Flying With Your Instrument Funny Video

feeds@yuku.com (cellojoan) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:31:49 GMT

I know a lot of advice has been written about this topic, but I just found this youtube response which was the result of United Airlines damaging a Taylor Guitar. Apparently the guy spent about a year trying to resolve the issue with them for his $3500 guitar. When the final person he spoke to refused to do anything he threatened to make a video about the experience and they scoffed at him. He made this video and a couple more. Taylor gave him two free guitars for all the free publicity....

looking for feedback on this "cello position" software

feeds@yuku.com (kylerake) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:58:17 GMT

I'm building this to help beginners learn the cello positions faster. Please let me know what you think/find. No software can replace having your hands on the cello. My hope is that this will help others understand the positions and notes to learn faster overall.

I will be adding position ½ pos and 3^rd pos hints to it.

I may add the actual note once you get the correct answer at a later time.

My band got a write up in the local paper

feeds@yuku.com (giggleycraft) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:28:37 GMT

Our local newspaper ran a little story on my band recording our new album
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/867091

I'm pretty excited about the recording process. I've worked with artists on a song here and there, but haven't been part of making a full album yet. The guys...

Lonely Cellist

feeds@yuku.com (CelloInNowhere) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:31:30 GMT

As a recent college grad I suppose I've now entered the scary and confusing world of being an adult amateur cellist. Since graduating earlier this year I had found a niche playing in a local college/community orchestra, had a private instructor and a pianist girlfriend to play Sonatas with. While it lasted it was great and without the added classwork and pressure of college life I felt I was improving by leaps and bound. Unfortunately, a elderly member of my family living in another part...

Advice for Bach's 4th prelude?

feeds@yuku.com (ClarkBattle) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:19:15 GMT

Hi,
I have been playing for 30 years, on and off, but have only started playing Bach the last three. I studied with a teacher to learn the first suite but now I am on my own. After hearing Mischa Miasky play the prelude to Bach's 4th Cello suite on YouTube I decided to learn it. It is the first piece I have ever studied without a teacher. So far, it has taken me three weeks to figure out the fingerings and memorize the first half to that dramatic low C# that makes my scalp...

#14

feeds@yuku.com (Tim Janof) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:51:20 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db_9pXlc0xE

Any NY area cellists want to play cello choir stuff?

feeds@yuku.com (olly) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:42:08 GMT

Thought I'd throw a line out-- it occurs to me that there must be plenty of us comparatively high-functioning adult amateurs in the NY area (I'm in NJ myself). Any interest in trying to arrange a meet-up over the Christmas holiday to play some cello choir repertoire? I've never done the Popper Requiem and I've always wanted to at least play through it.

I also know a good mezzo at Mannes who *might* be persuaded to sing Villa-Lobos with us...

Cellist

feeds@yuku.com (plantsrain) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:05:41 GMT

Has anyone heard of a cellist called Robert Cohen?

Amateur Chamber Association

feeds@yuku.com (cellojoan) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:53:39 GMT

It was recommended to me that I join an amateur chamber association. Does anyone know of it and how I contact them? They list you and your playing ability so that others in your community or visiting your community can find people to play with. If you are a member, do you find your membership beneficial? Thanks.

String Quartet Exercises

feeds@yuku.com (swycas) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:18:49 GMT

I've been playing in a quartet for about a year. We're all adults who have been playing for five years or more, so we're getting past a beginning stage. We take individual lessons and also have a great coach who works with us once a week as a group. In the first year our intonation has improved tremendously, but now we have to get much better at playing together. One thing that never occurred to me was how hard it is for violins & violas to hear the other players, since...

Imitating the Great Cellists

feeds@yuku.com (four strings) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:37:04 GMT

Well I think he does it pretty good. My favorite imitation is Natalia Gutman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC5TQqW44dY

If you are cold...

feeds@yuku.com (cellojoan) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:48:07 GMT

make your way to Sarasota Fl for Dec 22 thru Jan 1st. Itzhak & Toby Perlman will bring the world class Perlman Music Program faculty and 35 gifted string students from around the world to our town. Mr. Perlman is funny & irreverant. Many of the events are FREE and it is a phenomenal program every year. By the way, our current temperature is 78. Come on down!

new onset left thumb base pain after rediscovering cello!

feeds@yuku.com (redwoodtree) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:18:30 GMT

Hi

I recently started playing cello again, after long hiatus, not that many hours per week even, maybe 2-3; and already had osteoarthritis in the fleshy part of my thumb joint, but now have pain in my first and second thumb joint. Could this be from resuming playing, that is the only change in using my hands. If so, what can I do? It hurts all the time now, not only when playing, thank you, glad I discovered this forum.

Bow vs rosin

feeds@yuku.com (prstorms) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:07:22 GMT

Hello all,
I purchased a new CodaBow Prodigy recently and went about getting it all rosin'd up. I'm using a dark Kaplan rosin. It seems to be taking much longer than I expected to get it up to speed. When playing open strings I get a very nice sound on the upper strings, but have to work a little harder on the lower strings, even to the point of "digging" on the C string to initiate the sound. When I start putting fingers down, I get a "whispy" sound that is...

NOV. 15th- Sunday 7 PM - Philadelphia- Superb FREE Concert- Cello & Piano - Brahms- Janacek- Martinu

feeds@yuku.com (museamuse) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:03:42 GMT

Dear cello lovers..! For anybody in the Philadelphia area, a superb cellist, Arthur Cook, will perform with Deborah Gilwood, pianist, at the

Settlement Music School in Philly 416 Queen Street
on Nov. 15th, Sunday, at 7 PM.
"An Intimate Evening of Music for the Cello and Piano"

This...

How did you get a really good vibrato?

feeds@yuku.com (swycas) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:36:57 GMT
I've been working on it for a while and it doesn't seem to improve--it's too fast, too tight, too uneven, and too out of control! I've worked with a metronome but I can't seem to break through. I'm just wondering if there was one thing that got you over the hump from that nervous amateurish vibrato to a real, expressive one?

screeching strings

feeds@yuku.com (Paul) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:42:26 GMT
This has probably been dealt with before but what causes my strings to screech when I'm playing, mainly the D and A string.

Berliner Philharmoniker

feeds@yuku.com (Clenham) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:48:00 GMT
For anyone curious about the Berliner Philharmoniker concerts broadcast on-line, here is an opportunity to get a free ticket to their Digital Concert Hall.

www.db.com/index_e.htm

Symphony programming

feeds@yuku.com (cellojoan) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:11:14 GMT
When I moved to Sarasota over 10 years ago, part of the attraction was their dedication to the arts. However I was dismayed to find that at symphony performances, I was one of the youngest in the audience and I was then around 50. The sea of silver heads in the audience was discouraging. What was worse, were the distracting shrieks from their hearing aids, their loud stage whispers when they chatted during a performance, snuffling, grunting, etc. Where were the young people?

Now...

Happy Anniversary to Me!

feeds@yuku.com (cellovelo) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:07:10 GMT
It's been four years today since I started playing the cello. What an interesting trip it's been! In some ways, I thought I would be farther along than I am, and in other ways, I'm overwhelmed at how far I've come. I've had terrifying moments (having the neck snap off while tightening a string at the peg), some joyous moments (playing Bach with my community orchestra), some deer-in-the-headlights moments (playing Beethoven with my community orchestra), and always...