LUXURY Of FORTE

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 22 Apr 2003 2:52 pm

Steel guitarists who are blessed with the ability to perform fast or slow performances faultlessly, remain the singlemost inspiration, in the eyes of their admiring fans. Trying to emulate a player who has the speed of a mongoose flying over a cobra's back can get to be a rough sport. Enter one higher degree of forte, and the chase is on. Without the luxury of forte, it could be a time consuming chase, to no avail. The development of ones own style is the most rewarding course to follow.

Bill Hankey

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 22 Apr 2003 4:15 pm

Tempo Giusto con Abbandono:

My personal Favorite.

Italian Musical Terms pretty much had it all covered.

Contrary to more current inferrences "It" is not all meant to be Placido Piano.

Bill. I'm liking you more and more with each excursion into the nether world of rubinesque rumination. Were you ever in San Francisco in 66-7?

I think you inadvertantly might have sparked my long overdue renaissance.

God help us.

EJL[This message was edited by Eric West on 22 April 2003 at 05:18 PM.]

Terry Edwards · Post by **Terry Edwards** » 23 Apr 2003 8:28 am

Bill, One might perceive a degree of verisimilitude in your commentary, however, I have always maintained that similarities exist in both steel guitar performance and sexual performance. Successful performance requires, if not demands, forte in the foreplay!

Terry
(sorry b0b)

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 23 Apr 2003 9:00 am

Must be another push-pull joke

[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 23 April 2003 at 10:12 AM.]

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 23 Apr 2003 9:18 am

Eric W.,

I've never visited Caifornia. The late storyteller, LOUIS L'AMOUR has written many frontier novels of the badlands, east of California. I like the cool springs found in New England, and I try to imagine whatever possessed those who perished in the heat and swelter, to risk life and limb, as they once did in the 19th century.

Louis's books can be great company for those who believe that infallible determination is what success is based upon.

I'm curious about the artwork in your last reply. Could you tell me more about the artist?

Bill H.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 23 Apr 2003 10:32 am

Well Bill I've not read many LL books. I think once when I was in County Jail when I was a late teenager. All I had o serve was a four day stretch, so I didn't read very many of them.

In the last few months, I've been studying the Civil War again through the Lib of Congress, and other Sources. Letters between Lincoln and the Field Officers were some of the best.

I think that since it was "real" it shows a lot more of "what it takes to succeed". There were days when thousands of men hacked each other to death, head on. Day after day.

It seems to help put one's day to day "monumental struggles" in perspective.

A study of individual General Officers both North and South, since they mostly "took their personalities with them" (screwed up as some of them were) holding ranks they sometimes bought. Also plenty of publications of "common soldiers'" correspondences were insightful.

My favorite historian and writer of "colorful" dialog is probably Shelby Foote. A formal, but succinct and friendly style of conveying thought, and creating word pictures.

The Picture? I dunno. It's something off the "piano" site.

Gotta run. Today I'm thinking "Steel Guitar".

EJL

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 24 Apr 2003 5:49 am

Eric W.,

Accounts, and actual photographs of tragic events, taken during the civil war are disturbing. I read through a publication that contained many illustrations of the conflicts. The tearing up of rail lines, and piling the rails on heaps of burning ties, in such a way, that they became twisted as the intense heat caused them to bend under their own weight, was indeed another form of FORTE.

Bill H.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 24 Apr 2003 10:41 am

I believe they were called "*******'s Neckties". ( Huh Steve?)

No need to fight it all over again....

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

Back to making some Streaming ram files of Pee Burak for posting soon.

EJL

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 24 Apr 2003 4:22 pm

Sorry, Eric, I'm not allowed to repeat THAT name, not eeven in writing!
But when we were kids, me and Wobble and Richard used to build forts in the woods all the time.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 24 Apr 2003 5:04 pm

higher degree of forte

my playing has been described as "higher degree of farte".....[This message was edited by HowardR on 24 April 2003 at 06:06 PM.]