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Handbells With Mallets

BarryK 13 June 2010

I saw a handbell player this weekend at a local art fest. I saw she had mallets and asked for a demo. I didn't know that handbells could be played with mallets.

The thing that interested me was that they can ring out when they are laying down on the table. She showed me that under the cloth was a thick foam cushion. This allowed some ringing, but with some dampening to shorten the ring duration.

Barry

Those French are nuts! - Part 1: The Recorder-Boot-Organ

Marie-Noëlle 12 June 2010

In my town there is a special fiest for Children one week end per year. A giant firework on Friday night, all kinds of shows around the place, and in a park tons of games, sports, manual activities, actors in costums on stilts etc...

It's this week end a we are back from our little tour in the park. And there we saw a good dozen of amazing giant instruments, each one more nuts than its neighbour! (old saucepans as drums, weird huge wheel full of plastic bottle corks, other strange recycled percussions, etc...)

More "Bach Ferrin" - Oh man...

Marie-Noëlle 5 June 2010

This aria was the entrance piece for my wedding (the original one I mean)...

That was 12 years. Today I listen to this video, and everything is suddenly emerging from deep inside: my satin dress, the veil on my face, my father's arm, our steps on the central lane of the church, full of people who had seen me running there as a little girl, and behind us my very impressed Bruno at the arm of his mother...

Jeez... I had never seen it that clear before Bobby sang it back 'to me'... this man must be an angel...

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