#SymSat#iLikeToWatch Got to play double bass with KCO Grieg Romanza, Holberg, and Beethoven Violin concerto. I left it all on the field, as they say, nothing left. driving home always fun afters. No, no there is no practice Sunday!! :-P Nap more food, nap, more food then back to work? vegetative state? I'm the old guy sitting on the stool about to fall off the stage
@otheorange_tag My (untimely deceased) cousin used to play tuba and bass trombone in whatever orchestras it was that he was playing in. :) Though he was mostly a music educator and marching band choreographer.
@otheorange_tag (Tuba is called on so infrequently, even in the big orchestra, that one of course needs a second instrument, if considering making it one’s profession.)
@chemoelectric Our basses are in a crescent so we can see each other, our tuba is just to the right of bass #4 and we do compare notes while playing. #TeamEffort
I merely have a collection of keyless recorders, flutes, and tinwhistles that I cannot play, largely because I have chronic hand pain that keeps me from even trying to learn. I did play clarinet a bit as a kid.
@otheorange_tag My wife has her cello from when she played, but unfortunately it is not in working condition. And we have my late father-in-law’s old saxophone, but neither of us can play it (though those are very similar to clarinets, of course).
@chemoelectric What's wrong with the cello? BTW I started learning the bass at 49-50? never too late to pick up stuff. I have done some minor luthier stuff, if you know someone who is handy, just make sure they know to use hide glue. etc. Prolly safer to take it to someone
@chemoelectric I can feel arthritis, I'm 61. I come from the "Big" Louie (the old guy next to me #2 bass) school of play until you literally can't I watched my grandma play the organ until almost the day she died with pretty bad arthritis. I have a flute I can kinda play, and an oboe that I wouldn't subject my cat to my playing.
@otheorange_tag I turn 62 next month. But what matters more is I have fibromyalgia, especially in the hands. Also chronic migraine with sound hypersensitivity.
@chemoelectric I taught myself a lot on the bass (coming from teaching myself on the cello) with occasional words of wisdom from musician peers. I started by trying to balance the pain of muscles in both arms equally. Ended with me playing the bass sitting on a stool with the bass at a celloish angle. I've been experimenting with playing standing up off and on, but I need to watch more vids
@otheorange_tag I don’t like going to docs, but was at the neurologist just yesterday. Every 3 months I get injections of Botox in spots around my head and shoulders, for the migraine.
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