kb57z (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:52 am The ratio of the frequencies of the notes is square root of 2 to 1, which means that sounds dreadful (if you're a mediaeval monk, at least.)

On a modern piano, the augmented fourth is the same two keys as the diminished fifth, (which is entirely acceptable in the right context) In order to tell the difference you have to look at the notes as written down on the page.

kb, Lenoard Bernstein did a pretty good job of the Augmented 4th with the opening notes of "Maria" from "West Side Story."

Studlover

I took electric organ and piano lessons for about 10 years and when I went to college for engineering I stopped the lessons. I college I wanted to do something and since pianos can't march (think about it) ... I took up bagpipes.

We used to tell the freshmen that the reason Pipers wore Skean-Dhu's and Dirks (dagger and short sword) was that when the horse ran over you, you could slit the stomach of the horse. Only the nerds believed us.

If a piper tells you that he's been playing 20 years, 10 of them have been spent tuning up and the other 10 playing out of key.

The practice chanter sounds like a set of pipes with a nasal condition. It has a plastic reed and makes such an oleagenous noise that it's been banned in several countries.

When you are on a football field wearing a kilt, you might not know where the cold winter wind is coming from, but you sure as hell know where it goes.

Where's the best place for a piper to practice - out in the field alone and away from the animals

What the best song you ever heard on a bagpipe? - Over the hill and far away

Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:53 am how about:

What do you get when you drop a piano into a coal mine - - - A flat miner

Coming from a part of the world that is noted for musical coal miners, I would have said that the miner/piano scenario is less likely to be encountered in the mine than in the Miners' Welfare Institute after work on payday...

Speaking of musical memorials (we all speak of them now and then, don't we?)

If you go to Canonsburg, home of Perry Como, they have a statue in a garden that plays his songs 24 hours a day, every day, year after year.

kb57z (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:44 am Coming from a part of the world that is noted for musical coal miners, I would have said that the miner/piano scenario is less likely to be encountered in the mine than in the Miners' Welfare Institute after work on payday...

That's interesting. Seriously, how many coal miners do play an instrument? And what is the favorite instrument?

Studlover

Studlover (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:25 am That's interesting. Seriously, how many coal miners do play an instrument? And what is the favorite instrument?

Studlover

Studlover,

The answer to your question is 'the voice'.

He is talking of Wales which has always claimed to be musical, but I am afraid that the opinion of the rest of the country tends to be summed up as: "The Welsh, sing far to loud, far to often and flat!

Excuse me whilst I put my flak jacket on.

LOL

The Anvil Chorus sounds good to me.

Dave (imported) wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:42 pm you know, dude, most of that is so obscure people don't understand the humor.

Dave,

You left out tablature, third fret on the 5 string is g of course.

Now thats obscure.

Down home in the south I asked a fiddler if he had had any formal training, he said yes but it don't hurt my play-in.

River

Dave,

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:03 pm You left out tablature, third fret on the 5 string is g of course.

Now thats obscure.

Down home in the south I asked a fiddler if he had had any formal training, he said yes but it don't hurt my play-in.

River

River, my son was taught the strings on the guitar by saying the following sentence: Easter Bunny Gets Drunk After Easter.

Studlover

Dave (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:32 pm The Anvil Chorus sounds good to me.

So does Tennessee Ernie Ford and 16 tons.