[mountn man]

G-string /ˈjē ˌstriNG/ noun noun: G-string; plural noun: G-strings; noun: gee-string; plural noun: gee-strings a garment consisting of a narrow strip of cloth that covers the genitals and is attached to a waistband, worn as underwear or by striptease performers.

[Mr. Mojo]

Somewhat coincidentally, I'm listening to Bach's The Art of Fugue played by the Emerson Quartet right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5r5G1ScEc

[Ray76]

Most sublime.

[Ken H]

There usually is.

[real saxophonist]

A friend did a saxophone quartet arrangement of Toccata and Fugue in D minor as part of his Senior Recital. The setting was a church, with organ pipes in the background. Pretty cool.

[GOP Poet]

Thank you so much for posting

[Adder]

Oh...

It’s music.

[Conan the Librarian]

One day, Bach and his crew were sitting around jamming to a few trio-sonatas and the G-string on the lead chair violin broke. A replacement couldn’t be found anywhere.

Bach, who was well known for his large and fancy wigs, whipped his off, and fashioned up a string out of the hairs.

Thus, they used Bach’s Hair for the G-String.

(It’s funnier if you say it out loud. I DEMAND you Say it out loud...do it! Do it now!)

[Phil DiBasquette]

Procol Harum would agree

[Savage Beast]

Yes. It’s beautiful.

[Savage Beast]

This is what I’m listening to right now—not as sublime as Bach but certainly a genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So8F3QToniI

[left that other site]

One of my all-time favorites!

Trivia: Was quoted briefly in the animated film “Yellow Submarine”.

[RegulatorCountry]

Odd that you’d post this, I’ve been enjoying 3-D visualizations of classical music of late, and just came across this one over the weekend:

https://youtu.be/8QD7Hgxwe44

The guy who’s making the best ones in my opinion, Andy Fillebrown, is responsible for this, he has a YouTube channel filled with years worth of his work, many different composers and many styles of visualization, all 3-D. Done using MIDI files in Blender with some custom programming in addition to that. I find it very relaxing to expand the window on a large monitor and just let go, getting absorbed into the sounds, shapes, color and motion.

Bach’s Air on the G String is one of his more unusual efforts, far more abstract but I think it’s fitting. Most are best described as a sort of tunnel ride though, I guess, the feeling of having gone somewhere with the music is almost palpable when those are done.