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market stall fruit is a lot cheaper than from m&s Very true, Lord Byron, but market stall cakes aren't nearly as good (I imagine), and if you're feeling lazy M&S make terrific ready meals and sandwiches. Their fruit and vegetables aren't particularly wonderful and very expensive. |
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Does anybody has a problem with cold hands. I have to practice, but my hands are cold.
It must be dampness that make my hands cold.
I am not young and I am afraid to pull a muscle. May be I will have arthritus. My mother and grandmother did not have it.
I am panicing a little. It is ok to rest too. May be people know some exercises to warm up.
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Hi t-p, I too suffer with cold hands when I am playing - sometimes they seem to warm up after I have stopped which doesn't really make sense.  I have low blood pressure anyway so I am not concerned! I do have arthritis but it is in my legs only (at the moment - bear in mind I am only 34) so I don't think having cold hands and suffering from arthritis are connected. I have been known to dip my hands in hot water prior to practising but these days I don't really bother (unless it's is physically cold in the room where the piano is). Hope this helps. |
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« Reply #545 on: 15:29:32, 13-05-2007 » |
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It does help Jonathan.
I thnk the room with the piano is cold (damp cold). I have a dehumidifier, but it has to work all the time to make it 70%. Otherwise it is 80%.
Piano has a dump chaser electric low hit inside.
A mother of a student told me that if one massages the palm of one's hand then it gets warm. It helps me, but it takes time.
I used to go to the piano and play with no warm up. But now I have to stop because I am afraid.
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Piano has a dump chaser electric low hit inside.
A what? |
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I don't know exact name of it. It looks like a long stick. My tuner installed it inside the piano. There are wires coming out of it to join the socket. Mine is very primitive, but there are chasers that can turn themselves on and off. They are expansive. Mine is about 80 euro, but it can go up to 200 or something. My looks like this stick, I don't have any box with it.  |
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As an electronica buff, you want of one those don't you Richard?
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As an electronica buff, you want of one those don't you Richard?
Maybe I do, but I should imagine it's made so as to produce as little sound as possible, which isn't really my cup of tea. I'd prefer somethign more like this  (No pianos were harmed during the installation of this machine) |
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« Reply #550 on: 17:16:08, 13-05-2007 » |
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 This is electronic organ. I can not imagine how it works. Does one have to have warm hands to play it? |
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A magnificent bit of kit wouldnt you agree t-p? Does it travel on that small pantechnicon in the background?
Bit more technically, do you have the opportunity to get involved in customising set-ups like this for your
work?
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A magnificent bit of kit wouldnt you agree t-p? Does it travel on that small pantechnicon in the background?
Bit more technically, do you have the opportunity to get involved in customising set-ups like this for your
work? Well I could have done with this particular one (in case you couldn't guess, it converts a normal piano into a computer-controlled player piano - the device on the keyboard has 88 "fingers") but I thought I needed to have some practical experience with it before writing anything, and I haven't got around to that yet. The small pantechnicon in the background is in fact part of another instrument, a "player organ". Here's another of its "stops" -  |
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As an electronica buff, you want of one those don't you Richard?
I'd prefer somethign more like this Does this thing have some kind of proprietary control scheme, or could you run a voltage generator from Max (like you might with a lighting setup) to make it do its thing? Until Yamaha makes a bluetooth Disklavier, I'm always on the lookout. |
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Does this thing have some kind of proprietary control scheme, or could you run a voltage generator from Max (like you might with a lighting setup) to make it do its thing? Until Yamaha makes a bluetooth Disklavier, I'm always on the lookout.
More information: http://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/playerpiano.html |
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