I have this goal to continue to work at becoming a slightly better musician with every passing year. The catch is that you can only maintain that upward slope for so long, until the cold fingers of Father Time eventually stop you.
I dread the day when my left hand no longer has the strength or dexterity to play barre' chords on the guitar. If the rest of my body is still functioning, I guess it'll be time to learn how to play slide guitar then. 🙂
An older violinist friend was in excellent health almost to the very end of her life, but eventually she couldn't put her chin down onto her violin without severe neck pain. She had to put away her violin and stop playing at that point.
Three decades ago, I once carried the lead-acid battery from my $400 beater Plymouth all the way across a parking lot, up six flights of stairs to the third floor, and down a long hallway to my tiny college dorm room, so I could charge it. (The alternator was faulty.) Then I carried it all the way back.
That seems like a faraway fantasy now.
At work, I still make myself use only the 3rd floor washrooms (Canadian for restrooms), and take the stairs to get there. But there's no 50-lb battery in my hands these days.
-Gnobuddy
Don't forget heads... At work, the safety people mandated that I was required to wear a bicycle helmet.
Almost makes me want to get a bicycle....
Ed: nice links, thanks..
You are funnin me about the helium foam, right??
I'll probably make the mixer case first, use carbon outside, glasscloth inside as you mention.
I already have lots and lots of corners that nest when the boxes stack. They do require I route the edges, I think it was 3/8th radius..
Anybody aware of any work involving how much reaction mass is needed vs power/frequency? My bigger cabs (eminence delta pro 12's) have an F3 of 70 hz, so was thinking that just the magnet weight was sufficient in itself at that frequency. And that all I had to do was stop side deflections by structural side to side reinforcement. (the D205TI magnets are huge, but they are offset from the woofer reaction force.)
John
I have as inspiration Pine Top Perkins that was playing gigs on piano at age 97 at a bar in Austin. Then there is that PBS program of V. Horowitz playing grand piano in Moscow in his 80's. Piano, the instrument that keeps the heart beating and joints flexible. One knuckle cracks if in summer I don't practice enough Scott Joplin rags on wood.
I was a complete failure at barre chords when I tried guitar in my late thirties. Could do some on nylon; wire strings were beyond my pain tolerance. The junior choir got too loud for nylon as they turned 10, so I returned to keys. Now I do Carter family & Ralph Stanley 3 chorders on autoharp; no skin contact with the strings.
Pity about the lady with the violin and her neck. I always wondered how violinists stand to bend that way.
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JN,
Humor, from me, on this website! The problem with lightium is that you should only work with it in low ceiling rooms, just in case you drop a piece!
Never use a table saw to cut it, the dust is almost impossible to get off the ceiling.
You should see the problems UPS has delivering it. Of course as their fees are based on weight, they end up paying you when they deliver it!
Humor, from me, on this website! The problem with lightium is that you should only work with it in low ceiling rooms, just in case you drop a piece!
Never use a table saw to cut it, the dust is almost impossible to get off the ceiling.
You should see the problems UPS has delivering it. Of course as their fees are based on weight, they end up paying you when they deliver it!
Look at Les Paul. (Nevermind his electrical adventures.) Altho he stepped-back from top-10 at age 50, he continued to play and play-out almost until his passing at age 94. He played "better" than almost anybody because he had clean style, minimal body stress. He did move to a big pick when his arthritis got in his way. Remember his elbow was shattered when he was 33. If barre chords specifically ever elude you, you can adapt your style too.
Les Paul knew Django Reinhardt, who had a couple near-useless fingers. Jerry Garcia was a few digits shy of a full deck?
My late father started long-distance walking when he was in his late 60's.
He had been on a group vacation and found out he had less difficulty walking from one mountain village to another than most people in their 30's. He joined a walking club and ended up doing Kennedy marches (80 km) from his late 60's to his mid 70's.
Unfortunately the blood vessels in his brain were not in as good a shape as his legs; 80 km was no problem, but he didn't reach 80 years.
He had been on a group vacation and found out he had less difficulty walking from one mountain village to another than most people in their 30's. He joined a walking club and ended up doing Kennedy marches (80 km) from his late 60's to his mid 70's.
Unfortunately the blood vessels in his brain were not in as good a shape as his legs; 80 km was no problem, but he didn't reach 80 years.
It is so interesting...
A few days back I posted that I've injuries that require I do isometric exercises, and lo and behold, I'm getting directed ads about an isometric exercise book.
Also, directed ads for behringer mixers and amplifiers in the 1500 watt total range as well as carbon glasscloths and epoxies.
This is why I do not have an Alexa, I do not need directed ads (or big brother listening in) to my entire life..
That said, I did break down and buy a xenix x1832 usb from sweetwater, that to be a spare backup to the x2222 usb I own. I really hated not having a backup. (that pretty much explains the cargo container in my backyard filled with toilet paper).
What was interesting is, I put that specific model in my cart on Amazon, priced at 149 a few days ago, and today I checked my cart and it was 308!!! What gives?? So they lost out, Sweetwater won.
Yes, this stuff is not really high end...But, it is in support of volunteer work, not what I do for a living.
Oh, that gravity thing?? Yes, it's still above normal. However, I cannot explain why my pendulum clocks at home as well as the ones in the museum I volunteer at are still keeping proper time. It must be a gravity bubble, most certainly being caused by the aliens who are too smart to visit us because they see how stoooopid we really are..
Hitting the depot tomorrow, I forecast several pieces of 1/2 inch and 1/4 ply in my future.. and some MDF to create routing fixtures for the travel cases I am about to build.. Carbon fiber to follow soon, first gotta check that the west system 105 is still good.. While my use by date is long past, I'm hoping my epoxy is not.
John
A few days back I posted that I've injuries that require I do isometric exercises, and lo and behold, I'm getting directed ads about an isometric exercise book.
Also, directed ads for behringer mixers and amplifiers in the 1500 watt total range as well as carbon glasscloths and epoxies.
This is why I do not have an Alexa, I do not need directed ads (or big brother listening in) to my entire life..
That said, I did break down and buy a xenix x1832 usb from sweetwater, that to be a spare backup to the x2222 usb I own. I really hated not having a backup. (that pretty much explains the cargo container in my backyard filled with toilet paper).
What was interesting is, I put that specific model in my cart on Amazon, priced at 149 a few days ago, and today I checked my cart and it was 308!!! What gives?? So they lost out, Sweetwater won.
Yes, this stuff is not really high end...But, it is in support of volunteer work, not what I do for a living.
Oh, that gravity thing?? Yes, it's still above normal. However, I cannot explain why my pendulum clocks at home as well as the ones in the museum I volunteer at are still keeping proper time. It must be a gravity bubble, most certainly being caused by the aliens who are too smart to visit us because they see how stoooopid we really are..
Hitting the depot tomorrow, I forecast several pieces of 1/2 inch and 1/4 ply in my future.. and some MDF to create routing fixtures for the travel cases I am about to build.. Carbon fiber to follow soon, first gotta check that the west system 105 is still good.. While my use by date is long past, I'm hoping my epoxy is not.
John
So, if I attach the antigrav units to my NOMAD, and we keep shipping it back and forth, we can become billionaires... and fulfill our plan to RULE THE WORLD!!!
John
ps...sorry, I am still shocked by Ed posting humor on this website.. somewhat similar to an EM Pulse on my computer..
We moved into a new house last year and I bought one of these,
Best $200 I have spent for taming gravity just a bit.
Best $200 I have spent for taming gravity just a bit.
I've had one for over 30 years. Lost count how many speakers and dressers it has moved. It can even jack the lawn-tractor to check blades (don't get under it that way!).
Mine does not have the stair-skid or hollow tires. But I got an unrefusable deal on it.
I got the plain Beer/Coke bottle crates model, some 40 years ago.
Still working faithfully, although wheels have a lot of play and become squeaky if not regularly injected some oil.
Oh well, I wish MY own joints were as easy to repair.
Still working faithfully, although wheels have a lot of play and become squeaky if not regularly injected some oil.
Oh well, I wish MY own joints were as easy to repair.
heart attacks in the 35+ age have increased considerably the last years. a combination of a genetic preference or underlying disease plus coke is attributed to that.
jneutron, I thought about your problem and discussed with my alien friends. They are so sparsely populated here and with too low technology to control gravity the way you describe, bubbles etc.
My conclusion is that your condition is self-induced - heavy metal accumulation in your limbs! I am sure that after 20-40 years from now on this will be much more popular, at least here in Finland!
My conclusion is that your condition is self-induced - heavy metal accumulation in your limbs! I am sure that after 20-40 years from now on this will be much more popular, at least here in Finland!
Oh, I forgot to mention another effect of heavy metal accumulation. At first your hair starts to get long and falling down, then after same 20-40 years of exposure it begins to fall off, first from the top of your head!
Got one also, but a cheaper one. When I was doing two PA setups every Sunday at work, I had two stacks of amp/speakers/mixers/cables in my teeny tiny office at work. I put two rails on the bottom of each amp case spaced far enough apart to allow the tang to slide under the stack. Then just wheel it to my minivan, load then return. It would take about 15 minutes to load two systems, unload in the other building, and setup. Back then I had two roadies, a 9 year old and a 12 year old.
John
Considering the mechanics of the back it becomes evident our skeleton did not evolve for lifting but for flexibility and agility. In the standing position, the back muscles supporting the spinal vertebrae have to produce a force which produces a moment to counter the effect of the moments produced by the head, the upper back, the arms and the chest. Lifting with extended arms or semi-extended arms, requires even stronger forces by the back muscles. These forces increase the pressure on verterbral disks which may rupture or tear as a result.
I think, it is important to keep in mind, that the spinal column with its delicately balanced disks, is the weakest point of the body, especially, if one happens to have well developed arms. If one consults a book about nursing one finds that young healthy adults are those who get slipped/ruptured/crushed disk injuries most.
I think, it is important to keep in mind, that the spinal column with its delicately balanced disks, is the weakest point of the body, especially, if one happens to have well developed arms. If one consults a book about nursing one finds that young healthy adults are those who get slipped/ruptured/crushed disk injuries most.
Anyone who has big PA speakers and doesn’t have one (or two) of those already is an idiot.