@tom@aerovons.com said:
Not really, if you are doing anything "in period".....listen to any of the old arrangements done on Sinatra recordings, or virtualy any film score from the 40s.....vibrato is heavy and omnipresent....
Tom
Sorry, you don't understand how violin technique works. You can't play everything with heavy vibrato. The sustained notes have it, but the hand has to stop moving in order to change the note. Actually, you can do a kind of vibrato on faster notes, but it can't be as wide, therefore the heavy vibrato notes can't be used on all notes. Just try it and you will find that it sounds like a bad LFO. The 40's recordings use a different sort of vibrato anyway, so there is not much point in comparing these with AV.
DG
Gee, it's a bit insulting for you, without knowing anything about me, to say I don't understand something. I've been doing LIVE strings for about 30 years, so I rather understand them, thanks[[;)]] Yes the hand has to stop to change notes, but in reality, many times the effect to the ear of that hand stopping for a millisecond between notes is irrelevant. And I'm sure we would ALL love to hear about the "different" kind of vibrato invented in the Forties. [[;)]]
Tom
I'm sorry if you think that I've insulted you; it was certainly not my intention. However, if you think that it takes a millisecond to change from a note with vibrato to another note with vibrato, then you are obviously a much better player than I am [:D]
If you want to hear vibrato from the forties, you only have to listen; it is all to do with amplitude and speed. I never said that it was invented in the forties; you made that up [8-)]
DG