[NetBehaviour] long covid blues
Mark Hancock
mark at memecortex.net
Thu Feb 29 18:23:00 CET 2024
>>More than you asked for!
Heh, not at all i find it fascinating. As someone who just dabbles* with
Ableton, field recordings and whatever Arduino device I can connect, it’s
really interesting to understand analog instruments and their heritage and
the complexity of playing them.
M
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 16:35, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Now that you ask... Nylon is easier on the fingers than steel, and harder
> to 'twang' - it's subtle in a different way. And there's nylon and nylon -
> originally strings were gut and on some instruments I use Nylgut which
> imitates the acoustic properties of gut but is another composition
> altogether. It's easier to bend notes with steel strings, a displacement
> sideways of steel (or composition) raises the pitch to a greater extent
> thann the displacement of nylon (or composition). I have a very old gambus
> here from near Nepal with the original strings - they're very thin gut and
> I'm afraid if I play it, they'll break.
>
> With the guqin or qin, it's other issues. They should be played with gut
> strings, relatively low tension. Under Mao, who was responsible for the
> dstruction of 300 antique qin, which went back centuries, the qin was
> 'modernized' to take steel strings. My two qin have steel strings, even
> though one is centuries old; the gut strings tend to break and I don't
> have the physical strength to replace them (another story). I have a
> friend who plays and teaches a number of instruments; he has gut strings
> on his reproduction medieval instruments.
>
> The blues always used metal - it was what was available, but the strings
> bent for the blues notes as well. And I don't want to say 'always' for
> that matter, not sure of that. Electric guitars of course need metal
> strings but you can electrify a classical guitar as well with contact/
> vibration mics.
>
> My sazs are all metal strings, as are my Albanian gifteli. The saz is very
> very easy on the fingers.
>
> The oud uses nylon or gut strings but a related instrument, used in local
> Jewish musics, the cobza or kobza, uses very light gauge metal strings.
>
> Old-timey banjos can go either way; mine has nylon or nylgut strings
> (forget which now, like the latter more), bluegrass banjos always use
> metal strings for their percussive quality.
>
> The whole mandolin family, metal.
>
> More than you asked for! :-)
>
> Best, Alan
>
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024, Mark Hancock wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:39:58 +0000
> > From: Mark Hancock <mark at memecortex.net>
> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> > <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> > <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] long covid blues
> >
> > Hey Alan,
> > That's really interesting. Any differences as a player between nylon and
> > steel? Apart from the twang?
> >
> > Bloody long covid, what a nightmare it all is. Hope you're finding some
> > respite, or solace from it all.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 22:13, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
> > <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > The music is from a while ago, unfortunately my playing now is
> > stranger, more angular.
> > It was a steel string guitar, I still do blues on a nylon string
> > banjo, mainly for myself, but it doesn't have the 'twang.'
> > Years ago I remember finding a steel-body National guitar for Son
> > House through Al Wilson.
> > I got infected by free jazz.
> > Spoke too soon about being over long covid; today was one of the worst
> > days.
> >
> > Best, Alan, exhausted and so glad you liked the music!
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 4:15?AM Mark Hancock <mark at memecortex.net>
> > wrote:
> > I love that guitar sound, Alan. I need more of that,
> > please!
> >
> > Reminds me (in my limited cultural references) of the guitar on
> > Psychic TV?s A Pagan Day album.
> >
> >
> > Glad you?re on the mend, that was my favourite verse.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 04:48, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
> > <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > long covid blues
> >
> > https://youtu.be/c8zWeSeZDvM video
> >
> > i got the long covid blues
> > i got the long covid blues
> > any way you choose
> > i got those long long covid blues
> >
> > wake up this morning in the middle of the night
> > wake up this morning in the middle of the night
> > looking for the sunlight sight long covid fright
> >
> > wake up in midday nothing left to lose
> > wake up in midday nothing left to lose
> > got those long longer longest long covid blues
> >
> > they say there's nowhere to go but down the covid
> > hall
> > doctor comes i said yesterday maybe had a fall
> > i said maybe something else can't remember at all
> > said maybe that was it maybe was a fall
> >
> > i got the long covid blues
> > i got the long covid blues
> > any way you choose
> > i got those long covid blues
> >
> > --- >>>> *
> >
> > * although i seem to be getting well and pulling
> > through
> > * anyway you look the mood's a lot less blue
> >
> > _
> >
> >
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