Massimo Piazzo interview with Don Conreaux, Gong Master IN ENGLISH :)

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grazie, grazie mille for sharing this Dharam Singh! the interview is actually in English, so for those of you who don´t speak Italian, go right ahead. wahe guru!blessings, peace and joyparmatma k

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Sat Nam Parmatma Kaur,

You're most welcome! Yes, it is in English but initially Massimo

only posted it on Youtube overdubbed with Italian, which I don't

understand, except for an occasional word. (

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6EQfUFE84 ). At my request he gave me

an an undubbed copy only a few weeks ago. He has since posted that same

original English/undubbed version on Youtube.

I'm guessing you play gong(?). Are you Italian? Do you know of the Gong and Bell makers in Tuscany? They are UFIP

(Unione Fabbricanti Italiani Piatti) and do some amazing work.

Check the info link below.

 

Blessings all around,

Dharam Singh

www.gongsongs.com

 

 

HISTORY and TRADITION - go to this link and

click on the pictures!! http://www.ufip.it/uk/company/htm/chi_siamo.htm

 

UFIP (Union of Italian

Cymbal Makers) started on the 6th of January 1931, but

the roots of its history go much further back. Since 1732, in fact, the

Tronci family have been producing pipe organs and after about a century

they started to make them equipped with set of chimes, bells, bass

drums and ... Turkish cymbals. In the second half of the 1800s, with

the progressive decline in the production of great classical organs,

the Tronci family were becoming ever more interested in the working of

bronze. Large tubular bells and gongs were produced. The great composer

Giacomo Puccini commissioned large gongs for the performance of his

works Turandot and Madame Butterfly; and the Ricordi company of Milan

bought these instruments on behalf of the composer and placed them at

the disposition of the orchestras who were to perform his repertory. A

lively and frequent interchange with Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi

and Pietro Mascagni, gave rise to the creation of tam-tams, gongs, hand

bells, sleigh bells, rattles and symphonic cymbals. There began a close

collaboration with the great symphonic orchestras which continues

vigorously to this day.

 

More on their process -

http://edmann.info/UFIPPISTOIA.html

 

Parmatma Kaur wrote:

 

 

grazie, grazie mille for sharing this Dharam Singh!

 

the interview is actually in English, so for those of you who don´t

speak Italian, go right ahead. wahe guru!

 

blessings, peace and joy

parmatma k