Discovery of Pluto Reaches 75th Anniversary

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lid says...
Good comments regarding the harmonium but it's your .sig that really
caught my eye. I must have missed that Schneier quote

It's from an essay: http://www.schneier.com/essay-066.html
Good reading on an important topic.
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Kevin Willoughby lid

The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier

"Dale" wrote in message
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There's a virtual Armonica you can play online, FWIW-

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/musician/...larmonica.html

Dale

Which, BTW, demonstrates that an actual armonica (as opposed to a glass
harmonica) is not made of wine glasses. In the real model, the rod the bowls
are on constantly rotates and keeps the bowls moist since the bottom part of
the bowls touches the water. There is a nice example at the Smithsonian.

"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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Is it just me, or is this what made a lot of the music in "2001"?

It is just you.

The music of 2001 was standard classical repertoire. Nothing fancy.
Except for the pieces by Gyorgy Ligeti.

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Neil Gerace wrote:

His full name is Newyorkminimalistcomposer-Philip Glass. Get it right


You can say what you want, I always loved his work.

Pat
I saw him live in concert a couple of times. The records didn't prepare me
for how loud his group was -- I never expected to need ear protection at a
classical concert*. (The only groupsI saw that were louder were Black Flag
and the Plasmatics.)

*Except when the horn section was directly in front of the timpani. Those
things are loud from five feet away. A hint for conductors -- this is a very
bad arrangement. When the timpani is struck firmly, the overpreasure goes
directly up the horn bells and results in bruised lips for the horn players.

Ami Silberman wrote:

*Except when the horn section was directly in front of the timpani. Those
things are loud from five feet away. A hint for conductors -- this is a very
bad arrangement. When the timpani is struck firmly, the overpreasure goes
directly up the horn bells and results in bruised lips for the horn players.



God, I never thought of that... they would focus and amplify the
acoustic waves, wouldn't they?
Strike a big drum on front of a tuba player, and you could probably
knock his teeth out.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Ami Silberman wrote:

*Except when the horn section was directly in front of the timpani. Those
things are loud from five feet away. A hint for conductors -- this is a
very bad arrangement. When the timpani is struck firmly, the overpreasure
goes directly up the horn bells and results in bruised lips for the horn
players.

God, I never thought of that... they would focus and amplify the acoustic
waves, wouldn't they?
Strike a big drum on front of a tuba player, and you could probably knock
his teeth out.

Well, tuba bells generally point upward, so it wouldn't be that much of a
problem. (I did know a susaphone player who claimed that if he played into
the wind on an icy field he would get blown backward. Fortunately, I went to
a high school that had a "sitting" band, as opposed to the usual marching
kind.)

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"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
Is it just me, or is this what made a lot of the music in "2001"?

It is just you.

The music of 2001 was standard classical repertoire. Nothing fancy.
Except for the pieces by Gyorgy Ligeti.


Isn't Ligeti "classical"?

"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
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In message , Ami Silberman
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"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
Is it just me, or is this what made a lot of the music in "2001"?

It is just you.

The music of 2001 was standard classical repertoire. Nothing fancy.
Except for the pieces by Gyorgy Ligeti.


Isn't Ligeti "classical"?
Yes, but
a.) His work is hardly in the standard repertoire.
b.) The earliest of his four pieces in 2001 was written in 1961, the latest
in 1966.
c.) He was still alive at the time of the film (Actually, I think he is
still alive now, although no longer composing much.)
So I'm arguing that his work, though classical, is not standard, and in fact
is pretty avante garde.
(I'm a real big Ligeti fan.)

Ami Silberman wrote:




Well, tuba bells generally point upward, so it wouldn't be that much of a
problem. (I did know a susaphone player who claimed that if he played into
the wind on an icy field he would get blown backward. Fortunately, I went to
a high school that had a "sitting" band, as opposed to the usual marching
kind.)



Actually, I was thinking of the Sousaphone, not a tuba. For some reason
I never understood, this:
http://wwwdb.csu.edu.au/division/mar.../olyband09.jpg
.....generally gets called a "tuba", at least in North Dakota.

Pat

In article , says...
I saw him live in concert a couple of times. The records didn't prepare me
for how loud his group was -- I never expected to need ear protection at a
classical concert*.

Apparently in that concert, he didn't do the piece consisting of nothing
but rests...
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Kevin Willoughby lid

The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier