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Posts for May, 2006 - Click title to read

A special Piano

When do you need a “special” piano?
You know you want one when, even on your steinway concert grand model D piano, you try turning a page and instead 2 pages turn! Then you want this piano…. (which probably doesn’t exist)

Winter or Spring?

It’s now May, yet indoors it’s colder than it was in February/March – reason being that the heating has now been turned off. And the weather has been pretty gloomy for the past week – nonstop drizzles, and howling wind – imagine the wind chill.
Weather aside.
Exam season’s around now, although it’s weird, because my exams [...]

The Modified Decca Tree Project

My Decca Tree, XY, and ORTF unfinished adventures! How I altered the original design to my purpose and the results, along with a few pictures and a diagram.

Article contains a total of 32 seconds worth of some of my recordings, if you want to listen to them. If you want to judge them, please use some decent speakers.

Random music update

Some music updates – Evening Recital, Eucharist (chamber choir), and a grade 5 ABRSM exam!

Busiest week?

You have those odd days which are busier than the rest.. In my case, I came across my busiest week of my time in millfield so far. Well, partly my fault, I guess, but still it was the busiest.

The visual/live element of performing arts

Having just been to a live concert, the first ‘real’ concert in a couple of years – a few questions have sprung up in my mind. Particularly, this question -

“How does the visual aspect of a concert affect the experience of the music?”

Sorry, and Thank You!

First of all, if you tried to access any websites hosted on the server between 3am and 2pm GMT+7 Wednesday, May 3rd, you may have noticed… well, the server was down. Sorry for that – any ‘inconvinience’ caused etc. Shall not go into technical details on what went wrong  (basically a boot.ini problem) or why [...]

Back to daily life…

So, one week has past since I’ve come back here – and in ways it feels like one week, in others it feels like a month that I’ve already come back.
Studies and daily activities were thrown back into full action – no delays whatsoever. In ways it’s good – gives us less time to waste [...]