The Band

no strings attached

We play stringed instruments and call ourselves “No Strings Attached” Without Strings? Is that some sort of a joke?
The expression, as any English-speaker knows, means “no further conditions”. Put simply, we’re happy to play for just anybody, and the gap between Entertainment and Classical is bridged in the joyful leap of a Galliard. No fetters bind our music, or hold us back, and the “Original Piece” is an invitation to variation. We cover and arrange according to mood and circumstance. We don’t play “compositions”, but rather tunes drawn from the day-to-day musical life of the 16th and 17th centuries. Sally-in-the-alley finds her way into stately drawing rooms and funeral dirges become drinking ballads. The melodies at that time adapted themselves snugly here and there, were enjoyed by rich and poor alike, and so we perform them: outside, inside, for the intrepid and the soulful, the fine arts connoisseur and the huntsman. This is music to be danced, drunk, made love to, it comes with no caveats. Our listeners need neither listen out for the fugal entries nor wait six hours for the finale – with no detours they can escape with us to another world. No strings attached! We do have to tune a few strings, though, in order for the high and low violins to set the listener’s “heart-strings” in vibration, as Shakespeare put it. And hearts-strings always come with no strings attached....