Showing posts with label technical-music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technical-music. Show all posts
Friday, April 04, 2025

Musician Earplugs

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Response to a post on Flute Forum about visiting an ENT for hearing test & exam, and asking about suggestions/thoughts on earplugs: Sinc...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Science... Again?

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In response to Acoustics Research is Insufficient by Jeff Dening on the flute forums: My day job is tangential to research, and I appreciat...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Junker Flute

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In response to an anonymous participant on Flute Forum seeking affirmation for using a ``cheap piccolo off Amazon'' for one ensemble...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

See? This is Why You Should Save Your Work, No Matter How Temporary

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See, the one time I didn't save an intermediate copy of my blog entry on Q10, was the one time Q10 decided to crash and take away the fi...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Cleaning dizi

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Damn that was tiring, but fulfilling. Today's a public holiday, and I spent a few hours in the morning till the early afternoon cleani...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

...and Before OP Trashes The [Troll] Post

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In re a post on Flute Forum about the difference between the concert flute and the Chinese flute (笛子): Okay, assuming you are not trolling,...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

First Grab Bag of 2024

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(No, I did not write this at the time that this was published. I deliberately delayed the publication to ensure that the quick summary st...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Getting High in Church, and Elden Ring

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Whew... that was something. So let's start from the beginning. Back in April this year , I got Stella. There were some logistic issu...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Am Getting Drinks

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Another [work] day has ended. And this year, this 2023 CE, is now in its penultimate week. I finally left last.fm after being there for ...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Control and Another Experiment

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So I completed the main story of Control . The end-run was a little unexpected---I thought there was going to be a major fight with some en...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Experiment: Success!

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The scraper that lives on Amazon is back, and there's nothing that I can do about that. I just hope that they aren't using what the...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Saturday...

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Ah... Saturday. I love Saturdays. I love Saturdays because they are mostly the days where I actually get to relax, on leave or otherwise...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

On Hitting the Top Notes on the Piccolo

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In response to a post on Flute Forum where the OP wanted some tips on hitting high B♭ and other notes higher than high G for a show...
Monday, April 03, 2023

Stella [Nagahara]

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It has been a while since the last entry. Things are progressing well enough in life, and I thank the Lord for that. That said though, wi...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Getting Regulation Over Materials Used to Make Flute?

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In response to a forum post asking if there should be FDA oversight over the materials used in making flutes, considering that it is in clos...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Singapore Flute Fair 2023, and What I Did There

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A week ago today was the Singapore Flute Fair 2023 hosted by MusicGear , with her sister companies. The draw of the Flute Fair was the ass...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

On Flute Stands...

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In reference to a post on Flute Forum by someone who was seeking advice on making their own wooden flute stand for piccolo, concert flute, a...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Does There Exist a Trade Off In Bore Geometry for [Concert] Flutes?

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As a reply to a post on Flute Forum that segued from how a flute played easier in the altissimo range compared to the regular, with the post...

Playing High Notes Requires Blowing Edge Angle Changes, Not More Volumes of Air

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In response to the poster replying ``It's a wooden bamboo flute brand new.. (sic)'' when the suggestion of leaks/bent keys was p...

~48 Hours After mRNA-1273 Booster...

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Okay, we're more than 48 hours since the booster jab, and frankly, I'm fine. I'm probably going to take one more dose of parace...