Bach and Firearms?
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marshall3
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Mozart's air rifles
In February I visited the Mozart Residence in Salzburg, Austria, and took a photo showing Mozart's air rifles (in the case) and some targets on the wall. The targets are generally of people with their posteriors stuck out, and Mozart and his friends would shoot darts at them.
In February I visited the Mozart Residence in Salzburg, Austria, and took a photo showing Mozart's air rifles (in the case) and some targets on the wall. The targets are generally of people with their posteriors stuck out, and Mozart and his friends would shoot darts at them.
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Jethro Tull?
"Ian Anderson's (of Jethro Tull fame) "cocktail jazz" song, Bouree, was a rework/intepretation of what JS Bach piece (anyone?). Ian Anderson also loved to do some handgun shooting. What handgun was his favorite when it was legal for him to own in Merry Olde? (IIRC he had to keep it over in France or Switz after the "Ban")"
Tull Rules. My favorite band of all time. I can believe that Ian Anderson is into guns. Tull did a pretty good job of blowing the roof off the Spectrum and Madison Square Garden, too.
The first concert I ever saw was in '71. It took place at the convention center in Wildwood NJ. It's a relatively small auditorium. It was right after "Aqualung" came out. The lead-off band was Yes, and Tull was the headliner. Best damned concert I ever saw.
Excuse me while I go stand on a chair, and hold a lighter into the air.
"Ian Anderson's (of Jethro Tull fame) "cocktail jazz" song, Bouree, was a rework/intepretation of what JS Bach piece (anyone?). Ian Anderson also loved to do some handgun shooting. What handgun was his favorite when it was legal for him to own in Merry Olde? (IIRC he had to keep it over in France or Switz after the "Ban")"
Tull Rules. My favorite band of all time. I can believe that Ian Anderson is into guns. Tull did a pretty good job of blowing the roof off the Spectrum and Madison Square Garden, too.
The first concert I ever saw was in '71. It took place at the convention center in Wildwood NJ. It's a relatively small auditorium. It was right after "Aqualung" came out. The lead-off band was Yes, and Tull was the headliner. Best damned concert I ever saw.
Excuse me while I go stand on a chair, and hold a lighter into the air.
A Bouree is just a French dance that Bach borrowed and used in his compositions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouree
Bach "borrowed" most of his stuff from others and reworked it according to his compositional needs.
I also like Tull! Been to three concerts in the 1980s. Ian Anderson is a wild man. Didn't know he was into the shooting sports. Wonder whether he can still own guns in today's England, sad to say.
The only other contemporary musicians that come to mind with respect to firearms are (obviously) Nugent, whose April, 1980, Saginaw, MI, show was my first rock concert and who was that guy from Blues Traveller (?) who got busted in recent months with a town of guns in his SUV...?
Paulus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouree
Bach "borrowed" most of his stuff from others and reworked it according to his compositional needs.
I also like Tull! Been to three concerts in the 1980s. Ian Anderson is a wild man. Didn't know he was into the shooting sports. Wonder whether he can still own guns in today's England, sad to say.
The only other contemporary musicians that come to mind with respect to firearms are (obviously) Nugent, whose April, 1980, Saginaw, MI, show was my first rock concert and who was that guy from Blues Traveller (?) who got busted in recent months with a town of guns in his SUV...?
Paulus
Bach could have owned a matchlock or wheellock weapon or two.
Germans are famous for developing target shooting during that period, and modern Shuetzen competitions can all trace their roots to that period.
Contrary to popular belief, rifling the bore was already developed by the beginning of the 1500s. However, the towns' magistrates decided that target shooting with these rifled guns were blasphemous, because they believed an imp was present in the rifled guns that made the balls fly with greater accuracy. Thus, the highly superstitious people at that time became frightened, and thus, rifling remained dormant until the late 1600s, when American Colonists began using rifled flintlocks in the backwoods.
Germans are famous for developing target shooting during that period, and modern Shuetzen competitions can all trace their roots to that period.
Contrary to popular belief, rifling the bore was already developed by the beginning of the 1500s. However, the towns' magistrates decided that target shooting with these rifled guns were blasphemous, because they believed an imp was present in the rifled guns that made the balls fly with greater accuracy. Thus, the highly superstitious people at that time became frightened, and thus, rifling remained dormant until the late 1600s, when American Colonists began using rifled flintlocks in the backwoods.
marshall3
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Mozart's air rifle
I was afraid to take photos up close because no one else was taking photos, and there was a guard nearby, and I didn't want to get kicked out. I took some photos "on the sly" without a flash.
But I did find a photo on the internet that looks similar to what I saw. Mozart's rifle shot darts.
I was afraid to take photos up close because no one else was taking photos, and there was a guard nearby, and I didn't want to get kicked out. I took some photos "on the sly" without a flash.
But I did find a photo on the internet that looks similar to what I saw. Mozart's rifle shot darts.
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