BassTractor

... and there was me thinking Cameo were nothing to spend time on ... (that was based on their mid-'70s output) ... and then this. Thanks for posting!

Saw the same scam both in Norway and The Netherlands, and what struck me was the comments section: lotsa fake comments from fake accounts, and say half of the names were English sounding whilst half sounded Norse or Dutch, but the names were a bit off. Obviously a scam ran from abroad, and its designers have a rough idea of foreign-to-them names, but not quite. That said, the fake people were very happy with their speakers, as they so eloquently put to three words, so I reckon it's all good. 😁

Will do, @Steve Browning. Thanks.

I appreciate that you don't remember the details; most wouldn't, and only a few would. Personally, in this case I'd remember some details, but probably not all. Still, I guess I must've worded my post poorly, so I'll try to reword: A BC owner told BC readers about his experiences as a member of the audience at the name person's stand-up gig. That name person somehow learned about this and started threatening BC with a court case. Owners told us the very existence of BC was under threat. Trying to be in BC's corner, I asked my questions, and, instead of answering the questions, that person tried and partially succeeded in making me look like the bad person. Some people on BC thanked me profusely; others started the blaming and the namecalling. Since, every now and then someone refers to me as a bully or as the one who "has hounded off" said person. I've kept silent after BC owners asked me to. I think there was no "hounding off", and if there was a bully, it was not me. Instead, I think I was someone attempting to help BC remain in existence, by asking three simple questions. The relevance of something said at a stand-up performance exists (solely?) in that the story was told on BC by one of its owners, and the name person then threatened to drag BC to court. I think there was no subject matter of people trying to treat said person badly over his reported racial stereotyping or over musical choices he may have made. I at least have not seen such treating him badly. On the contrary, I saw people submissively treat him like someone on another, higher, level. The subject matter as far as I could see it was only his threatening BC with a court case.

I've kept silent until now, but no more. That person threatened BC with a court case, thus essentially threatening the very existence of BC. This was after one of BC's owners had reported about that person's use of racial stereotyping during a stand-up performance of his. In response, I asked that person three questions - - questions that were easy to answer. Also: they were attemptedly (probably failedly) designed such that they might bring some clarity in a court case - should that person decide to go forward and drag BC to court. That person decided to not answer those three questions (my guess is he's smart enough to have understood the implications of his answering them), and singled me out as the terrible person. Seemingly, you along some others lapped it up. Me, I'm not impressed.

No, I think the more fair comparison for popular songs would be with his late string quartets. 😉

Coz if my dansband and C&W circles knew I secretly love Penderecki, Stockhausen and Xenakis, they'd come after me! 😉

I'd guess such a project yields too little for Lego as to expected spin-off, so I don't expect them to offer the product. That said, under the "ya never know" slogan, I've done the support thing.

Ha! I actually contemplated telling the story of my former girlfriend, who picked up the bass and as her first song played ... exactly that ... 😱 Mind you, she already was an accomplished musician, nearly getting the job as second flautist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Since I'm here anyway, some days ago I mentioned "Games Without Frontiers" as my first song. That was before I tried to become a bass player. A buddy of mine had gone on for 15 years about how he should be playing a musical instrument, but "now" it was too late to start. Fed up with this nonsense, I taught myself said song and when this buddy visited me, I pushed the bass onto his lap and said upon him that he wasn't gonna leave the premises before being able to play the song. He abided, and some years later became the bass player in a local band. ... the irony being that I myself still can't play the bass. 😀

Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel

In response to what @tauzero said, from my own line of work some decades ago: - the factory builds a fibreglass kayak at a certain cost and adds 14% to reach a selling price. - importer adds 17% to the in-price. - shop adds 35%, hoping the costs remain at 25% so the income is 10% (or just 7.4% of the selling price, which equals to 5.9% of the price-including-VAT) Other numbers for other (normally cheaper) products, other lines of trade, etc. etc.

- Ordered last Monday evening for a Friday evening delivery (according to Thomann site). - Dispatched Wednesday. - DHL said delivery was to be Thursday evening, but then I got a delay message from them. - Item delivered Friday morning (this being in The Netherlands). That's three and a half days within the EU. I'd guess you could add two or three days for the UK.

@SamIAm was logged in to BC five days or so ago, so she may be read-only now. At the very least she'll now be notified about this thread. I hope she's well and doing OK. b

Not that bad, I find, once one gets one's head around certain aspects, which admittedly does take more time than say working with a Minimoog. Of course the lack of patch storage easily becomes a drawback.

Echoing @Happy Jack: "I know, I know, but it does really good bass sounds too ..." (for the unitiated: it's two Behringer 2600s, the tiny and cheap ARP 2600 clone, each spawning three oscillators and most of what you need to make a bass monstah).

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Thoroughly in the "what the song needs" camp. Happily though, every song needs a complex line.

My bad. I meant reeds. Me mixing up my languages, that was.

Dutch classical pianist Daniël Wayenberg, after cöcking up during a relatively light-hearted Sunday afternoon concert, went down on his knees and crawled under the grand piano to pick up the missed notes, to then throw those notes back into the piano and play the piece from the start again - - playing well, this time. The audience lurved it.

IMS, technically, they can have different reeds with them so they can tune to a piano or an organ or somesuch, but indeed: When doing a gig with an orchestra (me on the organ), the oboe player was well grumpy initially, and explained what a hard time she had with this. Me, I don't really know what the problem is, but at a guess: they're not bringing 60 reeds to cater for a whole range of to-be-expected tuning standards. Edit: had used the word "fleece" for "reed".

Haven't watched the vid, but if the C=512, then the A can well be 432, depending on the system. The nonsense is not in the arithmetics, but in the taking random frequencies as being somehow "better".

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