A Violoncello da Spalla could easily become your best friend, even if you are not in a lockdown!
Daniel Bayle is recording synchronised videos with instruments, bows and strings made by himself!
Despite two years of the pandemic, I don’t think there are enough videos out there employing Violoncello da Spalla. Writing my small series of trifles about Bach’s cantatas, I realised, for example, that there are almost no videos of Bach’s cantatas violoncello piccolo solos played with a violoncello da Spalla.
We tend to assume research engines are giving us exhaustive answers, but this is not always the case. Only this week I discovered Daniel Bayle’s YouTube channel. And this because I wrote him privately to congratulate on his latest video and asked him why he puts everything on Facebook and not also on YouTube (!!). So it’s a sort of a SEO/tags/keywords issue: his videos are there, but they do not come out if you research Violoncello da Spalla.
Daniel is now officially a retired violinist. He was head of the second violins in the orchestra of Toulouse for most of his career. Since he was a boy, he has had a passion for woodworking and violin making in particular. Being a professional violinist, violin making remained for long a hobby passion: his first two violins were criticised by his colleagues, but his wife Christine played the third one for years in the same orchestra, and with praise!
During latest years his passion turned into a precise project: “from the tree to the music”: recording sync videos in which he plays all parts of a composition, with instruments, bows and strings (the wound ones) made by himself. Enjoy this beautiful Vivaldi performance!
I think almost all musicians tried to record this kind of synchronized videos during the pandemic, so we all know how difficult and time consuming it can be. Needless to mention how useful a Violoncello da Spalla could be for a violinist in these kind of projects. Indispensable!
In this newsletter I shared several videos from Toshihiko Amano’s channel, which I find amazingly good. If you appreciated it, you will also enjoy Daniel’s channel.
If you don’t have a Violoncello da Spalla yet, it’s time to go and try one. We now have one available to try, you can get in touch by answering this email or through our website or socials.
