Are violins supposed to be on the left or right?

[phase_accurate]

I have a recording of the (in)famous "Der Hoelle Rache....." where everything is actually the wrong way around. But it could have been recorded at an opera house rather than in a studio (I don't have much info on the recording), with the musicians facing the stage.

Regards

Charles

[Circlotron]

Originally posted by earsandeyes
It could very well be that lots of thinks change down under. If look at the sun and your watch, east and west have changed positions as well at your end of the world.

I have once been to the Sydney Opera House. I did not find any paper pushers, only people wanting your money.

I was pulling your leg basically. The Opera House is just as you saw it. I have never been inside it myself. In this part of the world where it is Spring right now, if you face *north* the sun rises on your right and sets on your left. The water goes down the plughole whichever way it feels like, depending on how it was disturbed before the plug got pulled out. I have even seen it change direction during the event. Cars drive on the left side of the road (as they in fact should), the first sub 6-second 1/4 mile outside continental US was achieved here in Oz, in my hometown Melbourne in fact, and people do in fact listen to classical music though not everyone as you may expect. We have plenty of people who think of nothing but sport, beer, more sport, more beer. We have [had] notable brainboxes like Thiele and Small, and Fritz Langford-Smith. We were the first to split the beer atom. We invented electricity, gasoline and nuclear fusion reactors. We know everything there is to know. Everyone wants to be like us.

[phase_accurate]

Wasn't the lawnmower also invented in the Melbourne area ?

Regards

Charles

[Circlotron]

Yup! http://www.arunta.com/corporate/victa_mower_patent.htm
http://www.oldengine.org/members/benier/victa.html

[phase_accurate]

BTW: do you know the differences between a lawnmower and a Saxophone ?

1.) The dynamic range
2.) You can TUNE a lawnmower

regards

Charles

[earsandeyes]

A product called the "Lazy Gardener" (slow release) fertilizer was once very succesfully introduced in Australia. The Americans with their great cultural senses also tried to introduce that in England.

You can imagine the marketing success