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"Iain Churches" wrote in message


It's been too easy for Arny - pulling the wool over the
eyes of the goodly Baptist brethren for a very long
time.

No wool-pulling required.

He preys upon their lack of knowledge and
experience

If you call services rendered for no charge "preying"...

It doesn't work in the real world:-)

I wouldn't know since I'm not doing that you're talking about Iain. But,
what I do does work in the real world.

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:05:11 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

He preys upon their lack of knowledge and
experience

If you call services rendered for no charge "preying"...

It's the worst sort. When you're paid, customers can expect standards
and fire you if they're not delivered. A volunteer is hard to get rid
of.

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Jim Lesurf wrote:
But I'm not a pigeon. (Honest!) :-)


Coo!

--
Bill Coombes

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In article ,
"Iain Churches" wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove_D..._and_Musicians

Grove's Dictionary
It was first published as A Dictionary of Music and Musicians in four
volumes (1878, 1880, 1883, 1899) edited by Sir George Grove with an
Appendix edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland and an Index edited by Mrs.
Edmund Wodehouse.

LOL!

He's got no ****ing idea has he? Wot a bull****ter!!

Speaking in the vernacular around here is a ton of fun.

Wot a great way to bait the local pedants!

LOL!


Nice try Amy - keep wriggling if you want, but it isn't working...

Nice try? I think it's very sad:-(

True story: The day I heard Stanley Sadie (ed. New Grove) had died I won
a Sadies cd at a wine-tasting.

Stephen

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Arny Krueger wrote:

Hmm, one of the outputs from my Studiomaster goes to a
digital subharmonic processor which is then fed to a big
sub [via an amp of course]. I don't have it turned up
particularly loud but I do like the feel of a soupçon of
extra low.

Subharmonic synths give what I think of as a sort of "Las Vegas" sound to
some music. In moderation its probably fun, but if turned way up, it is
clearly an EFX which you will either love or hate.


Well I suspect that a lot of 'musical' people regard sub-harmonic synths as an
abomination and turned up they are usually overpowering. I find it impossible to
predict what music they will and won't work with, the most recent track I was
surprised by how good a synth sounded with was with was Norah Jones's 'Light as
a Feather'. [CD version with all other output being 'pure path' stuff]. As I
said before they have to be used in soupçon mode. Except for the cinema
experience of course, I saw 'Alien' at a cinema with a great sound system turned
up *really* loud and lots of sub-harmonics..a true full body experience.

--
Bill Coombes

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MiNe 109 said...

True story: The day I heard Stanley Sadie (ed. New Grove) had died I won
a Sadies cd at a wine-tasting.

In the "Most bottles sampled with least use of spittoon." category?

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

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UnsteadyKen wrote:

MiNe 109 said...

True story: The day I heard Stanley Sadie (ed. New Grove) had died I won
a Sadies cd at a wine-tasting.

In the "Most bottles sampled with least use of spittoon." category?

They didn't even have a spittoon! I had to sneak to the men's to dispose
of a particularly vile vintage.

I won for a trivia question I've now forgotten, but the answer was
"Gershwin." Give it try at your next quiz!

It was also the day I first heard the phrase, "cat's pee on a gooseberry
bush," used to describe New Zealand sauvignon blanc.

Stephen

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Jim Lesurf said...

And that was much quieter than standing near to 001 as she wound up at
Tolouse. 8-] That and some tests with a tank (Challenger II IIRC) were
the loudest noise sources I've ever risked my own ears on.

Concorde does make the most awesome racket doesn't it, At Farnborough
air show in 79 she came in, touched wheels down and climbed away on
full power, absolutely stupendous. Quite a few people found out why it
is not a good idea to bring a dog to an air show.

The loudest sound I've experienced was when I worked in a Basic Oxygen
Steel-making plant, 80 tons of molten iron is tipped into a large
vessel and pure oxygen is blown into it at supersonic velocity through
a 70/80 foot lance, occasionally a resonance starts in the lance and if
the operator doesn't catch it quickly enough it builds to the most
monstrous subsonic bone shaking and disorientating sound, it really
makes you feel strange, nothing exists but the noise.

Not quite as loud but much more musical was Neil Young at Finsbury park
in 93 who was measured by elf and save tea at 118db from outside the
park railings about 300 yards from the speaker stack according to the
Evening Standard. He's probably saving up to pay the £25 fine.



--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote

And that was much quieter than standing near to 001 as she wound up at
Tolouse. 8-] That and some tests with a tank (Challenger II IIRC) were
the loudest noise sources I've ever risked my own ears on.


One of the tests that we did when I was involved in subjective testing was
to choose a low bit-rate codec for in-flight telephone service for airline
passengers.

In order to make the test reasonably authentic it was decided to play a
recording made inside an airliner in flight (first-class cabin of a 747) at
the correct SPL in the listening room whilst the test was being conducted.

Whilst this hardly reaches the sort of levels you are talking about it
sounded plenty loud enough to us in that room. In order to avoid making the
test subjects jump out of their skins we ramped-up the volume of the
recording over a period of 30 seconds.

David.

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In article , UnsteadyKen
wrote:
Jim Lesurf said...

And that was much quieter than standing near to 001 as she wound up at
Tolouse. 8-] That and some tests with a tank (Challenger II IIRC)
were the loudest noise sources I've ever risked my own ears on.

Concorde does make the most awesome racket doesn't it, At Farnborough
air show in 79 she came in, touched wheels down and climbed away on
full power, absolutely stupendous. Quite a few people found out why it
is not a good idea to bring a dog to an air show.

I worked at the NPL for a while and most people used to abandon any
conversations when the morning flight came over. :-)

I suspect it was even louder at Tolouse as they used to park on the apron
outside the hanger and 'warm up'. For longer tests they went to a more
distant spot, but even then it was very loud. I guess the French had zero
'elf and safety'. As supported by them agreeing to us making a hole in the
roof to fit a new window (Quartz). The UK people threw us out when we asked
to do this with their prototype. But the French said it was OK if we signed
a blood chit that it was our problem if we got killed.

Much nicer inside at altitude and Mach 2. Like a magic carpet. Main
exception with 001 used to be at take off as it had 'military style'
backward facing passenger seats for people working on the plane. Hanging
from these as it rotated and accellerated was quite unlike normal passanger
travel. More like a fairground ride. :-)

Even more like a ride, was one flight when the pilots decided to waggle
about a bit whilst I was trying to unscrew some panels. At one point they
pushed the stick forwards and instead of the screw rotating *I* did as my
feet left the deck! I then did an 8th turn in the air and fell down when
they pulled back again. :-)

Long time ago, now. Different world.

Slainte,

Jim

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