RhythmJunky

I've been learning piano/ keyboards for about 7 or 8 years. I get online lessons every fortnight, which work well and don't have any wasted time (meaning I don't have a 30 min drive each way etc). It took me a long time to find a tutor who didn't want to just work through the grades. There's an entire industry based around them here in Ireland, so much so that they made a film about it. ('Making The Grade'). I had a local tutor once who suggested Phil Coulter songs when I said I wanted to learn more contemporary songs. I was thinking 'Fairy Tale of New York'. She was suggesting 'Puppet on a String'. I didn't last much longer with her. Funnily enough I had a choice of excellent and local bass tutors when I wanted one. BTW don't forget that you don't have to do Classical grades. There are Jazz grades and Rock grades these days. I occasionally throw in a piece from one or the other from the respective books into my repertoire.

I still laugh about when I was walking past the window of a charity shop in Wimbledon (my son was living there at the time) and there was a cello in the window. I still like to think about the decision behind donating it 'well Crispin has moved on and needs a better instrument and Arabella is much more into expressive dance....'

Yup. Same here. Education (and youth in general) is wasted on the young.

I've admired how much use of 3D printing you've used in your build. I'm sat here reading this in my post Christmas lethargy when my mind started to wander and I ended up thinking if it'd be possible to 3D print an entire cabinet. Or maybe a frame into which you could bond ply or MDF panels for damping. That'd be an interesting build. Just a thought.

Whenever I used to interview people I always used to respect someone with an OU degree higher than from a 'bricks and mortar' place as I recognised how much they must have actually wanted the degree. I do have to admit some bias though. I did an MBA with the OU when I was doing a job with a huge amount of travel (some years up to 80 % of my life was in a hotel room).

I know that this might not be the main point of what you were saying, but i worked with a tech once who used to brag to anybody that would listen, that 'no child of his was ever going to go to university'. I don't believe a university education to be the be all and end all, but I could never understand why he wanted to handicap his kid's futures so much.

That was an interesting Christmas present. Was she under the tree or wrapped separately ?

They know that all their listeners have reached the age that by the time they've played a dozen songs, we've forgotten what the first one was anyway. Buying any more than a dozen would just be a waste of money. Now what were we talking about again ?

I was given a Digitech Trio which I'm planning to use with my synth workstation (Roland Fantom 08). I purposely asked Santa for the old model, as I didn't want his elves making additional features that I didn't need ( and the new one was approx 3 times the price) .

Absolutely love it. It has a great 'Lego' vibe to it. Nice one.

I just used 4 of those to rebuild a piano bench so that I could bolt the padded bit down to the leggy bit. Great job. Very neat.

Nothing irrational with that. In fairness I can enjoy other small, folkie stringed instruments as much as the next person. In moderation and in the right environment (ie typically an Irish bar with the Guinness flowing like water) But not ukuleles, and absolutely, definitely, without any question whatsoever. Not banjos.

I've had some success with activated charcoal which apparently isn't the same as your regular barbecue briquettes. I bought a car recently that smelt a bit plasticy inside and I left an (open) lunchbox full of the activated charcoal in a footwell for a while. I took it out before it got kicked over but it took most of it away.

Folks, This is really too good not to share. Apologies if its already been posted elsewhere but I couldn't see it. Miss Chile stuns everybody at the Miss World contest with her death metal vocals. Too good not to share

You seem to be acing it so far.

This explains it pretty well. The diagram half a dozen posts down on this thread explains it pretty well.

If you're not sure how to do this, then post a photo of the back of the plates showing the connectors and I'll try and help. Can you solder ?

I'm not sure that I'm qualified to give you full advice on this, but I'll go ahead anyway 😆 . 1) The difference in volume between a 300mm length of 25mm by 25mm baton and 20mm by 20mm is 0.0675 litres, so if you multiply this by the length of the baton you're using it'll tell you the difference in volume. Personally I can't see it making a massive difference, but I expect somebody will be along soon who has better knowledge. What's the total length of baton you'll be using? (I can't remember the size of the cab). 2) I'd glue and screw. 3) yes, that's easy and feasible. You just need to wire the plates so that plugging in the second speaker connects it in parallel to the first by shorting between the positive of the first post to the positive of the second and the same for the negatives. You'll need to make sure that you never try and connect two amps to the same cab, or to the two connected cabs. I've been thinking about doing the same if I ever get around to building this cab, but would also quite like it to be configurable to run in stereo for my keyboard. Hmmm,maybe I need a four box solution 😆, but then again I already have an Ashdown 4x8.

Get away driver ?

I've been going through all same concerns, but I want to fly with a keyb0&rd. I've spoken to Ryan Air customer service ( yes, there are people who have that as a job title 😆), and they recommended buying a seat which is probably what I'll do when I travel next year. Don't forget you'll need to pay for assigned seating for both of you, and you'll need to carry it through the airport. Not such a big deal for a bass, but it is for a 15kg keyboard.

Cool little combo. What size drivers are those ?

Wow, that theme tune really brought back nights hiding under the sheets as a kid with a small transistor radio pressed to my ear. Terrified (totally unnecessarily) that my mum would come in. One night it was Hitchhiker's guide, the next, Tommy Vance "TV On The Radio" with The Friday Rock Show. Teenagers today have pr0n. We had Hitchhikers Guide.

It wasn't the only thing odd about that book. 😀 I was an avid fan of it when I was a teenager. I remember the TV series coming out. Am I right in thinking it'd been a radio series first ? I seem to recall surreptitiously listening to it under the bedcovers.

Or indeed. Radiant. (No disrespect meant. I love it)