From the Practice Stool | Laura Bruno Lilly

It’s amazing what a new set of strings will do for one’s sense of well being

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:56:01 +0000

Prior to my first face-to-face meeting with K (Fall of Freedom presentation piece collaborator), I quickly changed out strings on the Prisloe. My thinking being: if we are going to live-perform our evolving ensemble presentation piece in 3 weeks, I need to have freshly broken in strings for the momentous occasion. Weeks of private […]

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Catching Up part two

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:39:46 +0000

As per Banjo Guy’s suggestion in part one, I spent some time with my Hammered Dulcimer (HD). Once hauled out from it’s resting spot under the skinny folding work table in my music ‘studio’, and set up in the living room, it was ready & waiting for me to play at my pleasure. Our house […]

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Catching Up part one

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:49:01 +0000

Interspersed amongst my wrist issues, I managed to type out & post a few blog articles and maintain a certain level of creative lifestyle activity over the past 2+ months. Wrist issues? you may ask, curious as to what that has to do with anything. As an (he)artist, one needs to be vigilant in maintaining […]

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Mama (Gracie) Needs a New Pair of (Set of) Shoes (Strings)

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:45:00 +0000

Like a baby being born into an expectant family – the world revolves around that anticipated event while simultaneously continuing to turn daily on its axis. Such is the life of a working musician – the ins and outs of projects going public and in various stages of completion with the on-going daily-ness of keeping […]

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Carolan’s Concerto

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 01:15:00 +0000

Background Turlough O’Carolan. Most Celtic music enthusiasts and instrumentalists are familiar with this man’s body of work and prominence of place within the Irish folk tradition. Long credited as being Ireland’s national composer, Turlough was born in 1670 and lived during the Baroque Era* of Western musical history. That Baroque reference is important to note. […]

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The ‘3 Measure Fix’

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:09:00 +0000

Sometimes all it takes is a 3 measure fix. This vaguely simplistic concept was brought to light a few days ago while staring down an old (as in a piece I put aside years ago to work on ‘later’) arrangement I began, but never finished, for solo classical guitar. Something about it wasn’t quite right […]

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SwS project status & my basic music score editing process

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:05:04 +0000

First off, I’m thrilled to announce that 4 of the 6 ‘Final Finals’ music scores mentioned in the previous post are 100% finished. Nestled in their respective PDFs, each are ready to be distributed in multiple media formats when the time comes. Their timing is intertwined with the release of both the vignette and recorded […]

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(He)art at its best

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:05:08 +0000

Just finished a fantastic time on the practice stool with the Prisloe. Again. (He)art at its best. I’ve had a long string of days blissfully playing and practicing, composing and creating, with a focus on deep working through pieces yet to be recorded. And all profoundly satisfying with more in store tomorrow and the next […]

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Notes on the Page (Poem)

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:17:29 +0000

Notes on the page wrestle out feelings deep inside – a flesh and blood yearning for home. Notes on the page travel through these fingers dancing the strings finding spoken out loud music words. Notes on the page SpeakSing this singular woman’s (he)art.

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Cleaning the Closet Reveals a Clever Classical Guitar Recording Tip

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 12:22:06 +0000

Hello, hello from inside the mirror! This is my attempt at a practice session selfie – using a dinosaur of a camera, no less. Notice the placement of the pillow, the height of the footstool and yes, indeed, those comfy tennies. This is my normal performance set up; albeit with a change of clothes and […]

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