Mine doesn't 🙂

Köszönöm a kedves szavakat! Hála neked, rengeteget tanultam.

Thanks Maarten! All the best!

Thank you so much. All the best!

Thank you so much!

Good luck with your different career. Enjoy life and be happy :-)

❤ Thank you so much! I love the bass in all its shapes and forms, but the g-violone is a truly heavenly instrument and i always regret not being better at it... tough choice, i guess. Whichever it is, enjoy playing and enjoy life every day!

@@harukokorneel6585 I bought a g-violone and am really enjoying it. I have already played with our gamba group - those low notes add so much to a consort. I may also buy a small UB in the future - I need the shorter string length. Keep recording please!

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Thank you very much!

I agree with you, I don't like the weird modern environment. I think it's ugly, especially that distracting tall sculpture between the musicians. It doesn't compliment the beautiful Baroque music.

Hello Bret, nice to hear from you! I enjoyed your TED-talk very much. Thanks for watching and commenting. Enjoy music, enjoy life. All the best!

Thank you for all the nice comments! Glad the videos are of some use to you. Keep playing and enjoy life! All the best.

The bridge is in maple but it's been dyed black. Some gambas have this kind of painted bridge so i asked my luthier to do the same with the bass. Looks cool :-)

Hi, thanks for asking! The Sperger Project is alive and kicking. Benedict Zierbogel and Isaline Leloup have already made a contribution by recording concertos 9 and 18, in the meantime our Duo has studied concertos 1 till 6, with number 5 slated for recording very soon. A number of little try-out concerts is planned for early 2022. Next year will hopefully see quite some activity, after all the covid-setbacks. Fingers crossed (or un-crossed. Even in Viennese Tuning it's hard to play with crossed fingers). All the best!

Ha! Thank you so much! Yes, i absolutely love Jethro Tull. In fact most of what i know about playing music, i learned from my early years in pop and rock bands... all the best to you, may the passion be with you always. Never too old to rock'n'roll :-)

Thank you! We had lots of fun rediscovering this gem, and recording it. We’ll play all 18 Sperger Concertos in the coming three years. So far we’ve covered the first six. True masterpieces, every one of them. All the best!

Thank you so much! All the best.

Awfully kind of you... thanks a lot! In "Ancient Music" there is often a lot of musical humor. We don't always "get it", maybe because sometimes we take Classical Music too seriously. But composers and musicians liked this kind of thing, like quoting a few bars of another piece. All the best!

Tai ganxie ni le !

Thanks! So do we :-) It's a wonderful instrument.

Thank you so much. All the best to you!

Dank je wel !

Thank you. Dittersdorf's two concertos are indeed for Viennese Tuning. They're not necessarily much easier in this tuning, though. If you would like to read more about Ditters, you can consult my book "Meta Hodos" on viennese-tuning.com (Method). All the best!

Hello again Shrish! Indeed, the 4-string version in this case would have the compass of the cello. Sperger used -at least in the latter part of his career as a bass soloist- a four-string bass. You can see that from the scores. The soloist was expected to play all the Tutti parts as well (something we don't do anymore, which is a great pity), but when the Tutti bass part goes too low, the solo bass pauses or plays an octave higher. Since we're only two players here, i prefer to be able to play the Tutti bass parts in their complete ambitus, so i use a five-string bass. The music is indeed amazing. Right now we've run through concertos 1 - 5, we hope to do the first nine concertos this year, and the second nine next year. It's fascinating to play them in chronological order because you see the evolution so clearly. Contrary to received "wisdom" (mostly from people who have never played his pieces), Sperger's music is rich, varied, surprising, and moving. If you want to play this particular one, you will need a Viennese-tuned bass. Most of Sperger's work is impossible to play well on a modern bass, unless you change it substantially (octaves, harmonics, double stops, articulations...). As a result, it sounds a bit uninteresting, un-exciting. But if you go all the way, it can sound very surprising, on a par with the best pieces out there. Good luck, enjoy music, enjoy life !

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Something seems to have gone wrong with my first reply, sorry. To answer your question briefly, indeed the instrument in this case has the same lower limit as the cello, except for the fifth string which i only use in the Tuttis. In any case, the Viennese bass in its four-string version and in its standard tuning only goes down to low A, which is just a minor third below the cello. If you want to play this concerto, you will need Viennese tuning in F Major i guess, because many passages are impossible on the modern bass. All the best!