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The Millie Vannilli scandal

Tam

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Apparently the music at the Inaugeration was piped in :shock: While the band looked like they were playing what the crowd actually heard was a CD. Have to wonder how much of the $170 million they got paid to sit there faking the motions. :wink:
 

kolanuraven

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Anyone and everyone knows that instruments do not stay in tune in extremely cold weather like they had in DC that day.



Is this all you got?
 

Mike

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Those musicians were actually playing the music live but those cellos, violas, and violins must have been horribly out of tune.


Only those close up could hear the live music being played. Hurts my ears thinking about listening to that.

Must've sounded like a big huge catfight...............
 

Tam

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Yes most every one does know that so why bother having musicians sit in the freezing cold with their sensitive expensive instruments and faking it? Why not just admit the music was pre-recorded, AND SAVE the money in this economy. :? :wink:
 

kolanuraven

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Yo Yo Mah ( sp?) said his main cello itself was over 200 yrs old and worth a small fortune.

He refused to get it out in that cold weather...and who could blame him?
 

Mike

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Ma's primary performance instrument is the Domenico Montagnana 1733 cello built in Venice and nicknamed Petunia. This cello, more than 270 years old and valued at US$2.5 million, was lost in the fall of 1999 when Ma accidentally left the instrument in a taxicab in New York City.[6] It was later recovered undamaged.

Another of Ma's cellos, the Davidov Stradivarius, was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pré who passed it to him upon her death, and owned by the Vuitton Foundation.
 

per

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I would be surprised if any of them brought out their best instruments and it is completely apropriate to play the canned music. We play in the cold sometimes and you can't make it perfect like was expected there. This is one to just get over.
 

Tam

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per said:
I would be surprised if any of them brought out their best instruments and it is completely apropriate to play the canned music. We play in the cold sometimes and you can't make it perfect like was expected there. This is one to just get over.


Exactly I don't blame any of them but the next question is why the expense of having them sitting there with out of tune instruments, while the music that was heard by the masses was pre-recorded. Just admit the truth that the music because of the cold was Pre-recorded and save the damage to the instruments and the money to have those musicians sitting there. :wink:
 

VanC

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Mike said:
Ma's primary performance instrument is the Domenico Montagnana 1733 cello built in Venice and nicknamed Petunia. This cello, more than 270 years old and valued at US$2.5 million, was lost in the fall of 1999 when Ma accidentally left the instrument in a taxicab in New York City.[6] It was later recovered undamaged.

Another of Ma's cellos, the Davidov Stradivarius, was previously owned by Jacqueline du Pré who passed it to him upon her death, and owned by the Vuitton Foundation.

I'd like to hear the story behind him leaving a $2.5 million cello in a taxicab. It's not like the darned thing could accidently fall out of your pocket.
 
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