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On DB's thread I keep thinking off-topic thoughts. So I'm afraid this had to happen. I'll start with B4 paper. It was the perfect size for music...  |
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« Reply #1 on: 23:53:26, 23-01-2008 » |
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B4 paper. It was the perfect size for music... Agreed! You got there B4 me.  |
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Andy D
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« Reply #2 on: 00:27:08, 24-01-2008 » |
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...ime Minidiscs!  |
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« Reply #3 on: 01:08:47, 24-01-2008 » |
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Personal handwritten letters.
It's amazing how much time I spent as a teenager writing to far-away friends in green-inked Gothic script. Or writing letters in the form of a spiral. Or drawing silly doodles in the margins. U cnt do that w txt msgs.
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #4 on: 01:10:27, 24-01-2008 » |
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How about social democracy?
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #5 on: 01:23:45, 24-01-2008 » |
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How about social democracy?
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #6 on: 09:12:08, 24-01-2008 » |
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Personal handwritten letters.
How I agree! And what on earth are biographers going to do? "The texts and e-mails of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" - just not the same. |
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #7 on: 09:13:52, 24-01-2008 » |
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To say nothing of "The essemesses of Oliver Sudden". Complete and unexpurgated. Hurry while stocks last.
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« Reply #8 on: 09:25:53, 24-01-2008 » |
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The other significant aspect of this kind of thing, at least from a specialist antiquarian's standpoint (not mine, I hasten to add), is that the sometimes astonishing prices that auction rooms can attract for scraps of sketches in the hand of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven et al would become a thing of the past if all such scribblings were eventually to be done in Sibelius or Finale instead of by means of pens, pencils and/or other more traditional writing implements; I can't, for example, quite envisage a couple of lines of typescripted aide-memoire bearing a handful of notes underpinned by the words "muβ es sein? es muβ sein!" fetching a six figure sum other than in the exceedingly unlikely event of its being accompanied by incontrovertible DNA evidence that Beethoven himself had been the typist...
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #9 on: 10:16:41, 24-01-2008 » |
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Parents looking after their own children instead of handing them over to childminders, grandparents and nannies.
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stuart macrae
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« Reply #10 on: 12:25:55, 24-01-2008 » |
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Proper manuscript paper - particularly of the Panopus variety. I've been having to photocopy my own paper for years, but now I'm encountering problems obtaining some of the larger formats...on B3 paper, I believe...I only have one sheet of 45-stave paper left! |
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« Reply #11 on: 12:36:14, 24-01-2008 » |
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Stuart, it might be worth getting in touch with Christopher Wintle. His publishing firm Plumbago do make manuscript paper, and I know he's quite open to the idea of manufacturing to composers' specifications, if you and a few others could convince him there'd be at least a modest demand for it. (Jonno Cole should know him through King's.) |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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richard barrett
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« Reply #12 on: 12:42:41, 24-01-2008 » |
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Stuart, it might be worth getting in touch with Christopher Wintle. His publishing firm Plumbago do make manuscript paper, and I know he's quite open to the idea of manufacturing to composers' specifications, if you and a few others could convince him there'd be at least a modest demand for it. (Jonno Cole should know him through King's.) Very interesting, Time. I am in the market for a large pile of something like A2 manuscript paper in a few months' time. |
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« Reply #13 on: 12:52:49, 24-01-2008 » |
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I'd be grateful if anyone getting in touch with Christopher would mention that I recommended him, if that's not too much trouble. (I shall be approaching him shortly about another matter and it would be nice if he was feeling well-disposed towards me.  ) |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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richard barrett
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« Reply #14 on: 13:00:47, 24-01-2008 » |
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I'd be grateful if anyone getting in touch with Christopher would mention that I recommended him, if that's not too much trouble.
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