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@newell-post said in A little humour:

@bigdub ...and she (Wood's sister) was PISSED OFF, because people assumed she was involved with the town's elderly dentist (the male model).

And boy, does she look it.

I doubt if I would use these folks for models in a painting like this, but Grant Wood.

@trumpetb
Sounds logical. But I am sure I didn’t initiate any of those changes to Apple Music when it occurred. I was using new apple Air Pods for the first time. Don’t know if I mentioned that. Strange that it didn’t happen on YouTube music or GarageBand music at that same session before restarting. No?

@tjcombo said in Weirdest thing happened:

HNY Wayne, wonder if this is an electronic or ear issue? Thought I’d share my “one weird trick” story in case it helps.
A few years back, I acquired my first C trumpet and couldn’t believe how bad its intonation. Swapped back and forth between C and regular Bb horn in practice and the new horn didn’t seem to improve.
I can’t remember why, but I played few tunes on the Bb, reading from a Bb Real Book, then played the same tunes on the C horn, reading from the C Real Book and for some strange reason the intonation issues stopped. It was like something in my tiny mind switched - either that or some musical elves tweaked the C trumpet.

Cheers
tj

Interesting, but definitely not what happened to me. As soon as I switched to a YouTube recording it was spot on.
Also, in answer to Steve, I haven’t been using the AirPods when using the silent brass device.
It was so strange because I have been playing with this setup for close to 20 years and nothing with the pitch changing has ever happened.
Once I quit Apple Music and restarted the computer it corrected itself.

@ssmith1226 said in Weirdest thing happened:

Wayne,
I had a similar issue last January. I was using my iMac and Zoom Recorder Microphone. I was interacting (playing simultaneously) with other musicians located throughout North America using software to facilitate this called Jamulus. When we were playing together, my playing sounded through the headphones one half to one step higher to the rest of the online ensemble. Without the headphones, I was playing in tune. After I reinstalled the microphone and adjusted the parameters of Jamulous, the problem corrected. This problem also manifested itself intermittently on GarageBand as well, where the pitch recorded on GarageBand was 1 - 2 halfsteps sharp compared to what came out of the horn. The only way I found to solve this intermittent problem was to remove Jamulous from my computer.
In your case, you were monitoring your Yamaha Silent Mute System through your headphones on your Mac. You assumed that the background tracks were modified in pitch. Is it possible that your recorded pitch from the Yamaha Silent Mute was modified and the background tracks were the correct pitch?
Had you installed any new software on your Mac that might have created a sample rate issue and modified the pitch? If the sample rate of Your Microphone was, for example 48kHZ and your computer got reset to 44KHz, your recorded and monitored pitch would be relatively sharp compared to your background recordings. BTW, when I discussed the problem with Apple and Jamulous Tech Support, no one could explain the problem, correct the problem, and each pointed their fingers at each other.

I sometimes notice that Apple does not always play well with others.
The new thing was some AirPods which are wireless headphones, but they are Apple. Still wouldn’t rule that out. I do notice that my MacBook seems to eventually “learn” better habits in time.

@dr-go said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@bigdub said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@dr-go

Well, I only have one tongue anyway.

Cheeky, very Cheeky .
Yes, that was the location of my tongue.

@barliman2001 said in Weirdest thing happened:

@bigdub Apple has a reputation for creating huge file sizes without really much showing for it... it just might be that Garage Band files are smaller and better handled by the computer... and if you are not running an original Apple system, the problem might just be that the conversion of Apple Music into a Windows compatible version has blown up file size so much that all the "rubbish" is clogging up the system to an extent that pitch is already affected, whereas playing time is not yet.
All sounds very scholarly, Elmar, but not even in the ballpark, I must humbly say in my non scholarly way. It is apple to apple, pardon the word play. And Microsoft is not a part of my life, for the most part.
Also, strangely, this had never happened until the other day when I first posted it. I’ve been using the same format, or system for a very long time but never had this exact thing happen once.

@trumpetb
In my case, what happened was almost a full step down in pitch without any loss of tempo, and only on iMusic, not GarageBand or YouTube.
That was a big part of what made it so strange.

@dr-go

Well, I only have one tongue anyway.

@trumpetb
I don’t know.. it only happened on Apple Music. GarageBand had some tunes I made that I could play along with, YouTube was fine, too.
The music did not lose tempo, just pitch ( the meaning of which I am familiar )
It just strangely came back when I restarted the laptop.

Notice, this is not in “a little humor”.

A little background first.
When I play my horn(s) at home I use Yamaha Silent Brass° and also add accompanying music from Apple Music on my MacBook Pro. I have been doing this for as long as I have had the system…..maybe close to 20 yrs?
Anyway, today I did the same thing. Began to play one of my many tunes from my extensive playlist. I was using the new C trumpet, and I couldn’t match the pitch. I thought maybe I was playing from a part written for Bb ( not that I can’t transpose either way ). But, no, it was correct. I tried another song. Same problem. Another, and then went to the Bb. Still no good. I even checked with a tuner. Right on the money!
When I say I couldn’t match the pitch, I mean when I played what was written. I can match about any pitch, but this was almost a complete step flat!
Ok, I never had any type of experience like this. I thought maybe I had lost my mind, instantly like. I tried a YouTube song I have also on a playlist and this was fine. Tried a song from GarageBand, it was fine, too. I decided to quit Apple Music and open it again. Fixed it right away, but not after near panic that something was seriously wrong with my laptop.

Anybody else ever had this exact problem? WOW, that was something.

It’s fixed now. Thanks for not giving me any tips how to fix it. No need to help here. I am ok now. Thanks.

I'm not the most tech savvy person in the world, here, but am able do some things the average person may not have a clue how to do.
The texting, though, can be tricky, at times. All the short hand stuff, just letters, no words. Why so lazy?
Anyway, I see IDK once in a while, and here’s the thing- I have been asking lots of my friends what it means, and everyone's saying the same answer! “I don’t know”.

Seems to me that if almost no one knows what it means then it shouldn’t be used so readily. That’s all.

@georgeb
Haha. Yeah. There’s a lot going on there, right?
It’s the kind of piece where you not only have to ignore what the other parts are doing but have to also pay attention to what they’re doing simultaniously

https://soundcloud.com/bigdub-3/carol-of-the-bells-pentatonics-style-122122-1025-am?si=c979d64150dc4ccbb61905d7871d8eb4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Did the recording this morning….

@dr-go
Hey, Doc, thanks for the tip. Now I have a better idea what to charge for my artwork. Very helpful, indeed.

I do not have any advice, but only words of encouragement.
Great to hear it went ok, and thanks for sharing the information with us.
Dr GO is certainly the one to listen to, so listen to him!
That’s my advice. Also if Steve Smith has anything to say, ditto.
I am pulling for you, and you are in my thoughts and prayers.

@georgeb
You got it.

Another video on YouTube. Have a look, if you like.

Made it to 1000 views this afternoon! I am planning out another one to come out soon. This time I am going to be a little more organized with my thoughts…..that’ll be tricky.

@georgeb love and appreciate the enthusiasm, but I think they only count people once. Just like our posts here. Can’t like them more than once from any one source.