AndyHirt's channel

@abc123dsa It's just a pick-up for the amplifier. I hate those BS fake violins without a sound-box. It's the guitar playing chords in the background that's so, so wrong.

Yeah, the terminology has altered since I was young. This is a Baroque Trumpet, not a Natural Trumpet. Natural trumpets have no tone hole openings. Don Smithers actually plays on a natural trumpet now (I remember a live BB Concerto where he played a pic and ended 8va, live). The interior of the t...

Mountain curs are under appreciated.

I'm looking for an Irish wolfhound with attitude-that's been bred out of them. Is there a dog out there with size and attitude that can handle 2-3 big coyotes at once???

abandeli has a point now that I think about it. The oboe is not pinching leading and passing notes either. Richter must be responsible. This is truly a full, pregnant, and verdant effort.

I came back to this page after a few months. What a great recording, especially now that it's near Christmas (I believe the Eastern Orthodox church celebrates Christmas later than the Western church-in January sometime, yes?). Thanks for posting this. I put this on my facebook page...

Great job Nate, especially live!! Nice embellishments too.

Not that you don't have enough on your plate, but those eighth-note Gs (on an F trumpet) might be huffed. There're some guys that are doing this now. Cheers.

@macaoidh4g Early collections from 110 years go clearly indicate that the harmony was added. The songs were never sung in harmony. The harmony was added so that Gaelic music would seem to be "equal" to European art music. What made Gaelic music unique is disappearing. There's not much "Gaelic" in...

@violetavalery He's OK; you can really hear his vibrato because it's so fast. It's the vibrato on the short notes that really identifies someone trained in the old manner of singing. Most singers today stress the short notes by singing without vibrato because they sit over dissonant chords. Peopl...

@jfbecks17 Quite right. Balance of subglottal pressure and airflow produce vibrato. So why does everyone pinch their voices on leading and passing notes today??

He was saying that it was old since the language seemed to match that of the KJ version. It does; he's right. The language is late middle or early modern English. Notice the use of the second person singular and older verb forms ("thine eyes" 'thy' being 2nd person sing; we use the 2nd person plu...

Interesting. See: youtube dot com/watch?v=SaUbCLLQBC4&NR=1. You'll notice that Alan Spencer doesn't change the direction. All the world's a stage and all the actors merely marionettes.

@RaeFalk You, obviously, live in a city. Bears are all over the GD place. One just went through my composter. I saw one two weeks ago as well; I heard the coyotes ripping a rabbit apart at 4 a.m. last week. Have you ever heard a rabbit scream or coyotes bay as they're tearing it apart? I thought ...

Hmmm, well, no. Fianna were young men pre-900 a.d. who were waiting to inherit their parent's land, or committed vendetta and were outside the local town/law. They hunted, played sports, drank, etc. If brigands came to attack their town, they defended it. Around 1200, after the church got rid of ...

Monteverdi wrote things down. He didn't invent anything. He just controlled. So recitative, and trumpet music was just placed on paper. God for him. He didn't create the style.

OK. who is singing this?? You didn't say that. I don't think the staccati are appropriate, but really, who cares? Give more info please.

Well, there is only one string. So you put your fingers on the nodal points. So it plays the harmonic series. I don't think that that was done here. The pitches match (roughly) the natural scale. I wonder about this recording...

It starts off by sounding like "The Last Post". Well done indeed.

Sounds like natural tuning. Is this tuning matched to the willow flute (seljefløyte)?

Nice. Are these instruments tuned to match the willow flute?

In English, you often pick the male or female and call both animals that. Cow is a female, bull is male; together they're cows. Goose=female; gander=male. Together=goose (pl.=geese). Vixen=female; fox=male. Together=fox(es). Bitch=female; dog=male; together=dogs. Not always though: bruin=male bea...

This is an ALPHORN!! An alphorn looks like a lituus, but is about twice as long. Basically, a lituus is very similar to a hornpipe (a pipe with a sheep's/cow's horn shoved on the end). With A=415, Bach's instrument would be even longer. What they made is a long lur. I appreciate the technology. H...

2,344 dislikes=cat people.

Great job. It's important to actually see the embouchure he talks about. He should probably make a brief mention of that he processed the sound (there was echo, normalization, et al. in the clip where there wouldn't normally be in someone recording live in a living room). Otherwise some people mi...

Hmm, well OK, she's a human being. I don't love her, BUT: She actually acts well. She doesn't line-read, seems to respond to other actors, does her job really well... So she's a professional; she happens to be cute beyond all measure (to me); is hampered by third-rate British directors, understan...

Everyone is supporting Malkin. No one is making fun of him. He's a great guy and is making tremendous strides in learning English. This is the kind of person we need in our country. I think he's doing TPR to learn English-it's working. Don't speak bad of him in my presence, or you'll rue it.

@W333dm4n #8. Good eyes.

@procks88 I am an expert. I actually study things like this. I'm a linguist. How about you? I mean, besides cruising youtube to find people to belittle?