From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #458 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 11 2001 Volume 10 : Number 458 Today's Subjects: ----------------- how to date a vibraphone ["Jason R. Thornton" ] hey, what the fuck did Madonna say? [lj lindhurst ] Re: hey, what the fuck did Madonna say? ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Theremin [] mad as hatters ["Walker, Charles" ] Request for Dan Bern [Glen Uber ] Re: triv displays of learning [Eb ] Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) [grutness@surf4] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) [The Great ] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) [Glen Uber ] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) [grutness@s] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) [Christophe] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) ["Jason R. ] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) ["Jason R. ] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) ["Jason R. ] Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) [Eb ] RE: new instruments ["Bret Bolton" ] RE: new instruments ["Fric Chaud" ] RE: new instruments ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: The True North strong and free! [0% RH] ["Fric Chaud" ] RE: new instruments ["matt sewell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:09:45 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: how to date a vibraphone At 04:49 PM 12/9/2001 +0000, Michael R Godwin wrote: >Does anyone have a definite date for the vibraphone? "Herman Winterhoff, of the Leedy Manufacturing Company, began experiments around 1916 to create a vox humana or tremolo effect on the company's steel marimbaphone. After initial attempts that raised and lowered the resonator banks, oscillating fans inserted inside the tubes proved successful, and the vibraphone was born. Driven by an electric motor and two drive belts, the rotating fans opened and closed the resonating chamber creating the desired vibrato effect. This instrument was marketed under the trademark 'Vibraphone' in a limited production of about 25 instruments from 1924 to 1929. It has a range of three octaves, F to F, with graduated steel bars 1/4-inch thick. The lowest sounding bar is 2 1/4 x 12 15/16 inches, and the highest is 1 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. The motor has a simple on-off switch and a lever to adjust the rotating speed of the fans. This instrument shows tuning patent number 1632757, but no model number. It was later marketed as model number 42A, with a 2 1/2-octave version (F to C) available as model number 42B. In 1929 the catalog price for the three-octave instrument was $250. Of note is the fact that this early instrument has no damping mechanism and has a metal retaining bar on top of the bars to keep them in place. The pedal damping mechanism was invented in 1927 by William D. 'Billy' Gladstone who was using the instrument at the Capitol Theatre for broadcasts of the Major Bowes' Family Hour show over radio station WEAF. The mechanism was first available as an add-on to the instrument, which clamped into place. The vibraphone was available with natural finished wood and steel bars (as pictured) or could be specially ordered with the frame in either Black or White Duco enamel finish and a 'Nobby Gold' finish for the bars and other metal parts. By 1928 the J.C. Deagan company had developed a competing instrument, the 'Vibraharp,' with a permanent pedal (patented) and bars made of aluminum. Due to the competition from the Deagan Vibraharp, the Leedy Vibraphone was entirely retooled with aluminum bars and attached pedal in 1929. In addition to Gladstone, performers who broadcast and recorded on this early instrument include Signor Friscoe, the Green Brothers, Murray Spivack, and George Marsh. This particular instrument was originally owned by the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood and was perhaps used on early cartoon or movie soundtracks." from http://www.pas.org/Museum/tour/0699.cfm Jason ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:23:54 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: hey, what the fuck did Madonna say? So my friend Madonna was handing out the Turner Prize in London: >"It's a little bit strange handing out a prize for the best artist," >said Madonna, who stole the limelight at > the award ceremony in the London gallery by swearing during the >presentation. Her strong language, >broadcast live on Channel 4, prompted the station to issue a speedy >apology to viewers. > >"At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty, I >would like to say right on (expletive), >everyone is a winner. > >"There is no such thing as the best anything. There are only >opinions. Personally, I think award ceremonies >are silly," she added. The Turner Prize is regularly derided for >focusing on avant garde art, rather than >more conventional forms. But what did she say?? "Right on fuck"? Is that some kind of British Underworld slang? (This makes sense because even though she is from Detroit, Madonna has adopted an inexplicable British accent.) - -- LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC mailto:ljl@w-rabbit.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "You know what you are? You're a ho. You know who you are? You are King Ho." --Mableam Ephriam, ESQ, "Divorce Court" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:32:29 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: hey, what the fuck did Madonna say? At 12:23 PM 12/10/2001 -0500, lj lindhurst wrote: > >"At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty, I > >would like to say right on (expletive), > >everyone is a winner. "At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty, I would also like to say: Right on, mother- - - - - -, everyone is a winner!" (Post Wire Services) I'm not completely sure, but I think she said "mother may I." - --Jason "bricks are for pricks" Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:01:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: how to date a vibraphone On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > "Herman Winterhoff, of the Leedy Manufacturing Company, began experiments > around 1916 to create a vox humana or tremolo effect on the company's steel > marimbaphone. Brill, Jason. But this raises the further Q, when was the steel marimbaphone developed? I've never heard of that one. Presumably the Vibraphone was so superior that it supplanted the SM completely. - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:23:23 -0800 (PST) From: Subject: Re: Theremin On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Capuchin wrote: > Ken Stringfellow played one with the Young Fresh Fellows openning for the > Soft Boys in Seattle last year. It was one of the Moog series. Hey man, Ken didn't play with the Young Fresh Fellows he played with the The Minus 5 of which he is a member. Shit, next thing you'll be telling me that Matthew Selgman was in the Egyptians! Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "Life boring when you no can die" -Solomon Grundy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:44:50 -0800 From: "Walker, Charles" Subject: mad as hatters It was believed that the vibrations from that instrument would drive the players mad. The fact that a number of them went insane didn't help matters. chas in LA replies: that would be from the lead in the glass i believe. http://www.theweeklywalker.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:26:01 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Request for Dan Bern Do any of you Bernstein fans out there have a copy of "The X-mas Song" that you'd be willing to slip my way? An Mp3 is preferred, but I'm willing to accept other formats. Contact me off list to discuss trade terms. Grassy ass! - -- Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:11:43 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: triv displays of learning >PS Did you see TOTP2 last week? Apparently Gordon Haskell, who has a hit >with a slow jazz-blues thing which sounds like 'How long has this being >going on?' (but isn't) is an ex-member of Fleur de Lys, of Nuggets II >fame! And that's also the same guy who sang "Cadence & Cascade" with early King Crimson, right? Eb http://home.earthlink.net/~elbroome/np.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:41:55 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) >I seem to remember that the Chapman stick _started_ all this nonsense... yet amazingly not a single person mentioned the Warr guitar! >What ever happened to the Stylophone - musical instrument of the future - >first virtuoso: Rolf Harris... as used memorably by Bowie in "Space oddity". I used to have one of those little beasts, and fun it was until it fell to bits. What about the Gizmotron (that thing Godley and Creme developed)? >anything can be an instrument if you think about it wrong. a very >influential show for me was the baltimorons (later rechristened the motor >morons), who had mic'd up a radio shack 75-in-1 science kit, and for a >lead instrument had a coffee can filled with ball bearings which they >would push into a belt sander -- it also provided much of the stage >lighting effects. ISTR that much of the percussion sound on Eno's "King's Lead Hat" was the recorded sound of someone hitting a tin fence, fed through a synthesiser. The Clean have resorted to using tin boxes and electric heaters as percussion instruments before now, too. >It was believed that the vibrations from that instrument would drive the >players mad. The fact that a number of them went insane didn't help >matters. you'd have to be someway there before you started to play the thing, wouldn't you? - --- >Not "stick", it was Fric. I have been quietly reading this list >for a few days trying to understand the way to use apostrophe's >in English. general rule: any way you want - only pedants will notice. Real rule: for possessives with nouns but not pronouns, and whenever letters have been excluded in a contracted form. And never with plurals! - --- >New Zealand looks wonderful from the previews of LotR. Earth quake? >I hope all is all right. just a small one, but shallow (about 5.0, 100 miles away). No damage. And the tourism board is gonna love the publicity from this movie, if it's as good as they say... - --- >Seems like I've seen a theremin played onstage three times...with the >Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, with Pere Ubu and with...umm...someone >else. Luna have used it in recording - did they ever use it live? James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:57:36 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) >>Seems like I've seen a theremin played onstage three times...with the >>Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, with Pere Ubu and with...umm...someone >>else. I've seen Monster Magnet rock out with a theremin! I mean, really kick theremin ass -- playing planet-stomping, flying-saucer-attacking, demon-slaying, pineal-gland-pithing, rip-the-wings-off-of-angel sort of rock. It was cool. I've also seen a Japanese kid from some group that opened on the Brain Degeneration Tour play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on a theremin; and I saw it played in a piece by Messiaen by a guy in a tuxedo. Theremins are cool, but I still can't quite take them seriously. Ah, but the Ondes Martenot, now.... - --Q ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:07:22 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) On 12/10/01 1:41 PM, "grutness@surf4nix.com" wrote: >> Seems like I've seen a theremin played onstage three times...with the >> Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, with Pere Ubu and with...umm...someone >> else. Radiohead used one during their Saturday Night Live appearance about a year ago. There's also that classic footage of the Beach Boys doing "Good Vibrations" with that paragon of musical talent, Mike Love -- *chuckle* -- "playing" something that is supposed to be a theremin. It doesn't resemble any theremin I've ever seen, though. It looks more like a lap steel without strings or tuning machines. The sound appears to be generated by moving one's finger up and down the "fretboard". - -- Cheers! - -g- "When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one And life flows on within you and without you." - --George Harrison ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:32:05 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) >On 12/10/01 1:41 PM, "grutness@surf4nix.com" wrote: > >>> Seems like I've seen a theremin played onstage three times...with the >>> Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, with Pere Ubu and with...umm...someone >>> else. yes, but I was replying to Eb... spot the triple ">"s (what are they called anyway?) James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:35:25 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > yes, but I was replying to Eb... spot the triple ">"s (what are they called > anyway?) Smutchkas. I say so because I called it first. Giddily, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:38:03 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) At 10:41 AM 12/11/2001 +1300, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >I seem to remember that the Chapman stick _started_ all this nonsense... > >yet amazingly not a single person mentioned the Warr guitar! To be honest, the Warr Guitar really isn't a different "instrument" than the Chapman Stick. The tuning (most often, split in half with the "melody" side in 4ths and the "bass" in reverse-5ths) and the playing style (two-hands tapping perpendicular to the fretboard), both developed by Emmett Chapman, are the same. The Warr Guitar is just a "stick" with a guitar body. The trouble is that "The Stick" is a registered trademark, and until certain patents ran out in the 1990's, no else could made a Stick-like instrument. As a result, no non-trademarked term ever evolved to encompass the entire class of instruments that exists today. A few other small manufacturers besides Warr Guitars and Stick Enterprises also make Stick-like instruments, such as the Australian company Box Guitars. On a side note, Emmett Chapman is currently in the process of designing a Stick-specific MIDI/effects pedal called the Shape-Shifter with Mark Gloster's brother Vance. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:40:16 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) At 05:35 PM 12/10/2001 -0500, Christopher Gross wrote: > > yes, but I was replying to Eb... spot the triple ">"s (what are they called > > anyway?) > >Smutchkas. I say so because I called it first. I always call it a "'greater than' symbol," but that's probably not the official term. You could also refer to it as a "Pac-Man headed West." - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:55:08 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) At 02:07 PM 12/10/2001 -0800, Glen Uber wrote: >Radiohead used one during their Saturday Night Live appearance about a year >ago. When I saw Ben Lee, someone in his band had just purchased one and was using it for one of the first times. There's a "definitive" list of bands using Theremins at: http://www.thereminworld.com/bands.asp >There's also that classic footage of the Beach Boys doing "Good Vibrations" >with that paragon of musical talent, Mike Love -- *chuckle* -- "playing" >something that is supposed to be a theremin. It doesn't resemble any >theremin I've ever seen, though. It looks more like a lap steel without >strings or tuning machines. The sound appears to be generated by moving >one's finger up and down the "fretboard". There's also a Theremin FAQ at the above website (http://www.thereminworld.com/faq.asp), which states: Q: Is that a theremin on the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations"? A: Actually, no. The Beach Boys wanted a theremin-like sound, but they actually used a theremin-like instrument known as the "Tannerin" (named after its inventor). David Miller has done some excellent research into this common theremin myth. You can read all about the Tannerin at David's excellent website. The page dealing with the Tannerin at "David's excellent website" is at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4611/tannerin.html. Looks kinda like a keyboard, only the keys are simply drawn on. This was surprising news to me, because I remember Brian Wilson being interviewed in a documentary about Leon Theremin titled "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey." Maybe Wilson just didn't remember which instrument they actually used... According to that same documentary (if I remember correctly), Leon Theremin also invented some sort of "electronic cello," the fretboard of which was just a single strip on a horizontal pole that one ran his or her finger up and down. I think it was also bowed. I can't recall what it was called, though. The Theremin documentary is well worth seeing, if just for the Brian Wilson segments. Cheers! - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:12:04 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) >There's a "definitive" list of bands using Theremins at: > >http://www.thereminworld.com/bands.asp I took a spin through that list, trying to recall the third band which I saw use a Theremin. I'm still not sure, but based on that list, maybe my best guess is the Flaming Lips. Or perhaps Portishead, Air, Stereolab, the Eels or Man or Astro-man? Dunno. No firm image comes to mind. But I remember it being a crowded show where I was frustrated about my impaired view. Eb PS I think we've been through that Theremin vs. Tannerin/"Good Vibrations" issue at least once before.... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:23:24 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: hey, what the fuck did Madonna say? >From: lj lindhurst (This makes sense because even though she >is from Detroit, Madonna has adopted an inexplicable British accent.) The REALLY frightening part is that she had it somewhere around 3 years prior to moving to England and meeting Guy Ritchie. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:17:51 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: very short concert review On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Natalie Jane wrote: > I went to see the Rock*A*Teens on Saturday night, not knowing anything about > them. They were awesome! Why doesn't anybody warn me about these things?? Because nobody asked me. Coincidentally, I'd just mentioned them last week (unless you all have *already* gotten into the wise habit of ignoring everything I post). It's hard to find any points of similarity w/Robyn's work...uh (tries...hesitates...desperately thinks that some early Soft Boys work is manic and intense...kicks that thought out, as much music is manic and intense w/o sounding anything like either the Soft Boys or the RATS). No. Anyway, imagine Roy Orbison's son hungover and tobacco-parched on a Thursday morning, waking up in a beat-up old Chevy, recognizing himself as an eternal fuckup but determined both not to fuck up again and have a damned good time doing it. And then turn the reverb up to about 11, and add a collection of pawnshop keyboards and don't fuss overmuch with the tuning. Acres of verbiage re this very band may be found at my website, in the sig below. - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and ::winds up as a processing unit. __Soft Boys, note, CAN OF BEES__ np: Brendan Benson _One Mississippi_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:53:40 -0800 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: new instruments >anything can be an instrument if you think about it wrong. >a very influential show for me was the baltimorons (later >rechristened the motor morons), who had mic'd up a radio >shack 75-in-1 science kit, and for a lead instrument had a >coffee can filled with ball bearings which they >would push into a belt sander -- it also provided much of >the stage lighting effects. There's the Ellipsis Arts compilations _Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones_ and _Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones_ - but those are almost all totally home-made instruments, one of a kind, and many don't even use a standard musical scale. Or rather, the person playing them doesn't. Instruments found therein: the Daxophone; End-struck tubes; tuned tongue bamboo; Crystallophone; Seraphin; the Buchla 400 invented by Don Buchla; Clay Marimbas; various of Harry Partch's creations; the Bamboo saxophone; theremin; the Flowerpotophone; the Aquavina; the K-Board; Bicycle-Wheel Guitar; Vibraband; Maniford Guitar; Two Bugs; Whirly Instruments with Electronics; the Gravikord; Water Flutes; Howlers; Rainsticks; the Car Horn Organ; the Long String Instrument (which, fascinatingly, relies on longitudinal vibrations of its strings, rather than transverse vibrations, as in guitars and other standard stringed instruments); the Bellowphone; the Huaca; the Grand Islan Mouth Bow; the Stamenphone; the Rumitone; the Kotar; the Contra-bass Ney; Tube Gongs; Stiltophones; Pongophones; the Gram Pan. There's also Ken Butler's album _Voices of Anxious Objects_ on John Zorn's Tzadik label. Ken's on one of those Ellipsis Arts comps, and shows off a bunch more of his own inventions on this other album which, imho, is spectacular. There's also the Zgamoniums, who have their own albums as well as appearing on one of the comps with their Zgamonium, and a few other oddments such as the Electroshaver and Iron Objects. And there's always Spike Jones' Birdaphone and Sneezaphone, but I don't guess those are tonal instruments, either. d9 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:11:05 -0600 From: "Bret Bolton" Subject: RE: new instruments Not that this is a new instrument, but some of you may get a kick out of looking at it. http://www.atdot.com/bassjo - -b ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:54:14 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: RE: new instruments On 10 Dec 2001, at 20:11, Bret Bolton wrote: > Not that this is a new instrument, but some of you may get a kick out > of looking at it. > http://www.atdot.com/bassjo Of course, in Quebec we don't construct phrases in reverse as you Anglos do, so we call it: http://www.jobass.com Someday, we will fix the "http" part also. The "com" does not need to be changed to "moc". You can hear the sound of the instrument on this site. PS: I was certain I saw on this list apostrophes used for plural when after a vowel, and also with the possessive form of "it". Could it be a dialect? - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:17:15 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: new instruments Fric: > PS: I was certain I saw on this list apostrophes used for plural > when after a vowel, and also with the possessive form of "it". > Could it be a dialect? Unlike Francophones, English speakers and writers often make a lot of mistakes. Those are two. While we're at it, I keep seeing people who should know better using an apostrophe to pluralize acronyms -- CD's, PDA's, etc... Ain't nothing right about that, is there? Or did someone grant acronyms special status without telling me? - -brian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:25:09 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: The True North strong and free! [0% RH] On 10 Dec 2001, at 16:21, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Michael R Godwin wrote: > > > > Bon voyage, Stewart! You'll be looking forward to meeting up with > > Fric on the next Soft Boys Canadian tour... > > "looking forward to" might not be the right term Perhaps once the haggis has been evacuated from your system you would be less irritable. If you visit Canada's neighbour, Quebec, you might benefit instead from the soothing effect of poutine. > alas. no. My canadian literature experience starts with M.Atwood, and > ends with S.Notley Snotley? - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:48:14 -0500 From: "Fric Chaud" Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) > >What ever happened to the Stylophone - musical instrument of the > >future - first virtuoso: Rolf Harris... Go play a "super furry akashumai" stylophone at: http://www.superfurry.com/depot/neural/stylaphone/stylaentry.htm Learn to play with SFA! - -- Fric Chaud ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:06:24 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Here a min, theremin, everywhere a min, Min (Heeenryyyy!) On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 04:55 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > The page dealing with the Tannerin at "David's excellent website" is at > http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4611/tannerin.html. Looks kinda like a > keyboard, only the keys are simply drawn on. According to the guy that did the Good Vibrations segment of NPR's top 100 American songs (IIRC), the idea behind the Tannerin was to have something that sounded like a Theremin but was easy to play. The markings are there to facilitate playing the same notes as wished. - - Steve __________ If anyone has ever benefited from what Bush has called "the bigotry of soft expectations," it's George W. Bush himself. - Mark Crispin Miller ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:24:31 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: The True North strong and free! [0% RH] "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > "Bachman, Michael" wrote: > > > > You are going to have to learn the intricacies of hockey > > isn't ice hockey where you get some ice and some guys with sticks and > they have a fight? And there's this wee black thing whizzing around, > symbolising the human condition? > > It always looks that way to me. yes, it IS basically soccer on ice with sticks. NW: The Daily Show interview with "Al Sharpton" ===== "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:02:08 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: new instruments On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Brian Huddell wrote: > While we're at it, I keep seeing people who should know better using > an apostrophe to pluralize acronyms -- CD's, PDA's, etc... Ain't > nothing right about that, is there? Or did someone grant acronyms > special status without telling me? That peeves me, too. My personal tendency is to just lowercase the s (and verb the word lowercase) and hope people understand. I seem to recall my fifth grade teacher (Mr. Sutton) trying to get away with saying apostrophes were used for plurals of individual letters, like M's and S's, but, in retrospect, he wasn't very smart. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:32:00 +0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: RE: new instruments No, it's just wrong... unless, as Godders has pointed out, there are any habitual greengrocers on the list. Matt "tomatoe's?" Sewell >From: "Fric Chaud" >PS: I was certain I saw on this list apostrophes used for plural >when after a vowel, and also with the possessive form of "it". >Could it be a dialect? > > >-- >Fric Chaud - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #458 ********************************