Re: Hugh Lecaine


Subject: Re: Hugh Lecaine
From: Kevin Busby (busbykg@hhs.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 11:57:50 EST


nadene <nadene@istar.ca> wrote:

>Hi Jim

Another victim of the CEC "reply-to" feature!

>Gayle Young has released a very comprehensive CD of LeCaine's works. Check
>out the web-site she has created:
>
>Hugh Le Caine, instrument inventor: http://www.hughlecaine.com

I looked it up too... Very good, thanks. Although the E-Sackbut was not
new to me, I hadn't heard much of his work, so the MP3 extracts were
welcome. 'Ninety-Nine Generators' has the stamp of 50s technology all
over it - a great sound. Remember the future!

Apparently James Bailey wrote (I didn't see the original, just the quote):

>>> > There's a nice demo at http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/SpectrumWeb/
>>> > captions/sackbut.html
>>
>>Yeah, but I can't get to it. Something about a secure site, and needing a
>>password, etc.

Chances are that you just clicked on the first 1/2 of the URL, and missed
out the bit on the second line.

Jean-Marc Pelletier <gustave433@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>To which Hui-Nêng (638-713) replied:
>"The Bodhi is not like a tree
>The mirror bright is nowhere shining
>As there is nothing from the first
>Where can the dust itself collect?"

"There is no studio, there is no key. What can be returned?"

Ahhhh...

-- 
Kevin Busby, Studio Manager, Department of Music, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, England. Tel: +44-(0)121-414 5785.
Fax: +44-(0)121 414 5668. Other details at http://web.bham.ac.uk/busbykg/



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