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Great news Rossy!. This is your second victory with that piano.

Thanks Recaredo, Yes it is, your correct . well remembered...
Anyway, now it is behaving 100 percent and I am totally happy.

I just wanted to record something sort of bare, like get the video cam out and play something, and not use Pianotech software or abelton, just a sort of plain "cover" Hopefully I can do that now...

saying that I dont know how well my video camera picks up sound yet!!!!

will have to do a test!!

Hey, piano joy, I know just two things about US tax. These are

1. 401(k).
2. If you set up a church everything is tax free.

I have toyed with (2) as the possible subject of a documentary that I have yet to make.

Eglantine, do you remember the guy in this country who found that out and instigated the "church of the gnome" in his front garden? He completely filled it with gnomes, and made out he believed in them so much ( and as many many folk do) that it was a religous order called the "church of the gnome" and therefore it should be tax exempt?

It got in many papers at the time.. I cannot for the life of me remember the outcome, except his garden looked like a sanctuary for folk that needed care in the community.

Will try and find out how it panned out, it was years ago though.

Good morning Everyone! Rossy, I'm glad you got your DP working properly. I've been spending lots of time this week on my piano. I will post a few things today. Of course you can expect my Classical Sunday postings tomorrow.

My first post today will be classical Indian music. Here is Ravi Shankar on his amazing sitar

Raga Miniature

OMG OMG OMG yes its another OMG moment.
What have I always said about morons and power tools? If you have never been privvy to my ramblings on said subject matter: let me reiterate.

Because of shops like Walmart in the USA and B&Q in the UK, every inadequate and his wife can now buy a power tool for around a tenner.

It should be a legal requirement that anyone buying a power tool should take a basic test of competence.
This test should should be tailored to determine if the person attempting to buy the power tool has a normal amount of brain cells.
It should also "red flag" the following afflictions.
(a.) general inadequacy.
(b.) moronism
(c.) cretinism.
(d.) a tendency to retarded actions.
(e) minor to major stupidity or a history of foolish choices.
(g) Genetic predisposition towards concentration failures.

Two cases in point today have manifested themselves...

Small daniels , sorry Paul daniels the magician whos catchphrase is "Its magic" is all over the papers

Because he cut off his own finger with a circular saw ( B+Q £9.98)
The papers have headlined it as "Its tragic" as a pun on his catchphrase.

I would have headlined it as "Its tragically obvious that this is going to happen"

Its a simple equation.( Moron + power tool= a journey to A and E to be reconstructed)

BUT, that wasnt the OMG moment today, no not at all....

THis is..... A man who didnt even know the nail gun he was using had put a nail into his brain, and thought the doctors were joking, even after they showed him the X rays...

I jest not... check it out...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...fter-nail-is-removed-from-his-brain.html

Oh noes, Rossy, you've just reminded me of a dream I had last night (which I had forgotten on waking, as you do).

The dream was that I had something in the tip of my right index finger, and I pulled it out, and it was a long, long nail, about 4 inches long, long enough to reach into the main area of my hand, and as I pulled it out I could hardly bear to look at the HOLE going all the way up my finger and into my hand, like a dark tunnel.

How unfortunate to be reminded. I'd better make another cuppa to make me feel better...

I just woke up a bit ago. I'm glad I don't usually remember my dreams, especially if they're anything like that, Eglantine! I think I'll have my morning coffee while I ponder my next posting. I'm in one of those moods where my postings will be very eclectic.

I'll be back shortly!

I'm going to miss Etta James. She leaves an amazing legacy of her soulful blues and R&B. Here is "Misty Blue."

As the grandaughter of carpenter/millwright I'm proud to say I am quite adequate with various tools and generally handy however my husband decided some time ago that I should not be permitted to use superglue while unsupervised.

Hmm, LBE, sounds like there's a little 'superglue history' there...

I have gotten up close and personal and become one with various small objects over the years so my husband has pretty much forbid me to ever open the stuff without adult supervision. The last time I tried to sneak a little use while he was at work I almost glued myself to the inside of my piano. I can't reach the cabinet with the nail polish remover from the piano and the piano isn't going to the hallway cabinet because its 100 yrs old and has a busted caster so I decided maybe I shouldn't argue with him on this one.

Deary me, a mutant hybrid, half pianist half piano.
And now for something completely different.

The lonely life of a solitary synchronised swimmer?
There will be one somewhere, a synchronised swimmer who has no one to do it with.. could this be the saddest thing on the planet ( about from justin beiber) ?

I mean what would you say if approached by such a dude or dudette, and asked "please would you come and do synchronised watersport activities with me?"

If I was asked ( and I do hope I never am) I would keep it simple and say something not too offensive, like say " I would rather eat my own toenails, so that will be a no"


I think of these things so you dont have to folks, but then I sort of spoil it by telling you so you do think about these issues.
Bit of a paradox really.

About as possible as a one-handed man clapping.

Rossy, I'm not finding the gnome stuff online...

Rossy, I'd simply say yes, and swim so badly I'll never be asked again!

No I cant find the gnome stuff either eglantine, it was ages ago , like years.
We might just have to go with "the new spiritualist church of the haunted upright overstrung instrument"

With or without Waynes permission.

LOL evening folks! I've missed quite the conversations!

Congrats on finding the offending cause of the buzzing! Bet you are much relieved!

LBE: I relate. I'm banned from all instant glues or any similar substance (I once glued myself and a bowl to the kitchen table.) I'm also banned from any and all power tools or anything sharp. I'm called "grace" for my complete lack of it! LOL I'm still suprised I'm allowed to ride my motorcycle!

Thanks BeccaBb (grace) I am very glad i fixed the buzz, its totally sorted now!!!
Mrs R is also not the ( ahem) delicate flower of lady poise and control either, at christmas after I had watched swan lake, Mrs R did what she called ( and I really , like really use this term loosley)
a "swan dance" accross the living room floor.

A silvie Guillem she isn't. The dance ( to my eyes) appeared to be a one legged stumble with the expectation of overbalancing and disaster happening at any given moment.
Arms flapping in a way not entirely appropriate to ballet, more of a sort of voodoo/chicken laying an egg impression really.

Being asked "would I make a good swan?" did not help me to stop laughing at all.

Then to top it off she tried mock anger " you think I am clumsy dont you?"

Well no, I dont THINK that, but i do believe the evidence of what my eyes just saw.

I know she is clumsy, I panic when she climbs on a chair to change a light bulb.