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  1. Dorsetmike

    Some proper guitar playing

    (Bet some of the musical heathens out there never heard of Charlie Christian nor Wes Montgomery!)
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    Rules for the blues

    (copied from another forum) 1. Most Blues should begin, "Woke up this morning." 2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like "I got a good woman with the meanest face in town." 3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first...
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    Something a bit different

    Found this Vivaldi sonata with unusual/unexpected instrumentation http://www.baroquemusic.org/DLower/BMC35T9VivaldiSonataOp13.mp3
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    Pachelbel

    I like the organ tracks, 1, 9 & 11 on this Album, particularly No 9 on a Silberman organ (right click track when playing, select "Save audio as" for free download) http://www.baroquemusic.org/30Web.html
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    What happened?

    I've been unable to acces the forum for the last 2 days, just getting the "Timed out" message?
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    Hoagy had the right idea

    As old age creeps along
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    Away for a day - or 2

    Off to hospital at 7 am for a bit of surgery, to try and restore my voice back to normal instead of the current whisper or croak; scheduled for an overnight stay.
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    Seasons greetings

    To all our readers!
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    Should a drum solo "fit" the rest of the piece?

    In the piece linked below the drumming sounds acceptable to me as accompaniment but the solo towards the end (around 2.30) doesn't strike me as relevant to the rest Same sort of thing on other tracks of the CD. (I do like the singer tho', Jean Lamb, not heard of her before)...
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    Telemann Sinfonia in F

    I wonder if this has been arranged for organ? There is a score on IMSLP but it's very old handwritten that has been scanned into PDF image http://www.baroquemusic.org/DLower/BMC13T1TelemannRecorderGamba. http://imslp.org/wiki/Sinfonia_in_F_major%2C_TWV_50:3_(Telemann%2C_Georg_Philipp)
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    This has to be the worst ... ... ...

    A helicopter and a piper cub went fishing. Who brought the bait? The helicopter, of course, everyone knows that the whirlybird catches the worm.
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    Count Basie & Oscar Peterson

    2 sides of Vinyl as .zip files; Free download here https://archive.org/details/TheTimekeepers-CountBasieMeetsOscarPeterson-Vinyl24-bit
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    The oldsters alphabet

    A’s for arthritis; B’s the bad back, C is for chest pains, perhaps cardiac. D is for dental decay and decline; E is for eyesight, can’t read that top line. F is for fissures and fluid retention, G is for gas, which I’d rather not mention. H is high blood pressure--I’d rather it low; I for...
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    Food for thought

    As you read this you are the oldest you've ever been! To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer...
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    Strange pricing practices

    Two examples today that make no sense to me, a 10 pack of Jaffa cake bars for £1.25, next to them on the shelf 5 packs of the same size same product £1.40. Then in the DIY store, hobby board 1150mmx200mm £4.96, in the same rack 2350mmx200mm £14.25; now 2x 1150 is 2300, so why is the 2350 near...
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    My favourite version of ... ... ...

    What's New, by Mel Powell, Paul Quinichette and Bobby Donaldson Eight and a half minutes of sheer bliss
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    Too perfect?

    I've noticed some trad jazz recordings over the years sound too rehearsed and not as spontaneous as it originally was. Is this good, bad or just different/takes all sorts? I noticed it particularly with some Dutch swing college records, those from the 1950s compared to more recent offerings...
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    Can't have too much music!

    Just been through all my Vinyl, 3 Readers Digest box sets for 22 discs and 95 other discs, slightly over half jazz and big band swing, 12 Classical, about 20 of my late wife's popular 50s/60s, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Dean Martin, Paul Anka, Streisand, Elvis and similar nostalgic stuff, of...
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    Musical misconception

    Sharing some music with friends last evening, I played Stanley's Organ concerto No2 Op 2; one chap on hearing the organ said "Oh that's church music". Just because it had a pipe organ, to him, it had to be church music! When I played a Stanley Harpsichord concerto, that wasn't church music...
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    Power saving idea?

    https://i.redd.it/v3tyijqvndhy.gif
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