7 years ago in Mission Beach
…the next day
Full moon, my cello & me on the beach…
Category: Player Related
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“Kaffee Kantate” by J.S. Bach
“Coffee…Coffee…I must have….” Lieschen, Schlendrian’s daughter
“…if three time a day I can’t drink my little cup of coffee then I would become so upset that I would be like a dried up piece of roast goat…”
“Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, smoother than muscatel wine.”
I totally agree…without coffee life is only half as good. But swapping coffee for a marriage…?…I don’t know…
But then Lieschen lets everyone know ”No suitor of mine should come to the house unless he himself has promised and it is written also in the marriage contract that I shall be permitted to make coffee whenever I want.”
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Kaffee Kantate” BWV 211
Just imagine Johann wrote this piece in 1732-35. Stradivari could have listened to it in the last years of his productive life. Maybe not on YouTube..this is the privilege of 2022
Do you have pain when playing your instrument?
Many professional musicians develop shoulder problems, tight muscles in back, arms and neck, as a result of a poor setup; as well as any kind of intonation issues and buzzes, noises etc can be set-up related.
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Combined with my 28 years of professional experience, I have been serving you the best and most professional, here in Brisbane, when it comes to sound improvement, restoration, repairs, setup or advise about any other violin related matters.
Reasons for muscle tightness and other pains which are instrument related:
- too hollow fingerboard
- wrong fingerboard curve
- sound setup not properly done, instrument does not speak as easy as it should
- too high bridge or wrong bridge curve
- too high nut or uneven spacing of the grooves
- wrong tension strings
- bad bow re-hair
- wrong choice of bow
- and obviously the settings and choice of the chin rest and shoulder rest
