Quite true! 'though not quite "never" for me. I have been attacked, though not to the degree you feel you have, to be sure!
When it happenes to me I wait until I'm no longer P.O.'d about it, restate my case to, hopefully better state what I meant. If I get back more 'attack' I recall what one of my high school English teachers once said when he was attacked or insulted: "I just consider the source, and dismiss it."
Remember Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's smarter brother? He would rather let others think him wrong than bother making the effort to demonstrate he was, in fact, right. A philosophy I try to embrace.
I love this thread and thank you hugely for starting it and letting it grow as it has, embracing so much great stuff. I just find all the bickering, of late, to be, well, tedious.
Jack
... Just that poor Lakey ended up painting a big target in the center of his foreheadAnd that proved too inviting for the mischievous nature of the Toad!
...
Just for clarification, I quote myself:
Lakey, I know you don't want to hear (read) this, but I think you've fallen for some strange frequency-Voodoo. I've put your words to the test:
1. I took one of the concert guitars I have here, tuned it to exactly A= 440 Hz, played a song, then tuned it to A=432 Hz and played the same song. The result was what I expected: At 432 Hz the Guitar was a bit easier to play, sounded a little smoother and a bit more muddy, due to the slightly lower string tension. That's all. Guitar vendors all over the world tune their instruments a little lower for that exact reason: They're easier to play and (the instrument's as well as the player's) mistakes are less audible. Which, by the way, is the reason why I always carry a good digital tuner with me, when I shop for instruments.
2. I replayed a stored Classical and a stored Blues song on an electric piano at A= 440 Hz and at A=432 Hz, and although the difference in the same songs was audible when switching between these two tunings, it had no emotional effect on me. You may blame my almost 40 years on stage for that.
So yeah, I think it's just Voodoo which has no real effect on anybody.
You have a computer, right? Try it yourself, download Audacity and tune any recorded song to whatever you like. The program is free for personal use and it's available for all major platforms, AFAIK.
Oh, and about discord: Did you ever look inside a piano? Did you ever tune one? Most keys have 3 strings/key. Tune all 3 strings of any keys to their exact same frequency. What do you get? An extremely dull sounding piano at best. You don't need to believe me, you can just try it yourself. An acceptable digital chromatic tuner shouldn't cost you more than 25 bucks.
But don't come running to me when your piano sounds like shit, after you've tried that.
, MrN
So it can be easily confirmed that it was me who said that, not Smilla. :wink2:
Quite true! 'though not quite "never" for me. I have been attacked, though not to the degree you feel you have, to be sure!
When it happenes to me I wait until I'm no longer P.O.'d about it, restate my case to, hopefully better state what I meant. If I get back more 'attack' I recall what one of my high school English teachers once said when he was attacked or insulted: "I just consider the source, and dismiss it."
Remember Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's smarter brother? He would rather let others think him wrong than bother making the effort to demonstrate he was, in fact, right. A philosophy I try to embrace.
I love this thread and thank you hugely for starting it and letting it grow as it has, embracing so much great stuff. I just find all the bickering, of late, to be, well, tedious.
Jack
Very true. L in his continual misconceptions & misrepresentations despite being constantly corrected by others has made directing seemingly 'mean words' at him unfortunately all too necessary on so many occasions as to amount to practically a continuous process.
Far from being the 'victim' in this, if anyone can be characterized as being victimized then it would be those whose views have been misrepresented by Lakey (albeit more from ignorance than malice) and those who have been all too frequently subjected to his misguided & unsupported 'analysis'.
Mark A. Baker
I don't like jello. Have you any sherry?
Mark A. Baker
But, Mark, that IS Sherry, holding the jello shot for you!
Jack
I don't like jello. Have you any sherry?
Mark A. Baker
