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John Watt
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There have been a lot of new members who "introduce themselves",
and then are never heard from again.
You have one of the more replied and answered threads here.
Too bad you're abandoning it.
When I was in grade seven, a violin teacher came to our school.
He was signing up students for lessons, but you had to buy a violin.
Considering that my art teacher was taking me into the principals' office,
where he would bang my head against the wall,
I didn't want to get more involved with anything about that school.
Too bad everyone liked my artwork the best.
Here's a recent painting I finished.
I set it up in front of my bike so you can see the size.
This dropped camera bends the horizontals.
I'm adding a drawing of a horse I did as a gig.
And just in case you need to get your nose all up in a snit,
here's a photo of a pink plastic guitar. It does tune up and sounds good.
Seeing the pink plastic bracing inside the guitar is very bracing.
and then are never heard from again.
You have one of the more replied and answered threads here.
Too bad you're abandoning it.
When I was in grade seven, a violin teacher came to our school.
He was signing up students for lessons, but you had to buy a violin.
Considering that my art teacher was taking me into the principals' office,
where he would bang my head against the wall,
I didn't want to get more involved with anything about that school.
Too bad everyone liked my artwork the best.
Here's a recent painting I finished.
I set it up in front of my bike so you can see the size.
This dropped camera bends the horizontals.
I'm adding a drawing of a horse I did as a gig.
And just in case you need to get your nose all up in a snit,
here's a photo of a pink plastic guitar. It does tune up and sounds good.
Seeing the pink plastic bracing inside the guitar is very bracing.
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John Watt
Member
See! I'm seeing some wonderful new photos.
I can see your forum use description, but for me, it's too formal.
I'm having a hard time not replying to every posting you make,
because you are putting up new postings, and are a very good user of technology.
You will have to put up with my downbeat English attitude,
such as putting your nose up in a snit or having a stiff upper lip,
but wait, I typed that already.
If you want to avoid a diatribe from me, or a rant,
I suggest you don't use any photos of Hadrians' Wall.
Here in North America, everyone can visualize the Great Wall of China,
but no-one knows about Hadrians' Wall,
unless they saw that Tatum Channing movie about the lost Roman Eagle.
I gotta do a photo.
There's been a Danish theme to my life this last day.
I saw a magazine story about a new roadway that leads into the water, and turns back, being more of a scenic drive than going somewhere.
I read a news article about a man from England, born in India,
who defrauded Danish pension accounts of a couple of billion dollars.
It says this is shaking Danish trust in their previously secure institutions.
And I helped load three residential cabinets after a purchase yesterday,
and on the bottom was a stamp saying "made in Denmark".
Ancient Danish gods as depicted by ancient peoples,
were pieces of branches or big sticks that were stuck in the ground.
This photo of my bike at Point Abino, with this weathered tree, reminded me of that,
even if it looks like more of a figure than a big stick with a roughly carved face.
From my perspective, just because they're finding these carved sticks,
doesn't mean they have to be gods. Who know why they were made?
They could be territory markers, making more sense to me.
Now if that was a British staff with a British flag hanging from it,
I'd be running back to my friends to say the British are coming.
Unlike Americans, hearing that once would be enough.
And this is my posting for this session. Time for lunch.
I can see your forum use description, but for me, it's too formal.
I'm having a hard time not replying to every posting you make,
because you are putting up new postings, and are a very good user of technology.
You will have to put up with my downbeat English attitude,
such as putting your nose up in a snit or having a stiff upper lip,
but wait, I typed that already.
If you want to avoid a diatribe from me, or a rant,
I suggest you don't use any photos of Hadrians' Wall.
Here in North America, everyone can visualize the Great Wall of China,
but no-one knows about Hadrians' Wall,
unless they saw that Tatum Channing movie about the lost Roman Eagle.
I gotta do a photo.
There's been a Danish theme to my life this last day.
I saw a magazine story about a new roadway that leads into the water, and turns back, being more of a scenic drive than going somewhere.
I read a news article about a man from England, born in India,
who defrauded Danish pension accounts of a couple of billion dollars.
It says this is shaking Danish trust in their previously secure institutions.
And I helped load three residential cabinets after a purchase yesterday,
and on the bottom was a stamp saying "made in Denmark".
Ancient Danish gods as depicted by ancient peoples,
were pieces of branches or big sticks that were stuck in the ground.
This photo of my bike at Point Abino, with this weathered tree, reminded me of that,
even if it looks like more of a figure than a big stick with a roughly carved face.
From my perspective, just because they're finding these carved sticks,
doesn't mean they have to be gods. Who know why they were made?
They could be territory markers, making more sense to me.
Now if that was a British staff with a British flag hanging from it,
I'd be running back to my friends to say the British are coming.
Unlike Americans, hearing that once would be enough.
And this is my posting for this session. Time for lunch.
Ella Beck
Member
It's been a good week and I've been on this forum rather a lot, posting but also reading and getting a sense of what the place used to be like, and what it's like now. From now on I'll be a bit more sparing, but try to post usefully just in case anyone reads and wants to join.
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John Watt
Member
"Dark are the skies above, blue are the seas.
I know this love of mine, will never die, and I love her".
That's still my favorite Beatle song.
These words could be considered my version.
"darling you've been gone so long, it amazes me I still feel this strong,
times have changed and time has gone, how could I have been so wrong?
I just don't know what to do, when this cold dark night turns deep dark and blue,
you're not here to talk so what more can I say,
I'm just glad I've got this old guitar to play".
17th century lute solo
I know this love of mine, will never die, and I love her".
That's still my favorite Beatle song.
These words could be considered my version.
"darling you've been gone so long, it amazes me I still feel this strong,
times have changed and time has gone, how could I have been so wrong?
I just don't know what to do, when this cold dark night turns deep dark and blue,
you're not here to talk so what more can I say,
I'm just glad I've got this old guitar to play".
17th century lute solo
Ella Beck
Member
Hello.
My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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John Watt
Member
I'm seeing some serious flingin'a the font.
I was driving home on the Q.E. (The Queen Elizabeth Highway) one night in Toronto after a gig,
and a Beethoven violin quartet came on.
I was hearing such an intense downward spiral of sound I had to pull over and turn it up.
I keep hearing that the skirlin'a the bagpipes is the most difficult human musical accomplishment,
but I'm thinking Beethoven came close enough.
My favorite Bach trivia is the fact that if one scribe wrote out all his compositions,
it would take more than one lifetime. Guilds, you gotta love'em or leave'em.
I was driving home on the Q.E. (The Queen Elizabeth Highway) one night in Toronto after a gig,
and a Beethoven violin quartet came on.
I was hearing such an intense downward spiral of sound I had to pull over and turn it up.
I keep hearing that the skirlin'a the bagpipes is the most difficult human musical accomplishment,
but I'm thinking Beethoven came close enough.
My favorite Bach trivia is the fact that if one scribe wrote out all his compositions,
it would take more than one lifetime. Guilds, you gotta love'em or leave'em.
Ella Beck
Member
Hello.
My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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John Watt
Member
When I listen to musicians recreating the music and sounds of historic compositions,
I always wonder what is was like living back then,
when the sounds humans made with instruments were the loudest sounds you heard,
unless you heard the sounds of war or a symphony using a cannon for effect.
This is music to dance to, really dance to. Beautiful!
I always wonder what is was like living back then,
when the sounds humans made with instruments were the loudest sounds you heard,
unless you heard the sounds of war or a symphony using a cannon for effect.
This is music to dance to, really dance to. Beautiful!
Ella Beck
Member
Hello.
My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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John Watt
Member
I don't know how much ancestral music is part of your listening landscape, in Europe.
Here in North America, there isn't any, unless you travel and look hard to find an open native reservation.
I can see your ancient buildings and artwork, everything from paintings to tapestries, are real for you.
What makes classical acoustic instrument performances real for me are TV shows.
Here, people are mostly listening to "their music" through devices while walking.
That shuts out all other pedestrian and traffic sounds, for me, unsafe at any walking speed.
I gave up years ago making motions to get someone to pull out their ear buds so I could ask,
what music are you listening to, instead of standing around waiting for traffic lights in a group that wasn't talking.
Videos are so prevalent here, people are watching movies on devices with screens smaller than two inches square.
If they're not watching them while traveling, that's all they have on at home.
People have screens in every room, most of them big screens. Small screens and ordinary televisions get thrown away.
Screens are hanging in public spaces, bus stations, building walls, from huge to large.
In Ohio, new government statistics show that over 90% of the population has used crystal meth.
Not every other area is this addicted, but it's still growing.
In my home town of Welland, with a population of over 60,000, there are no local jobs for live musicians.
There aren't any public dances. There are no children singing in the streets. This has reached Biblical proportions.
Tweedle-dumb has lost his tweedle-dee.
Here in North America, there isn't any, unless you travel and look hard to find an open native reservation.
I can see your ancient buildings and artwork, everything from paintings to tapestries, are real for you.
What makes classical acoustic instrument performances real for me are TV shows.
Here, people are mostly listening to "their music" through devices while walking.
That shuts out all other pedestrian and traffic sounds, for me, unsafe at any walking speed.
I gave up years ago making motions to get someone to pull out their ear buds so I could ask,
what music are you listening to, instead of standing around waiting for traffic lights in a group that wasn't talking.
Videos are so prevalent here, people are watching movies on devices with screens smaller than two inches square.
If they're not watching them while traveling, that's all they have on at home.
People have screens in every room, most of them big screens. Small screens and ordinary televisions get thrown away.
Screens are hanging in public spaces, bus stations, building walls, from huge to large.
In Ohio, new government statistics show that over 90% of the population has used crystal meth.
Not every other area is this addicted, but it's still growing.
In my home town of Welland, with a population of over 60,000, there are no local jobs for live musicians.
There aren't any public dances. There are no children singing in the streets. This has reached Biblical proportions.
Tweedle-dumb has lost his tweedle-dee.
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Ella Beck
Member
Hello.
My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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My user-name is Ella Beck, and I joined this forum in October 2018.
I like a wide variety of music, including early music, baroque, classical music, opera, folk music, ragtime, bluegrass, oriental music and twentieth-century popular music.
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