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Same here, in my Kentish local authority. I think that Thames Water also give us a two-month payment holiday too. I may need to buy a better set of in-ears Replacing my Linsoul ZS10s with some Shure AONIC 215 Wired earbuds. I find that the ZS10s distort when I give the B string some welly, whereas the Shures that I borrowed for a professional gig, were clear and strong. T2 fail? I also want an ipad, to run Song Select, because paper printouts don't really work in my current gig. T2 fail again?

I took the Kurzweil apart and managed to clean the contact pads, and the keyboard now works again. Thanks to @BassTractor who encouraged me to have a go! I needed to take out the G and A keys to get at the A flat key, but once they were removed, the rubber contact pads were exposed, and a liberal squirt of contact cleaner got underneath the rubber contact pad and removed the dirt. I didn't even need to remove the rubber contact pads to access and clean the contact points underneath. Rubber contact pads are shown here As far as I can make out, the velocity of the note is worked out by timing the difference between the first and second signal from the first and second contact points. I am guessing that one of the contact points was dirty and so the system only registered one signal, which it assumed was infinitely fast (and so, the maximum loudness). The video here gave the details of what screws I needed to remove to get into the casing, and what to clean once I was in.

That shows the difference between ABRSM and Rock School exams. You are doing acoustic guitar grade 1, but turned up with a different instrument, and had a nice chat about that choice. ABRSM? You can't even choose which note to play. Play it, as written - note, value, dynamics. With regards to the instrument, ABRSM make no allowances for the fact that the student may have learned on a keyboard with no dynamics, but when they are doing the exam on a piano they are expected to play the written dynamics.

I read this out loud, to my wife. She laugh, with joy, at the wisdom and the poetry therein. I am now practicing...

That's what did it for me: the endless repetition of a single piece to get it just so, and the aiming for one single perfect performance. I am guessing that if @SumOne has played something 100 times on the bass guitar, it is because it has been gigged it 95 times. However, piano is frustratingly different, and difficult. I confess to have taken an inadvertent break from learning recently - I am simply not practicing anymore, because failure is so discouraging. I realise now, that I need to practice little and often, and work through the difficulties that comes from learning something new. Onwards and upwards...

Bits of violin - tail pieces, rosin, fine tuners, all free

I checked my diary in which I noted the conversation. "Has been adjourned until February 2026". I suspect that the clerk misread the date - she like me, reasonably expected the case to be resolved 6 months after it first came before the court, rather than 18 months.

Those puns - I am laughing myself hoarse!

Midi [5pin] to TRS jack Such cables do exist, and are available (other suppliers can be found) https://www.amazon.co.uk/kenable-3-5mm-Stereo-Audio-Cable-Black/dp/B00KQUZQ4O/ref=asc_df_B00KQUZQ4O?mcid=9505f24b5e163411afc0646faf38461b&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=710760400267&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4222002176326608353&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9044980&hvtargid=pla-392235580309&hvocijid=4222002176326608353-B00KQUZQ4O-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1&th=1 This thread https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/521143-midi-pedal-board/#comment-5602414 has @BigRedX telling me that "MIDI leads despite using 5-Pin DIN connectors only use 3 of the conductors - the centre pin for earth and the two pins immediately either side of that for the data signal. The other two pins are unused."

An update, and a correction. I called Leicester Crown Court (0116 222 5700) and quoted the usual reference (33JJ0821825) and answered the usual questions, and was given the date of the trial. "It's the week commencing 8th February 2027" - not 2026. I am not sure where 2026 came from - apologies.

Or, as the Tesco Recipe book describes it, "horses for courses"....

Look on ebay for writing desks and Welsh dressers. They are pretty much unsellable especially if they are dark brown wood, made in the 70s or 80s, and definitely if they are huge. Convert the draw fronts into drop down flaps to reveal a sliding tray for a electric piano or mixing desk, put a rack unit and amplifier into the cupboard on the bottom. If the top unit has glass doors, hang curtains inside to obscure the PC monitor and powered monitors. Go big on lots of shelves and alcoves for storage - as you have already discovered, having one single 8'×4' shelf leads to a messy layout. Try also local auctioDepending ouses, Facebook market place, and house clearance companies. Even if they don't want that sort of furniture, they might be willing to tell you about it. If you buy yourself a Victorian piano stool to place in front of the unit, you will have somewhere to sit that matches the unit. Depending on the layout and size of the unit you could use it to store bass guitars. Perhaps you might buy a second unit (a wardrobe) to store the instruments.

I have had a long think about this. I think that I like this inexpensive pedalboard - it is portable, and sits in a neat enclosure. That means that i won't need to pull apart a home-organ to salvage the pedals and then make an enclosure. If I leave it as it is, it will only work with a 30 year old GEM keyboard. If I convert it to midi, it will work with any midi device (including the 30 year old GEM keyboard, which also has midi). So, once I learn electronics, midi it will be!

It's like sending one's children to Finishing School in Switzerland. One is surprised to see that they had such potential, but delighted to see that they have been smartened up and made presentable. Well done @Mediocre Polymath.