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2012-11-20, 10:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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-dons black cape, burgundy vest, white shirt and dons a spanish style mask; fading into the night as a silhouette draws over the horizon of a man pushing a piano with red and blue lights behind, dashing towards a massive flock of birds about to set flight with one of the greatest instruments ever made towards a more suitable place-The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
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2012-11-20, 11:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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You can, with enough firepower.
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2012-11-20, 11:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, I do love me some xkcd.
The funniest part is that a friend of mine mentioned the Avenger this morning, completely unrelated to the machine-gun jet-pack. I actually forget what conversation led up to that...
I don't think I can even afford the 250 rounds of AK ammo, though. That's not cheap stuff.Avatar by FinnLassie
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2012-11-20, 11:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yup! When I was little my brother used to wake me up at obscene hours in the morning to make some pastry before my parents woke up. I've kept the skill, although I no longer get forced to watch him do all the fun bits while I have to look up recipes that can be made with whatever odds and ends are in the house.
Never.
I plan to! Just as I plan to eventually post the cross dressing pics, and the hair cut pics, and tell you guys about all the crazy stuff that happens when I'm too bust to log on.
I'm even a bit concerned I wont know how to deal with the coolness. Ever since I took to wearing a longcoat everywhere, my heat tolerance became less awesome.Spoiler: This signature is a historical relic from a long-ago time of regular forum activity.Aww man! Even all the witty self referencing sigs are gone now!
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2012-11-20, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-20, 11:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't even REMOTELY know how to tune a piano, so that would probably not be the best of ideas.
If I could get into his rich-person house, with its state-of-the-art security system, and get out with that piano, (which must have been reassembled inside the house, since it wouldn't fit through any of the doors) I would have done it YEARS ago. And taken their little solid gold ducks and one of their eight laptops with me for good measure. (His parents are both doctors - one's an anesthesiologist, and the other is some in some kind of genetic research thing. Oh, Mayo Clinic...)Quotes!
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2012-11-20, 11:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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My hero! And since you'll be coming here anyways, why don't you stay and frolic in the snow for some time?
Okay, first of all that sounds amazing.
BUT
Clearly this calls for an Ocean's Eleven-style heist. Let's all meet in a fancy restaurant to discuss an elaborate plan.
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2012-11-20, 11:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm sure there is a e-how somewhere for that. (I can only tune electronic pianos sadly and the luthiers I know are too old to take apprentices)
Do it during the day, one piece at the time.SNOW!
An even better solution!Last edited by AsteriskAmp; 2012-11-20 at 11:21 PM.
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2012-11-20, 11:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Indeed. I will look for my pocket watch and monocle!
Gah, I wish my siblings were cool like that.
See, that's why I don't normally wear coats. I like being acclimated to cold weather.
Well, the reason I needed this jet-pack in the first place was to get to Europe.
So, I need to go to Eastern Europe to get the things I need to get to Eastern Europe. I feel like I'm playing an Infocom game.Avatar by FinnLassie
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2012-11-20, 11:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-20, 11:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ship them to your location that way you don't have to get there.
Having a Bösendorfer itself is already amazing.
Preferably one with a piano, with 97 keys; and access to tea; and with view towards a wonderful garden.The Iron Avatarist Crypt of Fame - Exorcising photobucket from the historic archives of the forum.
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2012-11-20, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes! Snow in abundance! What's wonderful is that its albedo preserves it even in a few days above freezing like we've had here. And even more is due to fall this week. Frolic with me, masked gentleman!
Electronic pianos need tuning? How does that work?
Yes! Join us! Come! & wear a coat not to be warm, but to be cool.
It sounds amazing to be so rich that if my Bösendorfer were stolen I could replace it out of pocket. But until I figure out a way to elevate myself, I will remain a petit bourgeois academic who dresses above his station.
BUT yes. Let us do this thing: heist or nay.
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2012-11-20, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, the awareness thing is amazing. And kind of annoying. Back in ye 5th grade, when I was officially and on fancy paper diagnosed, (was on the diet for a few months before then though, but we had NO IDEA what THAT entailed...) no one and nobody knew what celiac was and everyone kept saying "you don't need a DIET you're so SKINNY" and I'd be all "my face... IT IS TIRED OF KNOWING MY PALM DAMNIT". because diet=Jenny Craig, and only Jenny Craig. Then over summer of 8th grade, everyone and their cousin knew someone with it or someone on the diet. MY SPECIALNESS WAS GONE. But it is wonderful how many more options there are now, even if they are more expensive than just sucking up intestinal pains, involentary regurgitation, and midgetry by eating wheat products.
... I... don't NOT dislike my siblings, most of the time. My parents seem to want to turn me into the teenage stereotype of rebellion and eternal sarcasm,which I used to mock and disavow as a real thing in my younger years. I don't WANNA be the stereotypical teen with sarcasm, but they MAKE IT HARD NOT TO BE.
Hai Knee! *poke*
*didn;t read any of your post because tired and hungry*
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2012-11-20, 11:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-20, 11:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
A bit extreme if you think about it. I mean... Our cats don't even have any toys... Except for string. String is awesome.
Sometimes, I have this strange idea that you two are related somehow. Are you sure you're not long-lost siblings or something?
Indeed. And if no one ever spent their money, the economy would be in worse shape.
Well, the Winter Floral is particularly nice.
It was difficult deciding upon which ones I liked even though I have no intention of purchasing any at this time.
Agreed. School pianos are terrible. My school had atrocious electric pianos, but the actual ones were mostly alright. Except the really old one in the practice room.
Seething jealousy. I want to go to Prague!
Sounds wonderful. I shall have to get out my suit and put on my Uncle's tie.
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2012-11-20, 11:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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If we're being serious about this meeting, I'd love to do it, but my methods of transportation are... limited. PM me if this is actually something you want to do, and we can see if we can work something out.
If you were joking... I totally knew that all along, what are YOU talking about? *shifty eyes*Last edited by Dimonite; 2012-11-21 at 12:03 AM.
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2012-11-20, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-21, 12:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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I like how no one noticed I said I could totally eat 20 of the full sized eclairs in one sitting.
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2012-11-21, 12:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Ooh.
Fortunately, only one person in my family has such... visible symptoms. I mean, for one of my sisters and my dad, the celiac was totally killing their intestines but they weren't feeling it. My other sister, however, once accidentally consumed a breadcrumb that got into the sloppy joe meat and spent the next 6 hours puking her guts out.
Well, we just assumed you were joking (or I did, anyway.) On the other hand, I could and WOULD totally do that, for... let's say $1.50 per eclair, plus expenses.Quotes!
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I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2012-11-21, 12:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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It does not particularly shock me... And I cast no aspersions here.
I simply recognise that pastry is delicious and not particularly heavy as a food. So if one hasn't eaten, then one can eat a bit of pastry.
I myself am known for spending in excess of ten dollars at a bakery and still feeling hungry.Mauve Shirt, Savannah, Gnomish Wanderer, Cuthalion and Smuchmuch get cookies for making me avatars. (::)
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2012-11-21, 12:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yes, I like Winter Floral as well. I know just what I'd wear it with too. Your Uncle's tie... you mentioned this thing some time ago -- is it navy blue? Do I remember this correctly?
I suppose one might also want to switch between Just and Equal, if such a thing is possible. Or even convert it to microtonal. I imagine Mr. August is the sort who could tinker around with the guts of a keyboard in a way I wouldn't feel comfortable.
Have you seen Fargo? I'm picturing our meeting in this way winding up like Margie and Mike Yamagita.
I don't have a car ;___;
Or enough time to peregrinate ;______;
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2012-11-21, 12:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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I shall prepare my most dear overcoat to reach into the northern lands as it befits and to feel snow bellow the 4000 MAMSL. I sadly cannot frolic as age and several circumstances conspire against my better movement but I can carefully wallow in the snow.
They do not need per se, but they can be tuned; some of them allow it on their settings others require external means.
Retuning has multiple uses; the most common ones are to non-equal temperament versions if you use it in conjunctions with non-equal temperament tuned instruments. On more exotic uses you can find detuning intentionally and uniformly to produce a Honky Tonky sound, great for Ragtime; or more subtle detunings to produce sounds which couldn't otherwise be played. If you use alternate sound banks sometimes you may want to retune everything, say you have 8 octaves, you could shrink it to four by halving the frequency intervals and increasing the number of sounds in between proper known notes; if you wanted to have more control over the exact sound (and better simulating the continuum in between notes of instruments like the violin).
Sometimes tuning can be used to produce differently tuned partitions on the keyboard if one is going to simulate multiple instruments simultaneously; one could apply tuning to each range to simulate the instrument's actual tuning resulting in added sound realism in terms of the imitation of the sound of the instrument.
A simple practical example are the Yamaha Clavinova's which have the option to tune the whole keyboard automatically to standard tunings; the arabic in particular is rather useful when playing pieces of such origin, or, alternatively, using the Well Temperament to properly play Bach.
I think you reach further into aristocracy rather than bourgeoisie all things considered by now.
I propose a tertulia.
Not that hard considering their deliciousness and how some of them are smaller than a properly sized one.
*Looks down from a place too far away to properly peregrinate*
I have the first and will have the second!
But there is a canal, several countries, two jungles, a giant wall and a massive union of annoyances which prevent it.Last edited by AsteriskAmp; 2012-11-21 at 12:13 AM.
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It is a purplish blue with a pattern of pink and blue. It is one of the most colourful things I own and one of my favourite possessions.
I agree. I am not so skilled at electronics that I would risk interfering with what may still be a usable if somewhat annoying electric piano.Mauve Shirt, Savannah, Gnomish Wanderer, Cuthalion and Smuchmuch get cookies for making me avatars. (::)
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2012-11-21, 12:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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In terms of Hardware, it depends; in terms of Software you can retune it partially to fix the detuning, making it make a mistake to cancel out with the other mistake it makes. But normally electric pianos first lose access to pedals, output, key weight and sensitivity before losing tuning, by then you would have had to change the whole thing anyway.
Most have it as an inbuilt option or as a changeable quick setting. At least most modern ones of which I have access to.
Clavinova's have Equal as a preset and Just as an easily switchable alternative (or it could be downloaded and added rather easily, I don't know how much came with them and how much I installed); worst case you can individually tune it to Just if you have a guide for the frequency on each key, and it is normally reversible by turning the piano off; or if it was saved as a setting changing the master tuning to equal on two button presses.
Electronic Keyboards are more computers than pianos in those regards.
What I do to real pianos is a lot more risqué; and by that I mean not at all, with the most being playing the strings with a dulcimer hammers, playing the inside strings with the hand to produce a more bass-ish sound and at worst plucking the strings inside to get a more metallic sound in key moments.Last edited by AsteriskAmp; 2012-11-21 at 12:30 AM.
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2012-11-21, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Nope.
When I can, I will. This will involve actually GETTING eclairs smaller then the bite sized ones, since I wouldn't know where to get those. Unless Long Johns at Timhortens count.
Oh god it's so refreashing speaking to someone who understands the words I'm saying. Tuque! Timbits!
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
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