-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-28-13  18:13 <=-   
      
    NB>> ... Food can't be "healthy." Food, in most cases, is actually dead.   
      
    ML> There are those who eat only things they think are alive,   
    ML> such as certain raw vegetables. I figure, it's like food,   
    ML> give it up.   
      
   Certain extremes become somewhat comical...    
      
    NB>>> would take to do them right... I've worked on Beethoven's Eroica   
    NB>>> variations, and made some progress... but to ever perform them...?    
    NB>>> Nah, not gonna happen this lifetime.  :)   
    ML>> That's a big piece even to aspire to. Glenn Gould serious.   
    NB>> I had to finally accept that.   
    ML> That fugue, oh man.   
      
   The piano variations are distinct from the last movement of the   
   symphony... but still quite challenging...  :)   
       
    ML>> In contrast to those who figure that playing the piano   
    ML>> is just pushing a lot of buttons, I am in awe of those   
    ML>> who can do so. My entire brain seems to be wired in a   
    ML>> way hostile to making music via that means.   
    NB>> I am similarly somewhat in awe of string players, even guitar   
    ML> You do what you're used to, and the rest, it's Greek as far   
    ML> as anyone can tell.   
      
   True.   
       
    NB>> do play various keyboard instruments, and the recorder (fipple flute)   
    NB>> as well (usually the C instruments, though I've once in while tried to   
    NB>> play the F ones)...    
      
    ML> F instruments are okay, as they're a perfect 4th or 5th off,   
      
   As long as I concentrate on the intervals, not the notes/fingering, I do   
   ok with a treble or bass recorder... once I get the first note fixed...    
   If I'm actually reading the music, it ends up confusing me... same as   
   trying to read the tenor staff for singing...   
      
    ML> But Bb instruments, whoever had that genius idea. Whyever on   
    ML> earth not notate at true pitch?   
      
   Beats me...  I've made Bb and Eb transpositions for our church   
   instrumental groups from the hymnal lines...   
      
   ttyl       neb   
      
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