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"When I Grow Up" - Pussycat Dolls

Get rid of the fig leaf and the bathing suit and you shift your major to the liberal arts. ?

Funny thing about saxes and guitars in the same band. When the ambient temperature gets colder: Guitars raise in pitch and go sharp: The guitar strings tighten up due to the constriction of the metal Saxophones lower in pitch and go flat: This is because sound travels slower in colder air, which takes longer time to get to the opening making it seem like the sax is longer. And the longer the sax, the lower in pitch. Vise versa when the temperature rises. This is mostly prevalent in outdoor gigs. So in all my years of playing with guitarists, when the temperature changes a lot, I have to readjust my tuning using my ears. That's logical because the sax is tuned by pushing the mouthpiece in or out on the neck. Only one tuning mechanism, as opposed to 6 on the guitars. The amount the sax drifts in temperature more in the bigger (longer) saxes than in the smaller ones. Although I can play any of them, I mostly play tenor with alto coming in second. I used to play a lot of soprano when Kenny G songs were popular, but they became passe and I prefer the tenor and alto. Probably TMI Notes

That's because those gals practice safe sax.

Nope, it's my night. You can have tomorrow night if you want.

"Dreamsville" - Henry Mancini When Henry did 'cool school' jazz it was the coolest. The music was more memorable than the TV show.

"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" - The Hollies

How about these chicks - "The Darling Four" One thing I know is this: saxophones are better looking today. The two bell keys are on the right side of the sax, the key guards are more ornamental, and the necks are more gracefully bent. Left to right: Bass - Tenor - Alto - Soprano

Mr. Big - Free

Car cleaning? What? Remove that protective covering and expose it's paint to the damaging rays of the sun?

From the very interesting movie about "gypsy" music from Spain to India: Taraf de Haidouks is the name of the group, a Romani taraf from Clejani, Romania They have two songs on the DVD and audio CD I couldn't get either one to embed, but they are worth your time. In the first one the violinist pulls a string over the violin strings to get some very haunting and unusual sounds. The second one is just a joy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-_W-dOYeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQn6Qb-9mD8

Concierto de Aranjuez ( Joaquin Rodrigo), Recuerdos de la Alhambra ( Francisco Tarrega) - Pepe Romero I saw the Romero family play guitar in concert, and although they are all extremely talented, I thought Pepe had that something extra that can't be described.

Here in Florida, thanks to Corona, Bands have been Banned. If we demonstrate in front of a government building, will it be a Band Stand?

Perhaps the bari player got her dress at a 20% off sale? :D Or cut rate? Notes

Yes the one with the biggest sax has the shortest dress. There must be a message there, but I be damned if I can figure it out. For those not familiar from left to right: Alto, Alto, Tenor, Baritone (usually shortened to Bari in conversation). The altos and bari are in Eb. When the piano plays Bb, they play a G The tenor is in Bb. When the piano plays Bb, the tenor plays C. Why is this done? So the player can finger the notes on each horn identically. There is a soprano (think Kenny G) also in Bb and a bass in Bb. There are other seldom seen saxes, contrabass, sopranino and no longer manufactured altos in F and tenors in C. Unlike the guitar, the sax is not a transposing instrument. To play a C scale and a D scale requires entirely different fingering. No moving it up one fret like the guitar, but completely different. On the other hand, it's a lot easier reading music on the sax. Every instrument has its gifts and challenges. Insights and incites by Notes

"Rip It Up" - Little Richard

"Wild One" - Bobby Rydell The song and style are definitely dated, but Bobby was a good singer (better than his pop stuff showed)

Leilani and I spent a day there and still didn't see/hear everything. There was even a very early Les Paul Gold Top owned by Les there. Leilani and I were on our way to The Badlands and we stopped in a motel in Vermillion to spend the night. We noticed a poster in the lobby. It featured a vintage poster of an all female saxophone quartet and an ad for the museum. Since we had a rough itinerary with no pre-booked hotel reservations, we decided to visit it. WOW! What a find. If you ever get near it, it's worth the day. Here is part of the poster we saw: Notes

https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/47/messages/499.html

Stormy Monday Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland Of all the versions of the T-Bone Walker classic I've heard, this is my favorite.

And the dyslexic are without a gif

"It's Now Or Never" - Elvis Presley New, different words to the Neapolitan song "O Sole Mio". The Elvis version has become the biggest selling recording of "O Sole Mio" according to an article I read in Billboard years ago.

Thanks, I knew about the legal battles, but not in that much detail. I also didn't know of the childhood accidents. When I was in the National Music Museum, in Vermillion, South Dakota I saw an entire family of his saxes as well of a few of his other inventions like a trumpet with two bells. Back then it was called America's Shrine to Music and it's on the campus of the U of S.D. If you ever get near South Dakota, a stop at this museum is a must for any musician. It rivals the finest instrument museums in Europe. You can go online and view a sampling of the instruments here http://nmmusd.org/ and click on collections. When I visited the museum they had an audio guide that let you hear some of the very instruments in that museum being played. Thanks again for the interesting history lesson.

"I Miss You" - Adele lyrics: I miss you when the lights go out It illuminates all of my doubts

"In Dust We Trust" - Chemical Brothers