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Deep Dish – Sacramento
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The Organ (v)
But for Barker’s invention (plagiarising?) of the pneumatic lever that Cavaillé-Coll had made such use of in St. Sulpice, such vast organs, using such high wind-pressures, would not have been practicable – no organist would [more…]
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The Organ (iv)
By about 1850, not only had large numbers of Cathedral Organs been re-built, incorporating the latest mechanical contrivances, and improvements in terms of type and range of sounds, but many Parish Churches, too, had had [more…]
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Disclosure – F For You
For those of you having difficulty finding your profiles so you can set up your avatars on the forum, click here Gravatar, create an account with the same email address and upload your picture, [more…]
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The Electric Guitar
The one on the left is a Gibson Les Paul, introduced in 1952. The one on the right is a Fender Stratocaster (“Strat”), introduced in 1954. Why don’t they sound the same? Two electric guitars. [more…]
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Me And The Devil – Gil Scott-Heron
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A brief history of wind
There is now, I maintain, a fundamental difference between the sexes on the matter of Wind: it has gone beyond a kind of armed truce where, it could once be said, ‘Belch, and the World [more…]
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Burning Man 2015 : Dream
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Quadratic Residues and Sound Diffusers
We touched on quadratic residues when discussing Pythagorean triples. We relied upon the quadratic residues and non-residues in modulo for our proof that and took opposite parities. These residues have important results in encryption, integer [more…]
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Major Lazer & DJ Snake – Lean On
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Watermät – Bullit
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99 Luftballons
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Burning Man 2012: Robot Heart
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Certain Punks and Misanthropes
The problem with punk & nailing its politics is that it was never political to begin with. The movement was a rock & roll revival with an experimental ting bred out of New York arty [more…]
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Ready For The Weekend
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The Organ (iii)
Surmising how anxiously-awaited must be this further instalment in my gripping serial, I was moved, unprepared and disorganised as I am, to put finger to key, and initiate another chapter in this saga. You will, [more…]
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Who will sing for England
I watched a documentary about The Proclaimers over the New Year. I take an interest in musicians and how they achieve success in the creative field. I’m not over-judgemental and try to find aspects [more…]
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The Blue Danube (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
The Kiss (Lovers) was painted by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, the highpoint of his “Golden Period”, when he painted a number of works in a similar gilded style. A [more…]