Random Ramblings

I would have turned that off too. Sounds annoying. Like, what if I don't want to watch the video?

Driven wrote:

This is a pretty interesting topic, mainly to musicians, but also in general: changing the basic note in music. A certain pitch, the 4th A, is usually at 440 Hz, but some are proposing to change it (back) to 432 Hz. I tried it with my guitar, and it sounds cool.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fringe-audiophiles-who-want-to-topple-standard-tuning

Yeah, pitch has raised through the years.  I remember a professor talking about how if Beethoven heard his Fifth Symphony in C minor today he would wonder why they were playing it in C#.  I haven't read the article, but it sounds like they are advocating for a meantone temperment system instead of the standard equal temperment system we generally use today.  The fifths are a little narrower and A is somewhere in the 432-3 neighborhood.  As for A440 being first implemented by the Nazis, that is easily debunked.  The Americans had standardized that frequency in 1925, and it had been in use in Paris as early as the 1810s (pitch wasn't really a standardized thing until 1939).

There's more than I'm sure anyone wanted to know.

messiaen77 wrote:

Driven wrote:

This is a pretty interesting topic, mainly to musicians, but also in general: changing the basic note in music. A certain pitch, the 4th A, is usually at 440 Hz, but some are proposing to change it (back) to 432 Hz. I tried it with my guitar, and it sounds cool.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fringe-audiophiles-who-want-to-topple-standard-tuning

Yeah, pitch has raised through the years.  I remember a professor talking about how if Beethoven heard his Fifth Symphony in C minor today he would wonder why they were playing it in C#.  I haven't read the article, but it sounds like they are advocating for a meantone temperment system instead of the standard equal temperment system we generally use today.  The fifths are a little narrower and A is somewhere in the 432-3 neighborhood.  As for A440 being first implemented by the Nazis, that is easily debunked.  The Americans had standardized that frequency in 1925, and it had been in use in Paris as early as the 1810s (pitch wasn't really a standardized thing until 1939).

There's more than I'm sure anyone wanted to know.

Not at all - very interesting.

Rutabaga

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Rutabaga

Got a couple of those in our Bountiful Basket this past Saturday.

Coltrane

Coal train.

Phlebotomy

A frontal lobotomy or a bottle in front of me?



Same, same.

And the meek shall inherit the earth

Or at least what's left of it

So, there I was standing at the grocery store checkout when the guy behind me moves my items to the back of the belt and then proceeds to place his items ahead of mine to which I protest with a verbal whatcha doin' type question and he responds very matter of fact-like that he'd prefer for me to purchase his items for him and of course you know that went over like a lead balloon (or Led Zeppelin if you will) which caused the people spectating to take sides after which, we don't know who, somebody threw a punch leading to an all out, olde fashioned style grocery store brawl resulting in assorted food items being strewn various directions, kids crying, employee's yelling, clothes being torn a one guy losing his glass eye and cops responding which is how everybody, even the crying kids ended up in the joint making you shake your head because obviously none of this is even remotely true.

You had me for a second. I thought you got in a fist fight.

I knew it wasn't true from the get-go.  He never goes to the grocery store

Does he order all his food to his house?

xenonlion wrote:

Does he order all his food to his house?

No, his wife does all the shopping.

Livna wrote:

And the meek shall inherit the earth

WE'VE TAKEN CARE OF ALL THE THINGS, THE WORDS YOU HEAR, THE SONGS YOU SING, THE PICTURES THAT GIVE PLEASURE TO YOUR EYES…

Staybrite wrote:

xenonlion wrote:

Does he order all his food to his house?

No, his wife does all the shopping.

You all are funny!

I made a Costco run yesterday.

Driven wrote:

WE'VE TAKEN CARE OF ALL THE THINGS EVERYTHING, THE WORDS YOU HEAR READ, THE SONGS YOU SING, THE PICTURES THAT GIVE PLEASURE TO YOUR EYES…

Fixed that for ya, Mr. Rushfan.

Xid wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

xenonlion wrote:

Does he order all his food to his house?

No, his wife does all the shopping.

You all are funny!

I made a Costco run yesterday.

Yet nobody had to call the cops or the paramedics....astounding! 

Not this time.

Maybe he hunts for all his food like Ted Nugent does

Almost $100,000 for a thrust bearing????  I'm in the wrong business.

Pizza.


I got to meet my brother's girlfriend tonight. She's very nice.

I need to change my nerdy ways