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    Your most interesting abandoned project

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Please tell me you don't work as a "Wireman" for a defence electronics manufacturer, avionics or on nuclear power stations..... :)

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    I do not.

     

     

     

    Hi Theo,

     

    I don't know if you saw "Edit 2" in that reply I made, but I genuinely didn't mean to offend you, it was just a silly joke and I hope you didn't think it was a "dig" at you.

     

    It certainly wasn't intended as such.

     

    I am a tech guy myself and do appreciate all the thought and work that goes into prototyping.

     

    Kind Regards

    Your most interesting abandoned project

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Please tell me you don't work as a "Wireman" for a defence electronics manufacturer, avionics or on nuclear power stations..... :)

     

    Edit 1 - I guess you could do the control of the Volume chips with a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) which have GPIO - inc SPI - perhaps you have already done this.

     

    Edit 2 - As others have said Theo that is a great project - I do realise how much work must have gone into that, and please don't be offended by my silly joke about the "Wireman" - I know how prototyping is a hell of a lot of (seemingly) wild wiring!

    Elvis Costello does lemonade

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    After seeing the other thread about Elvis Costello reminded me that although many may think his first broadcasting gig would have been in the late 70s it was actually playing drums and singing backing vocals for his dad Ross (a trumpeter and vocalist with Joe Loss) in a still well known and loved TV Ad for a favourite UK lemonade, in 1973.

     

    His dad wrote the music and sang the "lead" vocals, which were synced with the actor in the ad.

     

    Not quite Burt Bacharach, but was a bit of an "earworm" at the time.... :)

     

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    McCartney III out today

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Or, and I shudder to even bring it up, lest it somehow unleash it upon us: that Christmas song

     

    No! No, no, no , no PLEASE no - don't do this! It is possible to not play that.........PLEASE I beg you......

     

    As a Brit I must admit I (IMHO Elmer...) find the US veneration of the Beatles and the members a bit....um....."over the top" TBH.......

     

    If the silly old tosser (McCartney not Elmer) doesn't want to do Glastonbury 2021 because of the "risk of spreading CV..." then he should probably book into the care home now...

     

    I've never forgiven the Beatles for "She loves you" and my brother (5 years my senior) being caused to "sing" it into a reel to reel tape recorder at the time. I was only 4 going on 5.....

    I think I need to seek therapy for the memory......

    PVC build - Footage calculations. Hey Moe

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    "I wonder how much experimentation it took to cut the PVC to get it in tune.."

     

    What you can have is a joining piece (unglued) on the bottom end, (will slightly change the length) which can be slid up or down slightly to fine tune - rather like some pipe organ pipes.

     

    Edit - after you have calculated the basic length for pitch and knocked off an amount to allow for the joiner of course...

    Does anyone make these with MIDI...

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Nothing like quartertone keyboard to make everything you play sound out of tune. You can just knock your fine pitch setting out by %50 and voila! Instant midi quartertone keyboard.

     

     

    Yes I think my mate's tried that but he needs all the other stuff too.

     

    The Punk gigs should be ok with it, but I'm not so sure about the church and the praise band - mind you, he did say their tuning was a bit suspect, perhaps he doesn't want the congregation to think he's not playing correctly. I think quite a few might be past their best now. Shame really as I think a couple of them were, or still are, piano teachers, must be quite difficult if their pitch is "tits up", to use a UK term.

    Some of then even sound like Robert Plant in his younger day. Eeeww!

     

    I think he's being a bit optimistic to be fair, he did even say he hoped the switch to piano action make it feel a bit "vintage" - from about 1910(ish) period I think. I suggested he just got an old scrap piano from the local tip. Pity we're in the UK I see there are quite a few over there in the US still.

    OT: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Once in a while, they play the version that Brenda Lee had a hit with, in my mind this is the only legitimate version and there is no reason to play any version by a different singer.
    Completely agree,

     

    Anybody else have a "pet peeve" song that annoys them? :laugh:
    Actually, most Christmas songs annoy me. But you gotta like Brenda Lee.

     

    And I think they start earlier and earlier every year - I find this time of year hard to deal with anyway and this year doubly so. Why they think this is gonna chill everyone out is beyond me!

     

    As far as any pet peeve - there are many but "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" has to be up there! I know I became a curmudgeonly old git back when I "passed" 60 on my birthday, on my own, earlier this year under "lockdown" but I didn't realise how much it would affect how I feel about life. LOL!

     

    But I agree about Brenda Lee.

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