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  1. latest update: Your item left the United States at 6:31 PM on August 8, 2009.
  2. just checked what does "International Dispatch, August 08, 2009, 6:31 pm, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)" mean? Does it mean its left US yet? they need a glossary for the terms on that tracking bit.
  3. a 30 button Tedrow
  4. I hope I get a customs officer that knows what a concertina is. I'm hoping it will arrive by EATMT in September.
  5. Ooooh, its coming! My concertina. How long do concertina shaped parcels genearally take from the US to UK?
  6. grrr...I'm now platauing on both instruments. Its not fair.
  7. OTTOMH an Italian monk named Guido d'Azzerro is generally credited with the key invention in the evolution of written music, in that he effectively came up with the idea of positioning the notes in meaningful relation to horizontal lines. Up until then, plainsong and chant books were pretty much aide-memoires to an essentially oral tradition, indicating 'you go up here' and 'you go down here'. Guido's addition of horizontal lines introduced the effective concept of (a) a 'home' note, in that if the note was on the line it was (say) an A, and ( from that follows on the idea that the greater horizontal distance a particular note is from the 'home' note, the higher or lower that note is than the home note. Thus we got the first idea of a fixed relative pitch of one note to another. At first Guido only used two lines, then three, but as the idea spread more lines were added - it wasn't until the spread of music printing that we standardised on five lines to a staff, and the ledger lines for notes outside that range are the ghosts of many other extra lines. As for who decided on the 'rules' of music - well, how long have you got? Pythagoras described the octave and the fifth ... Sounds like it needs an update/rethink for the twitter generation.
  8. It's a conspiracy by a self-perpetuating elite oligarchy of course! The Sufi "Wise Fool" Nasreddin saw through it.... "Nasreddin the Saz player Someone asked Nasreddin if he knew how to play Saz (like a fiddle), -Yes, answered Nasreddin And they gave a Saz to him to prove it. He began to play. DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.... Same note, same string, over and over. DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.... After a few minutes, people stopped Nasreddin's playing, -This is not the correct way of playing the saz, you play the same note. The saz players move their fingers up and down, play on different strings! -Well, I know why they go up and down and try all different strings. -Why is that? -They're looking for *this* note that I allready found..." [Edit for spelling.] Who did 'invent' the way music is written and decided on the 'rules'?
  9. Back on topic. Why is music so hard?!
  10. What; and photograph everyone milling about near the base of the plinth? The role reversal would be an interesting concept, and is probably not what the organises had in mind! It might result in images like this: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1400525 I haven't checked on the website, but there's a fair chance that someone else has already thought of the idea! it would bring a new thought on which is the 'art' and which are the people viewing the art. 'Who watches the watchers?' you'd get some good pics. I don't think its that high really http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladydetemps/3713914590/
  11. Attach a bass drum to my back symbols to knees....rather like Bert from Mary Poppins. Get on that plinth! I'd probably get the middle of the night shift...I like my sleep. You'ld probably get the middle of the day shift .... when you are supposed to be working. Oh..so that's what I'm supposed to be doing. lol! I'm sure I could arrange the time off. Why don't you get on the plinth Peter?
  12. Attach a bass drum to my back symbols to knees....rather like Bert from Mary Poppins. Get on that plinth! I'd probably get the middle of the night shift...I like my sleep.
  13. Attach a bass drum to my back symbols to knees....rather like Bert from Mary Poppins.
  14. I've never been at them. lol! Are you sure LDT? You seem to "LOL" an awful lot? See what I mean? its a nervous laugh. I do it in real life too.
  15. Everytime I get fustrated with the concertina I run to the melodeon and when I get annoyed with the melodeon I go to the concertina...or I swap when I start to ache...they seem to hurt different muscles when I play. lol!
  16. Nope...new scarlatti from last year. I've never been at them. lol!
  17. Do concertina's have personalities? I think mine does.....when I play hymns it is quite amicable, does as its told, but when I try to play anything else, its stubborn and keeps running out of air etc.
  18. You could watch the videos of me playing badly...that might make you feel better....and if you could return the favour it would be appreciated?
  19. Singing in the rain I'd like to try that one.
  20. I get fed up quite regularly...and find listening to lots of good players a bit disheartening....
  21. I've always known this....I never post what I wouldn't say publlicly anyway. And never post my contact details online, prefering to PM my email instead on request. And that's a special one just for forums. (yep different emails for different jobs. If you want to get paranoid about computer security do a computer course. exactly.
  22. Sounds like you had a great time..I'm very jelous.
  23. I love that tune. How? I found that one impossible. what did you find impossible about it? i didnt think it was so bad. I get lost all the time at where I'm up to do too many or not enough notes and it all goes all mushy.
  24. How? I found that one impossible.
  25. Only cat tears not raining cats & dogs then?
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