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riverman wrote:"If you can make a sound, you're a musician. If you like the sounds you make, you're a good musician. If others like the sounds you make, you're a great musician."

What if others like the sounds you make, but you don't?

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Baggy wrote:How do you mute a whistle?

This is the way I do it, with electrical tape (which can be removed and reapplied several times).

That is pretty nice...good variation, and not seems fairly subtle (although one can't judge the volume balance on a multitracked recording like this). You clearly have the flow of the tune in your drumming, it's a great advantage to know the tune well (some percussionists don't). You do wander away ...

If someone has consistently tried hard to work for justice and acceptance of women, or gay folks, or ethnic minorities, or fat people, or whatever, and it turns out that person also has an internal tendency to associate negative things with fat people, I don't think that internal tendency matters o...

It's being challenged by some psychologists because of psychometric problems (how the scores are derived and how labels are assigned to the scores), but not so much the basic concept. I don't like the concept. I felt my "video game instincts" kicking in, and I was using different strategi...

Nice presentation. I'd like to see how you use the wave-analysis information. I've use it a bit, but I haven't really explored it fully, it's generally quicker to fiddle about on my concertina to identify notes and chords. Transcribe also is nice in that it doesn't alter the original file to change ...

My impression was that duet systems were difficult to learn - is the Hayden system any easier than all the others? How long have you been at it? Do you play piano? I was impressed with the independence of your left and right hands there. I haven't tried the others, but I do really like the layout o...

MTGuru wrote:

BoneQuint wrote:I think I'll get that Pipe Duet book, it'd be fun to play those on duet concertina.

Take it from me ... nothing is fun to play on duet concertina*.

(*Confessions of a frustrated Maccann player.)

Well, I'm thinking Hayden/Wicki duet, which I think is quite fun to play.

Shouldn't the eighth notes in the third bar in the second voice of "Mason's Apron" be moved one note higher on the staff?

I think I'll get that Pipe Duet book, it'd be fun to play those on duet concertina.

StevieJ wrote:Jackie hamming it up in Queally's, Willie Week 1985. Ad-libs by Frankie Kennedy.

Excellent! Great ending.

Just a fun little march, played on my Wakker Hayden duet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVrHqQkMC0&fmt=18

Dale wrote:If you're interested in seeing me and hearing my funny accent:

Link to the video.

Ehh, you're just posting that to get attention.

eskin wrote:Now this is cute:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13947426@N07/2418995621/

Thanks, great clip! I've seen many babies react to music like that. It's pretty amazing.

charlie_butterworth wrote:BoneQuint - amazing, do you sign your name with both hands?

I form the letters with my right hand, and my left follows behind, dotting i's and crossing t's and the like. Very efficient.

Hm, I taught myself whistle, I guess I don't really play right-handed or left-handed. Here's a photo of me playing a tune from sheet music on my computer: