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unbibiumI just remembered the weird stringed instrument I played there.
It was shaped like a triangle, and has the natural notes on one side and sharps on the other, though I didn't see the labels at first. It's played with a bow.
Being a guitarist, I didn't know any songs that afforded that kind of design. So the lady there taught me Joy to the World, as a descending C scale..... but it took experimentation to get it right...
I went to show Devi and Poot the store; they're more accomplished musicians than I, so I figured they could pick it up a little easier. Suddenly I couldn't play Joy to the World anymore. But I did remember one song all of a sudden. I had to transpose it to A-minor, but that was the easy part. At least I think it worked. I probably screwed up the tempo big time, having to translate from guitar to whatever-this-was on the fly, and I miscalculated a few times. So it might not even have sounded like music to my audience, since the both of them left in the middle of the song.
But, I'm sufficiently intrigued that I want to join the SCA, find someone who already owns one of these instruments, and go to their house and practice it, so that if ever the need should arise again, I can play something that sounds like music on it.
I'd have bought one, but they're $225, and as Devi observed, total hell to tune.
It was shaped like a triangle, and has the natural notes on one side and sharps on the other, though I didn't see the labels at first. It's played with a bow.
Being a guitarist, I didn't know any songs that afforded that kind of design. So the lady there taught me Joy to the World, as a descending C scale..... but it took experimentation to get it right...
I went to show Devi and Poot the store; they're more accomplished musicians than I, so I figured they could pick it up a little easier. Suddenly I couldn't play Joy to the World anymore. But I did remember one song all of a sudden. I had to transpose it to A-minor, but that was the easy part. At least I think it worked. I probably screwed up the tempo big time, having to translate from guitar to whatever-this-was on the fly, and I miscalculated a few times. So it might not even have sounded like music to my audience, since the both of them left in the middle of the song.
But, I'm sufficiently intrigued that I want to join the SCA, find someone who already owns one of these instruments, and go to their house and practice it, so that if ever the need should arise again, I can play something that sounds like music on it.
I'd have bought one, but they're $225, and as Devi observed, total hell to tune.
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Date: 2002-02-17 12:55 pm (UTC)The walking staff will serve me well, I think.
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Date: 2002-02-17 03:49 pm (UTC)There's also a bassline which is a bit of a signature to the piece, since it also serves as the intro.
You will not likely find it on an MP3. Inquire further if you want to know how I know it.
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Date: 2002-02-17 12:28 pm (UTC)SCA = evil.
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Date: 2002-02-17 03:36 pm (UTC)1. Morris dancing, which looks a little fruity but kind of fun.
2. hitting each other with plastic swords, which is similar.
Nobody has told me about the evil part.
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Date: 2002-02-17 09:28 pm (UTC)But, if I can't meet them going to swing dancing, salsa dancing, cooking classes, language clubs, renaissance festivals, parties, coffee houses, anime club meetings, at the mall, at work, at the grocery store, in Portland, Seattle, Boston, Sonoma County, or or on the Internet, why go through all the trouble of joining a club that'll make Blerg de-friend me and probably result in nothing but embarrassing photographs.
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Date: 2002-02-18 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-02-17 09:05 pm (UTC)Do you long for a simpler time?
A time of ignorance, illiteracy, oppression, and disease?
A time when beating people up with sticks was considered a romantic art form?
JOIN THE S. D. A.
The S.D.A. (Sociopaths of the Dark Ages) is an organization dedicated to reviving the values and attitudes of Mediaeval Europe.
FEAST on maggoty meat, moldy bread, and muddy wine!
ENJOY MIDEAVAL SPORTS like bull baiting, cat bashing, witch burning, heretic torturing, and dying a broken down scrofulous wreck by your early 30s!
RELIVE THE GOOD OLD DAYS when men were men and women were property! When you had the freedom to defecate any where at any time! When any official of the all knowing True Church could imprison you, kill you, and send you to eternal damnation at whim!
Of course, you can pay to join the S.D.A. as a minor noble (like everyone else has), but we especially want to recruit peasants. Peasantry get to do all the work for the nobility, in exchange for which the nobility get to beat, rob, torture, rape, and kill the peasantry for amusement. We wish to restore the proper Dark Ages balance of hundreds of peasants for each noble... at present we have an unfortunate shortage of peasants (well, okay, none actually). Join as a peasant and the S.D.A. will waive your initiation fee. You need only to supply your own historically accurate costume (consisting of a head to toe covering of mud, manure, lice, ticks, and open sores).
P.S.:
Some of Froggy~~~repost from ARK~~~repost~~~repotzie~~~
Do you long for a simpler time?
A time of ignorance, illiteracy, oppression, and disease?
A time when beating people up with sticks was considered a romantic art form?
JOIN THE S. D. A.
The S.D.A. (Sociopaths of the Dark Ages) is an organization dedicated to reviving the values and attitudes of Mediaeval Europe.
FEAST on maggoty meat, moldy bread, and muddy wine!
ENJOY MIDEAVAL SPORTS like bull baiting, cat bashing, witch burning, heretic torturing, and dying a broken down scrofulous wreck by your early 30s!
RELIVE THE GOOD OLD DAYS when men were men and women were property! When you had the freedom to defecate any where at any time! When any official of the all knowing True Church could imprison you, kill you, and send you to eternal damnation at whim!
Of course, you can pay to join the S.D.A. as a minor noble (like everyone else has), but we especially want to recruit peasants. Peasantry get to do all the work for the nobility, in exchange for which the nobility get to beat, rob, torture, rape, and kill the peasantry for amusement. We wish to restore the proper Dark Ages balance of hundreds of peasants for each noble... at present we have an unfortunate shortage of peasants (well, okay, none actually). Join as a peasant and the S.D.A. will waive your initiation fee. You need only to supply your own historically accurate costume (consisting of a head to toe covering of mud, manure, lice, ticks, and open sores).
P.S.:
Some of Froggys Best friends are in the SDA! Really! So please dont hit me over the head with that rusty iron mace! Thanks!!
-- Froggy
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Date: 2002-02-17 09:11 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-02-17 09:37 pm (UTC)