Re: The metronome doesn't lie Re: The Joy of Slooooow playing

Robert Crim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:50:07 GMT, "John Wasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Yes, wasn't it Galileo who discovered that sort of use for a pendulum?
> >
> Galileo probably learned it from "Dad."  Galileo just wrote it down
> and made all the $$ (lira?) from it.
>
> >> You can find detailed instructions for setting one up in Thomas Mace's
> >> "Musick's Monument" thereby showing that lute players have always been
> >> a rather disciplined lot.  Before the pendulum was used, the human
> >> pulse was used.
> >>
> >
> >True, but that's the thing - the human pulse is a very variable beat
keeper.
>
> Not if it's for music played "metronomically."  The pulse in that case
> is the "resting pulse.".......or sleeping pulse.
>
> Robert


But who plays while they're sleeping!  ha-ha!  ;-)

(Actually, most times when I have the guitar in my hands it sounds like I'm
sleeping - but playing.....)

Just call me the Six-String Somnambulist!  ;-)


jw