{"id":121,"date":"2016-01-02T20:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=121"},"modified":"2016-01-02T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T10:01:46","slug":"paper-and-matches-for-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Paper and matches for maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Spanish cellist Pablo Casals was in his seventies, he retired from the concert stage and lived in Prades, Southern France. Casals<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>began each day by playing from Bach&#8217;s <i>Well-Tempered Clavier<\/i> on the piano (1), then heading out for a walk with his German shepherd, cocking an ear for birdsong and saluting the snow-capped peak of Mont Canigou.\u00a0He played his cello, which now looked the worse for wear.\u00a0He was constantly lighting his curved pipe with matches which would occasionally\u00a0fall into his instrument&#8217;s sound holes.\u00a0He could hear them rolling around inside when he picked up the cello, which looked as if it hadn&#8217;t been cleaned since the Civil War.\u00a0A piece of paper was lodged under the bridge for support, and a broken matchstick was wedged under a string on the peg box to keep it taught.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Siblin, Eric (2009) <i>The Cello Suites<\/i>. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, p.158-159.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Casals once recalled: &#8220;For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner &#8230; I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach. &#8230; It is a sort of benediction on the house.&#8221;\u00a0[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pablocasals.com\/\" target=\"\u02cdblank\">pablocasals.com<\/a>.\u00a0Accessed 22\/01\/13]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Spanish cellist Pablo Casals was in his seventies, he retired from the concert stage and lived in Prades, Southern France. Casals began each day by playing from Bach&#8217;s Well-Tempered Clavier on the piano (1), then heading out for a walk with his German shepherd, cocking an ear for birdsong and saluting the snow-capped peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[62,60],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-cello","tag-pablo-casals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}