VSA? Anyone? Favorite lecture?

[l33tplaya]

No conversation about VSA? Did anyone besides David attend? I didn't examine the comments carefully... What was your favorite lecture? Why? 

[Jim Bress]

I'm waiting for the recorded versions to come out because I'm working. I'll be able to watch the live versions this weekend.  I did watch the first half of the Amati digital presentation. It was done well, but not really for me. It did push me a little closer to buying Denis' book. I'm really looking forward to 'Oberlin Acoustics Workshop: Evan Davis: What about the Cello?' presentation, as I'm working on my first cello build now.  I miss the one-one side conversations of the live convention.  I'm surprised vendors are making more of an effort to show their goodies.  Although I did buy a sound post setter from Yanbing.

Cheers,

Jim

[Jerry Lynn]

Jim,
 

The bulk of the presentations are pre—recorded presentations that are already up.. most of the live sessions slated for the weekend are Q&A.  
 

Jerry

 

My favorites so far have been Alberti Tools and Carlo Chiesa.  

[David Burgess]

I really enjoyed the acoustics presentations yesterday.

[Michael_Molnar]

I enjoyed Gregg Alf’s talk on The Messiah. Very good production, done professionally.

I too have suspected the The Messiah was a shop reject as Alf suggests, but I thought it was due to the varnish that differs dramatically from contemporaries.

 

[Brad Dorsey]

29 minutes ago, Michael_Molnar said:

...The Messiah was a shop reject...

Could you elaborate on this theory a bit?  I am intrigued.

[David Burgess]

53 minutes ago, Michael_Molnar said:

I enjoyed Gregg Alf’s talk on The Messiah. Very good production, done professionally.

Could you post a link for those who are VSA members, or who are registered for the convention?

If the link is only supposed to be provided to those who have registered, I understand.

[Jim Bress]

1 hour ago, Jerry Lynn said:

Jim,
 

The bulk of the presentations are pre—recorded presentations that are already up.. most of the live sessions slated for the weekend are Q&A.  
 

Jerry

 

My favorites so far have been Alberti Tools and Carlo Chiesa.  

Hi Jerry,

Some yes, some no. I was able to watch yours and Greg Alf's and a couple of others from the video gallery. However none of the Oberlin acoustic live presentations are available yet.  Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?  BTW, your presentation was nice and informative.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Jerry Lynn]

31 minutes ago, David Burgess said:

Could you post a link for those who are VSA members, or who are registered for the convention?

If the link is only supposed to be provided to those who have registered, I understand.

David,

In the Home Screen of the Whova app click on videos, in the next page Gregg’s video is about half way down.

 

Jerry 

[Jerry Lynn]

7 minutes ago, Jim Bress said:

Hi Jerry,

Some yes, some no. I was able to watch yours and Greg Alf's and a couple of others from the video gallery. However none of the Oberlin acoustic live presentations are available yet.  Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?  BTW, your presentation was nice and informative.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Jim,

No, you are right, none of the acoustics stuff is up.  My statement to you was a blanket statement... Despite the very good work that the organizers have done, a good many people I’ve interacted with online the past few days had no idea that there was prerecorded material posted for viewing.  
 

Thank you for your kind words!  I’m a little worried that nobody has watched it, and my q&a session will be me reciting limericks I learned from Burgess.  

Jerry

[David Burgess]

1 hour ago, Jerry Lynn said:

 ...and my q&a session will be me reciting limericks I learned from Burgess. 

Anything Jerry Lynn has put up will be well worth watching! Super talented and creative guy.

[Jerry Lynn]

6 minutes ago, David Burgess said:

Anything Jerry Lynn has put up will be well worth watching! Super talented and creative guy.

I’m trying to find the blushing emoji... Thank you!

[Michael_Molnar]

Get the 

7 hours ago, Jerry Lynn said:

David,

In the Home Screen of the Whova app click on videos, in the next page Gregg’s video is about half way down.

 

Jerry 

I think you need Whova to watch. I could not copy a link.

[Jim Bress]

Recordings starting to get put up. Watching Jim Woodhouse right now. He’s a wonderful presenter. 

[Ethan Ford Heath]

I missed the registration DL for the convention; does anyone know whether the convention recordings would be available to lapsed VSA members who re-join now?

[Michael_Molnar]

1 hour ago, Ethan Ford Heath said:

I missed the registration DL for the convention; does anyone know whether the convention recordings would be available to lapsed VSA members who re-join now?

Ask the VSA. Hope you can.

[Jim Bress]

2 hours ago, Ethan Ford Heath said:

I missed the registration DL for the convention; does anyone know whether the convention recordings would be available to lapsed VSA members who re-join now?

It was advertised that the registration fee would go towards your membership dues. Essentially free if you planned to maintain membership. Hopefully they'll let you in.

[Ethan Ford Heath]

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

 

[catnip]

The videos are being saved and are available on youtube although you might not find them if you do a youtube search since viewer count is very low.  Here are two that are very interesting by Woodhouse and Alf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esVdieAF7jM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZ9qvWMQkU

[David Burgess]

On 11/13/2020 at 8:29 AM, Brad Dorsey said:

Could you elaborate on this theory a bit?  I am intrigued.

The theory is that the Messiah developed a sound post crack early on, and for that reason may have never been sold during Antonio's lifetime.

[Marty Kasprzyk]

Wasn't there about 90 unsold violins at the time of Antonio's death?

 

[Marty Kasprzyk]

4 hours ago, catnip said:

The videos are being saved and are available on youtube although you might not find them if you do a youtube search since viewer count is very low.  Here are two that are very interesting by Woodhouse and Alf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esVdieAF7jM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZ9qvWMQkU

During Jim Woodhouse's interesting presentation he mentioned his website :  euponics.org

I think it is an excellent tutorial for violin makers interested in violin acoustics.

[Davide Sora]

5 hours ago, catnip said:

The videos are being saved and are available on youtube although you might not find them if you do a youtube search since viewer count is very low.  Here are two that are very interesting by Woodhouse and Alf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esVdieAF7jM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZ9qvWMQkU

Thanks for the links

[David Burgess]

I think the VSA Convention broke Zoom.

[Marty Kasprzyk]

9 hours ago, Marty Kasprzyk said:

During Jim Woodhouse's interesting presentation he mentioned his website :  euponics.org

I think it is an excellent tutorial for violin makers interested in violin acoustics.

I misspelled it.  It should be:  euphonics.org