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This user is tired of silly drama on Wikipedia.
Cary says: Ignore All Dramas.
August 2024
Friday
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I am here for some very limited purposes, because some people have asked me to help in some specific cases. I am prepared to do this. I am not intending to be here much, at present. I have not yet decided whether to start using this account actively again. No, I don't want to talk about any of the foregoing, thanks, the people concerned know who they are and how to get hold of me. This is about some ongoing unresolved issues being discussed on one or more mailing lists, when that debate comes to fruition I will take a view. Guy (Help!) 12:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trout this userWere this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout.

teh internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

Content of Wikipedia, December 2007citation needed


My father died this evening. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/George_Stait_Chapman Guy (Help!) 00:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HOAX

Could you stop removing information about third bridge? The term itself was a hoax, but not the technique. Please wait what will happen on Moodswinger. You are currently erasing information which is just truth. YuriLandman (talk) 14:02, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hoax or OR, there were virtually no independent references and none that I could find which were provably independent of Wikipedia, so I cleaned it up. Guy (Help!) 14:23, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aliquot stringing

http://www.bluthner.co.uk/bluthner/special.html

Generations of piano makers have been constantly attempting to improve the quality of their instruments.

Julius Blüthner made an important contribution with the development of the Aliquot System. Patented for the first time in 1872, it was one more step that provided Blüthner's well known warm and romantic sound.

Currently, the Patented Aliquot System employs and additional fourth string in the treble section attached directly to the bridge that is not struck by the hammers (Figure 6).

The fourth string is stimulated to vibrate through sympathetic resonance when the other three strings are struck, which results in an acoustical system enriching the overtone spectrum. It produces a very dynamic sound, which is audible over a wide range. This unique effect conveys the resonant treble of the Blüthner piano. As an example, it is possible to experience this special effect with many of Beethoven's compositions giving an added dimension in tone colour and dynamics.

Another factor that is a great advantage is that all Blüthner strings are individually hitched. This allows for the Aliquot System to develop to its optimum as well as guaranteeing that the strings are tuned exactly.

For optimum effect, precise tuning is essential. In today's instruments the 'aliquot strings' are tuned in unison with the trichords. —Preceding unsigned comment added by YuriLandman (talk • contribs) 14:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

harry partch

http://www.newband.org/instruments.htm#partch%20instruments +read also Genesis of a Music

Kithara: Both Kithara I and the majestically tall Kithara II (81 inches) use 72 strings, stretched vertically, arranged into 12 sets of six strings each. The performer strums with picks or fingers, and must cover his or her territory very nimbly, since the instruments are both quite large. Pyrex rods are used on 4 of the hexads to produce moving tones, giving the instrument a sound somewhat like a cross between a bottle-neck guitar and a harp. Partch built the first kithara in 1938. The current Kithara I was built in 1972, one of his last projects. Kithara II was built in 1954.

Harmonic Canons: there are two types. The simpler type is Harmonic Canon II; these box-like instruments have 44 strings and adjustable bridges which are uniquely configured for each piece. Harmonic Canon I has two planes of 44 strings each. The planes intersect near the middle of each string and thus the player may play on either plane or both at once. Also a moveable pyrex rod controls the pitch on some strings in one plane. The harmonic canons are both melody instruments and as providers of the harmonic underpinning, hence its name, canon, used in the sense of "law". It is played with picks or fingers and is strikingly used in cascades of pitches. Partch built his first canon in 1945, and continued to refine the instrument into the 70's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by YuriLandman (talk • contribs) 14:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bart Hopkin about the Pencilina

http://pencilina.com/insts.html

The pencilina is an electric board zither played primarily by striking the strings with sticks; also by plucking and bowing. Bradford first created it around 1985, and has continued to refine it. (“It just keeps developing," he says.) The basic form is of two boards mounted parallel to each other on a stand, like extended guitar necks with no bodies. Each has a bridge at either end, and tuning machines at one end. One of the necks has six guitar strings stretched across it; the other has four bass strings. Wedged over and under the strings in each neck is a stick – an old drum stick for the guitar strings and a metal rod for the bass strings. The sticks divide each string into two segments, one on each side, which vibrate quasi-independently and so can be played separately. The sticks can also be moved to alter the effective string lengths on either side.


There are four built-in pickups: two are contact mics mounted in the bridges at one end of each neck, and two are guitar-style electromagnetic pickups which are placed under the strings toward the opposite end. In addition, there are four bells – a fire bell, a door bell, and two brass telephone ringer bells – mounted at the end of one of the necks. The contact mics pick up the ring-ing of the bells through the wood of the instrument. They also pick up percussion anywhere else on the wooden necks, so any spot that happens to produce a nice sound is available for drumming. The slidable stick arrangement, it turns out, is laden with odd sound possibilities. Typically the wedged stick divides each string into two separate string segments with different pitches depending on their relative lengths. But for many stick locations, there is communication across the stick, so that when one side is struck the segments on both sides contribute to the sound. The quality of this effect depends on the pitch relationship between the two strings segments and whether they share any overtones frequencies in common. All manner of strange gong-tones can arise, infinite in their variability. Other special effects occur when the player pivots or flexes the wedged sticks to change the tension on the strings as they sound. The fact that the electromagnetic pickups are movable adds yet another parameter.


The instrument, as you may guess, is completely idiosyncratic – and yet within its idiosyncrasy lies a world of possibilities. Bradford’s phrase is “I haven’t hit a wall with it yet” – meaning that in all the years he’s been playing, he hasn’t exhausted any facet of its potential. “It's been my primary focus for a long time, and I’m still learning gnd trying to improve on it. I’ve grown to really like what the pencilina can do.” Bradford currently uses a pair of shortened timbale sticks to strike the strings. But yes – when he first began to play the instrument, he used a pair of pencils as his strikers.

-Bart Hopkin, Orbitones, Spoon Harps and Bellowphones, Ellipsis Arts, 1998 —Preceding unsigned comment added by YuriLandman (talk • contribs) 14:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3rd

here's the title derived from http://www.nonoctave.com/heroes/buzz/harmonic.html YuriLandman (talk) 15:29, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Would you consider this [1] edit by the IP Address: 166.70.235.16, which traceroutes through "jmerkey.fttp.xmission.com" to be a violation of his one year ban? If I'm correct, that resets his ban (Not that I think he'd actually come back or be allowed back when this is all over, anyway) SirFozzie (talk) 19:14, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I would consider it to be quite likely to be Jeff Merkey in a fit of righteous anger. We do not (I hope, anyway) bring out the big guns when people are upset about things going on at their own articles. As I said, please do leave this until I've at least tried to find some framework by which he can be helped to address any problems with the article. He is not evil, but he is Jeff Merkey, and needs a touch of sensitivity. Last time we spoke we were on the phone for well over an hour. Guy (Help!) 19:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I'll leave it alone for now. BTW, after reviewing his comments on the evidence/workshop page of his arbcom page) (I was trying to debunk theories on Slashdot, along with JoshuaZ and Tony Sidway amongst others), I'd fight tooth and nail any attempts to bring him back. Just my .02, man :) SirFozzie (talk) 19:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Yes, plenty of people find him too kooky to get along with, but on the plus side he was working well with Phaedriel on the Native American articles against some insidious POV-pushing, so I cut him a bit of slack. I'm quite prepared to believe he's the kind of person who is constitutionally incapable of getting along here, but as I say I think we should be kind here - and I think we should also be careful not to over-react and give people even more ammunition. Article subjects are entitled to at least a little bit of leeway where their articles are concerned, it can be upsetting to people as we know. Guy (Help!) 19:23, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tough day

My hot water cylinder sprung a leak. So I turned off the isolation valves and they leaked. So I went tot he loft tank and that was leaking too...

So I replaced the loft tank, cylinder and incidentally the defective bath tap that I was trying to fix when all the other crap happened. The old cylinder is full of limescale, of course. I'll cut it open so the kids can have a look.

Needless to say all the soldered joints were perfect but there were a couple of minor issues of weeping from the compression joints. Always the way. So now I'm tired and sore and going to have a nice warm bath! Hurrah! Guy (Help!) 20:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hats off to you sir! That's a pretty good load of plumbing work. I can successfully swap out a toilet, but if I undertook the project you did, the lower level of my home would be a lagoon. :-D Vassyana (talk) 07:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cuban artists redux

Hello, JzG … Sorry to intrude, but since you blocked 200.55.139.212 (talk · contribs), I thought you should know that 169.158.224.133 (talk · contribs) appears to be one of the IP socks for ArleArt (talk · contribs), adding the same linkspam as discussed here … Happy Editing! — The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (talk) 13:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Why did you archive my report? It is still in discussion? Uconnstud (talk) 21:43, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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