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Not from Best Buy, I wouldn't.

I also got the "fulfillment partner" runaround, and then they said that there might have been a problem since I left the middle initial out of my name for the CC info (which I did not, and their order history shows that I didn't). No, I don't feel "entitled" to an offer that was obviously "too good to be true". But there's a right way to handle snafus like this and a wrong way. Remember the Miles Cellar Door Box price screwup @, where, CDU? They took the hit, & I've shown appreciation in return. Bottom line - they're weasles. I live in an urban area & have plenty of brick & mortar options for Best Buy type merchandise, to say nothing of even more online options. We usually do a fair amount of our Christmas/birthday shopping at local Best Buys. No more. Fuck'em.

Cancellation here as well.

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I continue to insist on a Swingline.

You're welcome. Beautiful tune indeed. Only problem is that you gotta remember it's not "Misty".

I've heard the Joe Brazil stuff. Believe me when I tell you that I've got a very high tolerance for low-quality bootleg sound. Also believe me when I tell you that this stuff is damn near unlistenable. It's one of those things that you think you want until you hear it. Trust me.

A more fitting question would be why most clubs that present "serious music" don't create/nurture a "serious listening" vibe. The answer is simple - they need to sell food and alcohol to make their nut, so they need that clientele as much if not more than they do the "serious listener". This whole notion that you ought to be able to go into a bar - a freakin' bar for cryin' out loud, no matter how much they gussy it up, it's still a goddamned BAR - and have a "concert hall experience" is just as fucking laughable as thinking that you ought to be able to go into a concert hall, knock back some shots, laugh it up, and score some tail. It's up to the house to set the tone, and as long as they need the revenue that "non-serious listeners" bring, the shit's gonna be what it is. Big whoop, and let's move on. I've lived in a world where there were neighborhood jazz joints (yeah, they were joints) & one where there are "concert series". 9 times out of 10, the best music got made in the joints. Simple fact, warts, imperfections, distractions and all. Tell you what - when the "serious listening crowd" develops the social & spending habits of the people who now keep the bar/restaurants in business, then we'll maybe - maybe - see serious listening rooms spring up and flourish across This Great Land Of Ours. Until then, when you go into a bar to hear some music, you're doing just that - going into a bar. If it's a bar that's cultivated a listening environment & clientele, cool. But if it's not, oh well. Their economic viability is far more centered on the people who come out for social reasons several times a week & drop big bucks on living it up than it is on a few people who go out once or twice a year and nurse a few beers to get the chance to hear some music. This is the reality.

They're from the post-Skynard generation.

Unbelievable as it sounds, there are people who go out to a club for reasons other than serious music listening.

You can also put an Fm7 in front of the Bb7, obviously, but most people just keep the Bb7 and alter it every which way.

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And add me to the group that prefers having a lively full hopuse to a near-empty "respectful" one. The people who want to listen are usually able to, and the ones who aren't, well, thier money goes into my pocket same as anybody's.

A club that serves alcohol and/or food is not a concert hall. Conversation at a reasonable volume is ok, anything above that isn't, but expecting everybody inside a bar/restaurant to pretend that its a concert hall is pretty damn dumb.

You might want to look at a bugle for comparison. Essentially it's a valveless trumpet. And all it can play is melodies that have notes that fall in the overtone series of whatever fundamental pitch it's built in. Now, a trumpet adds valves that turn the instrument into a bugle with, what, 8 different fundamentals. Of course, that complicates things/opens up a helluva lot more options, but the basic acoutic principals remain in play. What I don't have a good grasp on yet is pedal tones. These are either true fundamentals below the "normal" playing range of the horn, or else some sort of "sub-fundamental". Pretty sure it's the former, but I'm not sure enough to speak with authority. But when you hear, say, Nat Adderly playing those super-low "farting sounds" in his solos, that's what he's doing - hitting pedal tones. Learning to control/manipulate those is part of a good embrochure-building regimen, and they do have use as an "effect".

Canaries in coal mine...

That's pretty much it. But remember - you can get the same note out of different fundamentals. Now you are talking about chords (ie from a physics persective, superpositions of standing waves), right? Well, components of a chord, yeah. And multiphonics. But basically I mean that the same pitch can end up being a different partial of a different fundamental, so that's why/how you can produce the same pitch w/different fingerings. Check the fingeriing chart above.

Thus McDonalds.

Put a token booth in the lobby of a concert hall 5-10 minutes before the gig begins & see how much business it gets.

You're not the only one...

That's pretty much it. But remember - you can get the same note out of different fundamentals. Thus the existence of differnt fingerings for the same note, each with slightly different "colorations". And if you either really know your shit or else just flat-out suck, you can mess the wave up enough through airflow/fingering manipulation that you get notes/sounds that "shouldn't" be possible.

Not really. I 've got a degree in music education and had to take a brass class - trumpet, trombone, french horn (diabolical!) & baritone horn - in preparation to be a band director (which I've never become). Plus, you just pick all this stuff up being involved in music/band as more than just a social activity.

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I wasn't going to buy this, but for $10...