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that's really the buy now price, 98 Euro shipping or pick it up yourself (which would be right around the corner for me but i don't have a car and even that wouldn't suffice...) i saw a finished auction for the same organ with 5 or 6 bids and a finishing bid of 102 Euro...
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the type of thing you find on ebay when you cannot sleep... if i got this right then this thing doesn't sound more like a "real" organ than any new keyboard i'd buy(?) so the advantage would be that on it i could probably learn to play on an organ (with foot pedals and stuff)... guess i will not buy it, it's not the price that bothers me (if it still works then i guess the price is ok...) but that i have to pay rent for the huge space where it stands...
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hi, i'd like to know whether it is silly to buy something like this / what this is: http://cgi.ebay.de/Hammond-Orgel_W0QQitemZ...1QQcmdZViewItem the price is rather low (40 Euro=60$) and i could maybe go there to test it... thank you very much!
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that's my favorite, too... (but there is still too much i don't know)
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Alban Berg - Wozzek Richard Strauss - Salome Maurice Ravel - String Quartet and Claude Debussy - String Quartet (i have them on one CD, the only classical cd that gets rgular play overhere) Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Sonatas Cesar Franck - Violin Sonata and sentimental favorite Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto
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2007 in review. What were your favorite buys?
Niko replied to mikelz777's topic in Miscellaneous Music
nothing others here haven't known for years... Charles Tolliver - Impact (Enja) Eddy Louiss - Trio and Bohemia after Dark Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul Lee Morgan - Leeway Sonny Criss - Mr Blues Pour Flirter Grant Green - Talkin About Bobby Jaspar - Moder Jazz au Club St Germain Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame -
don't like to tell you but as far as i can see this is true for any age group you pick
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maybe another candidate thread for the new classical forum (now tell me why is classical under music discussions and hammond zone under general... ) i need a recording of the Waldstein sonata as a christmas present, my buying instructions include: not too slow, melody lines should come out clearly ("Bach-like"?), not too dynamic/dramatic, no cheating in the fast runs... any idea which recording is great and (in tendency) matches these requirements?
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wilbur ware - the chicago sound (ojc) surprised to see this was still around
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took me two days to realize how offensive i could have taken THAT (if i weren't swiss in a broad sense of the word as well)
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hey, why does the picture say 9999 posts?
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I think what you're missing is that this is something that has bothered John for a period of time, and Chris happened to give an example of it in this thread. A PM wouldn't do anything - Chris would laugh in his (anonymous) face. The point is to call people out so that maybe John's points get across to the board in general. i think this is an important point, maybe couw could have waited two days longer to find a better example, but then we all know that better example would have turned up anyway, so why wait... i think jim has reported on a gig they didn't get because of something we wrote...
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2005 Holiday Tunes for you!
Niko replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in organissimo - The Band Discussion
right music at the right time for me, thank you very very much!! -
Musical New Year's resolutions
Niko replied to The Magnificent Goldberg's topic in Miscellaneous Music
similar thing here, have been wondering for three years whether my saxophone needs a repair or whether i just "forgot how to play"... will try to change that next year -
"Today's active topics" is working again now, though some of the times are a bit suspicious. Looking at another thread, I see that, about the same time you posted, someone said there were a huge number of users on line. MG "Most users ever online was 322 on Today, 06:21 PM" no idea which 06:21 he means (maybe he put together people from different hours? (just kidding))
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see my post above, the weill tune is for instance on this lotte lenya cd (under the name trouble man, don't know whether the two names correspond to different lyrics...?) amazon here it is called lover man: other cd
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from the lotte lenya chronicle: http://www.kwf.org/pages/ll/llcareer3.html "Records Six Songs by Kurt Weill for Bost Records (BA 8) in New York. The recording is supervised by Weill. Lenya sings "Surabaya-Johnny," "Denn wie man sich bettet," "J'attends un navire," "Complainte de la Seine," "Lost in the Stars," and "Lover Man" (later revised as "Trouble Man")." so i guess this is where the mistake if it is one comes from, composing the lover man we all know is afaik the thing ram ramirez is most famous for...
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Record-breaking bids in three categories at auction
Niko replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
i have one more story from that job, there was this theater performance where the "audience" would stand at the window in a building at a very busy four way street while the actors would run around on that street (it was about 5 in the afternoon and thus heavy traffic), my job was to stand outside and tell people that they had just had the luck of running into a free theater performance and invite them to come in (didn't work, maybe i was not as friendly as i could have been, but i guess there were other issues as well) it was raining real hard which meant for me that my job of standing outside was not overly pleasant, more importantly it meant that the audience inside could hardly see the actors out on the street 50 meters from them; not surprisingly it took less than 10 minutes till some concerned car driver called the police... after the performance was over the director decided that my conversation with the police men had actually been the most interesting part of the (?) play, (at least it was the only part of the play the audience could actually see), glad she couldn't hear what i said, i was not too respectful concerning the whole performance and the artist ("no they are not drunk, they are artists they know what they're doing...") (i actually was drunk, years later when i had a job in an insurance company i looked back and realized that in that environment it had been completely normal to drink to or three large bottles of beer during work...)(after these experiences it was clear to me that i didn't want a job that had remotely to do with culture later in my life...) (and i dare say people in insurance companies really are nicer with each other)(wouldn't want to work there either however) (the artists really weren't the problem, most of them were actually rather nice; but pretty much all the other people there, those who set up the exhibitions and stuff...) -
Record-breaking bids in three categories at auction
Niko replied to Brownian Motion's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
between school and university i had a job at some very hip arts exhibition; one day i left a shovel like this one lying in the exhibition space during a cigarette break when i came back someone was actually standing there looking at my shovel (i think i have a fairly liberal attitude towards what deserves to be called art; still an object that isn't able to distract people's attention from a shovel does not really deserve to be called art imho) (what we actually did with these shovels is another story about modern art; in the museum there was some outside pool and some artist had the brilliant idea of a "art happening" where people would actually SWIM in that pool; unfortunately the floor of that pond was tiled with stones, so in order to make swimming possible (?! never understood that point) me and some other equally low-paid guy had to let out the water than put all the stones into three huge containers which some other people had to build then move them out of the building get them out of the boxes, clean them and put them back into the boxes and then back to the pool; all in all this took us about a week; as this was the only week of real "hard" work in my entire life so far it was an interesting experience, but still... i tend to believe that the artist herself didn't actually know how much work of others was behind her happening (which i didn't feel like attending); but during that week i strongly developed the thought that me and that other guy shoveling these stones and moving them through the exhibition space in small portions was actually the greatest piece of art they had at the time; we were 19 and i dare say at least we looked better than the other stuff they had... edit to add, looking at the picture i dug out of google - this is a more interesting and beautiful shovel than the one i had -
:tup i have a constant smile in my face for almost three minutes now, hadn't even noticed, the possible departure of the board had bothered me THAT much...
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forget my posts (just in case you haven't yet), this here sounds more reasonable
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think i'd vote for global moderators, after all there are only two or three places where the problems usually occur, so say the aotw moderator would have an easy time (a friend of mine once upon a time moderated a the cure forum and they had nazis, vampires and all, compared to that even the moderator of the political forum would have an easy job)... MG and Ghost of Miles have said they'd volunteer and to me both seem like excellent choices (admittedly, i don't understand many of the problems, guess you have to be Yumerican to understand all the troubles, and then as an atheist who doesn't have a problem with believers i don't have many opinions to fear) also think jim a should get more of a ceo figure who doesn't hesitate to ask for more money (and who doesn't hesitate to put any extra money we might (should) collect into organissimo recording projects) no ideas on additional rules...
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What live music are you going to see tonight?
Niko replied to mikeweil's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
just for the first time made use of the fact that there is live jazz four nights a week just in five minutes walking distance from where i live, mostly locals, some names bigger than others (Simon Nabotov for a bigger name) but really jazz no norah joneses and the like; i caught a very nice set by the Sven Lehmkemper Quartet featuring Klaus Heidenreich (Trombone) Nils Tegen (Piano) Sebastian Klose (Bass) Sven Lehmkemper (Drums) and will certainly go there again pretty soon, my first jazz concert in several years (four years with one exception, a Gerd Dudek Frank Wunsch duo concert about two years ago) -
thought i'd post this also in a place where it can be found... discovered today that on dizzy's myspace page you can listen to full length sound samples of his new cd (recorded in 1968) Nirvana http://myspace.com/dizzyreece you can also buy it from cdbaby http://cdbaby.com/cd/dizzyreece besides on his blogspot page there is a nice radio show with tunes from for instance his rare futura album with john gimore and siegfried kessler... http://dizzyreece.blogspot.com/
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