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Viola da Gamba 2013

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Jenny Eriksson, The Marais Project (Sydney)



Jenny Eriksson, The Marais Project (Sydney)

  Jenny Eriksson, founder of the Sydney based Marais Project will get hold of her new Ruby Gamba before the end of June 2013. This new version has startled me (Jan Goorissen) in that it even sounds better, looks better and functions better than all previous versions, thanks to Kees Jan, who has completely changed [...]

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American agent for the Ruby Gamba



Kansas City based musician, scholar, teacher and salesman Victor Penniman is your man to approach if you want to purchase a Ruby Gamba from the USA. Victor is a very proficient violist himself, has a doctorate in d.m. (on Philippe de Vitry, Ars Nova) and has been a devout player of the Ruby Gamba for [...]

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Fahmi Alqhai plays the Ruby Gamba now



Fahmi Alqhai plays the Ruby Gamba now

Fahmi Alqhai, one of the leading voices in the area of the viola da gamba, and experimenting with the merging of styles and techniques, has adopted the Ruby Gamba as his instrument for a part of his job: to play Hendrix, or looped improvised music, to play contemporary music and what else he can invent, like [...]

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Ruby Gamba

Bowing

The secret of bowing is the terrible expression of a continuous pluck, an extended moment that subconsciously reminds us of the raptorial ripping of soul tissue. It hurts, and thus urges us to heal the moment by imagining the bow and the string to be a vocal tract. The bowing aimes for the voice that breaks the nocturnal silence into a soothing wail. Our ears sharpen and we awaken to our noblest feelings: lonesome but not abandoned, together but uprooted, scratched but pristine.

Comments by players

Jay Elfenbein: endless sonic possibilities |
Tony Overwater: it is magic |
Victor Penniman: Awesome tool, man |
Jean-Baptiste Collinet: My Heavy Metal Axe |
Fahmi Alqhai: My tool for Hendrix and Van-Halen |
Wieland Kuijken: it's not for me, but it will
probably mark the future of viol playing...

Viol Players on the move

Many young viol players are on the move, from viol playing as it was understood for decades to viol playing as modern society requires... that is: players are adapting to new emerging markets, and new musical styles. Viol players are great adapters for their instrument asks them to impersonate styles, attitudes, techniques and conceptualizations from many different cultural movements, from now and from the past. Our instrument enhances the possibilities of young players greatly, so choosing the Ruby Gamba may be decisive in the development of modern professionalism. See you at the exhibitions in Asfeld, France, Utrecht, Netherlands, Meylan, France, Greenwich UK and Boston (2013)