Stix Didjeridoo/Didgeridoo (http://www.didgeridoobreath.com/Stix_Robbie_Hantleman_Didgeridoo_133_p/d-607-133.htm)
Show Image
(http://www.didgeridoobreath.com/v/vspfiles/photos/D-607-133-2T.jpg)
lol, never mind. I thought it was a humungous rain stick.
hl=en_US&fs=1">[/youtube]
and here's how youre supposed to play it? ;)
hl=en_US&fs=1">[/youtube]
wow, a didjeridoo. so do you actually play that thing? And is that why you're 'didjamatic'?
After Korg M1, Korg N364 i have the Korg Triton current at home, apart from my office..
Show Image
(http://www.tritonhaven.com/pics/triton/TRITON_BIG.jpg)
sweet. I just bought a midi keyboard, a nice one, for dirt cheap on craigslist. Why did i buy one? I cant play the piano, or any kind of keyboard. Well... for some reason I think its "good to have". lol. I'll post a pic. yea taking lessons (or teaching myself eventually) is on my things to do list. Would love to play me some blues piano. Also since its midi I can map some drums and **** on to it if I need that for a quick recording.
This in 1998 (but in brown, not black) - Technics sx-PR602. Needs the amplifier repairing at the moment, so I can only play with headphones.
Show Image
(http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss97/whininggit/35251006_1.jpg)
I don't know which is my favourite. The piano does everything that the keyboard does, but has weighted keys, but then it's not as portable...
sweetness. love that piano. but yea, portability is nice. they're doing amazing things with instruments these days. I'm a tube amp guy but i really like the digital amp models on my zoom g1 headphone amp. Really decent.
I'm also looking at either an zoom H2 or a Q3 for quick-n-dirty recordings. (It could double as a really good keyboard-keyswitch-sound-recorder for gh reviews). Also the korg sound-on-sound multi-track recorder looks really convenient.
behold: the dubreq stylophone
Show Image
(http://joshspear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/stylophone1_800w.jpg)
1-key rollover. no debouncing or envelope controls whatsoever. you get an octave and a half of "keyboard", three oscillator settings, vibrato, and a tuning knob.
but with a bit of multitrack recording software and a lot of RSI you can actually make something resembling music...
Interesting...
behold: the dubreq stylophone
Show Image
(http://joshspear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/stylophone1_800w.jpg)
1-key rollover. no debouncing or envelope controls whatsoever. you get an octave and a half of "keyboard", three oscillator settings, vibrato, and a tuning knob.
but with a bit of multitrack recording software and a lot of RSI you can actually make something resembling music...
wow, thats better than a chipmunks album. neat.
i'd go with a hybrid amp too, if i were to buy one today. I'm a big fan of mesa boogie rectifier distortion, and seems like the hybrids do a decent job of replicating it these days. hell they even have hybrid headphone amps (http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-G7-1ut-Guitar-Effect-Circuit/dp/B000P3YFQW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1280809711&sr=8-1). The zoom g7.1 has a tube preamp:
Show Image
(http://img4.cherchons.com/300x253/6832026/ZOOM-G7.1-ut.jpg)
I'm a big fan of headphone amps for the sheer convenience. Small enough to carry around, great amp models and effects combined in one device, plugs right into computer for digital recording.
Well I think that settles it. The Vox amp I was talking about is no longer in production, but a local store has the 30W version going for $150 because of a cosmetic defect (nothing more than a scratch). Since they aren't produced anymore and went for around $250-$300 new when they were still being produced, I think I should just go for it.
My friend wants to buy my acoustic guitar because he wants to play Gypsy Jazz so I'll likely get enough money to buy the amp from the sale. Also, nothing like a new amp to spice up your desire to keep playing. Plug a $3000 guitar in a bad amp and it'll sound like ****. I won't make the mistake of buying a bad amp again. Or so I hope.
Here's the "instrument of my weight loss".
Show Image
(http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae99/welly1/2010-08-03byEye-Fi/tennisracquet1.jpg)
"Qah-pah!", she says when she strikes the ball, sounding like an angry Klingon. "Qah-pah!".
I hope she doesn't also look like an angry Klingon. :wink:
I've got the same racquet (smaller version), bought around the same time as yours. I like the balance weights on the sides, but sometimes they get in the way when slicing (and the ball leaves the court like a baseball player's home run). I agree about the light racquets. You need a bit of weight for a good hit.
So hard to determine which one's the favourite, so here's my most recent acquisition instead:
Show Image
(http://www.ioffer.com/img/item/149/161/355/m6Fc.jpg)
A truly sweet little thing, and it doesn't cost much at all from Early Music Shop. Yay.
ah, the king of stringed instruments. I knew a guy in undergrad who spent a semester building a harp from scratch. Being in engineering school at the time I was very jealous. But then again I'm pretty sure he was jobless when he graduated ;) Damn humanities kids.
And this was my cursive handwriting back in April:
Show Image
(http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/monthly_04_2010/post-41608-127172886974.jpg)
Again, I think I have made a lot of progress since then. I really started to get interested with fixing my handwriting around April this year. Just like with keyboards, finding the right pen, paper and ink combination is the key. Some people like a pen that writes on the dry side whereas some like a pen which write on the wet side. I prefer a wet pen.
The italic sample was writing with a Pelikan M205 with a custom ground nib. The cursive style was written with a Mabie Todd Swan L206/60 (circa 1950). The latter writes on the dry side. It took me some time to get used to it.
I would like to add that the world of fountain pen is like a world without limit. Fountain pen price can be ridiculously high. But boy do they provide a great sense of pleasure both to the writer and to the person the letter is addressed to. I like to write a note to my wife on special occasions or just for the sake of writing her a note. For this kind of situations, a keyboard, even the most expensive one, simply cannot replace a pen. Imagine receiving a nice handwritten on high quality paper in an equally high quality envelope sealed with burgundy wax...
I have to agree, there's something about calligraphy done by hand that just isn't the same as computer print. Very francy writing looks better than a printed sheet. And I've always wanted a fountain pen...
This amused me:
un [strike]crayon stylo[/strike] crayon ou un stylo...
I never liked the word "Stylo", probably all of those years in french class with the teachers screaming at me. Why is French mandatory in elementary again?