Joe Muscara
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I've been awaiting this for a while. In fact, I've forgotten it exists a few times. I hope I don't miss it when I get a chance to see it.
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Please keep us posted, Tom. If we can help out, I think we could get you going.
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I feel like this is such a good deal for Tom that we oughta start a GoFundMe for him. If we all gave him a few bucks, he could get it moved properly…
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5 hours ago, K K said:
A word to the wise. Hire pro piano movers. Period. It is worth the expense. Oh and.. Did I mention to hire pro piano movers ?
I don't know what your budget is Tom, but I've found that piano movers don't cost unreasonable amounts. They know what they're doing. The buddy who went with you should be able to help you find someone who can do it.
Congrats and good luck!
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Theoretically, I could afford the current version, but imma gonna wait to see what this turns out to be. I don't need Yet Another Keyboard, but depending on where it falls in price, I might just have to.
If so, the question then becomes, which color will complement my Sparkle Blue Tolex Vibanet?
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I use custom molded earplugs with the Etymotic filters, and they're pretty amazing. When I first put them in, I wondered if they were doing anything because everything sounded so good. I pulled them out and went, "yep, they're definitely doing something! Ouch!" and put them back in.
I was with a band before the pandemic that rehearsed so loud that the drummer needed to mic his kit so we could hear him, and only full foam Home Depot type earplugs properly inserted satisfactorily cut the level down. That was ridiculous. We were rehearsing in the bassist's living room. I'm glad to not be a part of that anymore.
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On 3/9/2024 at 10:49 AM, Bobby Simons said:
I see my old store - Huntington, Long Island, is on the list
Where did you find a list?
That's my old store too. I'm glad to know you weren't working there in the late 80s/early 90s when I was talking about their… service. *cough*
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1 hour ago, Anderton said:
I didn't buy Apple stock when it was $35 a share.
I bought shares at $32 (1998), $14.75 (2001), $14.95 (2003), and $109 (2016). I'm not allowed to say how many of each nor how many I currently have, but damn, I wish I had bought more! I just purchased most of these as a token of support, not really an investment. I've done that a number of times with a few companies that I believed in. Most of the time I ended up with nothing or close to it (including Steinway), but this one time I got very lucky.
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8 hours ago, Anderton said:
It's a great idea, but from what I've read, the reliability isn't as good as either electric or ICE because there's more that can go wrong.
I did leave out of my previous post that I've wondered about the ICE side as far as it not being used very much. When you leave a conventional ICE car to sit for long periods, all sorts of things can decay. If you never get around to using gasoline and it's sitting in the tank, the lighter hydrocarbons tend to evaporate leaving you with gunk that clogs up fuel systems. It's definitely something to consider, though the concept as a bridge to going all battery has its merits.
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On 3/6/2024 at 12:11 PM, KenElevenShadows said:
The public has been very resistant to "wearables" so far.
Are you talking about products like goggles and glasses? Because from what I've read, "wearables" generally includes things like the Apple Watch and AirPods, which I don't see resistance to.
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I get a chuckle every time I see a headline about this. I mean, it's basically saying, "Rumor has it that rumored product has been killed." IOW, "That thing I said might be happening? It's not happening. I think. If it ever was."
My long standing theory has been that the "Apple Car" was really CarPlay in evolution, much of it (or possibly all right now) has already been announced by Apple as "next generation of CarPlay" as seen about halfway down this page. They would need to do a lot of research in order to have such a full integration with the various systems in modern cars. Perhaps that's what a lot of the work that was rumored really was. If it was real, at all.
As far as gas vs. electric, etc., I've seen a few articles lately saying that the best current option for many might actually be the plug-in hybrids, which give you about 40 miles on a battery charge. Statistics say that many people only drive that much or less in a day, and if you need to go further, you switch to the ICE. So, you can charge the car up every night and you're covered for most of your around-town driving. Lots of people have "range anxiety" about how far they can go in a fully electric vehicle, but that's because they're stuck in the old paradigm we have of getting several hundred miles without needing more fuel. OTOH, I don't drive much, and I'm excited about the idea of not having to stop at a gas station when I'm low on fuel, adding to the time and effort for that trip. Because I don't drive regularly, it's kind of a big deal to remember that I need gas when I do. But, my car is paid off, in great shape, a lot of fun to drive, and I can't justify replacing it right now. I'm just keeping my eye on things so I'm ready when I need to get something new.
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18 hours ago, ProfD said:
Besides, waiting on the UPS delivery person to put a box on my porch just doesn't have the same magic.🤣
Dude, what is wrong with you? I live to buy stuff online and watch it arrive via tracking apps. I'm not sure anything fires up my dopamine like that. In fact, I have to work to not constantly buy stuff online just for the hit. 😂
I have a long standing bad taste from Sam Ash. Growing up on LI, Sam Ash was the big music store, practically the only music store except for those tiny guitar stores that didn't have keys anyway. I used to go to the Sam Ash in Huntington and… get ignored. I'd see the sales guys running around and they'd blow by me without saying a word. When I did finally get one, they weren't useful, really.
I'm not saying my later experiences in Guitar Center nor other stores were better, but the Sam Ash experiences were formative.
We have one Sam Ash store in Houston, it took over a Hermes Music that took over a local store called Parker Music, so strangely the building, out by itself along the interstate, has long been a music store. I wonder if it will survive. The rent is probably not bad but I have no idea how it's doing. I think there's a Sam Ash near San Antonio too.
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Roughly half of all new Steinways sold last year included Spirio technology
That's what blows my mind. But damn, I bet it's keeping Steinway in business. Good move. I'd rather see that than they go under.
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It always amazes me when people make these kinds of generalizations. I'd bet money that all schools have the issues with students that he talks about, throughout all time.
(I must admit, when I was in college, no professor or TA took attendance nor noted lateness. The attitude was that if you missed or were late for class, that was your problem. That being said, I didn't take any classes that related to music nor performance so I don't know if those would have been different. I did have labs though so I guess if had missed those I would have not gotten credit for those experiments or whatever we did had I missed them.)
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15 hours ago, cedar said:
Geoff Keezer
Technically, I think he goes by Geoffrey Keezer professionally.
He was one of the first to join Open Studio with his Keez to Jazz Piano course, which is amazing, both for his excellent ideas on how to practice to improve, as well as his playing. That’s where I first heard of him and I immediately knew he was a player I wanted to know more about. He’s since recorded several other courses for Open Studio (KTJP was originally recorded for his own web site and they converted it to an Open Studio course).
His last couple of albums are great, and his most recent won a Grammy. I haven’t dug further back in his catalog, but I plan to as I’m a big fan.
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I get the excitement to a degree, but there’s an annoying aspect to it as well, as a fan of an opposing Big Ten team (Go Terps!j.
I’ve watched MD v. Iowa games and it was almost like she was the only player in the game. Even when she was on the bench, they kept cutting to her. Throughout the game, they couldn’t stop talking about her. Then, watching other Maryland WBB games, there were often times they would start talking about her because of what she did recently or an upcoming Iowa game (which they probably were promoting a bit to keep you tuned in) and I was like, can we talk about the game we are watching???
Good for her, good for NCAA WBB, and probably good for the WNBA when she goes there. Can I just watch my Terps WBB now? 😇😉🙃🙂
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On 2/15/2024 at 12:56 PM, SamuelBLupowitz said:
I'm sure there are MANY great Gen X-er jazz pianists I've never heard of
Of course. For us Gen Xers, no one having heard of us is a feature, not a bug! 🤣
[point of clarity: I’m not saying that I am one of those great pianists, I’m saying Gen X is routinely skipped or ignored, and we usually prefer it that way. 🤫 ]
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How old is your son, @DaveMcM?
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5 hours ago, Threadslayer said:
How about a xylophone or glockenspiel?
Or a freakin' Hammond organ!
I guess if you were so determined to change the tuning of one you could create a circuit that changes the AC frequency from 60 Hz to whatever it would need to get you that tuning.
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Where does being brighter matter? In the Loudness Wars, the idea was to be louder and seem better sounding on the radio. But if I go see Citystate Orchestra play Beethoven's Ninth tonight, and then see Nationstate Symphony play Tchaikovsky's Fifth in a month, am I really going to say one sounds better because it was at a higher pitch, even though the performances were a month apart and two completely different programs?
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FYI, from NAMM.org,
The 2025 NAMM Show: January 23–26, 2025
The 2026 NAMM Show: January 22–25, 2026
I had not seen these dates published before this week. My calendar is already marked.
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I started a whole thread about Clavinet Songs a few years ago.
Edit: Shortly after I started that thread, the editors at Wikipedia removed the "Notable Songs" section because they don't like lists for some reason. However, you can find that section by going into the page's history.
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18 hours ago, tfort said:
goes against the conventional wisdom that nothing can be done once you've got tinnitus
The problem is that they still don't know the cause and don't have a cure. It's hard to fix something when you don't understand how it's broken. I'm glad people are working on it, though I wish there were better science* behind these treatments. Hopefully that will come.
Quote*But there are limitations. The studies were relatively small and conducted by the companies and researchers behind the devices. More long-term, independent research is needed. In addition, the studies on Duo and Lenire devices didn’t include a placebo-controlled group.
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The Ravens D had it all over Stroud and the Texans offense. Still, the future seems bright for the Texans and they finally seem like an organization that can truly succeed. It's taken them long enough.
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Piano Tuning Tools
in The Keyboard Corner
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I got my first tuning lever from a tech friend who got it for me from Schaff. Sometime after that I got an account with them though I don't remember how (I'm not officially a tech but I've been doing my own work for years). More recently, I splurged and got the carbon fiber Fujan lever which I know is out of your range.
But all that is to say get a good one as others have mentioned, and there was a site that basically reselling the Schaff stuff but I'm not sure which one that was. It might be this one.