Magical Soundscapes
Such a landscape of sound,
stringed instruments provide.
A simple pluck or slide of the bow
sends wavelengths traversing across
one’s sensitive needs.
How rewarding…
These sounds enveloping our synaptic mind,
giving purchase to our love,
hate,
innocence,
and guilt.
Finger-tone guides,
of the other hand,
press down on frets,
signaling variances of discovery.
Embracing the shaped neck,
the vibrations of strings may take one
to a garden of rose and peat moss
asking the closed eyes of the listener
to breathe in the scent of softness,
the fragrance of peace and love.
If only more would listen,
they may hear the liberation possible
as catgut and wood coalesce,
rendering hearts of the willing…
to open.
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Love ya!
Jane
And then, the way a violin string can reach a pitch almost unheard of that touches one's soul with magic.
I vividly remember a faculty member from Fairmont State University in West Virginia, proudly bringing out a fiddle that he traded from a man upon a mountaintop. Inside I could read the word Stradivarius. The man was no violin player, but as he pulled a few licks on those strings, the sound that came out of that fiddle reached into my very soul! I've never heard a sound like the since.
Ron
I love music and classical is solid gold.
The sounds of a viola or a violin in hand.
It's all so elegant and all so grand.
Well done!
John Michael
if he knew the difference between a violin and a fiddle. He thought for a moment and then replied: "Ah'm purty sure a violin has 'striiings,' but a fiddle has 'straaangs' " He wan't nearly as eloquent as you, but he could be a poet in the making.