Oct 16 2011

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上海國際樂器展2011

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參加商展的時候總不免要碰到形形色色的人們,通常有幾個類型,暫且描述幾種:

  1. 八面玲瓏──做生意以和為貴,不管人家怎樣對待,總是笑臉迎人。
  2. 守株待兔──你愛看不看,我的東西有特點,不需看人臉色。
  3. 情報員──拿個相機拼命拍,也不徵求同意。看他的眼睛就知道是否競爭對手。你一看他就掉頭。
  4. 老王賣瓜──我的東西就是比較好。似乎不用人演奏就已經飄出仙樂來了!
  5. 貴族──老子我非常專業,已經在音樂院上了兩年課...
  6. 嚇死人不償命──誰誰誰是我的朋友、誰誰誰是我的同學、誰誰誰又是我的老師

有個現象值得一提,中國人的自信心在提升。往年人家一聽我這樂器是中國製造,一半以上要逃走的;今年只有一、兩位。再撐它兩年也許能賣掉一、兩支...

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Sep 07 2011

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有深度的長笛人物介紹

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戲法人人會變,各有巧妙不同。

很多人都寫過James Galway,但是這篇由Robert Bigio執筆的訪問卻不能不讀。

Bigio 出生於中東,但是生長在加拿大的英屬哥倫比亞。在加拿大念完學士後,到英國倫敦大學深造並獲得博士學位。

雖然在英國以外他的知名度止於長笛製造跟作家,但是他在之前是北方室內樂團(Northern Sinfonia)的首席長笛。

想了解他的商業作品(長笛跟書籍)請到www.bigio.com,想看他的文章請到www.robertbigio.com

他的近期專訪包括:J. Galway, Walter Auer (維也納愛樂的現任首席),  Daniel Pailthorpe (BBC 交響樂團助理首席), Karen Jones, Peter Lloyd (前倫敦交響樂團首席), Kenneth Smith(前愛樂交響樂團首席)。還有其他值得一讀的文章。

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Sep 02 2011

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現代音階設計的不協調

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1960年代開始有些英國演奏家跟製造者對當時的長笛音階設計不滿,因為它並沒有隨著標準音高的變化、物理聲學的演進及製造技術進步合理地修正。由於製造者才能在實質上實現這個改造,庫博(酷伯 🙂 )Albert Cooper 成了焦點,其實演奏者應該也在這個革命中佔有一樣重要的角色,熱情的貢獻者包括威廉‧班乃特William Bennett、崔佛‧懷 Trevor Wye、Elmer Cole、Richard Lee、Christopher and Richard Taylor (兄弟)、Alexander Murray...等等。後來「庫博音階」Cooper Scale 在1974年得到美國Powell Flutes的採用,其它大廠及吹奏者也逐漸開始認識這個新設計的好處。今日我們所使用的樂器幾乎都是受益者。

從1980年之後,各個製造廠(包括庫博本人)跟某些吹奏者一直不斷地在微調這個音階設計,所以並沒有一個蓋棺認定的「庫博音階」。庫博對此一現象抱持著開放的態度,他從來也不是個狹隘的自我主義者(大頭症)。相反的,庫博不斷地傾聽、不斷地審思、不斷地改進、不斷地分享。這也是他受到長笛圈一致尊崇的原因。

Bennett, Wye, 還有Eldred Spell 在今年三月份公布了他們繼續對音階設計的研究結果,稱為「2011年修正的音階」。不管這個設計是否能為大眾接受,終究是對熱愛長笛設計的表現。在他們發表時稱為對「庫博音階」的改進,也是基於歷史事實跟尊重庫博在此領域的貢獻。

沒想到,有製造者並不同意這個「攀附」庫博的研究結果所用的名稱,認為有辱庫博的成就。請看此文

庫博如果還健在(不幸在今年初仙去),應該不會反對這樣的行為。以他謙卑的素行,當對別人的抬愛(參考他的研究)感到無上光榮。

 

 

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May 17 2011

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十九到廿世紀英國長笛製造的精品

全能長笛家 Robert Bigio ,也是製造家,現在又以歷史及寫作素養孕育出了一本鉅作:”Rudall, Rose & Carte: The Art of the Flute in Britain”

精裝本的此書由著名古董樂器商及出版商 Tony Bingham 印行。

Author: Robert Bigio

The firm of Rudall & Rose, later Rudall, Rose & Carte, and finally Rudall Carte, dominated flute making in Britain for a century and a half from their founding in 1822. For much of their existence almost every professional flute player and most serious amateurs in Britain played on one of this firm’s instruments.

The original firm, Rudall & Rose, produced simple-system flutes of the highest quality before they were persuaded by Richard Carte, a student of George Rudall, to begin production of Theobald Boehm’s early conical flute. The firm went on to buy the British rights to manufacture Boehm’s 1847 cylindrical flute, which is the basis of the instrument most flute players use today. Richard Carte, a brilliant businessman, joined the firm as a partner in the early 1850s and transformed them from a small business producing high-quality flutes to a hugely-successful concern that produced and sold flutes and most other instruments as well as publishing books, music and, for eight decades, The Musical Directory, an annual guide to the music business in Britain. Rudall, Rose & Carte, as they became, bought the business of Thomas Key, military musical instrument maker, adding brass and percussion instruments to their catalogue. In addition to their instruments and publications, the firm promoted concerts, for a time under the management of Richard Carte’s son, Richard D’Oyly Carte, who later made his fortune promoting the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. The firm became Rudall, Carte & Company in 1872.

This book is a comprehensive history of the firm and contains detailed descriptions of the many innovative instruments they made. There are hundreds of colour photographs of flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes and piccolos, each shown in at least two views, and where necessary in three or four views with photographs of details. The firm’s output is shown in context with photographs of dozens of flutes made by their competitors including Willis, Prowse, Monzani, Wood, Wylde, ‘Pratten’s Perfected’ by Boosey & Co., Fentum, Godfroy, Koch, Boehm, Laurent, Gerock, Badger, Ward, Card, Siccama, Clinton, Lot, Collard and Boehm & Mendler.

The book includes a lavishly-illustrated Gallery containing hundreds of photographs:

  • Simple-system flutes by George Rudall and by John Mitchell Rose before they formed their partnership; by Rudall & Rose; by Rudall, Rose & Carte; and by Rudall Carte
  • Advanced simple-system flutes, including Carte’s ‘Old System’ and flutes made to Clinton and Siccama systems
  • Boehm flutes with ring keys, both conical and cylindrical
  • Modern-style Boehm flutes
  • Carte’s 1851 Patent flutes
  • Carte’s 1867 Patent flutes
  • Radcliff flutes
  • Unusual flutes, including those made to special order for the inventors Mathews, Martin and Welch

Appendices include addresses, dates and serial numbers; workshop photographs; design features of Rudall Carte flutes; price lists; and fingering charts.

Hardbound. 336 pages. 264mm by 196mm. Price £75 (75 GBP).
ISBN 978-0-946113-09-5

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May 09 2011

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米歇‧德波斯特教授prof Michel Debost即將從歐柏林音樂院退休

Filed under 報導,長笛人物

五月八日在歐柏林音樂院的Warner Concert Hall 舉行了一場慶祝退休的音樂會,短短的十幾、二十分鐘,預告了這位曾經叱咤風雲的前輩在歐柏林音樂院教學的生涯即將劃上句號。

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