WTF-Beta

Thanks, Ron. I was aware of the push for bigger sound (cross-stringing, bigger soundboards) but never heard of key flare. Is that the “bend” in the key stick like what you see in clavichords?

It occurred to me that the more interesting question is why the wider keyboard came about at all. Weren’t historical piano keys narrower? Is it an improvement nobody asked for?

This local place makes a pizza with these little Peruvian peppers that are not what you expect. Not hot at all, but with an appealing citrus/acid quality…more like some kind of berry. I’ll post a picture if I can get it to work.
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The Fluxus Artist/Composer Dick Higgins died while performing one of his own pieces whose instructions are: “Scream as loud as you can for as long as you can.”

I’m here for it.

I harvested all the basil because it was getting down into the 40s and it wasn’t going to last much longer. But the parsley is lush, still going great guns (how can I use it all?) Rosemary, sage and tarragon still fine.

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@AdagioM We’re a cat-free household these days, but I remember those days well.

SK, thanks for clarifying that bit about the vaccine only warding off serious illness. I’d heard that before, but had forgotten about it.

Hope Mr. SK is out of the woods soon, and you stay healthy.

It takes me that long just to find the right leg holes in my trousers.

You say Mr. SK got the vaccine and still got Covid? That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

My experience with Faz is minimal, but when I played one, it seemed rather on the too clean, sterile side. I wonder if the character is baked into the piano’s scale design to an extent.

Seven, counting a wristwatch, and not counting the microwave which is often unplugged anyway. We leave it at 88:88.

I have a Bodum pot that I seldom use. Decades old, I don’t remember how I got it. It’s small, a one-cupper, and the glass is very thin. I used it the other day and the little narrow spout broke.

I’ve seen reports on MSNOW by lawyers like Marc Elias—and also by state election officials on FB—who say that an immense amount of work has been done to thwart election interference, much of it not announced to the public. I hope so.

I have a feeling I’ve told this story here before.

I had some sort of acid reflux or GERD. About 20 years ago I awoke at night with the feeling I was having a heart attack. Very scary. Spent a night “under observation” in the hospital after undergoing every test you could imagine. In the morning, they told me they’d found no anomalies but asked what I’d been eating or drinking.

I figured it was tea. I was drinking tea all day long, a real obsessive, and a tea nerd.

So I stopped that. For some reason coffee does not affect me negatively. So I have one or two coffees in the morning. I still can tolerate a cup of tea in the afternoon, once or twice a week.

I still prefer tea. Japanese sencha usually. So much variety, a very sophisticated beverage. But here we are.

Alcohol and spicy foods don’t bother me.

Good lord. And those are just sound bites. Their whole belief system is wacko.

Hope you get it figured out, Daniel.

I figure my recent weight loss (last 5 years) is due to loss of muscle mass. And I’m eating less. Can’t lift the (heavy) lid of my Mason & Hamlin on my own. I should start going to a gym.