Our Sunday chamber group meets at a member's house. He is in the middle of expanding his lab space, and right now what will be the lab is just a big empty room, all lined in concrete. We played in there on Sunday, and the acoustics were absolutely amazing. The reverberation of our instruments made it an absolute delight to play and to listen. We were all just giggling at how wonderful everything sounded. The only other time my cello has sounded so good was when my teacher added reverb to one of the recordings of me playing - he did it just to show me what my cello could sound like in a concert hall.
At first it was just 2 of us, and we played the 2nd movement of Vivaldi's g minor double cello concerto - I was just shivering with excitement to hear the slow movement with those wonderful acoustics in that room. When the others arrived they all said the same thing, about how amazing the sound was. We are getting ready for a gig on Friday, so we ran through some of the pieces we're going to play. Mozart's string quartet K387, an arrangement of Copeland's Hoe Down, and then, sadly, I had to leave early. I got to listen to a little bit of the others playing as I walked away, and wow, what a difference a space can make to the sound.
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A little like singing in the shower perhaps?
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