Do you play a musical instrument?

I had to post, just to get us to 301.

Jan, I'm going to need some time with a dictionary of critical terminology.

Contingent upon the ego and the music and the position of the two in relation to the weight of the speaker mass too.   If you actually like holding the stuff - like this, or prefer a cloud base for it all. It doesn't matter if he's a magician or not. 

Char, you'll have to unpack that a little. The Norse translator's not up to much currently. 

Though with respect Char, you are in no doubt more knowledgeable of novelists and their works than I am or likely ever will be, I am northern, working class, and didn't go to college (not that these are necessarily prerequisites for ignorance). I personally can not grasp the link you describe to musicianship that Loki originally conjectured.

Anyway this is all getting a bit decadent and writerish!?(see what I mean), for me so I am off to practice my arpeggios and chromatics, and will return when I understand the subject matter.

Regards Jim.

Wow! Man, that must be some good tea!

Cheerio Jim.

Why've we moved to the padded cell?

Indeed, especially as this thread is now about to get serious, since you moved us to 301.

... all is explained here :

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Exactly Jan. 

Tume away Char. 

No don't do that you might Buster Blood vessel. Why not take up the guitar instead you'll, find it ever so relaxing!

Mmmm, breathe in.  Jim.

Sorry to bring this up again Char, Just trying to get a grip.

I as an amateur guitarist am not in conflict psychologically or otherwise with Django Reinhardt, Martin Taylor, or Eddie Van Halen. I know my place and I am perfectly happy to be in it, and I have no intention of making Joe Bonamassa "piss his pants", and with regard to the subliminal message laced within the last piece of gibberish (again no offence intended). I will keep plugging, because that is where the pleasure lies. I listen to some music on great kit, then I go and play and maybe try to copy some stuff, badly perhaps, but feel like I might have gained.

There is no need (for me) for pretence or monetary gain.

Regards Jim.

Perhaps you could describe me as an "artistic pacifist" ,but I doubt very much that I am the only one with this outlook.

Regards Jim.

I can also hear the late Quentin Crisp describing my ideals as "wretchedly tedious".

Aren't they Eddie Readers lyrics?

Regards Jimmy.

Sorry I don't think you seem to grasp the essence of my point. I think we would both agree that the guitar solo on Beefhearts "further than than we've gone" is both sumptuous and uplifting, and I can, there or thereabouts play it. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that I want to replay that track in a covers band, its the learning of the hand\finger positions that are memorised (not necessarily in the mind its like an automatic reflex,with enough practice.) And can be reused and interlaced with your own new music, provided its in the same key.

Regards Jimmy.

Oh ho ho Char how droll!

"We can be quick-witted or very intelligent, but not both."

Stephen Hawking  The universe in a nutshell  page 168 paragraph 2.

But what has that to do with the musician appreciating naim equipment, I think my explanation is best So, ner-ner-nerner ner.

Toodle loo. Jimmy.

"Oooh,  ... Cheeky!.

don't delay, send off for a copy today and start your course to the stars now

Char: you've just broken a major forum rule!

 think of it as being both the best and the worst at the same time.

Yep, can do that. Not hard.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Remind me, wasn't Dickens that brilliant Victorian satirist? I just can't take him seriously.

Bemused. I don't do bored. That's the advantage of being a Johnsonian Grub Street journalist.

It appears that mice kept in the dark (about what?) for several weeks improved their hearing.

If I sleep longer will I hear better?

I'll have to post a video of my cat telling me "Feed me and make it snappy f*ckwit".

But, since "studies of adult brain plasticity have shown that substantial improvement in function and/or recovery from losses in sensation, cognition, memory, motor control, and affect should be possible, using appropriately designed behavioral training paradigms", surely there has to be a way to reorganize my disorganized and tinnitic auditory cortex, or so you would think.

I'll go with paranoid, in this case.

You're just a heavy metal merchant Jan.  

You're right, amongst other duties I defend my employer against regulatory abuses by health and safety inspectors. Their latest one was to declare that trace levels of lead on floors, from aging lead-containing paint, posed risks to health. My employer has just spent well over $600 000 of taxpayers' money to "clean up" and seal floors to comply with the inspectors' demands. Although we clearly demonstrated that airborne exposure and workers' blood lead were below the limits of detection, apparently facts don't matter.   

And that's where practicing on a musical instrument comes in. Regrow them ! I may be convincing myself that intensely focused listening to music has a similar effect, but I may be delusional.

But what if big pharma already has the tinnitus cure, and they're not telling us ? Who stands to benefit ?

So, if exercice stimulates the brain - I walk therefore I think - and walking is movement, then dancing must be even more effective... because... dancing is inextricable from music (well it was originally). So when I listen intently to music I am dancing in my brain. Can you feel the myelin ? 

Came across these while browsing at lunchtime. Epicurean (brand name) cutting boards made of the same high density and resin-impregnated fibre as skateboard ramps. As always, thoughts turned to music and as I stood tapping the board, I couldn't help but imagining one sitting under the DAC and another under the SN2, with the board sitting on roller bearings or points. There's even a hole for the cables. Well, if they don't work, I suppose they'll make great cutting boards. About 35 bucks each.

Mr Tea-maker,

What is you instrument and when did you last play it?

If you don't play an instrument, what value your contributions to what was quite reasonable thread in the Music Room?

ATB from George