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Moving over from Magle

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I've gotten a bit tired of reading John Watt's ramblings about rock and roll. DorsetMike was kind enough to let me know about this place.

I'm 78, Canadian, living very close to where Montana USA, Alberta and British Columbia meet in a little town called Sparwood. Classical music in this town is usually associated with Johnny Cash, but my wife's health and our finances preclude moving.

My love is classical pipe organ, of which there is none within 100 miles / 160 Km. I own and attempt to play a Johannus Opus 10 digital I bought in 2000. It's better than some at imitating pipes, and was within my budget. 2m/p 26 stops. Romantic (Holtkamp) and Baroque (Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral).

I look forward to reading and visiting with people on the forum.

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Thank you. I "stress tested" five brands until I found one that I could afford (No real pipes) that had enough registration variety on both keyboards to be useful for my eclectic tastes. She looks even better when the speakers that are stepped down behind the console are mounted on top, but the ceiling is too low where she lives.
 
#7 ·
Yeah, but I'm enjoying the posts here. I have other very active sites and I enjoy them. I'm dropping MIMF. What's the point?
One of my sites is usually 2 dozen posts a day (Pentax Forums: camera site), another is a dozen (Pipeline Community of Organists (International), another dozen a day (RBASE List -- the DBMS I use) and a couple of others that have several posts a week. Unlike MIMF, they are posts that I find interesting. I really appreciate your note that told me about this site, and I have been wading through the "Baroque on You Tube" today while working on a tricky programming problem caused by a lazy keyboard user at a client who types nonsense dates into the data. We have to decide which dates in the system (50 Mb of data and climbing) cannot accept dates after "today" and put traps on the entry screens to yell at her and stay in the date field until she puts something acceptable in it.
 
#8 · (Edited)
I went over to the other site for the first time ever and browsed a few threads - I think that bloke you referred to needs to get out more.

Welcome, by the way!
 
#12 ·
Welcome. I joined several months ago to learn more about the music library I encounter whenever I visit my elderly parents back in Massachusetts. I am hooked. Now when I visit I bring them CDs to listen too : ). And I am a hippie at heart that got sick of the self delusion self promotion of Facebook.
 
#14 ·
Hello
I've just signed up to the site and still finding my way around but was intrigued by the comparison of acoustic keyboard instruments as opposed to electronic. I am a pianist and much prefer a "Real" instrument but the places I play are very unlikely to have a piano, so I use a Roland - I have two- but it would be nice if more places had pianos.
I love much "classical" music but play (and sing) music from the 1920s and 1930s. Anybody out there into this music?
 
#17 ·
I quite like some of the 1930s early swing bands and blues singers, currently listening to Jimmy Reed, "Big Boss Man" (though one to avoid if you are not very broad minded is Lucille Bogan). My main likes though are Baroque and Renaissance at one end of the time scale and big band swing and jazz up to about the 1970s, I was lucky to be able to see Ellington, Basie, Herman and the reformed Glen Miller under Buddy de Franco in the late 60s and 70s when they toured UK.
 
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I was lucky to be able to see Ellington, Basie, Herman and the reformed Glen Miller under Buddy de Franco in the late 60s and 70s when they toured UK.
Those bands used to play for a week at a time at the Disneyland Carnation Pavilion in the early '70s. You could get in for $5 any night of the week and just listen to the bands. With groups like Harry James, one set would be for listening - we would sit on the floor about five feet from the band - and the other would be for dancing. Boy, could those old people dance (I though they were old; I think they were in their 50s).

While my friends were paying top dollar to stand in crowded stadiums to see their favorite rock bands, I was rubbing shoulders with my heroes. I remember watching the Main Street Electrical Parade with Basie's trombone section and later seeing Sarah Vaughn listening with us, holding an ice cream cone. And I still remember feeling my hair stand on end as Woody Herman's band started their set at full volume only five feet away, then after the set getting marital advice from their lead trumpet player (don't have kids until you're 30 and give time for you and your wife to really know each other).

Those were great times. I don't live in the past, but I do have great memories.
 
#18 ·
My wife and I took an anniversary weekend in Spokane, Washington to a Glen Miller festival. It was great fun, superb music, but very difficult to find room on the dance floor. Most of the veterans there were a "bit" older than my wife and I. (Yes, she is a veteran. When she married she was an Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps nursing sister I met while head of the First Aid teaching department at the Canadian Forces Medical Training Centre). I chased her to Calgary that Christmas, and the following summer we started our son in West Germany on a NATO posting. He arrived before the posting was over, by the way, and visited with a friend yesterday. It's amazing how much smarter I got when he turned 25 ... 27 years ago.
 
#20 · (Edited by Moderator)
Merl said:
Nowt wrong with FB if you ignore the bullsh*t and use it to keep in contact with friends and family. It's great for me and helps me keep in touch with my family on the other side of the world.
Totally agree I keep it live to keep up with my dear high school classmates. Learning to make the screeds white noise and just turnIng up the music : ). A work in progress
 
#37 · (Edited)
Hurray - I no longer need to fret over 'the Bloke's' irruptions into my threads, detailing his progress on the guitar and his family origins - needless to say, none of my threads are actually about those topics.

Yes, I've been saved from myself because MIMF hasn't come back up, even after TC has.

Maybe this afternoon I will even get me a life. :cool:
 
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