Text 2420, 113 rader
Skriven 2006-06-23 10:15:58 av hap newsom (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: 777 repost
======================
Hey Michael!


-> 
->  -> I make mistakes in concerts. Even the big guns, the symphonies,
->  -> the yo-yos do, a couple biggies per evening on average.
->  HN> See, life happens to all of us! (grin)
-> 
-> Speaking of which, I had a senior moment and fell down
-> the stairs (13 of them, unlucky). Not thinking of doing
-> much travel during the b'ball season, but if I knit
-> quicker than expected, expect a shout.
-> 
I'll be listening! today I'll be 20 feet up a ladder taking a group photo
of most of the conventioneers about 300 or so! It's always a fun shoot as I 
get up at the top and shout and wave and make jokes and everyone fully 
expects me to plummet off the top (thank goodness for my surfer's balance) 
and into the crowd. 

->  HN> being able to "let go" and continue is more of a benefit than many
->  HN> would suppose! 
-> 
-> Truer words = never spoken.
-> 
Been there done that!

->  HN> I on the other hand may not have noticed any of the errors and 
would
->  HN> have thoroughly enjoyed the performance.....sometimes ignorance IS
->  HN> bliss!
-> 
-> On this cruise thingy we took, I had heard great things about
-> the chamber group on board, the Rosario Strings, so I looked
-> forward to hearing some good music and maybe meeting some
-> colleagues. Alas, it was the usual collection of prostitutes
-> who couldn't get into a decent conservatory, playing heavily
-> edited versions of movie themes through an echo machine.
-> 
But many of the patrons enjoyed that yes? 

->  HN> Goes back around to Dave the Sac's alternate uni'es...I hope that in
->  HN> at least  one of them I am playing major league ball and enjoying it!
-> 
-> Well, I lost one of my nine lives just over a day ago. In some
-> alternate universe Carol is crying ... but perhaps in another
-> one she's laughing (I hope not).
-> 
->  HN> I just looked on all the websites and picked the lowest one way fare 
-> 
-> Studies show that the average leisure shopper checks
-> three websites. I have almost always found that united.com
-> gives me the best fares, but once in a while I have booked
-> on aa.com (occasionally you can get United tickets there for
-> cheaper than United sells them for) and orbitz.
-> 
I usually check 3-6, more if needed. 

->  HN> back...Alaska actually had a better deal than southwest
-> 
-> The success of Southwest is in its image. I noted that the
-> price of my ticket from Baltimore to Orlando cost more than
-> US Air would have charged me to go from Boston to Orlando
-> through Baltimore.
-> 
Yeppers, sometimes they are better sometimes not!

->  HN> respective classes and such! I know little or nothing about fluid 
->  HN> thermodynamics! 
-> 
-> You know about the other dynamics of fluid though!
-> 
oh yes!

->  HN> I'm not sure, at one convention ( three conventions ago?) a young 
man
->  HN> came  up with a carbon fiber cello, and was soundly rebuffed by 
many of
->  HN> the  conventional builders of violins and violas and cellos. I thought
->  HN> it sounded  very good but since I haven't seen any big players using
->  HN> one I am supposing  that it did not catch on.
-> 
-> Luis Leguia makes carbon fiber cellos, and Sharon Robinson
-> plays on one. It sounds louder than a wood one, but the
-> consensus is that the overtones aren't there. I thought it
-> was okay and a godsend for a traveling musician.
-> 
At this convention there are dozens of Cello's set up for the auction on 
saturday...most are in horrid shape and in need of massive repairs before 
they could be played....I told Anne that I was going to bid on one....she 
rolled her eyes and asked me why in the world I'd want to do that! ....I didn't

really have an answer other than I've never HAD a cello!

->   I would doubt that the
->  HN> ancients lucked into the ideal 
->  HN> configuration, but many "institutions" are very resistant to changing.
-> 
-> See my post to Joan on this. I think that the womanly curves
-> of a stringed instrument just happened to provide the best
-> balance of tonal richness and carrying power, and if this
-> weren't so, the violin would have evolved in the same way as
-> flutes and trumpets have (that is to say quite dramatically).
-> 
90 year old Manuel Velasquez who still makes classical guitars says (at 90 I 
guess you can be opinonated) that violins annoy him after 3 minutes of 
listening to them...but guitars!!!!!! LOL There were several workshops on 
Violin design and construction...but I did not get to cover them. So far it has

been a magnificent convention and I am having a great time! 
chat with you soon
hap 
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5a
 * Origin: FidoTel & QWK on the Web! www.fidotel.com (1:275/311)