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yeongil
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 Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: Renting Stringed Instruments? |
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Does anyone know where in Seoul can I rent a stringed instrument? Specifically, I would like to rent a viola for a couple of months, to play at a church here in Seoul. (I don't own one in the US, or else I would have brought one with me.) I'm no Itzhak Perlman of the viola, so a student instrument would be fine. The closer to Sinchon (where I live), the better. TIA.
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hossenfeffer
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Perlman played the violin. |
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yeongil
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| hossenfeffer wrote: |
| Perlman played the violin. |
Uh, yes, I know that. What I was saying was that I'm no virtuoso on the viola like Perlman is on the violin. (I don't know offhand of any viola virtuosi, hence the comparison.)
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hossenfeffer
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| How about Lionel Tertis, William Primrose, or Michael Kugel? Sorry for being so captious. |
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yeongil
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:02 am Post subject: |
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Good Lord, aren't we nit-picky?  I should have said that I don't know of any big-name viola virtuosi, who's living, and who doesn't also double as a violin virtuoso. Let's see, Tertis & Primrose aren't living (neither is Walter Trampler), I've never heard of Kugel. Pinchas Zuckerman doubles as a violinist, and so does Jaime Laredo. Yuri Bashmet doubles as a conductor. Most violists I've heard of are violists in string quartets: Michael Tree (Guarneri), Lawrence Dutton (Emerson), Peter Schidlof (Amadeus), Piero Farulli (Italiano), and so on. But these names aren't well known, I think, as musicians like Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, etc.
Anyway, that's just my (un)informed opinion. I'm withdrawing my request for finding places that rents violas, because I was able to get help elsewhere. So mods, feel free to lock this thread.
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angel of bob
Joined: 11 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Try Nakwon Music Mall. I don't know if they rent out instruments, but you can buy a cheap one too. It's in the Seoul Lonely Planet Guide. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| You can play my banjo string if you want. Just don't snap it. |
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