BassTractor

Some innocent readers might think many of this thread's posts are simply guesses. They are not. They are bits of serious advice for the ambitious musicians amongst us.

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Thanks for the tips! I knew Professor Dave Explains, but SciManDan was new to me. As to the thread subject, I think it's a good idea we remember that quite some perceivedly stupid stuff on ze webz is actually sarcasm. Oh, and lest we forget: people like Ray Comfort and Kent Hovind are just there to make lotsa money over the backs of their gullible victims. I found Ray Comfort especially funny when he published "On the Origin of Species" - - with his own "comments", but leaving out the chapters that totally destroy everything Mr. Comfort says about these things, ...oh and BTW: extra points for publishing it under the wrong title "The Origin of Species".

Ha! Some fairly well-known geocentrist on YT stated in full seriousness that he knew what he was talking about, coz he had "studied the subject for 1.5 years ... (pause) ... on the Internet ..." I always find this stuff extra funny in the light of these people's total disdain for other people's real education. Yes, from now on, I'll exclusively listen to toddlers when I want to know more about a subject.

Yes, I'm a licensed lyricsdeaf. Then again, when we decided to call it music, we did not decide to call it lyrics, now did we? That should answer all your questions. 😉

As to the back-up battery @BigRedX mentions, if it's soldered directly to the main board, IMHO it's a good idea to solder two parallel battery holders to the main board, fill one with a battery and then desolder the old battery. This way, a future battery switch becomes a matter of seconds. This is what I did in an old Yamaha DX7 or TX802.

Yup. You are right in thinking. Either such a box or a phone or tablet with an app that makes sound. Especially for Apple units, the amount of synths, organs, pianos etc is staggering. As to the physical connection, it depends on the MIDI Out of the keyboard as well as on the MIDI In on the thing that makes the sound. I don't remember all the specifics, but a USB MIDI Out to an Apple unit is very simple with the Apple USB-to-Lightning or USB-to-30pin adapter. I seem to remember you need to do more to get a DIN MIDI Out to work with an Apple unit, but my memory is hazy. Probably a DIN to USB box. Maybe someone else knows exactly. Of course, DIN to DIN MIDI is simple if you get a box like the Miditech.

Well, he does shepherd a lot of new people into the arms of BC. It's quite evident by now that @Kiwi and @ped must be paying him large sums for keeping up the good work. My guess: £30 per head. 😁

No need. There's this new-fangled e-guillotine these days. Order a few of those instead!

Roughly. 😃 User pantherairsoft is Shep, or Chris Shepperson, of Our Helical Mind. Luvverly bloke.

If your interest also lies with synths and music production, gearspace.com has a forum, and in there one discusses synths a lot and sometimes also pianos and organs. That website earlier was named gearslutz.com. I haven't been on there for several years, and can't comment on how it has developed since, but maybe it's worth checking out. I'm with you on the b0ring aspect of pianoworld.

You just wait and see how @Bunion reacts when you turn to him about your warranty claim! 😉 PS super great BC behaviour. Kudos to him.

Yeah, I think you rightly did so. Also, several have rightly pointed at the two threads' page counts. Staggering statistics - hence my notion. That and you Brits' famous and hard-to-copy ability to moan. We foreigners try too, but fail every time. 😃

I know exactly what you mean. Recently, someone revived the Daily Awesomeness thread. On a British forum!!!! 😱 😉

All the xenophobia and xenophilia is fine and dandy of course, but personally I'm offended, shocked and outraged about the thread title, which should've read along the lines of: "Maybe not everyone in the USA is dim after all..." 😁

Not only that. The title also suggest's that we lefty's have an apostrophy problem, which I as a full-blown lefty' have to take ekseption wid.

This. Stronger: a better website may be not only less important but even detrimental. Like when the quality of the firm is in the quality of the knowledge and in the putting the customer's needs at the centre. A better website could a.o. mean more custom, generating a need for more workers, making the boss more of an administrator, and maybe lowering the standards. BTW, this is not an invention inside my head, but the actual situation I had in my old firm. No way I was gonna better the website. Complaining customers, normally of the not-"very specific audience" type, got told it's because we spend that time on catering for the needs of the very specific audience.

Each and every time I've ordered something from Japan, everything has been perfec'. I've ordered from eBay and different Japanese websites. Last time was 2017 or before, but I gather nothing has changed there.

"Rats", with luvverly bass work by John Dalton. This was the B-side to "Apeman". Back then I bought every Kinks single - before understanding I needed the albums. However, no Kinks song has had the same impact on me as "Rats". It's a Dave Davies song, so maybe I like Dave better than Ray, Idunno.

Indeed, drawing UNDUE attention and I shouldn't have edited my post: you simply lack class. Welcome to my ultra short ignore list.

... and, as always, SHOUTING in the thread title to draw undue attention to your threads. Shaking my head in disbelief.

Or Norwegian! For example, I have a bolt and two nuts, but I still use them for screwing. Yes, I know. It's nuts!

Bah. I always thought I liked you. Well, if I ever did, that's in the past now. BTW, what do I have to do to become a Grand Master? (asking for myself)

Yeah, but, and IMHO: Through the centuries, music developed as one gained new, sometimes deeper, insights into what could constitute a composition. (In this it's funny Bach was considered conservative based on style whilst the listener didn't really appreciate the enormous developments he crafted.) Today's popular music, for the most part, I repeat: for the most part, is a confirmation of old findings and a repetition of what we've heard before. Yes, I'm aware inventive pop music does exist, but the core remains: if it is to be popular, it will have to confirm preconceived notions. In this, much of today's popular music essentially is not too different from medieval street songs or 19th century "Lieder". What sets most pop music apart, and which dates it, is sound.

My guess would be this works in some countries and some circles. It certainly worked here, as relayed earlier: hundreds of sea kayaks sent with a mere plastic sheet around them, and only one damage.