Posted on 09/23/2024 8:41:03 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The high end Yamaha electronic pianos are pretty sweet.
Cactus? I’ve made it but not worth the stickers.
I don’t know about that, I lived in a wood structure on the water that was well over a 100 years old and many of the coastal apartment buildings and houses on the beach are old and wood in Southern California.
I wonder if she meant to keep it pristine? Keeping things pristine on the beach is a losing battle.
She meant things like external staircases, fences, wooden trim, etc.
Was it on an ocean beach?
Yeah, uh huh, that's what I blame my performances on. Haven't had this one tuned in forever. Afraid the strings will start popping like in a cartoon.
The other night, the cat wouldn't come inside so I opened the windows and began playing. Whoosh, in she ran. She insists on playing and everyone better get out of her way until she's finished. Up and down and up and down. It was grandma's old piano so I'm sure she wouldn't be very pleased but kitty sure is and it makes me smile.
Yep, that stuff, the windows, the sliding doors, decks and furniture.
well played…
Yes, it was the carriage shed from a long gone and forgotten mansion of the late 1800s that some had turned into a beach shack by adding a floor and a tiny bathroom and stove and bar sink with a 6 foot wide bedroom, and the ceilings in those were only about 5’11”, the windows were homemade without screens of course and with props to hold them open.
The walls and ceiling boards were just that, boards, there was no other wall or roof, just those boards, that conversion may have been done during the 1920s to make it usable on weekends.
Wowza.
Always more detail.
In everything.
I no longer bother with audio tuners. Instead I’ll rough out each string by ear to a keyboard, then compare adjacent strings on the 7th fret using the 8th for the B. Before adopting this tuning method, it was the G that often required ongoing adjustment. After restringing, I’ll check the Intonation by comparing the 12th fret harmonic to open for each of the strings. If the bridge supports individual string lengths and micro tuners, all the better.
REO Speedwagon — first song on the car radio today!
Some people like to singe the prickly pear fruit to get rid of the hairlike thorns that are so irritating, but that’s a lot of time and trouble. What I do is blanch the cactus fruit in simmering water for at least a minute. That softens up those tiny stickers so they don’t stick. Doing about 10 at a time works out well so that one group is blanching while you peel the previous batch.
Picked the tunas Saturday, made and filtered the juice yesterday, so we’ll make jelly tomorrow. A lot of it will be Christmas presents for people who live in other states.
'S'okay. Everyone's ears have their own standards. As a piano banger and composer, I get by with whatever and adjust as needed.
Besides, quirky can be a source of inspiration. Legend has it that Chopin had a bum unregulated c key when he was composing the Op. 53 Polonaise (Heroica) and took advantage of it with that off-beat accented c in measures - 40 something to 50 something? A few measures right before the recap.
That is fascinating detail. Computers will never replace the love of an art and the craftsmanship it takes to produce it.
Makes me miss my friend who built harpsichords and a concert pianoforte before he passed at age 45. He also built well-crafted parts of my house.
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