[Dixielandjazz] Live vs. Recorded Inauguration music

[Stephen G Barbone]

Mart McKay macjazz at comcast.net  wrote:

"You folks all should have realized it was taped whn you looked and  
saw Pinky and Yo Yo Ma playing instruments from WalMart."



Yes indeed we should have Mart, or when we looked and saw Gabriela  
Montero playing that beautiful piano with gloves on. <grin>

Turns out the only guy who might have been heard live by somebody  
close by was McGill on clarinet, but who knows how loudly he was  
blowing? I'm sure he did not want his spittle to freeze inside that  
nice clarinet. <grin>

According to a Washington Post article, the piano action had been  
disabled so no sound from it was possible and both Perlman and Ma had  
soaped their bows to reduce the friction across the strings of those  
borrowed instruments which all but eliminated sound. I'll bet the bows  
were WalMart issue also and not their usual ones which can cost  
upwards of $10,000.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband