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Edit: added a couple of bits o' bach for your listening pleasure: link
After about a month of searching, I am glad to say that I have found my cello! I've been renting for the past year and a half, struggling with this cheap rental. But now I'm the proud owner of a Rudoulf Doetsch, pre-owned but much loved.
I tried four cellos before deciding on this one. One of them, a Samuel Shen, was quite a nice one for the price - it played really nicely (bowing from string to string felt really great), but somehow, it felt like it had an attitude. I think we could've been acquaintances, but never friends.
The Doetsch on the other hand, is really friendly and has a nice warm tone...I think with a few adjustments, I'll be happy with it for a long time. I love the reddish antiqued finish, and the lower registers are especially warm and enveloping. I'm working on the Sarabande from the 1st Bach suite and those long chords just sound so great... Also, distorted and reverbed, it sounds like a dream. 
Playing the Doetsch is really like a new world - bowing techniques I was struggling with on the rental just are so much easier...and my vibrato sounds worlds better...I feel like a new cellist. At the same time, I'm glad I struggled with the rental for so long, because I really really appreciate my (new) instrument.
It's going to get a lot of use. Yesterday evening my friends asked me if I'd record some backing tracks on an album they're working on...so that was really exciting. Plus the unrecnow / ooray collaboration is still going strong. Not to mention the ooray and miniwave projects will have a lot of cello involved as well...
I will put up some recordings of my cello tonight, when I get back... | |
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Roshi
I posted a couple of short lil' takes of Bach so you can hear what rudoulf sounds like: link
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Dizzygotheca
i wish was more musicially musical..
i almost bought an electric violin once.. but pretty much felt it would end up the same as my bass guitar and electric guitar ( ie, collecting dust )..
i think i just have to accept the fact im a knob twiddler ...
congrats on the cello btw.. sounds beautiful!!
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Roshi
Honestly, I would probably be nowhere on the cello if I hadn't taken lessons.
There is a certain amount of practice you must do a week if you aren't to embarrass yourself in front of your teacher.
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lematt
cello is one of my favourite instruments. you can make so many things with it: pads, basses, chords, ... the sound is gut tweaking.
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Roshi
FYI, I have decided to name my cello Rodolfo...because it sounds more swarthy than Rudoulf.
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mlbot
Chestra would be a good name
then you'd be "Single Cello Chestra"
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Roshi
does not compute
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Roshi
Oh, god, I finally got it - a 90's reference
Single cell orchestra - what ever happened to that guy?
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