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Sunday, February 24th, 2008 04:06 pmEvery now and then I dig out my Music 4000 keyboard, and have a play on it, just to stop me from forgetting how to play the piano and how to read music completely (as nearly happened before I brought my Hybrid Music System to Edinburgh where I then lived). Typically, I'll practise scales then play a bit with Mozart's Musical Joke: I have the score for a setting of it as piano duet. The idea is program the primo part and then accompany it with the secundo part at the keyboard. (This is after the time ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluepork got me to accompany him playing this—boy was it a musical joke by the time I was through with it; you'd never guess I was once Grade 7 standard...) Maybe one day I'll have the patience to get through programming the whole of it.
Today (being the first day I'd done this in a while, as I had to mend the ribbon cable connecting the keyboard to the pooter first), I tried to load the MIX module in AMPLE and got an error: the disk was corrupt. Much to my surprise, though, though I've only got a handful of 5¼" disks here, I did have a backup. (Now the question is: can I be bothered to reformat and re-back up onto the original? Probably not, as I still have the original Studio 5000 disk in Newcastle.)
Meanwhile, I see in the news today that residents of a street where a serial killer lived want to have the street's name changed, following the bad associations the media have created with it.
They tried to do that for an entire town once, in the nineteenth century: The residents of Rugby, home of the notorious killer George (IIRC) Palmer, wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to change the name of the town, for the same reason. "Good idea!" wrote back Lord Palmerston. "Why not name it after me?"
The idea was quietly dropped.
bluepork got me to accompany him playing this—boy was it a musical joke by the time I was through with it; you'd never guess I was once Grade 7 standard...) Maybe one day I'll have the patience to get through programming the whole of it.Today (being the first day I'd done this in a while, as I had to mend the ribbon cable connecting the keyboard to the pooter first), I tried to load the MIX module in AMPLE and got an error: the disk was corrupt. Much to my surprise, though, though I've only got a handful of 5¼" disks here, I did have a backup. (Now the question is: can I be bothered to reformat and re-back up onto the original? Probably not, as I still have the original Studio 5000 disk in Newcastle.)
Meanwhile, I see in the news today that residents of a street where a serial killer lived want to have the street's name changed, following the bad associations the media have created with it.
They tried to do that for an entire town once, in the nineteenth century: The residents of Rugby, home of the notorious killer George (IIRC) Palmer, wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to change the name of the town, for the same reason. "Good idea!" wrote back Lord Palmerston. "Why not name it after me?"
The idea was quietly dropped.
