On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
Bob van der Poel <bob@mellowood.ca> writes:

> Monophonic Bach isn't all bad. Remember, the cello concerto (one of
> the most beautiful pieces ever written) is, mostly, monophonic :)

A cello concerto would hardly be monophonic, but I cannot think of any
from "the" Bach (J.S.).  Are you thinking of the cello suites?

Hand hits forehead ... of course I meant the cello suites. Yeah, a monophonic concerto would be ... ummm .. interesting???

I imagine they would give a breath controller (or actual wind
instrument) a run for their money.  I play them on chromatic button
accordion (where a hand span of two octaves is still comfortable) and
they are a good reach.  I'd imagine them to involve a lot of jumping
around on a piano keyboard, and a strenuous mess on wind instruments
(where broken chords/phrases over large intervals like that require much
more frequent overblowing switches than usual).

I've tried to play a few transcriptions on saxophone. And, listened to a few as well. I certainly sound awful trying it. And folks much better than I am don't sound all that great either. Mind you, I'm using to recordings of spectacular cellists playing it :)


> But, I figured that the breath controller CC would not be
> supported. But, since it's just software, maybe in a future release?

What do you _want_ it to do?  Chances are that one can rig something up
that does it outside of Aeolus.

I don't really have the time these days to do much with it. More of a "that's interesting" question.

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David Kastrup



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