[lit-ideas] Re: To whom it may concern
- From: Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:39:29 -0400
Because digital sound is "discrete" - that is, it comes in packages. These
packages are remarkably small, but there is definitely something to be said
for the "warmth" of the analog predecessor where the needle on the record
absolutely gives you a constant stream, or "continuous" non-packaged
product.
My simple explanation. I'm sure someone will try and wreck it.
P
On Apr 2, 2014 9:31 AM, "Julie Campbell" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why do digitals sound filtered or "mixed" when compared to acoustics?
> What exactly is happening to the sound that causes that? As a stolid
> acoustic piano purist, I now have access in my Studio to a Clavinova, brand
> new, and while it's ok for playing along side a student on the acoustic, or
> for rewarding the student with something different at the end of a good
> lesson, and while I very much like the ability to plug head phones in and
> to use composition software, it's, to me, a completely different instrument
> from the piano. I know, I know, I'm not young and hip.
>
> Julie Campbell
> Julie's Music & Language Studio
> 1215 W. Worley
> Columbia, MO 65203
> 573-881-6889
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:59 AM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 02 Apr 2014, at 01:59, Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > ... This will surely help Chris recover.
>> >
>> > On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> (3) Rudy gets invited to choose what he wants to do after he gets home
>> from nursery. ... Sometimes it's something novel:
>> >> "I want to vacuum" ...
>>
>> I liked to vacuum around that age, too. Of course part of the attraction
>> was being able to sit and sometimes for a short time even ride on one of
>> those 1950's rocket-shaped machines like the one featured here in these
>> photos of Don Van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band:
>>
>> http://www.teenagefanclub.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=191583
>>
>> >> (4) While riding in the car, Rudy is introduced to his first Beatles -
>> ...After Yellow Submarine comes Strawberry Fields Forever. ... Rudy now
>> prefers Strawberry Fields to Yellow Submarine - in fact, what he prefers
>> most is "the weird bit". ...
>>
>> MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR was the first LP (it was released in that format in
>> Canada & the US) that I ever bought - and 'Strawberry Fields' was my
>> favourite song. I also bought the music book containing all the songs -
>> somehow those 'weird bits' were hard to reproduce on the family upright
>> piano. (I also got my first electric guitar for Christmas that year [1967]
>> - one of those $25 department store models - and learned to play it through
>> a home-made amp an 'uncle' gave me.) At high school we put on a play which
>> featured Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Salvation Army Band - my first public musical
>> performance.
>>
>> Thanks Donal (and Ursula) - this definitely has cheered me up.
>>
>> Chris Bruce, Jr. [inner],
>> in Kiel, Germany
>>
>> P.S. I sold that guitar to a high-school friend a few years later - but
>> still play, and have bought several instruments over the years. (My current
>> collection numbers 12 or 13; I always forget one or the other when I
>> count.) Last year an odd-looking instrument in a music-store window caught
>> the corner of my eye as I was passing. The next day I went in out of
>> curiosity more than anything else - and after 10 seconds of playing it
>> realized I had found the guitar I had been looking/listening for for the
>> past 45 years.
>>
>> Yamaha SLG 130NW Classical Style 'Silent' Guitar:
>>
>>
>> http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/silentguitars/slg130nw_light_amber_burst/?mode=model#pr-header-1303850
>>
>> I play it through this Yamaha THR10 Modelling and Recording Amp (which is
>> 'light years' ahead of that home-made amp, or any other professional
>> equipment - Peavey, Acoustic, Marshall, etc. - I've used or tried):
>>
>>
>> http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/amps/thr/thr10_v2/?mode=model#tab=product_lineup#tab=product_lineup
>>
>> And finally, kudos to Kawaii for their top-end digital pianos. My MP9500
>> has been long superseded but is still sufficient for my requirements. When
>> playing it I actually 'see' (hallucinate) the grain on the ivory keys of
>> the old Mason & Risch 'upright grand' (that my father somehow managed to
>> acquire sometime in the 1950's for $100) under my fingers. The sound and
>> action are superb.
>>
>> - B.
>> --
>>
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