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I don't even know what this means.Be great if you published the stl files
I don't even know what this means.Be great if you published the stl files
Truly supergrandifying!So embiggerating!
That would be great!Not interested in selling, but once I get it modeled and working I’d be happy to make a few and send them out to people on the forum.
Today's a Sibelius kind of day.
My favorite (living) conductor, my favorite orchestra, one of my favorite composers.
You can either download it or play it in (on? through? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) your Urd, or even on your Sol.
Either way: you can't go wrong, and you're directly supporting the artists.
Dirt cheap for what it is, too.
Do it up!
Thanks for the recommendation @ArmchairPhilosopher ! The Berliner/Rattle set will be ordered todayA favorite composer of mine. If Copeland is America, and Vaughn-Williams is England, then Sibelius is Scandinavia. You can feel the chill that drifts down from the Arctic, the craggy, winding coastline of Norway, the woods and lakes of Sweden, and endless, silent forests of Finland. The opening movement of his 1st Symphony paints a different world from the music of other European countries. The closing movement of the 2nd Symphony is the like sun breaking through a cloudy sky. The brooding opening bars of the 4th Symphony. The charge to victory at the close of the 1st movement of the 5th Symphony. And perhaps my favorite, (although most of his works for orchestra are my favorite, LOL!) is the shifting, one movement 7th. I especially like Karajan and Berlin on DG for performance (V.K's 4th and Swan of Tuonela are also special). The 7th closes with massed strings and horns climbing up the scale and evaporating into the air.
And his final work, the tone poem "Tapiola", it ends dying away, yet somehow seems to be still in motion even though there is no sound.
But I could wax poetic for too long about all my favorite composers
I've always enjoyed Neilsen's symphonies. His 2nd, "The Four Temperaments" is a favorite of mine. The 3rd movement "Melancholic" especially.Thanks for the recommendation @ArmchairPhilosopher ! The Berliner/Rattle set will be ordered today
This made me dig out the tone poem "En Saga" by Sibelius (written 1901) yesterday (Paavo Berglund conducting Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, on LP EMI ASD 3038 together with Sibelius Symphony No. 5) - very good and definitely (north-)Scandinavian as @FLTWS writes. But I have to add the - in my view - most south-Scandinavian composer is Carl Nielsen. Inspired by Sibelius I today dug out the tone poem "Saga Drøm" ("Saga Dream" or "The Dream of Gunnar") by Carl Nielsen (written 1908) - with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by one of my favorite Nielsen and Mahler conductors Jascha Horenstein (on LP Unicorn Records RHS300, together with Nielsens Symphony No.5).
Hearing these two very Scandinavian, and very different tone poems is interesting in their likenesses and contrasts. In a way you could say that Sibelius builds in stone and wast horizons - maybe monumentally like Bruckner - while Nielsen builds in contrasts, blending woodwinds with their own motives into the main orchestral lines - a bit more surrealistic like Mahler?
Lots of great stuff here
The whole reason I’m doing this from my perspective is how ugly the acrylic case is for pi/pi2aes lite. I had also considered buying a low profile computer case that looks like an AV component and just shoving all the stuff in it.That would be great!
Full disclosure, I just received my Allo miniBoss Player Plus in acrylic case (haven't turned it on yet).
(A) it's hideous
(B) it's huge - like the size of a 2 Mac minis, side by side.
(looking to see if it fits under the furniture....)
That's like a word @ArmchairPhilosopher would use. The guys command of the English language is amazing. Always enjoy reading his posts. So well written.Thank you for introducing a word new to me! I have a fairly good vocabulary, but that's the first time I've encountered cromulant.
(Ha, ha, auto correct too: it keeps trying to turn it into stimulant lol)
Cheers!
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I felt the same about the Allo Digione acrylic case - I ended up getting a HighPi Pro case with universal port and modifying the opening to fit the connectors.The whole reason I’m doing this from my perspective is how ugly the acrylic case is for pi/pi2aes lite. I had also considered buying a low profile computer case that looks like an AV component and just shoving all the stuff in it.
For me? It was this middle-of-the-road product... produced in British Columbia. O'Keefe's Extra Old Stock.Colt 45 was marketed heavily here in the UK back in the mid '70s.
I did get through a few cans as a teenager, but then learned about 'real ale' on draught and after that there was no going back.
I never buy any canned beer now; if I want beer at home I only buy bottles as it seems to taste so much better.
It is no substitute for a perfect pint of draught beer in a great pub though.