About six months ago,
I started our spring concerts series with a brand new set of Elixir
medium bass strings,
based on the various recommendations I had found regarding these, centering
notably on their long life span. In spite of the various
warnings I had read about their peculiar tone, I thought I'd
give them a chance to prove their worth.
Music
Elixir bass strings, six months later
Submitted by fgm on Sat, 2007-10-27 16:27.Easier Lilypond coding with Context
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2007-09-23 17:39.A few months ago, I discovered the Lilypond music typesetting system, and thought I had stumbled upon some sort of holy grail: here was an open source system which, at last, allowed me to write music much like program code, and did not jump me through the hoops of a UI in order to create scores and the MIDI files representing them.
Block party postmortem
Submitted by fgm on Thu, 2007-05-31 22:03.
The block party is over, and the concert
went reasonably well: rain on monday, rain on wednesday, and
nice weather on tuesday, just when we played !
Next concert: "Immeubles en fête"
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2007-05-27 23:08."Immeubles en fête" is a yearly block party held everywhere in France.
Come and hear us at the Villebon event, on 2007-05-29 19:00 to 22:00 !
Répétition du 26/05/07
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2007-05-27 21:48.Le problème de prise de son du jour: sans trépied, l'enregistreur était entre la batterie et l'ampli basse, ET le réglage de sensibilité micro était sur MID au lieu de LOW.
Répétition du 04/05/07
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2007-05-06 08:49.Uniquement "Eteins la Lumière" et mon thème du 25/4/7 ("07D25"). Attention : hormis les premiers, les enregistrements sont saturés: j'avais réorienté l'enregistreur pour viser un peu moins le plafond, et visiblement ce n'est pas à faire: le chant et la batterie ont saturé les micros.
Répétition du 20/04/07
Submitted by fgm on Sat, 2007-04-21 16:49.Enregistrements corrects, RAS. Surtout du travail sur Le Fou
Servon recording
Submitted by fgm on Mon, 2007-04-09 20:28.Although technical problems (batteries !) prevented a full recording of the concert, the middle section is now available to group members.
Regrettably, until licensing terms are cleared up, these recordings cannot be made public.
In the meantime, here are a couple of shots from musicians playing in the other bands that night:

Bass player from the "Batucada social club"
Julie from "Julie et ses Jules"
String gauge and metric units
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2007-04-01 22:12.For some reason, I had never bothered to pursue the relationship between string gauge and actual string diameter. However, when I sorted my stash of old strings after putting brand new Elixir medium strings in order to sound best at next week's concert, I found several strings for which I didn't know the gauge, meaning they would be next to useless in case of an emergency (which is typically the only situation under which I'd put on a used string). And I only had a metric vernier caliper available...





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