(12-09-2015, 09:09 AM)sundance7490 Wrote: Thank you for being so insightful about these things danfromnj. You are wonderful.
One real quick note though (just for trivia's sake) as a violinist I can assure you it is actually Roddy, or in my "west-coast" case Asha, playing that lead cello part on their violin for Sarajevo. The kind of violins they have are 5-string Yamahas. On a regular violin they only have four strings but the five string goes as deep as a cello (and a viola) goes necessary to hit the notes the cello normally plays on that song. I listened close to Asha just to "disprove" my wondering mind and she very clearly played that part but moving her bow back and forth four times during the long notes that are held out.
And for many years, many fans thought that the flute sound they heard was coming from the performer playing the flute on stage. It's all perception. I am well aware of the Yamahas that they use on stage. and the low C String as the fifth string. I never said they weren't "moving the bow back and forth" and "playing", just that the sound we are hearing is coming from the keys. But again, it's all perception.
Big Asha Mevlana fan, by the way. She is a killer player - I enjoy her playing especially when she plays one of Mark Wood's vipers.