@barliman2001
I have heard a similar Norwegian joke.
Goes like this:
Ole goes off to work one day and a shortly after arriving realizes he forgot his lunch. Gets home and calls up to his wife. “Lina, where are you?”
“ Up in the bedroom”, she says.
Ole comes in and asks, “Lena, where’s your clothes?”
“ oh, I yust have nutting to vare”
Ole goes to the closet, starts naming every thing she has,
“Look, here's your blue dress, your red dress, plaid dress, hi Sven, your white dress………”
Also, a woman called the radio station and complained about where the deer crossing sign was put on the shoulder of the highway.
“Why did the highway department put it there? Too many deer are getting hit by cars there. They should put it in a less busy section of the highway so the deer can safely cross the road. I can’t believe they are that ignorant”
@j-jericho said in Mouthpiece issue:
@rowuk ... or he should use the Bach numbering system. You know... the number of high notes is stamped into the mouthpiece, along with which pitch the mouthpiece contains! For example, a 10-1/2 C enables you to play ten and one half octaves of the note "C", whereas a 2 only has two undetermined high notes available.
Now I understand completely.
Sorry for the wandering.
Back to the question, though, I think the real thing is taking your time with it, and not trying to microwave your results. More of a slow cook approach. ( I am paraphrasing what Rowuk said. He knows the deal. )
Pope John XIII was asked in an interview how many people worked at the Vatican.
About half of them, he answered.
@ssmith1226
That’s some pretty crazy stuff there.
Almost as strange as the guy with the talking dog for sale…
Wanna hear about it?
I take that as a yes.
There was a guy driving through the low country of South Carolina when he spotted a sign in front of a run down shack that said, “Talking DAWG FER SAIL, 5 BUCKS”
He said to himself, I gotta see this, even if I don’t buy it, so he went to the front porch and asked about it.
The man sitting in the rocking chair said, yup, y’all can go right on back and see him. He ain’t gonna bite.
Man goes back and gets into a total conversation with this dog! No people were around or anything like that. The dog goes on and on about all his exploits and travels, since he could talk, of course.
Drug enforcement, he could listen in on conversations and report back to his handlers. All kinds of stuff like that.
So this fella is mighty impressed with what he heard, and wanted this dog for sure, especially because it was only 5 bucks!
He pays the man still lounging on his rocking chair and once he shakes hands on the deal, he says, “this dog is amazing! Why would you sell a dog that has accomplished all these things for so cheap!
Man on the rocker says, “aww, he was just a big ol’ bald faced liar is why!”
Another Ole and Lena story. ( Norwegian Humor )
Lena was in court for shoplifting.
She was accused of taking a can of peaches.
“ How many peaches were in that can you took? “ said the judge.
“Oh, I would say, two.” Said Lena.
The judge declared she would have to spend one day in jail for each peach in the can she took.
Lena stood, head down, and took her medicine.
Then……..
Ole cleared his throat, and asked if he could say something.
Yes? Said the judge.
Well, Ole said, in the interest of justice, I need to mention that my wife here also took a can of peas, too.
@barliman2001 said in Bugler's Holiday from 1995:
Nice! But it's bad that the flag prevented the page-turner from being in her proper place, totally obliterating the pianist...
That is exactly the humble kind of guy he is. He never hogs the spotlight. Fine Pianist, too. He may be the most humble friend I have.
He truly does not care if he is seen or not!
This came up on YouTube only 6 months ago. My friend came across it and posted it. So, it’s me and my friends from 28 years ago. I am on the far left, playing the third part.
@newell-post
Maybe so, but these are from his own book. Just saying.
Some things Yogi Berra said. I’m pretty sure.
Driving to the baseball Hall of Fame with Whitey Ford:
Whitey: hey, Yogi, I think we’re lost!
Yogi: I know, but we’re making good time!
When giving directions to his house:
“When you come to the fork in the road, take it.”
Getting a small pizza for himself, he’s asked how many slices he wants the pie cut into, four, or six?
“ better make it four” Yogi says, “I don’t think I can eat six pieces”
“ Nobody goes to that place anymore. It’s too crowded”
@kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:
Look at a Monet and simultaneously listen to Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and you can intuit it.
I almost never paint without music ( my own very diverse ) playlist playing in the background. Not loud at all, just enough so I can hear it.
It would feel awkward to paint in silence.
Interesting about your instructor, too, Kehaulani. I think you mentioned it before, and I thought the same thing.
@georgeb
Very kind of you to say, but I think I wouldn’t want to be tied down like that right now, plus I don’t think I would have enough material to put together something every week….I am retired, too, by the way
Here is another YouTube video of my newest painting.
Hope you enjoy watching it!
@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"?:
Well, I only have one tongue anyway.
Cheeky, very Cheeky
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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.