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Le 2012-05-16 13:06, Stephen a écrit :
> On 16/05/2012 1:52 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>>
>> And there was no question where I could brag about the size of my...
>>
>> ....CD collection.
>
> Oh! You have moved on to CDs. :-P
>
Well I do have a few dozens records, but I was a poor student back in
those days, so I couldn't buy as many as I would have liked.
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On 17/05/2012 12:44 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Well I do have a few dozens records, but I was a poor student back in
> those days, so I couldn't buy as many as I would have liked.
I was just pulling your leg, Franccois. :-P
I've still got a lot of vinyl but they are a pain to keep clean, you
need to turn them over and change them too often and I need to replace
the turntable bearing on my Pink Triangle. All in all CDs are better for
listening to an opera or a concert. IMO
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Stephen
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On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:12:49 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> It took be about an hour to tune the violin when I first brought it
> home. As soon as I let go on the tuning peg, it would instantly go slack
> again. Took me ages to make it stick. Not sure if worn out or just
> poorly made in the first place...
Sounds like it's worn to me. Peg Dope (which IIRC is the actual product
name) is supposed to help with that.
> I'm wondering whether I should pay to have the violin restringed, or
> just buy a decent-quality violin. Given my playing skills, probably the
> former...
Replacing the strings is easy. I wouldn't pay someone to do it, just buy
a set of Dominant or similar and replace them one by one.
Jim
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On 17/05/2012 1:35 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I can't sing worth a damn. My voice has a range of maybe a minor fifth.:)
I have no idea what my range would be. I've not sang out loud since I
was told not to when I was about 5 yo.
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Stephen
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On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:12:38 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 17/05/2012 1:35 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I can't sing worth a damn. My voice has a range of maybe a minor
>> fifth.:)
>
> I have no idea what my range would be. I've not sang out loud since I
> was told not to when I was about 5 yo.
I'm suddenly reminded of the story Tim Minchin told on Desert Island
Discs a couple weeks ago - that his mother would yell at him to shut the
door when he was playing the piano - and later she had a second door
installed so she couldn't hear it. :)
Jim
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On 17/05/2012 6:18 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I'm suddenly reminded of the story Tim Minchin told on Desert Island
> Discs a couple weeks ago - that his mother would yell at him to shut the
> door when he was playing the piano - and later she had a second door
> installed so she couldn't hear it.:)
What? Couldn't hear him shutting the first door? ;-)
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Stephen
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On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:49:28 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 17/05/2012 6:18 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I'm suddenly reminded of the story Tim Minchin told on Desert Island
>> Discs a couple weeks ago - that his mother would yell at him to shut
>> the door when he was playing the piano - and later she had a second
>> door installed so she couldn't hear it.:)
>
> What? Couldn't hear him shutting the first door? ;-)
I guess the first door was insufficient to prevent her hearing his piano
playing. :)
It was a highly entertaining interview. Though I'm not sure that I
believed his "remorse" over the Phil Daoust song (given that he released
an album with that on it last year IIRC).
Jim
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On 17/05/2012 7:01 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> It was a highly entertaining interview. Though I'm not sure that I
> believed his "remorse" over the Phil Daoust song (given that he released
> an album with that on it last year IIRC).
I had to look it up having never heard of Tim Minchin.
Oh! For the days of sail ships when it took six months to travel between
GB and Oz.
From the clip I heard I don't think he is very good.
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/tim-minchin-versus-phil-daoust/411441/
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Stephen
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On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:43:04 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 17/05/2012 7:01 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> It was a highly entertaining interview. Though I'm not sure that I
>> believed his "remorse" over the Phil Daoust song (given that he
>> released an album with that on it last year IIRC).
>
> I had to look it up having never heard of Tim Minchin.
Oh, I thought you had originally mentioned him to me (along with a few
other people who did).
> Oh! For the days of sail ships when it took six months to travel between
> GB and Oz.
>
> From the clip I heard I don't think he is very good.
>
> http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/tim-minchin-versus-phil-
daoust/411441/
I've found most of his stuff to be quite funny. His lullaby is very
good, if only because it says the things you'd never dare say. :)
Jim
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On 5/17/2012 1:11, Invisible wrote:
>> Yeah, I had a problem with those questions too, because while I'm a
>> musician (inactive, but I played for more than a decade and have formal
>> music theory training as well as performance training), I can't sing
>> worth a damn. My voice has a range of maybe a minor fifth. :)
>
> My voice has a range of an octave and a half, maybe more if I use falsetto
> as well.
>
> None of which compensates for the fact that I can't reliably sing in tune,
> my throat hurts after a minute or two, and I'm constantly out of breath.
> Also, my voice just sounds awful. :-P
I'm betting you'd improve if you actually took some lessons.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
"Don't panic. There's beans and filters
in the cabinet."
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