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Part one of Carla Bley as Composer of the Week on Radio 3 They're starting with her '50s to '70s free stuff but hang in there, it'll get tunefuller 😎

Any takers? I’m happy to post it at cost, btw.

Er, I don’t think that’s lead free: https://uk.farnell.com/multicore-loctite/c-400-60en-5c-0-7mm-r-250g/solder-wire-60-40-188-deg-c-250g/dp/609961

Cool. Let us know how it goes!

'derrière' lol

Well so far I have mainly learnt two things: 1) the basic right hand stuff is completely kicking my derrière and 2) I'm finding it a lot harder than I realised to consistently set aside even the suggested 20 minutes five days a week for practice. So I'm already way behind the latest lesson (although Scott says 'there's no such thing as falling behind' and everyone will go at their own pace, it still feels like that). It's definitely doing the job though, of giving me something to focus on and some sense of having committed to something that I need to keep at, and if the material stays as challenging to my current level as it has so far then it'll keep me happy for a few years…

Maybe you're thinking about it the wrong way round… rather than 'I've learned this theory but I'm not sure what to do with it' start from 'I'd like to be able to do x better, what theory will help me with that?' I've learned a fair amount of classical and jazz theory in my time but I'm completely out of practice at applying it, so for me it's currently about trying to get to where the relationships between the notes of a chord, the notes on the stave, the note names and the positions on the fingerboard are all at my fingertips (as it were) so that I can play what I want when I want it rather than sometime tomorrow! Re your last point, having started on piano I can only think through an interval or chord by visualising a keyboard…

Well… I don't know about the P Audio HF but the circuit you've posted for the Celestion HF is not the same as the one @Chienmortbb posted a couple of pages ago… I'm sure they'll both work though (I hope, because I'm in the middle of building the latter one!)

A viol consort playing Kate Bush, on Radio 3 just now. Before that they did London Calling 😎

They had sack trucks in Aldi yesterday as well

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When I learned classical guitar I was taught to tune with harmonics. Getting a cheap classical guitar to sound in tune is a bit of a fool’s errand anyway though.

It’s really hard for a choir not to go flat when singing unaccompanied. If they aren’t led and rehearsed by someone who knows what they’re doing, I don’t think this is going to get any better…

That’s an amazingly useful website, thanks! We have an Auris hybrid estate - I haven’t tried it with bass gear but the boot is a decent size, and TFL says it doesn’t pay for the ULEZ. Only complaint is the ride is a bit bouncy, which has caused it to scrape the ground if you take a sharp speed bump too fast. Which? say they basically never go wrong though.

Yay!

Thanks. I feel bad for the band, and gutted to miss a gig, but I’m leaning towards giving it a miss. Anyone want a ticket for Nubiyan Twist at Gorilla a week on Thursday? 😐

Are gig audiences observing any precautions at all against you-know-what these days? I’ve got a ticket for Nubiyan Twist in a couple of weeks, which would be my first gig in at least 18 months, but if it’s going to be a room packed full of maskless shouting happy-go-lucky youngsters I can’t say I feel all that keen on going.

Not off the top of my head, but have a look for Christopher Stembridge (and maybe others) playing the chromatic harpsichord, on which some of the keys are split in half and one side plays a note tuned according to one keynote while the other side plays the ‘same’ note but in a different key. It sounds proper weird.

I never knew this, and went off in search of more information. It turns out to be even more complicated than that!

I bet I know who that is… (follows link) yep!

Sounds like you all had fun - maybe I’ll make the next one…

How about your local authority’s music service, or a local secondary school? They’re probably under-resourced, so a donated instrument would probably help them give more kids access to music making.

Ignore me if I’m talking rubbish, because any expertise I have here owes much more to the textbook than the battlefield, but have you ruled out an intermittent short in a speaker cab or cable, or a dodgy mains supply?

Can it drive a load of lower impedance than its input impedance, at a gain of 1 or more? Then it’s a preamp. What it does with the rest of its time is its own business 😎

You asked for cheap… https://www.toolstation.com/work-bench/p12739