For the 2nd time in a week or so, (1st time regarding dwarf beans ), I'm following Alys Fowler's advice, this time with regard to Swiss chard . Long story short, after midsummer plants which often bolt if planted in spring will resist the impulse to do so, probably because of shortening days; (I say shortening, but in Glasgow, in July, we're still getting 18 hours of daylight). I got a packet of Bright Lights , at a good price, (another reason to wait until July before sowing, lots of bargains, I've noticed). But where to sow them? Most of the 2nd bed is under a tarpaulin, but it wasn't quite big enough to cover the whole bed, so the last 5ft or so went under a sheet of plastic, (in the background of the photo in this post, here .) Transparent plastic was a foolish idea, weeds were growing underneath it, so I covered most of it with sheets of metal from the old shed. I decided to leave the tarp, but use the area beneath the plastic for the chard. Who-ah there...
THIS ABSOLUTELY ROCKS!!! but in a folky kind of way.. never will we be short of fiddly dee tunes again..
ReplyDelete... the fife is on it's way...
got barfly and flabc working off the cuff and flabc takes it into logic! (audio program) so that's really cool.. haven't been so excited for ages...
ReplyDeletei'm still really sad aren't I?
Well, I'm sadder because I have no fucking idea what you're talking about in that last post. Will research it.
ReplyDeleteThe fife looks like a lot of fun.
they're free programs that turn the abc notation to sound. the latter puts the output into an audio program and there I can apply just about any instrument in the bank to it.
ReplyDeleteBut Logic won't run on a PC, is that right?
ReplyDeleteAnd can barfly change abc into standard musical notation?
Anyway, can't you read music? Fuck's sake, if I can learn it, I'm sure you can.
Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, what kind of fife are you getting? I've been looking at them this morning, and if I master the whistle, I might give one a go.
ReplyDeleteno logic on pc.. don't know about the change to musical notation in barfly. there is a list of software telling what it can do, that's what I went for. your boy should have something compatible if he uses a pc.
ReplyDeleteI perhaps should have gone for the whistle first because the embouchure is going to need so much practice..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQg0vScnQ8E&feature=related
and I got this one..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yamaha-YRF21-Fife/dp/B0002F5F9O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1281537028&sr=8-1
and it came today..
Indeed, but embouchure is a brilliant word, isn't it? I plan to get the fingering right, and then move on to the embouchure of a fife, diggity.
ReplyDeleteAnd did you also buy Fun with the Fife?
ReplyDeletediggity indeed...
ReplyDeleteno, i got http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liz-Goodwin-The-Fife-Book/dp/B000ZNEOU4/ref=pd_sim_b_3
instead- as I read that one was not suitable for the yamaha fife for a reason I can't remember...
managed to get a tune out of it then watched the embouchure vids then completely lost it for about an hour, eventually regained the tune
by the way, how do you put the link in with your text without the http//wwetc bollosks. I can't see how to do it?
ReplyDeleteDoes your lip feel funny?
ReplyDeleteThe link is wee bit of html. I can't show you here because it reads it as html. This should explain it. You dumb fuck.
I see.. My lip is fine and if I can get to grips with it I may get something like this.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather get something like this. Which wasn't made in Pakistan, and wouldn't break my heart if some bastard nicked it.
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ReplyDeleteDon't you think a flute's a wee bit serious? I mean, a whistle or a fife is a right laugh, but they have flutes in the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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I saw that.. something about an symphony orchestra. It's plastic and I should be thankful I'm not aiming for this
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ReplyDeleteAside from the voice, flutes are the earliest known musical instruments.
Shiver me timbres.
well fuckerty fuck...
ReplyDeleteINTERCHANGABLE HEADS!!!
I could do with one of them.
ReplyDeleteFucken hell. Wondrous sound. You have a point. Twat.
ReplyDeleteI too just looked at them on you tube... I'm sold but I want the more expensive one, here. Is there any hope for me? No.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvcNqqHkn7Q&feature=related
ReplyDeleteOh my god Garry, I've just realised, you ARE my soul mate in this madness.
ReplyDeleteYou're better off with a whistle, man, wtf is wrong with you? How about the improbably named Colleen Shanks? Lovely.
ReplyDeleteNo, I like the lower, deeper tuned instruments, and I need a flute so I can fulfil my fantasy.
ReplyDeleteThat can't be real, I must be on drugs. Enough.
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