going to get involved in putting together a
more active live music program for the hospital, especially the ICU.
As Matt and Tony and some others here already know, music can be a
blessing for those in need. We as musicians can offer a lot. So the
thank you I can offer that really means something will come through
the guitar.
Stay healthy everyone, eat well, and especially, exercise!!
Andrew
Andrew Schulman
wrote:
> You've had a heck of a year. Hope you and yours have better and
> healthier times.
>
>
stretch, we've had all the drama we want for a good long time.
Andrew
Alain Reiher
Andrew
===================================
Ouf! (sigh of relief) ... it's seems like you came close to our real common
goal. I am profoundly happy that you decided to stay longer!
So with that little white lie of yours I innocently thought "well ... Andrew
had so much fun in his holidays that he does not need a regular transfusion
of spruce cedar like rmcg dialogues anymore" ... I thought of you in the
last two weeks and definitely someone was missing here!
It's though to be real in this environment and ... it is one thing I like
about you, you are real! The Andrew who speaks here is the Andrew I am sure
I would quickly come to like too, in real life.
Eh! I'll send you some positive vibes when I'll be at the gym this afternoon
doing my hamster routine! (no choices, I have to go ... great Asian food on
Friday at a friend's place and a 10 course Chinese wedding meal last
night!!)
Take good care.
Alain
Matanya Ophee
wrote:
>
> And yes, the degree of what you can hear in a coma is astonishing;
It is even worse when you are wide awake, as I was during the two
month long prostate cancer treatment in Bloomington, IN. Those
technicians thought they were making me more relaxed by playing some
God-awful noise inside the proton beam gantry. I got them straightened
out on that account in short order. Cancer is never a good thing. I
would not know if these two months did anything for me until about the
end of the year. 98% chance that it did, but if I fell into the
remaining 2%, the prospects are not pretty. I feel your pain, Andrew,
and that is not a cliche. By the way, (guitar content..) had lunch
today with Shani Inbar and Eduardo Inestal. At the Arcaffe cafe at the
Ramat-Aviv shopping mall in Ramat-Aviv, Israel. Around the corner from
my daughter's house. Shani is Israeli (and the first prize winner at
the Caceres competition last year, and Eduardo is from Salamanca,
Spain, also a prize winner in that competition. They are now starting
on the way of forming yet another multi-national guitar duo and I hope
all the best for them. Check them out on YouTube,
MO.
Andrew Schulman
> ... Andrew
> had so much fun in his holidays that he does not need a regular transfusion
> of spruce cedar like rmcg dialogues anymore" ...
>
>
Cedar/E. Indian rosewood guitar in a few weeks. I am primarily a
spruce player but there is just something about cedar, the intimacy I
think, that makes for the perfect mistress to go with the spruce
"wife".
>
>
> I thought of you in the
> last two weeks and definitely someone was missing here!
>
>
>
>
> It's 'tough' to be real in this environment and ... it is one thing I like
> about you, you are real! The Andrew who speaks here is the Andrew I am sure
> I would quickly come to like too, in real life.
>
>
invite Thames too, as long as the conversation remains strictly OT!
>
>
> Eh! I'll send you some positive vibes when I'll be at the gym this afternoon
> doing my hamster routine! (no choices, I have to go ... great Asian food on
> Friday at a friend's place and a 10 course Chinese wedding meal last
> night!!)
>
> Take good care.
>
>
Andrew
Andrew Schulman
> It is even worse when you are wide awake, as I was during the two
> month long prostate cancer treatment in Bloomington, IN.
>
>
the hospital, and had a conversation about the type of treatment you
did with a doctor, and what he had to say was very encouraging.
All the best wishes going to you from Wendy and me.
Andrew
Andrew Schulman
wrote:
> I don't know if you had the Whipple procedure. I know it's brutal.
>
>
told, and involves removing the whole pancreas. I had a partial
removal, the tail and some of the middle. My blood sugar levels have
been excellent. If the whole pancreas is removed you are immediately
Type I diabetic. With as little as 20% pancreas left you can avoid
that, I have about 50%.
>
>
> However, I know of two people who actually DID have pancreatic cancer in
> the past several years who are still alive and apparently well about 5
> years later (and one of them isn't Steve Jobs).
>
>
curable. 100% of those cured are operable. If you pass the 5 year
mark without a recurrence you are considered cured. A big part of the
danger is that pancreatic cancer is a "silent cancer". By the time
there are symptoms it is usually inoperable. Having it caught early
is usually by accident, while tests were done, like a CT scan for
instance, looking for something else.
>
>
> If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.
>
>
How is your brother doing?
Andrew
Steven Bornfeld
> On Aug 16, 12:25 pm, Steven Bornfeld <dentaltwinm...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>> I don't know if you had the Whipple procedure. I know it's brutal.
>>
>>
> No Whipple procedure, which is awful to go through from what I've been
> told, and involves removing the whole pancreas. I had a partial
> removal, the tail and some of the middle. My blood sugar levels have
> been excellent. If the whole pancreas is removed you are immediately
> Type I diabetic. With as little as 20% pancreas left you can avoid
> that, I have about 50%.
>>
>> However, I know of two people who actually DID have pancreatic cancer in
>> the past several years who are still alive and apparently well about 5
>> years later (and one of them isn't Steve Jobs).
>>
>>
> As dangerous as it is, caught early enough pancreatic cancer is
> curable. 100% of those cured are operable.
As I think you know, my mom died of pancreatic cancer. Considering the
toll it takes, it doesn't get the respect "sexier" cancers get. I think
generally cancers arising in the tail have a somewhat higher cure rate.
I'm glad to hear they didn't need to remove your entire pancreas.
That's a big, big deal. I think Robert from BIS had a whipple, and
besides the obvious sugar metabolism problems, the loss of the digestive
enzymes apparently cause malabsorption syndrome--which makes it very
hard to maintain weight.
If you pass the 5 year
> mark without a recurrence you are considered cured. A big part of the
> danger is that pancreatic cancer is a "silent cancer". By the time
> there are symptoms it is usually inoperable. Having it caught early
> is usually by accident, while tests were done, like a CT scan for
> instance, looking for something else.
>>
>> If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.
>>
>>
> Thank you Steve.
>
> How is your brother doing?
He's doing great--essentially back to normal--thanks for asking. He
worked like a maniac at Rusk Institute, and he's almost certainly fitter
at this point than I am.
Steve
>
> Andrew
Andrew Schulman
wrote:
> > How is your brother doing?
>
> He's doing great--essentially back to normal--thanks for asking. He
> worked like a maniac at Rusk Institute, and he's almost certainly fitter
> at this point than I am.
>
>
Andrew
Tommy Grand
wrote:
> So, moral of the story - never give up hope. And, Life is Beautiful.
> That would probably make a good title for a movie.
Andrew, a few times you mentioned that your hotel job, being a union
gig, provided a health insurance benefit. Did the insurance come
through for you here?
Wilson Apolo
thought that you'd had enough of this place and decided to high tail out of
here... But the reality was quite different, and I'm glad you were able to
endure such an ordeal and live to tell about it. I don't post here all that
often, but I've greatly enjoyed reading your posts on a number of topics
over the years. Hopefully Alain and will be able to head out your way one of
these days and hear you live and maybe grab a coffee afterwards.
Be well,
Wilson
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Andrew Schulman
> It is wonderful to see you posting again at RMCG, Andrew. I myself had
> thought that you'd had enough of this place and decided to high tail out of
> here... But the reality was quite different, and I'm glad you were able to
> endure such an ordeal and live to tell about it. I don't post here all that
> often, but I've greatly enjoyed reading your posts on a number of topics
> over the years. Hopefully Alain and will be able to head out your way one of
> these days and hear you live and maybe grab a coffee afterwards.
>
> Be well,
>
> Wilson
>
written are extremely helpful when a person is recuperating.
Be well too!
Andrew
Andrew Schulman
> Andrew, a few times you mentioned that your hotel job, being a union
> gig, provided a health insurance benefit. Did the insurance come
> through for you here?
>
>
qualified for what is called Plan A, there is A+, A, and B. There is
an unfortunate part of the hotel contract that means that you can only
qualify for Plan A, not the A+; has to do with a limit placed on
employers contributions. Th Plan A+ is as good as it gets, but Plan A
is more limited. So we kept our insurance with a company called
Atlantis Health Plan based here in NY. It has a more limited network
than the bigger companies but fortunately they were able to attract a
lot of excellent doctors as we have discovered over the past year.
My union plan though is also in effect and could have been used as a
back up if needed.
Andrew
JPD
> On Aug 14, 6:10 pm, John Nguyen <johnnguyen5...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 14, 5:52 pm, JPD <googlegroo...@guitarist.com> wrote:
>
> > > Per-Olov Kindgren is taking over YouTube. His latest vid is a good
> > > example of why he is so popular. (RMCG recording stars please take
> > > note of his reverberant YouTube sound.)
>
> > >http://tinyurl.com/krqhy8
>
> > Great player with very sensitive sound. I'm curious about the
> > placement of the guitar. It looks as if he position it on top of some
> > supporting structure, perhaps a table? It looks very free, and I
> > notice the guitar rolled back and fore with his movement. Any thought?
> > Cheers,
>
> > John
>
> The guitar moves with his body, yet his body also moves freely behind
> the guitar. (See 0:44, 1:37, 3:08, etc.) Rather mysterious, isn't
> it....
Kindgren just informed me that it's a Gitano guitar support.
John Nguyen
No wonder. And I think he place the guitar on his right tigh, not
left, right?
JPD
> left, right?
It appears so. It looks very comfy -- like the traditional flamenco
position, but with less worry about the guitar slipping away. More
freedom. Though perhaps less stability for fast playing. Looks lie
something worth trying.
Did you ever notice in the famous old Segovia "Paris" video that the
guitar moves with his body on the slow parts (reminds me of the
Yamashita sway), but for the fast parts the camera zooms in so that
you can't see much of his body and the guitar seems almost motionless,
as if it were braced up against something? (The table? An Aguado
"tripodion"?) It happens at 2:15: http://tinyurl.com/l6xhng
John Nguyen
I never noticed that before! It looked as if he ran out of team in the
middle of the piece and decided to stay still for the rest of the
video. Or maybe this is a handy cut-n-paste work of video editor!
Regardless, the old man knew how to play, heh?
dsi1
> Did you ever notice in the famous old Segovia "Paris" video that the
> guitar moves with his body on the slow parts (reminds me of the
> Yamashita sway), but for the fast parts the camera zooms in so that
> you can't see much of his body and the guitar seems almost motionless,
> as if it were braced up against something? (The table? An Aguado
> "tripodion"?) It happens at 2:15: http://tinyurl.com/l6xhng
He was probably instructed to hold the guitar still could for the tight
shots. My guess is that each shot had to be set up and meticulously
framed so the performance is not spontaneous or continuous. Most of the
time, the films of the day was shot as static scenes - not like today.
Static or well-framed shots are seen as not hip these days, but most of
the time all that movement makes me anxious.