Question of the day: How does the curve of the panflute affect the playing? Is there a best curve? Should it be different for each person? Popescu's...
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Erik I. Bech
e.bech@...
Jun 18, 1998 1:28 am
... For practical reasons, it is much easier for one to play the nai, especially with many more pipes, when curved, thus enabling one to move one's head with ...
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dick
dick@...
Jun 18, 1998 2:09 am
Hi everybody! I'm Richard Anderson and I live at the bottom of the world in Auckland, New Zealand. In case you don't know where my country actually is it's...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 18, 1998 2:41 am
... The S.A. pipes are certainly more" primitive" in a sense, and not nearly so finely finished as the Zamfir-style, or Romnanian ones. The ones I have seen...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 18, 1998 2:41 am
... Certainly. ... Quite possible. There are certainly a number of other very fine players, but only Zamfir was "discovered" by the West, (through Marcel...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 18, 1998 2:42 am
Hi Dick! I'm glad you de-cloaked! That is a pretty wonderful postcard you sent! Can you tell us the story of it? Would you mind sending any text messagesa IN...
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Benoit, John
John.Benoit@...
Jun 18, 1998 12:17 pm
Hello all, Just want to point out that there are different methods for multiple tonguing, as well. For double tonguing, it is simply "tu ku tu ku tu ku..."...
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Brad White
whiteb001@...
Jun 18, 1998 2:52 pm
Hi, on the subject of tonguing.. when I was a teenager about 18, I got a job in a bank cleaning money. It was a boring job even if you were around incredible...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 19, 1998 3:19 am
... Quite a story! And an interesting comment on using your experience to go where you wanted to, by sort of living in your own little flutey world. I learned...
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Henry Hertz Hobbit
hhhobbit@...
Jun 19, 1998 6:48 am
... Kevin I don't think he sent it as an attachment. At least the Pine email program on Unix saw it as body text. Maybe the reason your email program saw it as...
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Brad White
whiteb001@...
Jun 19, 1998 2:32 pm
I also had trouble reading the first email from our friend down under.. but the 2nd was just fine.. so if whatever he did that time I think is the way to...
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Brad White
whiteb001@...
Jun 19, 1998 2:50 pm
Hello, Richard are there any players in your country now beside yourself that you have heard of? Have you bought any panpipes from any of the Romanian makers ...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 19, 1998 4:03 pm
It was a mystery as to what happened to Dick's message. I cut and pasted it, and then it disappeared, after that, I got three copies of it in the body of...
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Brad White
whiteb001@...
Jun 19, 1998 4:31 pm
... --bw.. same for me too.. the next email said 2nd attempt..and it worked fine.. ... I heard from people that Zamfir was not very patient with students in a ...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 20, 1998 3:32 am
... So here goes. I suppose I had heard some recordings of Zamfir by the late 70s, and I had tried to make a few clumsy instruments. I had gone to Romania the...
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dick
dick@...
Jun 20, 1998 5:05 am
Brad, You wanted to know whether there are any other Kiwi panflute players. i know of one guy by the name of Max Lines. I don't know the guy personally. I...
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Kristian Steensgaard
kris@...
Jun 20, 1998 11:05 pm
... Fra: Kevin Budd <kbudd@...> Til: kris@... <kris@...> Dato: 18. juni 1998 04:41 Emne: Dobre I guess my last letter was...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 21, 1998 2:03 am
I forgot to tell the fascinating tale of my encounter with Ion Preda, the maker of probably the best Romanian style pan flutes. When I was in that land, in...
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dick
dick@...
Jun 22, 1998 4:42 am
Kristian my fellow panflute enthusiast, I remember you mentioned in an earlier email that you live in a small town near Copenhagen. Therefore I guess you...
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Henry Hertz Hobbit
hhhobbit@...
Jun 22, 1998 7:23 am
... Nope, it isn't Danish. It is Swedish (I am 1/2+ Swedish, 1/4 Scot, and 1/4- English). It seems that she is doing a tour of sites in Norway, Sweden (at...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 23, 1998 3:13 am
For those who wish to take a gander at Dana, there is a pirated black and white shot of her on my page under the gallery heading. ...
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dick
dick@...
Jun 23, 1998 3:54 am
Hello Henry Hertz Hobbit (Heck!), Very pleased to make your acquaintance. Thanks for the info on the abovementioned lady. I s'pose I shoulda known she wasn't...
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Lola and Jim
lucke@...
Jun 23, 1998 6:03 am
... one?.... ... tour of sites in ... Dana Dragomir was interviewed on a morning news show here in Finland in April, I think. Unfortunately I didn't read the...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jun 23, 1998 3:40 pm
By the way, there are indeed at least a couple of other excellent female pan flute players around. One is Yumika Nazoki, the young Japanese woman who has...
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Henry Hertz Hobbit
hhhobbit@...
Jun 24, 1998 10:04 am
Fellow Pan Flutists: I wrote this message, not knowing how much others knew about her music. Since she isn't playing Romanian music I am not as interested, but...
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Lola and Jim
lucke@...
Jun 27, 1998 8:31 pm
Knowing that it's impossible to give music lessons by e-mail, I still want to ask for help- how do I get the high notes to not sound like birds in a fight? The...
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Brad White
whiteb001@...
Jun 27, 1998 11:27 pm
... from brad.. ... Read this list on the Web at http://www.FindMail.com/list/panflute-world/ To unsubscribe, email to panflute-world-unsubscribe@... ...
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Lola and Jim
lucke@...
Jun 28, 1998 2:57 pm
... That sounds like a good idea. I've been going up to the notes that I CAN'T play and spending time on those, undoubtedly reinforcing bad habits. I'll give...
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Brad White
whiteb001@...
Jun 28, 1998 7:15 pm
Self Doubt, I think this is one our biggest enemies. Learning the panpipes isolated from a teacher or any other players it creeps up again and again. Maybe...
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Kevin Budd
kbudd@...
Jul 1, 1998 1:51 am
Just a little test message here. Apparently another "makelist.com" list was totally un-subbed couple of days ago. I was intrigued recently to find a fellow an...