THE ITALIAN DOUBLE BASS BLOG "IL CONTRABBASSO" by V. Liuzzi ALSO IN ENGLISH

vitoliuzzi · #1 02-20-2010, 05:37 AM

THE ITALIAN DOUBLE BASS BLOG "IL CONTRABBASSO" by V. Liuzzi ALSO IN ENGLISH

Dear collegues,
from today my Italian Double bass Blog "Il Contrabbasso" that you find on http://liuzzivito.blogspot.com is avaible also in English.

If you would like to visit it and translate it in English it's easy:

"look at the left part of the Blog and scroll it until you find TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH". Click on it and all my post will be translate in english.

Naturally I wait for your comments, or if someone of you would like write an own article on my Blog, I would be very happy to add the article in the Blog with the original signature of the blogger and not as a Comment but like an oricinal post.

Let me know! I write about everything about the double bass.
History, curiosity, metropolitan legends, scores, fingerings, bow, technique and so on.

I hope to share it with you. All this for my passion for the marvellous double bass, the most improvement instrument in the past century

Best Regards

Vito Liuzzi

Eric Hochberg · #2 02-20-2010, 09:01 AM

Can't find it, Vito. Why don't you put it at the top and make it obvious?

MattyBass · #3 02-20-2010, 09:03 AM

Hey Everyone.. The Translate button is down towards the bottom of his page, just above the counter.. on the left...

I can tell you have a passion for the Instrument.. Cheers...

Site looks Cool...

vitoliuzzi · #4 02-20-2010, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric Hochberg

Can't find it, Vito. Why don't you put it at the top and make it obvious?

Great Eric,
it's no possible for me to add the translator HTML code at the beginning of the page. It's a Blogger's question that allows me to use only that position.

My best regards

Vito

vitoliuzzi · #5 02-20-2010, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by vitoliuzzi

Great Eric,
it's no possible for me to add the translator HTML code at the beginning of the page. It's a Blogger's question that allows me to use only that position.

My best regards

Vito

... OT

Mine is not only a "passion" for double bass. It's my life, it's my job like Professor of Conservatory and Soloist ...

My main idea is: to share with others in all over the world all the informations for developing every aspect related to a double bass (classical or jazz)!!

vl

MIKMAN · #6 02-20-2010, 12:15 PM

Good news for all DB lovers who don't speak Italian. Great blog with congeniality, humor and lots of information. Caro Vito ti ringraziamo.
Mike

vitoliuzzi · #7 02-21-2010, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by MIKMAN

Good news for all DB lovers who don't speak Italian. Great blog with congeniality, humor and lots of information. Caro Vito ti ringraziamo.
Mike

Thank you, Mike.
It's a great honour for me.

You Know, I'm Italian with a no good and correct English.
My first idea was to write the post in English, but sincerly it's "too hard" for me!

I have no time, but I write a lot in this blog that's is ironic like me and perhaps interesting.

Today I'm going to write about the different "Vibrato" (no-vibrato, large, medium, short and very short, how to use it, when In my School I prefer to use it, when the vibrato was invented in the time and why and much more).

I know that a translator is no good to provide you the exact words I write, or what I can say in Italian but none translator is able to "translate". It's a limit, I know it.

But it just to have an idea of what I write.

In example now I have to answer for an English collegue (I think a member of this marvellous site) who has written a comment about my post about the different type of fingerings (134 124 1234 +123 +1234).

Pay attention!! The blog is no moderated.

If someone wants to collaborate with me it's easy (if you are going to write you own serious article): or post me through my Official Website www.vitoliuzzi.com, or send me a mail with the hole article that then I will publish, naturally after a control of it.

I'm also a professional Journalist in my country, so my idea is to create a "different blog" WITH THE COLLABORATION of everyone.
It might be the first "journal" on a Blog opend to other writers (I don't like the word "bloggers", it's not for my Blog). I'm a "writer" about the double bass with my great limits. So the "Blog" is a way to develope also my personal thoughts. "A journal about the Double Bass"??
I hope one day it might be what I have in my mind.

I DON'T USE BLOG or MY WEBSITE for COMMERCIAL ADVISEMENT. NO-Profit-purpose. If you see in my official site you can find some advisements (is it the correct word??) like Pirastro, Thomastik or other. Well, I've have inserted them just because , in example, Pirastro sends me a lot of "free" string to test. So for me It's a pleasure to add their logo. It's a question of respect, not for money.
I have my job in Conservatory, Orchestra and solo Recitals. I live through them.

thanks again, Mike.

My best bass regards

Vito

MIKMAN · #8 02-21-2010, 11:31 AM

A blog written in Italian keeps the spirit of this marvelous language
alive and the translation -as every translation- can give only the meaning. We are lucky to speak Italian since we miss nothing.
Actually Vito in my next visit to Italy i plan to visit you with some friends from the Salonico Symphony bass section. You know, the trip from Igoumenitsa to Bari is not so long. If we manage to programme it we'll let you know in advance, in order to fit with your schedule.
Best regards
Mike

ChuckCorbisiero · #9 02-21-2010, 12:22 PM

Vito. The interview with Silvio Dalla Torre on www.vitoliuzzi.com is excellent. Thank you.

Marcus Johnson · #10 02-21-2010, 12:41 PM

Great, Vito! I always enjoyed vitoliuzzi.com as well, so this blog is a welcome addition.

Now, I suppose I should "man up" and learn to speak some Italian!

vitoliuzzi · #11 02-22-2010, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by MIKMAN

A blog written in Italian keeps the spirit of this marvelous language
alive and the translation -as every translation- can give only the meaning. We are lucky to speak Italian since we miss nothing.
Actually Vito in my next visit to Italy i plan to visit you with some friends from the Salonico Symphony bass section. You know, the trip from Igoumenitsa to Bari is not so long. If we manage to programme it we'll let you know in advance, in order to fit with your schedule.
Best regards
Mike

Thank you, Mike. Too honour for me.
Naturally I'm happy you are going to visit italy and near Bari there are an incredible number of things to see.
I hope to be in Italy when you will be in my region "Puglia", so we will enjoy and play together.
In this period I'm quiet fat and if I have to play my so loved Tarantella by Bottesini it's difficult to reach higher harmonics

But if it will be possible we could eat togheter the best things of my region.

I really hope to be free in that period.

CIAO (that's bye) from Italy

Vito Liuzzi

p.s.: I write a lot on my Italian Blog non only because I'm also a specialized journalist but also because I have always have with me my very little portable PC. So also during one of my lesson if I have ten minutes left I use to write only about double bass because the blog is based on it.

p.p.s.: (post post scriptum). If anyone of you would have published is article in "my" BLOG it's easy: send it to me through my official website (www.vitoliuzzi.com) and if you like it you might sign my Guestbook !!

vitoliuzzi · #12 02-22-2010, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson

Great, Vito! I always enjoyed vitoliuzzi.com as well, so this blog is a welcome addition.

Now, I suppose I should "man up" and learn to speak some Italian!

Thank you with love, Marcus!
Well, Italian is a marvellous language but sometimes it's very difficult. But the great DANTE ALIGHIERI has been our greatest poet and the italian language, due to him and deriving from Latin that I have studied in High School.

I would to write better in English but I have no much time to develope it. My greater problem is when I talk with U.S.A. people: "my God", you seem so different among you that I'm not able to understand. In England is much more different: English original sound is like the voice of a double bass, or like is range. Bass and very high at the same time: what a marvellous instrument !!

Please, Marcus give me lesson of English !!!

CIAO

Vito Liuzzi

vitoliuzzi · #13 02-22-2010, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ChuckCorbisiero

Vito. The interview with Silvio Dalla Torre on www.vitoliuzzi.com is excellent. Thank you.

Dear Chuck,
during my life the best interview I have done has been the ones in which performer are very humble.
Silvio Dalla Torre plays great (1234), his music is simple like him. A great man!

Thanks a lot.

Vito liuzzi

Eric Swanson · #14 02-22-2010, 04:53 AM

Grazie tante, Vito. E perfetto!

English: "Thank you very much, Vito. It is perfect!"

vitoliuzzi · #15 02-24-2010, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric Swanson

Grazie tante, Vito. E perfetto!

English: "Thank you very much, Vito. It is perfect!"

Eric, thank to you !!

I don't know if in the world there are other BLOG only for our so loved Doublebass. Bohhh.... Let me know!

In the next days I will write a lot because there are a lot of things I would like to analyze, from my umble and simple point of view.

But please, let write in English so I can learn it better.
In my website there are a lot of mistakes, I know.
This is my best!!!

Vito