A Double (bass) Date
Saturday, November 29, 2014
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| Amelia, Curtis, Patricia & Nicolo |
It was a hot date involving two Americans and two Italians. In our version the Italians kept to themselves while the Americans raised a storm of a conversation about the origin of the Italians.
There was one problem.
Hutter’s bass, Nicolo insisted in knowing the name of Daily’s bass. But Daily
explained that if he were to ever have children they would be unnamed. He
simply did not like to name people or things. I interjected that perhaps Hutter
could name the bass but that since Nicolo was a male, Daily’s should be a
female. It would not be decent (at the very least in the 18th century)
for two basses of the same sex to have a date.
Hutter gave Daily’s
bass the lovely name of Amelia. All four of them sat together and I snapped the
picture.
For most of the time
there I was the odd man of the fifth column. There was rapid conversation which
included the weights of Amelia and Nicolo, who had manufactured them and how
they had been adapted to modern playing (in the case of Nicolo) and how and where
Amelia might have been brought back to her original shape as a bass that would
have been used as it was in the 18th century.
I have no record of
any of the words that might have been exchanged by Nicolo and Amelia. I don’t
think that I could have possibly heard anything as I am sure that if they did
communicate it was well below my audible frequency.
