short docu on the chapman stick

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:

> Gert van Santen wrote:
>> I've been thinking about your comment a bit, and I feel you are
>> probably right (about the excessive praise). On the other hand,
>> the film is made by his son (well, he's called Dan Chapman), plus
>> this is also done as a kind of "birthday" present (it was EC's
>> birthday couple of days ago).
>
> Before I got freaked out by the excessive praise, I was *seriously*  
> warming to
> what I saw: clips of the workshop, woodshedding, literally, a good  
> fifteen
> minutes of that would have been fascinating - for me anyway :)

I think it's a result of the length of it. It is like you are only  
really seeing one aspect of a full documentary, a part to get you  
emotionally involved in the myth. I think if it was a full documentary  
all the other in depth sections would balance it out and you would be  
more forgiving of the praise :)

> I guess one can understand if it's his son who made it. Any  
> misjudgments are
> *entirely* forgivable :) I look forward to the day when a balanced  
> view of
> Emmett's work is given, because the guy has created a completely new  
> instrument,
> which is challenging everyone who plays it, to discover something  
> new in music.