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Færd

10:42

Clair de lune - Debussy (guitare)

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Began thinking "No, this is a piano piece, doesn't sound so good on guitar", but she changed my opinion towards the end, slowly but surely.

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Mitch

13:25

@Færd You know how a piano is sometimes used as a mini-orchestra? You can mimic an orchestra with a piano, you just have to cut out a lot or things and you're missing a lot of the variations in voices? A Piano is to an orchestra as a guitar is to a piano. You can transcribe music meant for piano to guitar music but you will probably have to throw out a lot of extra voices and background effects, and it is super hard to get more than two lines (melody and bass) on guitar.

So if you compare side by side, the guitar is always going to be objectively worse than the piano.

But some things work well by themselves (like that piece) depending on the inventiveness of the transcription. Great technical use of harmonics.

I was annoyed with all the incidental instrument sounds, the scratching of the strings when moving position, random taps against the body. But that is true of all (classic) guitar playing.

Here's an orchestral piece transcribed for guitar that works:

Jorge Caballero - Mussorgsky Pictures (Complete)

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@KitZ.Fox hey

Kit Z. Fox

Mitch! You're a water buffalo!

Mitch

Same to you, you sunuva...

wait

why yes I am.

I mean it as no insult but I notice that you're not.

Kit Z. Fox

No, I am a fox.

Per my usual habit.

Mitch

To each their own

speaking of animals

Camels are like those animals from Star Wars, with slobber and weird horns and nasal goo and a disposition that you don't know what to do with.

Kit Z. Fox

13:40

I would def take a photo. How often do you get to see a kid eaten by a camel?

Mitch

Like geese: "Oh what a beautiful animal I'm going to pet hey heye hey what the hell why are you pecking me you climbs small bush to avoid

Kit Z. Fox

frigging geese with their honking I'M NOT EVEN CLOSE TO YOUR LANE!

Mitch

haha. stupid geese

Turkeys circle a dead cat

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Kit Z. Fox

shudders

Mitch

OK, not geese. but it seems cruel.

Kit Z. Fox

13:44

they were trying to revive it

Mitch

I have fun in my own head (where else can you do these things) replacing 'bird' with 'dinosaur'.

And usually it ends up being 'what a stupid dinosaur'

@KitZ.Fox I think it was a warning to all future cats

"Behold your fate should you ever think of crossing one of us again!"

Kit Z. Fox

"Behold your fate should meow ever think of crossing us again!"

Mitch

If life has taught me anything, that cat doesn't care.

Matt E. Эллен

if cats have taught me anything it's to sneeze

Mitch

Cats

pfft

Mitch

14:34

aha proof!

Cats recognize their owner's voice but choose to ignore it. http://smithmag.co/UUpX8b

Tweeted by SmithsonianMag on March 10, 2019 at 2:00 AM

RegDwigнt

17:15

So my thingie arrived today, @Rob.

Sent the photo to a bunch of friends, nobody could tell WTF this even is.

Matt E. Эллен

17:53

a light sabre assembly kit

two candles, to simulate burning one at both ends

neon lights for guiding planes on a runway

Jasper

@MattE.Эллен Good guess.

Matt E. Эллен

Since they were talking about flutes the other day, I'm guessing it's a flute

Jasper

Looks more like a light sabre to me.

@KitZ.Fox Hello! Long time no see!

Kit Z. Fox

18:36

@Jasper Hello!

Jasper

@KitZ.Fox Is it alright to still email you?

Hello @Cerberus!

Cerberus

Hello.

@RegDwigнt I have no idea. A flute?

Oh, Matt already said that.

@Mitch !!

Or, rather, there's a single exclamation mark hovering over my heads.

RegDwigнt

18:54

I dunno. Looks like a light sabre to me.

Does a light sabre make a noise if you blow onto it?

Jasper

@RegDwigнt I guess now we can see your youtube videos of you playing flute.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt What kind of weird sex toy is that even.

RegDwigнt

@Jasper Hm. I just checked my YouTube channel, I think you're wrong.

Jasper

@RegDwigнt It looks like a heavy sabre to me.

Cerberus

I remember playing on my friend's flute when I was 10 or so.

Kind of cool.

RegDwigнt

18:56

@Cerberus interesting you'd say that. Because one other person's guess was a fleshlight.

Cerberus

I managed to get a sound out of it, but I never tried more than that.

@RegDwigнt Ah. For small people.

RegDwigнt

Well I am currently managing a G major scale.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt That's the sound of your eyelashes searing off.

Cerberus

A blowable sex toy.

Jasper

LOL

Cerberus

18:57

@RegDwigнt Is that to do with the g-spot?

RegDwigнt

Jan 3 at 22:42, by RegDwigнt

But then tchrist came in with with his "I broke my g string while fingering a minor".

That's how the joke goes. Get with the programme.

Mitch

@Cerberus I can get a great sounds out of it by banging it against the radiator

RegDwigнt

I tried that. Those sounds are not great at all, don't lie. Or maybe I need a better radiator.

Mitch

@Cerberus it's an air on a g-string

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Ah, I'm late to the sex party.

RegDwigнt

18:59

You always are.

Jasper

All the animals have come to chat.

Cerberus

@Mitch Must be exquisite music!

Mitch

@RegDwigнt like a steel drum, it gets better as you bang it into shape

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus and that was my reply to them, yes.

Mitch

@Jasper Arf

@RegDwigнt Guys

RegDwigнt

19:01

de maupassant?

Jasper

I still play 0 instruments now.

Mitch

Mo' passant blues

@Jasper at least you're not going backwards

RegDwigнt

@Jasper buy one. Or seven.

I need only a couple more then I'm done.

I was thinking a harp, a cello, a sax and maybe an oboe. Brass I don't know.

Mitch

Also, that's what's so great about MIDI editors. You don't need to know no weirdo fingerings and having a good ear for quarter tones and stuff. Just put in the notes and it plays

@RegDwigнt Wah wah

By which I mean, that's all you need, someone to go 'wah wah'.

RegDwigнt

That's what MIDI does.

@Mitch why did you cut off the end of that sentence. You forgot the period. And the "like shit" before the period.

Mitch

19:04

@RegDwigнt I've been bowdlerizing all the shit I say. Sorry mah ninja

Also, I'm trying to be like the kids these days and not put periods where it'll upset people.

'.' = ', goddamyou'

@Pseudohuman And you, with your false gods? Your electrons will disintegrate into the heat death of the universe.

Pseudohuman

@Mitch I do not understand.

Mitch

@JennaSloan So effing predictable.

Kit Z. Fox

@Jasper Yes, it's ok. Still at the same email.

Pseudohuman

@Mitch I do not understand.

Kit Z. Fox

@RegDwigнt That's clearly a flute. Your friends are all heathens.

My eldest has taken up flute.

Just like his mother at that age.

Cerberus

19:14

@RegDwigнt Hobo in Dutch.

@Mitch Argh your code is upsetting!

RegDwigнt

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A: Is this correct grammatically?

Attached is the spreadsheet with the new loans numbers, rates and maturity dates are accurate. Both Libor contracts mature on 3/27/19, I will reach out on 25th for rollover instructions. Let me know if you have any questions

That is a great answer.

Not sure to what question exactly. But it is great.

Kit Z. Fox

Fuck, yeah, that's awesome.

A perfect reply to a question ought have been closed and deleted last year.

RegDwigнt

You forgot to attach the spreadsheet. — RegDwigнt ♦ 6 secs ago

I will only close and delete it once I have the spreadsheet.

Kit Z. Fox

Makes sense. I support that.

54-40 or Fight and all that.

back when we had a president who knew not just to fight for borders, but for territory, dagnabit.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus Goboy in Russian.

Cerberus

19:20

Funny.

RegDwigнt

Well they call Heinrich Heine "Genrikh Gayne".

Same thing.

See an H, turn it into a G.

That is Russian.

Гобой

Гобо́й (от фр. hautbois, буквально «высокое дерево», англ. oboe, итал. oboe, нем. Oboe) — язычковый деревянный духовой музыкальный инструмент сопранового регистра, представляющий собой трубку конической формы с системой клапанов и двойной тростью (язычком). Современный вид гобой приобрёл в первой половине XVIII века. Инструмент обладает певучим, однако несколько гнусавым, а в верхнем регистре — резким тембром. В 1989 году занесен в книгу рекордов Гиннеса как самый сложный инструмент. Инструменты, считающиеся прямыми предшественниками современного гобоя, известны с античности и сохранились в...

Cerberus

So if it's hobo and gogoboy, that means there must have been some guttural or velar consonant.

RegDwigнt

That, or you just read the very first sentence on Wikipedia if you're such a noob you don't even know where the word comes from.

It's a high tree.

Mitch

@Cerberus .

RegDwigнt

Of course originally originally, the high tree is from Iran.

Jenna Sloan

19:25

@Mitch Did you ping me?

Mitch

@JennaSloan Just messing with your ... friend. Do you keep logs on responses?

RegDwigнt

سورنای, سُرنای

Mitch

Also, I looked at your github code and I couldn't find the part where you actually do response stuff. Just all the machinery around it.

Kit Z. Fox

Don't you have to teach it things?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Gesundheit

RegDwigнt

19:28

@Færd can read that.

Mitch

@Pseudohuman What is 68 fahrenheit in celsius?

RegDwigнt

Nobody knows what it means, though. Could be strong, could be banquet. Same difference.

Pseudohuman

@Mitch 20 °C (degrees Celsius)

Mitch

@Pseudohuman Dude, thanks so much.

Pseudohuman

@Mitch I do not understand.

Mitch

19:28

Aw man now you've ruined it.

Jenna Sloan

@Mitch Yeah, why?

RegDwigнt

Oh now I get it. That guy is the only actual person in here.

I was wondering WTF you were @Pseudohuman.

Pseudohuman

what the (expletive deleted)
(according to internet textese)

Mitch

@JennaSloan In case you want to go back and add things

@Pseudohuman NOU

Pseudohuman

@Mitch I do not understand.

RegDwigнt

19:30

That goes straight onto my list. WTED.

Kit Z. Fox

lol

Mitch

sigh

RegDwigнt

WTF is so 1990s.

@Pseudohuman how many rods to a hogshead was the 1990s in Réaumur?

Pseudohuman

@RegDwigнt I do not understand.

RegDwigнt

Well that took you a while.

@Pseudohuman why do you wear a female face. That is sexist.

Pseudohuman

19:33

@RegDwigнt I do not understand.

RegDwigнt

@Pseudohuman ask Trump. He knows what sexist means.

Pseudohuman

@RegDwigнt I do not understand.

RegDwigнt

Hm. I could write this AI in one line of code.

Kit Z. Fox

KitBot had more Easter eggs. Probably exploded more though.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Du hast eine Flöte gekauft?

RegDwigнt

19:42

@Robusto ja, eine mit H-Fuß.

Robusto

So sehe ich.

Jenna Sloan

@RegDwigнt Yeah, it's written in Java, you could just remove all of the line breaks

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Who is the maker?

RegDwigнt

"Symphonie Westerwald". It's a very cheap beginner's instrument off Amazon. Not the cheapest by any means, and I would have spent more but they had no solid-silver B-foot in stock.

I checked the local, uh, windmaker? what do you call those? first. He said he could sell me a good student instrument for 4000, or a used one starting at 600.

I said thanks but no thanks, unlike with the violin this is just for fooling around, I expect to blow into it a couple times, get no sound out of it, and toss it into the corner. For that 4000 seemed a bit steep.

He pointed at my violin case and said if you can play that thing you'll play this here thing alright. I smiled back. But not in the "ikr I'm awesome" kinda way, but in the "dude you do not know how much I suck" kinda way.

Kit Z. Fox

yeah, flute is harder than violin.

RegDwigнt

19:50

So anyway. Once you hold the thing in your hands and see where the holes are, it suddenly makes a surprising amount of sense. You don't need no stinking charts if you just think about which lever goes where.

Kit Z. Fox

Much like you know where to put your fingers on the strings to make them resonate properly. easy peasy mac-n-cheesy

RegDwigнt

Well, everything is easy if you know how to do it.

Kit Z. Fox

Exactly.

also, anything is possible in the World of Magic™.

Robusto

That's mine. I haven't taken it out in at least a year.

Played a bit just now. Still got the tone, about 80% of the breath, and maybe 60% of the technique. The little-finger problem is kinda cramping my style.

I see you got the offset G key. Kind of a beginner model. You'll notice my keys are all inline.

RegDwigнt

I was going to say yours looks like it only has half the keys.

Robusto

20:01

That's a Muramatsu. I paid $2,800 for it in 1975. No idea what it's worth today.

RegDwigнt

Those three keys on the foot freaked me out when I first touched them. They felt like moist and I was WTF is this thing leaking. But that was a brain fart apparently, turns out they just turn. I wasn't expecting that.

Robusto

They roll, more specifically

RegDwigнt

Yeah.

I left it in figuring you'd know.

Robusto

Weird that I still have a decent sound.

I guess some things you never forget.

RegDwigнt

Also I had the weirdest problem at the start. If I just grabbed the thing and played a note it would play alright, but if I stopped the air flow and try to play again, no tone would come out.

That got much better rather quickly but it was the weirdest thing at first.

Robusto

20:03

Stopping the airflow? That's a rookie move.

RegDwigнt

No I mean like stopping to breathe.

I don't know the terms.

Robusto

Oh.

Pro tip: Keep your throat wide open. And breathe from your diaphragm, not your chest.

RegDwigнt

Noting.

Robusto

The only things that stop the airflow are your lips and your tongue. And your lips don't really stop it, they just direct it.

RegDwigнt

Tonguing seemed to work very nice off the start, but that must've been beginner's luck. I seem to be gradually getting worse.

Robusto

20:05

A light tongue, just a tap is all you usually, unless the score says spitzig.

RegDwigнt

Yeah I think of saying "two" or something like that.

Anyway that's rocket science, I need to get working on the basics first.

Like I can play almost an octave of G major, but the higher G almost always plays an octave too low. Stuff like that. Sometimes even the F# already.

Robusto

Also, when forming your embouchure, think of pushing your lips toward the blowhole, don't draw them back. You want suppleness, not tautness.

RegDwigнt

Also I spent like ten minutes just playing C-D-C-D because I heard people say that was like hard and I was like nah WTF this is easy. But then I tried H-C-H-C and that kills me.

Robusto

You mean C-D-C over the first octave break? That's not hard, but it's awkward and not graceful in runs.

RegDwigнt

It never feels like I'm about to drop the thing, but it always feels like I'm not holding it properly. Often I end up angling the left thumb for additional support, which is most certainly not what I should be doing.

Robusto

20:10

Well, you get so you don't think about it.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I just kept hearing people would drop the flute simply by playing a C.

Robusto

Nah.

RegDwigнt

That is not the case for me.

It is, however, a nightmare when I'm coming up from the H below.

I go from 100% control to like 1%.

Robusto

Do you mean the low H?

RegDwigнt

No, mid-staff.

I can't play the low H, what are you, insane.

I can barely play the low C.

But I heard things to that effect, so I was prepared.

Robusto

20:12

Hmm.

RegDwigнt

I don't know the first thing about anything, but instinctively it feels like those three low notes need more air.

Mitch

I can play Starway to Heaven on the penny-whistle. Does that count?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Not that much more. Every note takes a lot of air, except for those that take more. Like in the altissimo register.

Mitch

Wait...that penny-whistle is also in a MIDI score...

...that someone else scored.

So what I'm saying is that I can play the 'mouse-click'

It's all in the timing

RegDwigнt

So anyway I am now actually thinking of taking a couple classes at the music school where I already take violin lessons. Not a full-blown course but maybe just 10 hours to cover the basics.

We'll see.

Robusto

20:19

That can't hurt.

Mitch

How about classes in percussion? That seems like a whole universe in comparison.

RegDwigнt

They have those too. Not my cup of beer.

Mitch

Yeah I don't 'get' percussion

Like, how is that music?

Like take any instrument, then remove all ...

remove all the notes?

remove all something and then what you have left is percussion.

RegDwigнt

Last year at the Schülerkonzert, there was that Indian girl who played drums to Adele's Rolling in the Deep. Which was like, say, in 120, and she played 119. That was awesome.

Like, she kept a perfect beat. Just not the beat of the song. It was like some kind of Doppler effect.

Mitch

That sounds both hard and weird and with what kind of effect I can't tell.

Robusto

20:22

Hehe. Out-of-sync is funny.

RegDwigнt

Yeah, but the thing is specifically, it wasn't just random out-of-sync, it was very meticulously crafted. I couldn't do that on purpose if I tried.

Like, you play the very first beat of the first measure exactly on the beat, and the very last beat of the very last measure exactly on the beat, but in-between over the course of the entire song you add a single additional bar.

So your 1 is exactly on the 3 exactly in the middle.

Robusto

And you'd think no one would notice ...

It's like singing out of tune. Very hard, if you're used to and capable of singing on pitch.

RegDwigнt

That was the funnest part. All the students in the audience kept looking at each other like rolling their eyes in disbelief, but none of them seemed to be getting what was actually happening. I was the only one who appreciated the mental effort.

@Robusto I try that every time I listen to Tim Minchin's "F sharp", and I fail every single time. Not doable for me.

BBC Proms 2011: Tim Minchin - F Sharp (Comedy Prom)

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Robusto

20:54

@RegDwigнt: [Etwas über Muramatsu. ](floetenforum.iphpbb3.com/forum/23776610nx818/querfloeten-f9/…)

RegDwigнt

I read the whole first page and all I really take from that is that it's a rabbit hole I am in no position to go down.

Reminds me of picking a violin bow.

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