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I remember the Corn Palace. It was impressive. Only in America kind of place.

Brandenburg

It’s always a Steinway in these stories. But then, Steinway always made…and sold…a lot of pianos.

Congratulations, Daniel! I use the iPad Pro almost exclusively for music reading, with the ForScore app. But I still prefer learning music from printed scores.

Sounds like great fun!

@Bernard said:

@Daniel said:

I wanted to post "tang" but thought better about it. : )

I was grocery shopping this afternoon and almost bought some Tang but after reading the ingredient list decided to skip it.

I think Daniel may have been referring to a particular variety of “tang.”

Room (Plenty Good Room - old Black Spiritual)

Happy birthday, RT!

Weather

I’ve been in some hotels where there was a fixture that held a spring-loaded cable that you could stretch across the tub or shower space and connect to a hook on the opposite wall. If you hand-washed some article of clothing, you could let it hang-dry that way.

This sounds so evil, I assumed it was a conspiracy theory.

I’m convinced that strength and balance training is something I need to do. I’m pretty sure that my weight loss in recent years is due to loss of muscle mass, not exercise or diet. Case in point: I can no longer lift the lid of my 9 foot Piano.

There are a number of YouTube videos showing different ways of mounting and dismounting…from simple to virtuosic. I’m going to try leaning the bike lower to the left before swinging over.

I fell off my bike on Thursday. Not a crash in traffic, I was just dismounting.

I misjudged the height of my right leg/foot clearing the saddle, so I went down.

I think it’s a matter of losing flexibility with age. It IS a tall saddle height that’s worked for the last 25 years, but maybe I need to do other exercise to stay flexible.

Anyway, although I don’t think my head hit the ground, and my (brand-new) helmet looked unscathed, I could feel that something moved inside my skull. No disorientation, and I put the bike in the car and drove home normally.

I went to the urgent care a few hours later, and they tested my reflexes, and said don’t worry unless I get dizzy or confused or nauseous, or experience vision changes, but if I do, go to a hospital.

So my head felt achy for a couple of days, but it’s getting better. I seem to have all my faculties and I’m practicing effectively.

I do feel the effects on other body parts. My neck, shoulder, hip, elbow, knee are sore. I feel like I’ve been in a bar fight.

But thank goodness for bike helmets. Maybe it could have been worse.

Haha, I’m so confused! There’s a “September Song” that goes back at least to the 1930s, and this is not that. And then I thought of the song “Try to Remember” whose lyric mentions September in the second line, and it’s
not that either. I am behind the times

Really nice, SK!

I do only one puzzle…the one in the NYT print edition (might be Spelling Bee?) where you get 7 letters and make as many 5-or-more letter words as you can. (It may be different in the online game.). I can sometimes get to “Excellent” but rarely “Genius.”

Happy birthday, Mik!

Music is healing. And I become more and more aware of all the cognitive tasks involved in intensive practicing.

No guarantees though. Musicians do still experience dementia.

That's what I thought, but wasn't Air Force One the plane that WAS properly outfitted against attacks?