and 1 moslem please, smiles.
----- Original Message -----
From: "DLH" <dheilman1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:27 AM
Subject: [realmusicians] Re: a warm welcome
Hi Tom,
<Slight laugh> Aw, the Midi Mag list wasn't that bad. I once was the
moderator of a Religion board for about two or three years. We had Good
Christians, reactionary Christians, Foolish Christians, and then we had
boat loads of Witches, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Taoists,
Buddhists, loads of Homosexuals, and a lot of others I've forgotten,
oh, and one Satanist.
It was a very lively group and we would easily have 50 to 200 posts per
24 hour period.
There were several times when the fur would really fly fast and
furious. I thought the Midi Mag up roar was about a 6 on a scale from
one to ten.
As in all groups, there are the few that just like to stir things up,
just to see the fur fly as entertainment.
Sadly, and unfortunately, the group that I had the most difficult time
with was not the Witches, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Taoists,
Buddhists, Homosexuals, or the one Satanist.
Many times, the wrong words are said at the wrong time.
But, I digress here into a topic that has nothing to do with being a
real musician, and it is not my wish to cause another distraction from
music and playing it.
In fact, I apologize for saying too much already.
I probably should have sat on my hands again, but I didn't.
Dave H.
At 08:26 AM 10/6/2009, you wrote:
All I can say, Steph, is Wow! I've been on that list for, I don't know,
somewhere between 15 and 20 years and I've never seen it totally
self-destruct like this. It's really pretty sad.
Tom
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steph" <stephieb1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi there. I can just imagine and love to hear anything you do. Very
talented you are.
Well I've been booted off that list now lol.
Steph
At 11:14 PM 10/5/2009 -0700, you wrote:
Glad to be here. Climate seems a lot more sunny. Took a quick look
at the archive--before it has had a chance to grow to 16,547
messages... I tried to open that server for Teamtalk, but that was
perhaps not the right thing to do, for my system said that "internet
Explorer cannot open this server" or some such thing.
Anyway, just came home from choir practice. We're getting ready for
Christmas and are doing Carols, some in tricky arrangements. One of
them is "Deck the Hall" arranged by David Wilcox in a fugue-like
counterpoint. I've almost gotten two thirds of it--no recording of
that, though, anywhere on the net.
I'm also working on a presentation of "rounds, catches, and glees".
That will be presented by me, and I'll have ten or so singers to help
me demonstrate the various types of rounds, and we'll have some easy
ones for audience participation. Preparing audio files and collecting
sheet music, and making copies, and burning CD's for that has been
pretty intense. I've been recording the parts separately and together,
so people can learn on their own as well as during our rehearsals. We
have until Nov 7 to get it ready to perform.
Then, there's always the weekly radio show. For a while, I've been
taking it easy and aired a series I found on the net--Doctor Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde. Great adaptation by Betty Robertson, and she's turned
that short story into 53 15-minute episodes. It's saved my life since
I got back from vacation. All I've had to do is use a bit of EQ to
fix some fuzzy passages (vintage sound files, you know), some
normalization or volume fixes by hand, edit out all these intro and
outtros between the episodes and make one hour-long one for each
Sunday night.
Rob, my partner, also does his own Sunday night show, so we have had
to turn our sitting-room into a part studio for him, so we don't get
in each other's hair.
That's more than you wanted to hear from me, but cheers, and looking
forward to a fun-filled cruise. Maybe I'll finally get up the nerve
and submit something--I've actually composed an adaptation of "Six
Days on the Road" based on our traumatic vehicle almost breakdown at
several stages during our trip home from music camp this August...
Grin,
Gudrun
At 09:02 PM 10/5/2009, you wrote:
The most graceous and sweet natured and creative lady Gudrun has just
climbed aboard.
Welcome my dear.
We've got some nice goodies here like web archives, and a voice chat
server that we're working on, it's up and running now but we're not
through with it yet.
It's a teamtalk server and the host name is
realmusicians.slyip.com
pw is
cattail
You can get the software over at
http://www.bearware.dk/index.php?pageid=teamtalk
I'm going to compile all this useful info in to the welcome message
soon, we've only been up a couple days so hang tight, we'll have fun
and resurrect the old spirit of love and acceptance which used to be
over at you know where 'grin'.
I think Ross mcgregor will come over here, and I just invited DJX,
we'll see what happens.
Enjoy and I know your over there probably doing 10 things at once
'grin'.
The printers came today and left Julie's inserts, wow you know what
those guys did?
they gave us more inserts and cut the price in half.
Image maker is truly a great company to work with here to do
printing, they don't have cd printing yet, I been bugging them about
that, but they do very nice inserts and anything else, and they make
it easy for blind folks, knotching corners and such and hand deliver
stuff.
There a christian run company, they're actually the print shot for
St. Francis Hospital I believe, but they do out of shop stuff too.
They're pricing and service is just so good, I almost just don't mind
not having the direct on cd printing, but I'd like to find a good
option for that at some point, thermal printing seems to be the
cheapest and most practical but you know, it's the whole sighted
thing, we'll eat that elephant when the demand gets great enough, but
so far, so good.
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