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Post by Blue on Feb 7, 2012 14:37:46 GMT
Pipa player has her likeness sculpted while performing.
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Post by xindi on Feb 8, 2012 21:49:07 GMT
"Pipa player has her likeness sculpted while performing." That's hot!  I mean the naked blue flame  Kind of shows a lump of clay at the end of the video....I suppose it's a work in progress? |
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Post by Blue on Feb 9, 2012 15:08:46 GMT
Last time I visited the Chin-Yuan Chinese Orchestra Store in person (http://www.chin-yuan.net/index_down.php), there were flyers saying that she offered one-on-one lessons for TWD800 and group lessons for TWD300. Interested?
Sometimes I wonder if artists have to necessarily look like hippies . . . . . . but I look like a unkempt graduate student/professor at work. We are all who we are . . . . . . .
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Post by xindi on Feb 9, 2012 21:07:33 GMT
Interested? Yes lol. She's way less fearsome than bimanual nail wielding disapproving pipa teacher who charged around US$50 per lesson after the tasters! I suppose in performance, there is a degree of visual appearance, shaping the way we experience the aural music. Have you ever watched:  The troubadour musicians wear sunglasses (or ludicrous smiley faces!) to mimic the legacy that troubadours were blind (this is the fate of the lead of the band too). That's not to say that their appearance didn't matter ...the fact that they appeared as blind, was very much a part of the cultural expectation of their performing. Many of the pipa players of the younger generation seem to be heavily into the visual makeover appeal market ... I wonder if they sell more CDs or downloads as a result... |
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Post by Blue on Feb 15, 2012 17:27:03 GMT
Curious that there's no image. But yes, I agree that certain people dramaticize their appearance for sheer marketing purposes. Like using lip balm for instance  |
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Post by xindi on Feb 28, 2012 20:51:55 GMT
Lip balm......excuse me...is crucial! Try reading the other flute forums, and you will constantly see threads with: "How can I play with cracked lips?" "Help! My cat is on fire!" "Help! My top lip is bigger than my lower lip" "How do I play with no lips?" Okay I made a few up...but remember! You is in the humid warmths of the tropics, or bound between one or the other. We is in the temperate cold, where playing outdoors at 7 degrees will not only crack your lips and pop your dimo but also chap your hands that you'll need mild green fairy liquid lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taEaSfPtbYAnyway - what you need for real flute credence, is Chopsaver: www.chopsaver.com/musican-lip-balmJames Galway markets this grizzly product. The girl in the ad really looks like she can blow a trumpet. |
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Post by Blue on Mar 1, 2012 0:15:08 GMT
My dearest Xindi, Maybe you would want to move the lip balm discussion to the dizi/xiao threads (and not blow too much cover as well) |
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Post by xindi on Mar 1, 2012 0:25:34 GMT
Ok.
Back on topic.....when I play the pipa, my left hand fingers depress the frets and the strings are forming calluses.
Can you recommend a good hand cream for pipa players?
(j/k)
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Post by Blue on Mar 1, 2012 15:14:00 GMT
Actually, if I really wanted to, I could take pictures of the calluses of the erhu teacher in our company's Chinese music club . . . . .
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Post by xindi on Mar 1, 2012 19:02:05 GMT
That's just as off-topic as flutist's balm! Well I'll show you mine, if you show me his:  I suppose calluses are the least of my worries playing the pipa lol. Hedge fund bets that the sculpture does not reproduce those calluses on the pipa players fingers! |
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