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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New file uploaded to newmellotrongroup

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2009-03-08

They were named in response to the "sad strings"...sort of.  Those who know me know I'm innately cute and cuddly but like most musicians I am angry on the inside.  It also took me four attempts at recording a new string patch for the tron before I finally got something remotely usable. That exercise is enough to make anyone ill tempered :>)

fritz-  beer is reverb for my angry side, I'm a happy drunk.


-----Original Message-----
From: James Bailey <jimab@rogers.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:55 pm
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New file uploaded to newmellotrongroup

--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, Rick Blechta <rick@...> wrote:
>
> Very nice,Fritz. The mandolin is a nice touch and the angry strings
> sound terrific. Are we hearing the long vamp of a longer Doddy
> composition?

Pardon my ignorance, but what makes the "angry strings" angry? To my, admittedly, tin ears, they sound rather cute and cuddly in this example. I would've thought that angry strings should be a strongly bowed, rather harsh sound.

Jim Bailey