What to do, what to do....
Aug. 31st, 2006 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1.....while I wait the required 10-15 minutes for the lock on my email program to expire after I've been dropped while in the middle of downloading email to Eudora. Again.
In the meantime, I got questions. My LJ-friends have answers. I hope.
If I got DSL or cable-based broadband, would I still get these damn drop-carrier events?
What is the difference between a no-hitter and a perfect game?
Why is a bass clarinet not called a tenor clarinet? In other words, why does the clarinet family not follow the nomenclature of the saxophone family (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass)?
Has Kate Bush released any albums since "The Red Shoes"? (Oh yeah. "Aerial", which is still on my wish list.)
Does anyone still write code in Ada?
Why do I have such great ideas for songs, but only get to write one or two lines of them?
Who moved my cheese?
In the meantime, I got questions. My LJ-friends have answers. I hope.
If I got DSL or cable-based broadband, would I still get these damn drop-carrier events?
What is the difference between a no-hitter and a perfect game?
Why is a bass clarinet not called a tenor clarinet? In other words, why does the clarinet family not follow the nomenclature of the saxophone family (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass)?
Has Kate Bush released any albums since "The Red Shoes"? (Oh yeah. "Aerial", which is still on my wish list.)
Does anyone still write code in Ada?
Why do I have such great ideas for songs, but only get to write one or two lines of them?
Who moved my cheese?
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:46 am (UTC)Football fields are for band practice! -Funky Winkerbean. ;o)
Because people got scared of how big saxophones were getting and no one wanted the clarinets to end up that way.
Don't know.
Is that like Morse code? ;o)
You are too busy living life.
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Date: 2006-09-02 02:13 am (UTC)We had baritone saxes at our high school. Those were pretty big. I tried to hold and play one and I just felt dwarfed by it back then. I haven't seen a bass sax in person, but I've seen pictures of one. They're huge! And then there's the Eb contrabass sax. Oy vey!
There are clarinets larger/longer than the bass clarinet. There's the Eb contrabass clarinet, the BBb contrabass clarinet, and even an octocontrabass clarinet that was made by LeBlanc.
There are big flutes out there too. You probably know about the bass flute --
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Date: 2006-09-02 04:19 am (UTC)I've always wanted an alto flute. Someday, when I'm rich and famous I'll get one.
I tried a bass flute once. BEAUTIFUL resonant tone but they require a very open throat and my gag reflex wasn't happy about that.