@Kehaulani said in Do You Prefer Classical, Jazz, Rock or Other?:
I have a guilty pleasure - disco. Maybe it just comes from playing so much, but it's fun to play.
Thanks for reminding me! I'd place Disco between Blues and Classical... or maybe between Classical and Marches... or maybe between Marches and New Age... or.... Never mind; it's in there somewhere.
@administrator said in Woodworking?:
The CNC router, again, is mostly for designs. Around here, things like religious plaques with scriptural inscriptions sell fairly well. The CNC router can make those in a jiffy. However, my main goal is to get into hardwood furniture making. I also want to build a woodworking marketplace online.
I purchased an old radial arm saw and a book about radial arm saws.
Careful with that axe, Eugene!
Aside from other interests posted earlier in this thread, the sounds of which are music to my ears, Big Band and Jazz are pretty equal at the top of my list, which includes 40s thru 80s, Rock, Latin, Blues, Classical, Marches, and some New Age calming/meditating music, in that order.
One thing to keep in mind is that wood has internal stresses due to its uneven and layered structure that, once you start to shape it, are released, allowing other ones to dominate. This can be exaggerated by humidity or changes in humidity. A competent woodworker will spend his entire career fighting, compensating for, and (usually, but not always) overcoming warping. The good thing is that even Murphy's Law cannot overcome the overall satisfaction of creating something with your own hands
@SSmith1226 said in The New Reality:
I have done that with Clark 2 and scale variations of Clark 2 when I feel masochistic.
If you want to indulge in masochism, play a tune in every key. 
@SSmith1226 said in The New Reality:
Another musical innovation of self isolation:
I ran across an article by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times that was titled “A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside Down”.
According to Mr. Tomassini, “ In March, the jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer found himself confined to his apartment in Brooklyn with all his bookings canceled for the foreseeable future, like musicians everywhere. So he decided to work seriously on an idea he had long been toying with.
Mr. Tepfer, 38, who also excels in classical music and has an undergraduate degree in astrophysics as well as sophisticated technology skills, wrote a computer program. He recorded himself playing Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, beautifully, on a Yamaha Disklavier, a full grand piano with a high-tech player piano function; his program then played back each variation, but flipped.”For those interested, the entire article can be found here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/arts/music/dan-tepfer-bach.html
Examples of this music are below:
A similar fun exercise is to play a piece of music backward, starting at the end and ending at the beginning.
This version displays unmatched musical and cinematographic superiority:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=caravanserai+santana
Click PLAY ALBUM on the right of the page.
@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
An old friend used to say the instructions concerning what to do when you encountered them were written on the hoods of Dodges.
Random? Possibly. Meaningless? No.
