thirteenfingers

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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
I've posted about this here before, but a lot of people who upload their own videos of classical music on youtube and get copyright-warned or copyright-striked are too spooked to file a counter-claim. If it was a bot that automatically
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Northeast US. Actually it appears to have come back maybe two or three minutes after my first comment.
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
It's down for me. Tells me my channel "has no content". I have a live stream scheduled in less than 24 hours - keeping my fingers crossed this is resolved quickly.
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by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Very disappointed that the article doesn't mention that about 1734 Johann Sebastian Bach actually wrote a secular cantata (often called the "Coffee Cantata") telling the story of a father trying to get his daughter to stop dr
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by thirteenfingers 7y ago
Yes. Even among those who hope someday to make music their living, many will opt to forgo immediate profit for experience and exposure alone. My personal attitude (in general, I haven't contributed to this site) is that it's incre
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by thirteenfingers 7y ago
Classical pianist here. I've been through youtube's broken copyright enforcement system several times. I'll post a video of myself performing some composition that is in the public domain and it'll get "identified&q
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by thirteenfingers 7y ago
I'm a pianist with an active performing schedule and I'm the same way. I'll listen to music at work if I have relatively mindless tasks to get out of the way, but when it comes to actual coding or anything requiring careful t
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by thirteenfingers 9y ago
A year and a half ago, an actor-singer friend of mine and I decided to give a concert of our personal favorite Tom Lehrer songs. Turnout was tremendous. The bulk of the audience was of that age where they would have been in high school or c
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by thirteenfingers 9y ago
Classical composer and performer here. You just hit upon the one aspect of my chosen genre that drives me batshit insane. I've had countless arguments with other performers about how rigid one has to be when performing any given classi
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by thirteenfingers 9y ago
Fellow composer here - I completely agree, and I suspect the great classical composers often felt as much, that their own musical ideas led them in a totally different direction than they originally intended. My personal feeling about Eno&#
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by thirteenfingers 10y ago
I think that's a great approach. Personally I haven't been on social media for a couple years now (for various reasons including concerns over data privacy) but I considered having all those opposing views at hand to be one of the
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by thirteenfingers 10y ago
Likely third-party voter here: (1) I suspect every voter has a threshold of evil-ness beyond which they simply can't in good conscience vote for Candidate X, even if Candidate Y is evil-er. For me, we've passed that threshold. (2)
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by thirteenfingers 11y ago
> mostly philosophers No wonder you say you can find the Greek stuff "pretty boring." There's so much more to Greek literature than philosophy. Try * Homer - the closest thing the Greeks had to the Bible, yet so differen
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by thirteenfingers 12y ago
Great fun. One minor nitpick - the story of "Apache Server" being originally derived from "A Patchy Server" is a long-standing myth; the name was originally intended to be a tribute to the Apache Native American peoples.
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by thirteenfingers 12y ago
Website not responding at present (for me). Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eck8H7O...
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by thirteenfingers 12y ago
Thanks for that - I've never seen that book before but it looks incredibly thorough and comprehensive. Another book on the subject is Arthur Reblitz's classic "Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding: For the Professional, th
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by thirteenfingers 12y ago
What specifically are your reservations? - I haven't played around with many Scheme implementations besides DrScheme/DrRacket so I'm not questioning your judgement, I'm just genuinely curious.
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by thirteenfingers 12y ago
Players of bowed stringed instruments run into this difficulty too. When playing with piano, cellists often have to tune both their lowest and highest strings to the piano, and then sort of average out the discrepancy in the two strings bet
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by thirteenfingers 13y ago
Previous discussion regarding the original EFF article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6692833
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by thirteenfingers 13y ago
How long ago did you sign up? It took them two or three days to send me the first set.