What's on your mind now?

[thalbergmad]

Lawrence Logic strikes again.

Thal

[ahinton]

Handbags at dawn...

Only one handbag, I think, since one poster at most might be prepared to do battle (and, as I've made clear already, it ain't me); furthermore, the logistics might be a tad problematic even were this not the case, since dawn in Japan and ditto in Britain by no means coincide...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Lawrence Logic strikes again.

I'm unsure as to which Lawrence you have in mind here - T.E.? - D. H.? - the French saint after which is named the village where I intend eventually to settle? Whichever it may be or whoever else it might be, the prospect of logic going on strike is surely a far from welcome one...

Best,

Alistair

[ongaku_oniko]

preferring as I have instead to question the validity of points that your purport to make - no more, no less.
There are numerous possibilities here, including but by no means limited to
"you must be the bank's CEO, then"
"you're the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I see"
"I'm a serving police officer, so give me half and we'll say nothing about it, OK"
Perhaps you might now wish that you'd refrained from asking that question...
Never mind - you can't be everything.
You may pose suchever questions as you choose but, when doing so, do bear in mind that a pronoun has at least as much ability to type as I do and, while congratulating yourself (if indeed you are so doing) on your powers of observation in noticing one example of typographical error in my previous posts, you may at the same time ponder on such lack of them as let you miss three others therein (all of which have since been corrected).

Best,

Alistair

Just as you do not claim to make questions, I do not purport to make points; I make them. Whether you agree with my point or not is, of course, your own free choice.

It shouldn't be; it is not my notion but a fact evidenced by your own repeated assertions to that effect (and not only in respose to my own posts either).

I do not "lay down to rest" when I see your posts. Perhaps the word you're looking for is "response". I do, encourage you however, to check up on the meaning of "fact". Please do not mistake it with your own opinions. What is, however, evidenced in your posts, is that you do appear to be attacking me.

There are numerous possibilities here, including but by no means limited to
"you must be the bank's CEO, then"
"you're the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I see"
"I'm a serving police officer, so give me half and we'll say nothing about it, OK"
Perhaps you might now wish that you'd refrained from asking that question...

I look forward to the day when a CEO will steal from his own bank. The act of stealing money and the act of legally taking money is, of course, different. If you cannot differentiate between such obvious differences, the fact that you cannot comprehend my writing isn't surprising.

You may pose suchever questions as you choose but, when doing so, do bear in mind that a pronoun has at least as much ability to type as I do and, while congratulating yourself (if indeed you are so doing) on your powers of observation in noticing one example of typographical error in my previous posts, you may at the same time ponder on such lack of them as let you miss three others therein (all of which have since been corrected).

Best,

Alistair

You may attempt to write eloquently as you choose, but when doing so, do bear in mind that made up words like "suchever" doesn't make your writing look more sophisticated (if indeed that was your purpose).

And if you are assuming that I only found one of them, do realize that I am not your English teacher, and would not bother to point all of them out for you. However, I would like you to know that perhaps correcting all of the mistakes is a bit too ambitious of a task for you.

When I question something, i do not "claim" to question it; I do question it.

[oxy60]

I'm unsure as to which Lawrence you have in mind here - T.E.? - D. H.? - the French saint after which is named the village where I intend eventually to settle?

In which country?

[ahinton]

Just as you do not claim to make questions, I do not purport to make points; I make them. Whether you agree with my point or not is, of course, your own free choice.

Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really made a point and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in questioning such matters.

I do not "lay down to rest" when I see your posts.

I had neither expected you to do so nor suggested that you do so nor can I imagine any particular reason why you should do so.

Perhaps the word you're looking for is "response".

"Perhaps" not, since I was not and am not "looking for" a word.

I do, encourage you however, to check up on the meaning of "fact".

Your "encouragement" notwithstanding, let me assure you (should you requires such assurance) that there is no need for that.

Please do not mistake it with your own opinions.

By "mistake" I assume you to mean "confuse" but, if my assumption here is correct, I do nothing of the kind, thank you.

What is, however, evidenced in your posts, is that you do appear to be attacking me.

That is a matter of opinion, not a fact (and please do not confuse the one with the other); you have written about being "attacked" by other posters here bseides me, but then you have also had the grace and honesty to admit to paranoia, so perhaps that is par for the coure.

I look forward to the day when a CEO will steal from his own bank.

I don't; I look backwards at the days when several of them have already done just that. Have a look (for all that it is a far from pretty sight) at the sheer scale of both banker incompetence and banker bonuses and you will doubtless see for yourself; had such bankers not been so incompetent and paid themeselves fortunes for having done so, certain taxpayers would not be being held to ransom today in order to minimise that risk that the banks concerned fail altogether.

The act of stealing money and the act of legally taking money is, of course, different. If you cannot differentiate between such obvious differences

But what evidence is there that I am indeed unable to do this? That said, the phrase "legalised theft" is in common parlance and has been for years; that is because it occurs all too commonly.

the fact that you cannot comprehend my writing isn't surprising

No, indeed; it's not "surprising", it's quite simply untrue, as I have already stated.

You may attempt to write eloquently as you choose

I do my best; I am no master of letters, but then this is an internet piano forum, not a place where the very highest literary merit is either generally expected or likely to be encountered.

but when doing so, do bear in mind that made up words like "suchever" doesn't make your writing look more sophisticated (if indeed that was your purpose)

It was not my purpose, nor do I assume that it would make by writing look more anything in particular - but then you should be more careful in your reference to "made up words", since all words have been made up at some point.

And if you are assuming that I only found one of them, do realize that I am not your English teacher, and would not bother to point all of them out for you.

I did not assume that per se; I merely drew attention to your having omitted to mention the others.

However, I would like you to know that perhaps correcting all of the mistakes is a bit too ambitious of a task for you.

Whatever you "would like", I assume that this is an opinion rather than a fact and that you either know or are at least learning the difference between the two.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

In which country?

France - specifically the southern Charente.

Best,

Alistair

[ongaku_oniko]

Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really made a point and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in questioning such matters.

Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really raised a question and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in qustioning such matters.

I had neither expected you to do so nor suggested that you do so nor can I imagine any particular reason why you should do so.

It shouldn't be; it is not my notion but a fact evidenced by your own repeated assertions to that effect (and not only in respose to my own posts either).

Then I assume by respose, you are saying that I am in a state of freedom from worry, or a peace of mind when I read your posts?

Your "encouragement" notwithstanding, let me assure you (should you requires such assurance) that there is no need for that.
By "mistake" I assume you to mean "confuse" but, if my assumption here is correct, I do nothing of the kind, thank you.

Perhaps I had been over generous as well, in complimenting your English. Here is the definition of mistake from dictionary.com:

4. to understand, interpret, or evaluate wrongly; misunderstand; misinterpret.

You wrongly evaluated your opinion (that I feel almost everything is an attack to me) to be a fact. And of course, that statement is obviously false, as evidenced by the fact that of all the posters on pianostreet, the only ones that have attacked me are you, djealnla, stevebob (who has stopped and was nice enough to start answering my questions seriously) and thal (who has also stopped and was even nice enough to help me find transcriptions of Erlkonig, which I cannot thank him enough for).

That is a matter of opinion, not a fact (and please do not confuse the one with the other); you have written about being "attacked" by other posters here bseides me, but then you have also had the grace and honesty to admit to paranoia, so perhaps that is par for the coure.

Nor did I state that it was a fact; I said there was evidence; please read carefully and don't read what's not there. I should also accept and thank your compliment in that I have grace and am honest.

I don't; I look backwards at the days when several of them have already done just that. Have a look (for all that it is a far from pretty sight) at the sheer scale of both banker incompetence and banker bonuses and you will doubtless see for yourself; had such bankers not been so incompetent and paid themeselves fortunes for having done so, certain taxpayers would not be being held to ransom today in order to minimise that risk that the banks concerned fail altogether.
But what evidence is there that I am indeed unable to do this? That said, the phrase "legalised theft" is in common parlance and has been for years; that is because it occurs all too commonly.

If you are referring to the recent financial crisis, there are many factors involved, and I don't believe the blame could be put completely on the bankers. There is a lot more to the crisis than the common man would believe, or indeed comprehend. As a student wanting to do finance in the future, I can say that even after learning a little about it, I do not completely understand everything involved. Unless you tell me you can understand the concept of the Gaussian Copula, and how it was used in determining pricing of collateralized debt obligations, I don't think we can go much further in this topic.

Needless to say, the bankers did not physically steal money from the bank; it would, however, be quite a funny sight to watch bankers sneak into the banks after hours (Mind you, a typical analyst works from 8am to 1am, with the occasional all-nighter at least once a month, so there isn't a lot of time for "after hours") and attempt to steal from the investment banks, which really don't carry cash in the first place.

It was not my purpose, nor do I assume that it would make by writing look more anything in particular - but then you should be more careful in your reference to "made up words", since all words have been made up at some point.
I did not assume that per se; I merely drew attention to your having omitted to mention the others.
Whatever you "would like", I assume that this is an opinion rather than a fact and that you either know or are at least learning the difference between the two.

Best,

Alistair

Indeed, I shall say a word that is non-existant in the English language instead. Whether you have assumed "that" or not is none of my business, I merely stated that it was not my duty to correct all of your mistakes.

Whatever you "would like", I assume that this is an opinion rather than a fact and that you either know or are at least learning the difference between the two.

Best,

Alistair

Whether it is an opinion or a fact, I won't say. But the fact is, you did miss out on correcting some of your errors, when you thought you have corrected "all" of them. And I see that it is still left uncorrected.

[thalbergmad]

Has anyone got a what emoticon??

[littletune]

what's dictation?

And if they sound different, doesn't that mean you have perfect pitch?

Dictation is when your teacher plays something on piano and you have to write down what she just played (the right notes and rhythm).
Well no I don't think that's perfect pitch  I think it's just a weird pitch  I think it's like normal people have relative pitch, some people that are lucky have perfect pitch and I have weird pitch which I guess means that I hear some things normal people don't just so I get really confused because something that is supposed to sound the same sounds different to me but I don't hear a name of a note when I hear it...  I don't know... maybe I could have perfect pitch if I started learning music before 10 and if I didn't have hearing loss till I was 5 and a half  but I don't know... because it's like sometimes I do know what some notes are but then sometimes I get confused and I don't know anything anymore...  oh well it doesn't matter I guess I just hope I'll do ok on my exam  I better not even think about it!

Oh Alistair why don't you ever say anything in the French thread if you like France so much?   

[ongaku_oniko]

Has anyone got a what emoticon??

<-- that?


littletune: How can you writen down the right notes if you don't have perfect pitch? O_O

[Bob]

Relative pitch.  Every step of the scale has its own (relative pitch) color.

[ongaku_oniko]

Relative pitch.  Every step of the scale has its own (relative pitch) color.

I don't get it.

you're saying a Do and Re sounds different from a So and La?

I don't think so. I mean you can hear whether it's a minor third or perfect fourths and whatnot, but how do you know what the first note is?

[ahinton]

Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really raised a question and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in qustioning such matters.

So you can copy and paste - AND introduce a typo? Whoopty-doo!

Then I assume by respose

I assume that you mean "response"...

you are saying that I am in a state of freedom from worry, or a peace of mind when I read your posts?

I am saying nothing at all about the state/s that you may be in on those occasions, not least because I cannot know about this with certainty and in any case have no control over it.

Perhaps I had been over generous as well, in complimenting your English.

To the extent that no one asked you to do so and you had no need to do so, perhaps you were.

You wrongly evaluated your opinion (that I feel almost everything is an attack to me) to be a fact. And of course, that statement is obviously false, as evidenced by the fact that of all the posters on pianostreet, the only ones that have attacked me are you, djealnla, stevebob (who has stopped and was nice enough to start answering my questions seriously) and thal (who has also stopped and was even nice enough to help me find transcriptions of Erlkonig, which I cannot thank him enough for).

Well, that's already three - and I didn't evaluate my own opinion, rightly or wrongly, preferring instead to draw attention to your own words on the subject, including your reference to paranoia on your part. More importantly than all of this, however, Thal is indeed a most generous fellow.

Nor did I state that it was a fact; I said there was evidence; please read carefully and don't read what's not there. I should also accept and thank your compliment in that I have grace and am honest.

No, you didn't; I did. Since there is indeed such evidence for all to see, its existence is factual.

If you are referring to the recent financial crisis, there are many factors involved, and I don't believe the blame could be put completely on the bankers. There is a lot more to the crisis than the common man would believe, or indeed comprehend. As a student wanting to do finance in the future, I can say that even after learning a little about it, I do not completely understand everything involved. Unless you tell me you can understand the concept of the Gaussian Copula, and how it was used in determining pricing of collateralized debt obligations, I don't think we can go much further in this topic.

Of course there were many factors involved in the recent financial crisis; I agree entirely and accordingly did not and would not suggest otherwise. It is indeed a massive topic and far too large to be discussed comprehensively on a piano forum!

Needless to say, the bankers did not physically steal money from the bank; it would, however, be quite a funny sight to watch bankers sneak into the banks after hours (Mind you, a typical analyst works from 8am to 1am, with the occasional all-nighter at least once a month, so there isn't a lot of time for "after hours") and attempt to steal from the investment banks, which really don't carry cash in the first place.

Fair comment in all particulars!

Indeed, I shall say a word that is non-existant in the English language instead. Whether you have assumed "that" or not is none of my business, I merely stated that it was not my duty to correct all of your mistakes.

You don't even have a "duty" to respond to my posts or anyone else's; you don't even have a "duty" to post anything here at all. The reason for your reference to "duty" is thus all the more puzzling, irrespective of the context in which you might seek to place it.

Whether it is an opinion or a fact, I won't say. But the fact is, you did miss out on correcting some of your errors, when you thought you have corrected "all" of them. And I see that it is still left uncorrected.

Did I state that I had corrected all of them - or even that I "thought" that I had done so? I referred to three others that you didn't mention; that's all. I didn't state that there were no additional ones.

If your contributions here are all on-topic, you have told us much that appears to be "on your mind", for which I'm sure we are all thankful; at least we now appear to have a better idea of what is indeed "on your mind".

Best,

Alistair

[littletune]

littletune: How can you writen down the right notes if you don't have perfect pitch? O_O

The teacher tells us what the first note of the dictation is... and the dictations are not so very complicated (at least not yet) so it's really not as difficult as it sounds. 
But I still don't understand how can I hear all the notes in dictations right but then I get so confused with hearing what intervals are between just two notes.  Oh well I guess I should practice that 

[oxy60]

I don't get it.

you're saying a Do and Re sounds different from a So and La?

Yes they do. Great composers did not choose keys at random. C# minor sounds different than A minor. It's not mystical or "having certain vibes" it's the sound.

Try this experiment. Play a simple piece in the original key then transpose it a third up or down.

Do you notice the difference? If you don't then why bother to learn something in C# minor when it could just as well be transposed into A minor and become easier?

[ongaku_oniko]

Yes they do. Great composers did not choose keys at random. C# minor sounds different than A minor. It's not mystical or "having certain vibes" it's the sound.

Try this experiment. Play a simple piece in the original key then transpose it a third up or down.

Do you notice the difference? If you don't then why bother to learn something in C# minor when it could just as well be transposed into A minor and become easier?

I did, in another thread. I cannot hear the difference at all, and in fact I have asked those very questions for many years.

I now know that people with perfect pitch can hear the difference, but if you can hear the difference, doesn't that imply you have perfect pitch? Because then you can just remember which is which...

[Bob]

If you've established a tonal center (or even if you haven't it kicks in quickly for most tonal music), each pitch will have a certain sound by itself.  They can sound like they want to move somewhere, back to do Do.  This is with movable Do.

Do, wants to stay still.
Re, wants to go to Do, might go to Mi.
Mi, stable
Fa, wants to go down to Mi,
Sol, wants to go to Do
La, wants to go to Sol
Ti, Really wants to go to Do.

Anything chromatic wants to move to the note near it.  The way it's writen gives a clue -- flat wants to move down, sharp up -- but I'm wondering now if you just have a Ra/Di... When you initially hit that note, it could sound like Ra or it could sound like Di.  It really depends on what the note is after that.


Littletune, you don't need to be given the first note.  Just play a V I to establish the key for yourself.  Then have someone (or randomly hit a note or figure out something better) play one note.  Start with the seven diatonic notes.  You can learn quickly which note is the starting one.  If you've got that down, it's a huge step.

[oxy60]

I did, in another thread. I cannot hear the difference at all, and in fact I have asked those very questions for many years.

Let's get some insight on this. We have a composer right here on this thread.

Alistair, how do you choose a key for your compositions?

[Bob]

I wonder which is worse.  To find in your bed a blueberry... or an entire loaf of bread?

Both of which were "found," meaning that they got lost there at some point.  


Purely hypothetical of course.


  A loaf of bread I can understand... but a blueberry?  A blueberry?  You don't just "lose" a blueberry.  *Bob wonders if the blueberry were planted there by someone.*  *Bob gets paranoid and looks around suspiciously.*

[ongaku_oniko]

the blueberry fell from the blueberry bread

[Bob]

Strange goings on in the forum lately.

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

Strange goings on in the forum lately.

the internet is a strange place...

[Bob]

I'm wondering if it's possible to eat salsa and chips when you don't have any chips.

[Bob]

sniff, sniff, sniff 

*Bob sniffs at some pre-packaged food.*

sniff, sniff, sniff

Hmmm....

*Bob decides to go with the 2010 expiration date food since it's fresher than the stuff that passed its expiration date in 2009.*     Better to be safe than sorry.   

[Bob]

And there's a new search box up there.... Upper right corner of the whole screen.  Check it out.



Seriously.  Check it out.  Cause I'm not going to right now and I wonder about it.

[birba]

That's not new.  It's been there for as long as I can remember.  Are we talking about the same box?!

[Bob]

I guess I never noticed it before.  It looks much easier than going through the search links.

[Bob]

[Bob]

Coffee.... glorious liquid sleep.... Mmmmmm.....    

*Bob thinks coffee is tasting waaaaay too good today.*  This must be like what drug addicts experience if they return to their addiction after years.    

This is bizarre, to feel this good from coffee.  And it tastes good.  I have more energy for once.  I feel better.  My brain seems to be working a little better now too. 

[Bob]

I would like to improve my practicing....

And I think I do have an extra 9 volt battery around...


https://brainstimulant.blogspot.com/2008/06/tdcs.html

[Bob]

*Bob considers getting started on his taxes.*


*Bob thinks those homeless music teachers probably offer cheap tax preparation services as well as music lessons.... Bob gets all his financial information and original receipts ready to hand over to that homeless guy on the corner.*  This is a great idea.  That guy probably doesn't have anything else going on the whole day, except for giving inexpensive music lessons of course.  I bet he can also drop my taxes in the mail for me. 

[Bob]

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_en_mu/us_philadelphia_orchestra_finances
Philadelphia Orchestra board OKs Chapter 11 filing

[oxy60]

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_en_mu/us_philadelphia_orchestra_finances
Philadelphia Orchestra board OKs Chapter 11 filing

There you have it. A news article long on feelings and short on details! So short in fact that you can't figure what they are talking about.

[Bob]

I was surprised, if I read it right, that they don't have to cash in their 140 million dollar investment if they go bankrupt.  That still doesn't sound right to me -- I must have read it wrong.  Wouldn't they have to cash out things like that before they could go bankrupt?

[oxy60]

And that 140 mil should be earning some interest if that can't cash it out. Just a 1% rate would give them 1.4 million a year. Add to that record and ticket sales and they should be OK. Unless there is something they're not telling us.

There is one thing I can't understand. Why can't some non profits balance their books? Why do they always seem to need more money than they have?

[Bob]

I don't think they make much off record sales.  I heard one major orchestra only make about $500 off purchased recordings a year.  That's sounding really low though now.  But how many people are going to buy straight from them?  And why buy the latest version?  Any orchestra is competing with every other version ever made of the piece.

[Bob]

https://video.yahoo.com/editorspicks-12135647/featured-24306389/the-mountain-24960678.html#crsl=%252Feditorspicks-12135647%252Ffeatured-24306389%252Flip-syncing-teen-a-webcam-wonder-24942857.html

[Bob]

Hmmm.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110419/ts_yblog_thecutline/the-demotion-of-dilbert-continues-no-comic-relief-for-creator

[m1469]

Well, Nils and the moderators are mysterious people and you never know where they're going to be, and since I don't think I should start a whole thread for this, I will say here -- just in case they read -- thanks for my birthday cake in my profile .  I like it a lot .  It even looks actually yummy ... hee hee.

[Bob]

Wally.




And Galah.

[littletune]

Well, Nils and the moderators are mysterious people and you never know where they're going to be, and since I don't think I should start a whole thread for this, I will say here -- just in case they read -- thanks for my birthday cake in my profile .  I like it a lot .  It even looks actually yummy ... hee hee.

Yes that Pianostreet birthday cake is really cool!  I liked mine really a lot too!   

[m1469]

Yes that Pianostreet birthday cake is really cool!  I liked mine really a lot too!   

Yeah, it's charming .

[thalbergmad]

Don't eat it though.

Think what it could do to your buns.

Thal

[m1469]

Well, I *will* have a slight brownie today!  I get to have a little treat everyday, if I want it ... some days lately, I don't even want it!  But, today I probably will .

[pianowolfi]

Oh my that was one intense piano/recording session...*tries to calm down and eats a lot of stuff* now I don't dare to listen...

[liszt1022]

I never can use my time wisely on days I teach piano up until the lessons. It feels like I don't want to settle in to doing something and then have to leave it to go teach.

[ongaku_oniko]

*thinks this site died*

[Bob]

I keep thinking everyone is a hoaxer now. 

[Bob]

Aw.... 

https://sourcefed.com/2011/04/27/the-paraplegic-easter-bunny/