Neck and scroll of violin by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy (1730 – 1784)
Corrette, Michel-Menuets 1,2,3 ‘L’école d’Orphée’ Op.18
Violin-Chappuy ca. 1760, Bow- FX Tourte ca 1770)
(Workshop-‘at the practice desk’ recording 17 12 15)
Michel Corrette-holdin the bow in the ‘French Style’ illustrated in the ‘School of Orpheus’PSS demonstrates the Corrette bow hold (used on this workshop recording). Thumb under the ‘frog’. little finger behind the stick
16th December A perfect day. Mozart with Daniel-Ben Pienaar this morning (see Wilton’s Music Hall link), walking home-Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell, Smithfield to Wapping, conversation, and now back to evening Corrette scordatura preludes and this view, of the delicate original finger board of the 1760 Chappuy which is offering such insight into these piecesFront of violin by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy (1730 – 1784) with original neck and fingerboardBack of violin by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy (1730 – 1784)
(15th December 2015) A new project begins, bringing together an astonishing and immaculate violin by Chappuy and the L’école d’Orphée (1738) by Michel Corrette. I will post more about this in the next few weeks.
‘Different styles of holding the bow’/ P/ 7 of the ‘School of Orpheus’
