Hooray for block 777777! Though I’m more of an 88 guy myself.
Apparently it was president’s day yesterday. I didn’t know and I don’t give a shit.
Normies in 2023: It’s the aliens! We’re being invaded!
Alien conspiracy theorists in 2023: It’s not aliens, it’s just some weather balloons.
🙃
Hey! I found another one!
Why would anyone waste such great scrap wood?!
I have been running Umbrel on my new mini pc, but the Ssd it came with is not big enough and will not hold the whole blockchain. I added an internal Ssd but Ubuntu won’t recognize it. I think I figured out my problem is that I am running Ubuntu on a virtual machine on wsl2. I found a post on a forum that explained that additional physical drives cannot be added to the virtual machine. It went on to say that if I use a “wsl —import” or “wsl —export” command, I can extend the wsl to the new, larger hard drive. Then I can run Ubuntu from the larger Ssd without a space issue. Is this true? Does anyone have experience with this?
A WD SA510 internal SSD is not compatible with Linux. Ask me how I know.
The longer I live in this hidden world of music and musicians, the more I come to find that many of the typical ideas of what it is to make a living as someone in the field of music are complete nonsense. Most people believe that being a musician offers two job options: performing, teaching, or both. If you you want to perform, you have to be the best if you want to make enough money to survive; you need to know the right people and be in the right place at the right time. If you want to teach, you have to have a high tolerance for small children and public school systems, or have the means and support to run your own business. Those are the two stereotypical options, and even those descriptions are barely true.
The following is a list of other professions in the music industry besides those mentioned above: instrument maker (band instruments, percussion instruments, luthier, pianos, electronic instrument, etc.), instrument repair technician, instrument sales, sound recording technician, record producing, record marketing, music librarian, music historian, musicologist, theatre manager, music school director, music therapist, concert hall director, radio DJ, composer, arranger, music editor, music magazine publisher, music book author, sheet music publisher, music critic, biographer, agent, lyricist, arts organization fund raiser, roadie, piano mover, A & R, string maker, copyright lawyer, historical instrument curator, audio engineer...
Even within the piano technician profession there are layers of jobs besides just being a home service technician. One could be a soundboard/Pinblocks manufacturer, a rebuilder, a concert hall staff technician, a music school staff technician, a hammer maker, an action parts producer, an action parts distributor, a refinisher, a key maker, a tool maker, a tool distributor, an instrument manufacturer CEO... the list goes on.
If you are good at something and love music, there is a job for you in the industry. When someone says, “don’t go into music, you’ll
never be able to make a living,” laugh at them,
heartily. They truly have no idea what is out there. There are many jobs available, one just has to look for them. Granted, they do require specific skills that are developed over years of practice and training, some more than others, but what professions don’t? There is significantly more to the music industry than what you see on TV or read in the paper. If you are good at something and love music, there is a job for you in the industry.
There are two types of people in the world:
1)People who own a spinet piano
2)People who don’t own a spinet piano
These are usually the piano inherited from grandma because they were so popular in the 1950s. It was a tiny piano (before electric keyboards) that could fit in a small apartment and also look nice. Many have somewhat ornate cases. The problem is the action and the sound.
The actions on spinets are what is called a drop action where the keys pull up on the other parts from a wire instead of pushing up on them from the end of the key like in modern upright pianos. Drop actions are small and tight and difficult to work on. They feel different to play than any other type of piano action.
The other issue with sound is that the strings are so short and thick, they don’t vibrate well and thus cause more harmonics than fundamental. We call this “inharmonicity” and spinets have a ton of it. Bass notes are especially muddy and unclear. They were built as a cheap piano too, so regardless of quality technician work, they will never be a great instrument.
The better models were made by Acrosonic (Baldwin), Wurlitzer, and Yamaha. Maybe they are good for furniture for a hobbyist, but not a piano for any serious musician. I don’t even believe they are good for kids to learn on as the action is outdated and abnormal.
Teknochek Collision by Slavic Soul Party
#musician
Agreed! That’s what I meant by cycles
I think the biggest problem we face today is that so many people are completely out of touch with nature. No sense of natural cycles, hostile toward animals, bugs, and plant life, no ability to identify foodstuffs, lack of understanding of natural building materials, etc.
Love me some harp.
Digital keyboards aren’t real pianos
