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Medieval instruments
Where would one get their hands on a shawm? At some point, I think I'd like to have one. -
Composition Day!
My friend Luke is coming by on the 13th of October for Composition Day! We'll be gathering all the fragments of songs and dances and what have you that we've written and set to work on polishing them up. It's always nice to have that other person to help fill out a melody you'd been working on, or help throw on some harmony, and between the two ( Read more... ) -
Yay!
Tenor recorder get! -
My thoughts on discrimination.
My parents sometimes ask me why I care so much about gay rights when I'm not gay. Sure, they probably don't know the extent that I've experimented, but it's a good question. It's not about someone's sexual orientation or gender identity. I care because I simply cannot understand how people can think that someone is inherently worse, or even ( Read more... ) -
Why sopranino recorder annoys me:
I'm at lunch playing the bit of Cantiga de Santa Maria Mael Eoin printed out for me for RAV. It works fine on soprano, but to play it on sopranino I either have to play it like it was a soprano an have it come out a fourth higher, or play it an octave higher than written. Now, sopranino already sounds an octaves higher than written. So bumping ( Read more... ) -
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Sometimes I hate reading back through my LJ archives. As much as I've gained in my life, as much as I'm on the cusp of making a life of my own, on my own, I've lost so much. That's life, sure. But my journal from 2004 to 2009 seems like a tapestry of loss and longing, and reading it makes me sad. I really need to shake the dust off of my phone ( Read more... ) -
Recorders
Music practice yesterday showed me just how out of practice with my mandolin I am. I haven't picked it up much since our last practice season before Wiosna in April, and playing for an hour absolutely murdered my fingers. All was well, though, since I got to switch over to Sol's tenor recorder. I kind of surprised myself by being able to pick it ( Read more... ) -
It Takes My Child To Raze a Village
This weekend was tons of fun, but it managed to kick my ass pretty hard. Sunday night I ended up taking an unexpected half an hour nap in my computer chair before I hauled myself into bed ( Read more... ) -
Secrets, I has them
My secret project is coming along nicely, I think people will be pleased. I just wish I had more time for it. Hopefully I can get some more done tomorrow before I have to come home from work and immediately pass out so I can make RAV on time. -
Bingo cards
Heraldic bingo cards have been printed out, pasted to posterboard, and laminated. All I have to do now is cut them out and find my bag of spare crafty gem things to use as markers and it should be ready for beta testing. Next batch I'm going to expand beyond 25 pieces of armory, since each card now carries each of them, just in a different ( Read more... )