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- Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:45 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: My preciousssssssssss.......
- Replies: 327
- Views: 123227
Re: My preciousssssssssss.......
Another one of the classic problems facing the US is that "white people" don't exist without an opposite. It's often argued that the presence of black people is what allows allows ethnic europeans to be simply white: people who were killing each other in the old country got subsumed under...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: PRE TV?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11841
Re: PRE TV?
As Alan Kay said:Michael w6 wrote: I was born in '62 and TV just seemed to always be part of life.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: My preciousssssssssss.......
- Replies: 327
- Views: 123227
Re: My preciousssssssssss.......
The USA doesn't need me to defend it. As a country they've chosen a nobler path than most. As to its inception, I would agree. But injustice, complacency and decay are inevitable in the human realm (as the poet said, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley"), and we now f...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: My preciousssssssssss.......
- Replies: 327
- Views: 123227
Re: My preciousssssssssss.......
Philosophy aside, people outside the US might not appreciate how odd the US political system is. It's pretty grossly undemocratic by design. Look, we are all allowed a bit of exageration but if you seriously believe that then you have never met and spoke to people who have experienced totalitarian ...
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:49 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: My preciousssssssssss.......
- Replies: 327
- Views: 123227
Re: My preciousssssssssss.......
All this hasn't done much for the US' standing in the world, let's put it that way and leave it at that. As opposed to from where you or I hail? The USA doesn't need me to defend it. As a country they've chosen a nobler path than most. They teach their kids well and each generation beats that noble...
- Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: My preciousssssssssss.......
- Replies: 327
- Views: 123227
Re: My preciousssssssssss.......
"Cycle of breathing" was something of a metaphor, linking "pause" to the pause between inhalation and exhalation; a point of oscillation like the swing of a pendulum. Just as forests breathe, "anthropause" made me think there might possibly be recurring nodes of pause ...
- Tue Jun 23, 2020 2:01 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Olwell Birthday 8-key flute in cocuswood and silver (2020)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10158
Re: Olwell Birthday 8-key flute in cocuswood and silver (202
My father is a bodhrán maker and in 1975, he devised ("invented," if you like) the internal tone ring to tension bodhrán skins, which are very temperamental to changes in humidity and climate. The system worked fantastically. Thus a new design was born and like most new ideas was heavily ...
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:08 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Good mid tier options?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12858
Re: Good mid tier options?
Still in use but only if white and the name of a pub or a lane.bigsciota wrote: "Hert" is the animal with antlers, and "hart" used to be used in English for a stag.
- Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:13 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Anistratov - anyone heard of this maker?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5212
Re: Anistratov - anyone heard of this maker?
The Russian flute sold in Russia still has, no doubt, VAT applied. So Boris is paying 6 cents extra for every dollar spent on the import vs. the local product. Russia is cheap (ignoring currency rates). Sweden is much more expensive. Sweden, 4% duty, 25% VAT: 1.04*1.25 = 1.3 Russia, 5% duty, 20% VAT...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Good mid tier options?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12858
Re: Good mid tier options?
I wonder what they'd think of my flutes :D : https://abload.de/img/nuksg.jpg This will probably be something you already know. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Broderick_(musician) In 1953 he won the All-Ireland flute competition performing one of his own compositions, and playing a coppe...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:35 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: PRESSURE
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6121
Re: PRESSURE
Are you thinking of something similar to Mollenhauer’s Evo Helder? That's really cool. I can't tell how it works. For sure recorders and whistles have similar tone-producing mechanisms. I would think you would have to be able to independently move the floor and the ceiling of the windway, which wou...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: PRESSURE
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6121
Re: PRESSURE
(Now if only whistles had adjustable ramps, with a little knob you could twist to dial in the exact windway height you want.) Are you thinking of something similar to Mollenhauer’s Evo Helder, specifically pic number 14 here: https://www.mollenhauer.com/en/catalog/recorders/playing-level/recorders-...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:02 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Question for habitual eBay users
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7690
Re: Question for habitual eBay users
Also people who say they’ve ’won’ an auction. Being obliged to give somebody a sum of money for something that nobody else thought was worth that much isn’t a win in my book.Sedi wrote:I think you need some "translation" of the typical "eBay-speak":
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Tabs, what are they?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3451
Re: Tabs, what are they?
Since you read music and are familiar with band instruments, I feel there's no reason for you to delve into tabs. The whole purpose appears to be to serve people who cannot read music. But you can still be able to read music and not be able to connect finger configuration with stave position. I can...
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:44 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Chris Wilkes's new website
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7823
Re: Chris Wilkes's new website
Now this is where trigonometry comes into play. When I was a pipefitter ... As a student at uni I read a mathematical subject. I spent my summers working as, essentially, a fitter's mate. They had to wait for me to catch up when it came to discussing distances and angles. They were manipulating tri...