Alan DuBoff Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 no need for input here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6013 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Can use the anvil as a percussion instrument? What would be the proper style of music to play, rap or swing? Maybe the "Let’s Groove" by Earth Wind And Fire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan DuBoff Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 no need for input here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 You know I could be wrong, and I throw this open to you lot, but isn't there actually a piece of classical music that actually requires the use of an anvil? I can't remember the name of it but a gut feeling tells me its German in origin. If anyone knows it or has heard it then post a link, I'm curios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 I can play "Purple Haze" on my anvil... even pick the solo with my teeth! Dan:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan DuBoff Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 no need for input here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irnsrgn Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Its called the "Anvil Chorus" I believe Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Why Yes, as a matter of fact, anvils HAVE been used as musical instruments! Witness:rec.music.opera | Google GroupsIMG_1658 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!the bass player on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Anvil Chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://danshep.net/anvil.mid Stirs the soul, don't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 This might be what Ian had in mind?rec.music.opera | Google Groups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 If I get a tune in my head or get to hammering to a beat I find it annoying when I have to interrupt because I don't want to over hammer something hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 I sometimes hammer to the beat of the anvil chorus, either in time or double time, depending on what I'm doing. I sometimes do it to other tunes, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 When NM Tech had their parade last year the Materials Science club borrowed my big forge and a bunch of anvils---they wouldn't let us use a real fire so we did dry ice and water to get smoke and hammered on rods that had been painted red/orange/yellow. I showed them Emmert Studebaker's old "shave and a hair cut" tapping rythm and the float won first prize in the *band* division.... Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Neat story I know what "Shave and a hair cut, two bits" sounds like, but how does that translate onto the anvil? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Thomas Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 This morning, I shared this question on the Piano Forum (my other passion) and one member already reported performing Anvil Chorus with a real anvil. He said the real anvil sucked and didn't ring very well, so he used a section of RR track. I had to laugh because it seems like such a great cultural crossing... the same solution by a musician as a blacksmith... for two different reasons. VERY funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofi Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 The Composer Mahler In His 6th Symphony Took Out The Drums And Broght In 6 Anvils Insted To Drum On!!!!!!!!! There Are Around 1450 Musik Peices That Are Based On The Rhythem Hofi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofi Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Sorry On The Rhythem Of The Forging On The Anvil Hofi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Ed he had probably gotten one of the harbour freight cast iron ASO's. I have an old Arm&Hammer with the thin heel and it rings quite well. The "beat" I learned from Emmert was to take a fairly light ballpein on an anvil with good rebound you strike it and then "push against the bounce" so that the hammer does a stacatto beat on the anvil doing the last two beats on the horn. Easy to show hard to describe: Pow di-di-let-dit; Pow di-di-let-dit; Pow di-di-let-dit---Tonk Tonk I met Emmert Studebaker when he was in his 90's back in the '90's and think of him every time I "do the beat" Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Thomas Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Thomas: I gave him the benefit of the doubt and told him it was probably a Fisher. But you are more likely correct. I tend to forget how rare any exposure to real anvils is to non-blacksmiths. Uri: I used to listen to the 6th symphony a lot... and never noticed. Time to dig up a recording (certainly vinyl if I still have it) and pay more attention. Since my last post, another pianist from the PianoForum reported attending a concert in Berlin with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras doing the 6th with an anvil. Here is what he had to say: "There are obscure works which call for anvil, such as Patrick Hadley's "La Belle Dame sans Merci," which can be found on Google, but one important musical moment is the hammer and anvil in Mahler's 6th Symphony. I heard it in Berlin last year, when the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics played together. I can't imagine any other orchestra has a bigger set, and it certainly made a noise from hell when it was struck. The hammer was absolutely enormous, and it was a real effort for the player to lift. I think they had fun at the rehearsals, making as though to hit someone's head, but you'd have to be careful not to end up with one player fewer!" I always loved that piece. Well, Mahler in general is good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Yeah, but Jimi used to often fall asleep and wake up with his guitar on him. That would truely suck with an anvil! I didn't mean ON my anvil, I meant ON my anvil, as in standing on my anvil while playing my Les Paul... Dan:cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan DuBoff Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 no need for input here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I didn't mean ON my anvil, I meant ON my anvil, as in standing on my anvil while playing my Les Paul... Dan:cool: NICE! Good acoustics in your shop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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