Chandra Nandini 13-15: The plot thickens

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sashashyam

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Posted: 8 years ago

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A Stradivarius fiddle??? 😭

It is not just the old, seasoned wood, or the special cut, it was also the violinmaker's craft that produced the famous Cremona sound.

Why should you feel sheepish at not having known about a Stradivarius after learning Carnatic violin? I am sure Lalgudi Jayaraman would not have given a thought to Cremona!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: shailusri1983
Saraswati Aunty, I actually ran to google what a Stradivarius fiddle is. Shailu looks a bit sheepish for not knowing this. What will you think of me? I actually learnt violin as well for one and half years without knowing what a Stradivarius violin is. I knew in instruments made of wood, instruments made out of older wood have a finer sound quality, perfection of notes, and finer timbre. This was a new one even for me!

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sashashyam

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Posted: 8 years ago

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How silly of me, Akka! Of course you would have googled it. I should have saved myself some typing. Maybe the bit about Sherlock Holmes' violin was new for you, just maybe?😉

But when one says that Chandragupta played Helena like a violin, it does not meant that he is going to use her and will be proud to possess her, like the proud owner of the Stradivarius Violin...

It means that he manipulates her thoroughly.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: karkuzhali

"In fact, he plays Helena like a violin - a Stradivarius for choice!- right thru.👏
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Shyamala,
My question marks were because I had a doubt, whether you meant he was playing a second fiddle to her. But that didn't make sense to me..
But with your explanation of the Stradivarius violin( about which I already searched and found information), it is easy to imagine..
He is going to use her and will be proud to possess her, like the proud owner of the Stradivarius Violin...
When you start learning to play violin, you will not find it (the instrument)very comfortable with you..But after undergoing many practising sessions, it will "obey" your command and will never betray you!

Akka, you are the only person with the curiosity to ask me about this fascinating subject. I wanted to see how many would display such interest, but there has been no one but you! Not even Sandhya or Khushi, who are focussed only on the unfamiliar words I use!😉

Thank You!

Affectionately yours

Saraswathi Akka.

Edited by sashashyam - 8 years ago

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karkuzhali

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Posted: 8 years ago

#73

Passage from "Sherlock facts: 22 things you didn't know."

^(BBC)

In Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Cardboard Box, it transpires that Sherlock Holmes owns and plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivarius himself. The Sherlock production team, however, uses a different violin for each series (series three's is a 1,200 Chinese-made Con Fuoco), all on loan from Cardiff Violins. (The shop's website contains a sweet testimonial from a Mr John H Watson', thanking the staff for being extremely patient' with his friend: He would thank you himself; only, well Sherlock doesn't really do that sort of thing ...') For season two's on-screen violin scenes, Cumberbatch was taught how to play and violin act' by Eos Chater, a member of the classical group Bond. Although the actor played live on set, the playing heard on the soundtrack is by Chater. "Benedict had a week, and made a surprisingly good sound," she wrote of the experience on her blog. "I have no doubt he would be a good violinist if he had the inclination."

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Originally posted by: sashashyam
How silly of me, Akka! Of course you would have googled it. I should have saved myself some typing. Maybe the bit about Sherlock Holmes' violin was new for you, just maybe?😉

Yes ..For that matter we can also look for the meaning of new words from google dictionary .. But your posts help me to learn many things Shyamala.

But when one says that Chandragupta played Helena like a violin, it does not meant that he is going to use her and will be proud to possess her, like the proud owner of the Stradivarius Violin...

It means that he manipulates her thoroughly.

Shyamala

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Ankit pandey

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Posted: 8 years ago

#74

Great analysis aunty
I haven't watched episode as there is no electricity in my remote village
But after reading your analysis I will surely going to watch the epi
And also due to bad network I had replied so late and also replied coz I have come in city for some work
Thank you for pm

Edited by ankit-pandey24 - 8 years ago

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Khushi_love

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Posted: 8 years ago

#75

Aahaa...no frets!!...at all!!!😃

Me already working on my new vocab worksheet 😆

Originally posted by: sashashyam
Not to fret, my pet! Sasha was a big smart aleck too!

Shyamala Aunty

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Shailaja

@shailusri1983

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Posted: 8 years ago

#76

What is this Cremona sound now? Google told me that it is the violin made by a famous Italian violin maker. Google here I come again for this Cremona!

Originally posted by: sashashyam
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">A Stradivarius fiddle??? 😭

It is not just the old, seasoned wood, or the special cut, it was also the violinmaker's craft that produced the famous Cremona sound.

Why should you feel sheepish at not having known about a Stradivarius after learning Carnatic violin? I am sure Lalgudi Jayaraman would not have given a thought to Cremona!

Shyamala Aunty

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sashashyam

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Posted: 8 years ago

#77

😆😆😆

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: shailusri1983
What is this Cremona sound now? Google told me that it is the violin made by a famous Italian violin maker. Google here I come again for this Cremona!

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sashashyam

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Posted: 8 years ago

#78

Lord, Akka, this is not the real thing at all! Bernard Cumberbatch, forsooth! You have to check out the definitive Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett, who literally made Holmes his own over a whole series of the short and long stories, made by Granada TV in the 1980s and 1990s.

Or the classic The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, by William S. Baring-Gould. Incidentally, it was from the latter that I first learnt about Cremona and the Stradivarius .That was in the 1970s, when there was no google! Holmes picked up his Stradivarius from a Tottenham Court second hand shop for 55 shillings, since the shopowner did not know what a treasure he had!

See, Google cannot always replace real reading!

Shyamala

Originally posted by: karkuzhali

Passage from "Sherlock facts: 22 things you didn't know."

^(BBC)
In Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Cardboard Box, it transpires that Sherlock Holmes owns and plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivarius himself. The Sherlock production team, however, uses a different violin for each series (series three's is a 1,200 Chinese-made Con Fuoco), all on loan from Cardiff Violins. (The shop's website contains a sweet testimonial from a Mr John H Watson', thanking the staff for being extremely patient' with his friend: He would thank you himself; only, well Sherlock doesn't really do that sort of thing ...') For season two's on-screen violin scenes, Cumberbatch was taught how to play and violin act' by Eos Chater, a member of the classical group Bond. Although the actor played live on set, the playing heard on the soundtrack is by Chater. "Benedict had a week, and made a surprisingly good sound," she wrote of the experience on her blog. "I have no doubt he would be a good violinist if he had the inclination."
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karkuzhali

@karkuzhali

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Posted: 8 years ago

#79

Cremona is a city in Italy, and here is about its association with violins...

From the blog "there is more to cremona than violins" ( from the internet)

" ...the history of this sleepy city of 70,000 on the Po River, just over an hour south of Milan by train, is inexorably intertwined with violins and other stringed instruments. At a dinner during my first weekend in town, half a lifetime ago, I sat next to a man named Fulvio, who told me he made violins for a living. He'd gone to school at age 13 to learn violin-making and then had apprenticed for years, and now he had his own violin workshop, where he made stringed instruments by hand for musicians and collectors around the world. "This city is the birthplace of Stradivarius," he said, and explained that there were dozens of luthiers " makers of stringed instruments " just like him working in the city center.Fulvio invited me into his workshop, where over several weeks and months he shaped, carved, chiseled, sanded and varnished very special pieces of wood into instruments that he sold for tens of thousands of dollars. No other place in the world made violins like Cremona, Fulvio said. The Cremonese method " one that dates back to Andrea Amati , "father of the violin" in the 16th century; to the Guarneri family in the 17th and 18thcenturies; and of course to Stradivarius " takes longer and is more difficult than other methods, and creates one-of-a-kind instruments.More than 140 liutaio currently ply their trade in the city. Wandering the narrow streets around the Piazza del Comune, you can watch dozens of violinmakers at their workbenches through their storefront windows. If they're not busy or if they're in the right mood, some of them may wave you inside to have a look..."

Saraswathi Aunty/Akka.

Originally posted by: shailusri1983
What is this Cremona sound now? Google told me that it is the violin made by a famous Italian violin maker. Google here I come again for this Cremona!