Todd Mobley, the head stringer in a room filled with more than a dozen professional stringers busily working on state-of-the-art digital machines, was skeptical of the quality of stringing that Ormaechea was able to do in the times she reported.
Brahms's First figured in the orchestra's inaugural program in 1984, and Mr. Ozawa has always liked to perform Brahms symphonies with this orchestra, he said in an interview, because of the special qualities of the string playing.
The key to excellence depends on a combination of factors, both empirical and ineffable: the flexibility and balance of the kites' bamboo frames, the strength of the glue binding the tissue paper skin, the quality of the string, the evenness of the spool and, of course, the skill of the fliers and their ability to adjust to the vicissitudes of the wind.
Specialists in music from the Middle Ages through the early Romantic era have a thriving support industry to rely on: a world of instrument builders who use antique designs to reproduce the timbres and tactile qualities of early keyboards, strings, woodwinds, brasses and percussion instruments.
Eventually, the tape was filled with a very deep and organic drone, where the resonant qualities of the piano strings built up into a captivating and otherworldly sound, made entirely by using a very ordinary instrument in a unique way, without any further processing.
And "renderings of poems in metres more recognisable to English readers, like Ann Griffiths's hymns, can soften the odd and 'baroque' quality of the strings of imagery".
The exemplary quality of the strings, the heart of an orchestra but always the hardest part to get right, is their responsibility.
The H37Rv STRING PPI dataset also has low quality; nevertheless, a subset consisting of STRING PPIs with score ≥770 has satisfactory quality.
WHEN the Supreme Court upheld an ordinance last week banning nude dancing in Erie, Pa., the American public was treated to the spectacle of hearing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor somberly discuss the protective qualities of pasties and G-strings, which the law requires dancers to wear.
