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dave brum

I haven't heard that godawful Rod Stewart piffle in work today or yesterday. I am hoping that the machine that operates our in store radio station has decided (on our behalf) that four months of playing it every day is long enough. We might even get some more stuff going cheap that'll entertain us o...

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Three more tunes today. The difficult bit is the fine tuning, moulding it into a complete musicmaking system for one such as me. I need a guinea pig to test it out on, asked at work - but, do you know what? Their entire knowledge of music begins and ends with the pop charts. I was amazed and quite s...

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Shirley Ellis' Clapping Song. You know the one, my momma told me if I was goody that she would buy me a rubber dolley. The Belle Stars covered it in the early 80s.

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All I did was take a simple piece of music (well, I've done three pieces from CTM1) and rewrite them into a notation that I can understand, taking into account rhythm, fingering, and changes of hand position. It is something I can and will try to build upon. The realisation is that if you cannot pla...

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Playing my own notated version of a piece of music called 'Chit Chat' from Classics To Moderns 1 99.5% perfectly from cold. This piece has ALWAYS caused me problems in the past (due to my inability to sight read Greek Morse code) so I've tended to avoid it like the plague. And this wasn't on my home...

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Had Cwm Rhondda today, played beautifully by Tracey.

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They say 'if at first you don't succeed, try try again', and I think ten years is long enough for anyone to have tried. It's all my own fault really. I should have started piano lessons after I left home at 19, then I would have succeeded with aplomb. One of the main reasons why I didn't succeed is ...

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Well it's a waste if you don't have another go - you were good! I gave it a go, never really enjoyed it, but kept going and enjoyed it less and less and became more anxious and more neurotic about it. Giving up was the best thing I've ever done - that's why I left this page in April 2015, I'm much,...

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Not a problem in Brum. This was actually in a chav town in North Wales!!!

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Waitresses who interrupt your meal with 'is everything to your satisfaction, sir' whilst you're tucking in to some lovely scran. If it wasn't alright, I'd say. Do they think I'd rudely post a negative review on Facebook or something! Sorry. No more moaning!!!

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I don't really want to. I'm not interested in PLAYING them any more. Just interested in pianos and organs - and of course pianists and organists!

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Whilst Telemann's Viola and Recorder concerti was playing as I've been preparing a spaghetti bolognese on the hob and roasting a honeyed gammon joint in the oven, I was actually thinking: Telemann, Telemann, who wanna be a Telemann.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLQO4JWeu4 (great stereo on thi...

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It is common practice after the flu jab to experience a short burst of flu symptoms for a short time. Bad diarrhoea at the moment.

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There is an irony here. It was actually the Co-Op that pioneered the practice of playing classical music outside their stores in order to deter council estate youths on BMX bikes from hanging around their store entrances harrassing customers - and it was proven to work!

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I fancy writing a book on the art of emailing. I detest it when I get emails from people I know that begin their emails 'Hi David' when they mean to say 'Dear David'. My ex-piano teacher was one of the principal offenders in that annoying literary trait. The United States of America has more than a ...

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Gill the Piano wrote:Does Tracey let you have a good old Cwm Rhondda/Hydrofoil now and then?

I've not really asked her. I've not given it a thought to be honest, Gill.

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AC DC did Night Prowler, on the Powerage album.

Today, with thanks to Co-Operative Radio it's been 'A Girl Like You' which sounds like Edwyn Collins is sur la toilette and not having a great deal of joy whilst he's singing it.

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No woowoos. I used to have a fear of needles though. They kept asking me if I had any chest pains as the heart monitor readings they got suggested that I was in pain. Cardiologist however confirmed it, I was not having a heart attack, was just how my own system reacted to the vaccine. I should have ...

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Asda have an awful one in there. At least Waitrose don't believe in piping braindead muzak to its shoppers. Co-Operative Radio is nothing to do with the Co-Operative Group or any of the smaller Co-Op societies. It is produced by some retail music agency that may also produce automated 'radio station...

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Sorry, forgotten. Been such a long time. My interest in organs now is purely technical and in some aspects, ecclesiastical.

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Gill the Piano wrote: As you know, organ playing's not as hard as people think it is!

I wouldn't know at all, in truth

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Only Pink Floyd could release a single about a bloke who pinches lingerie from ladies' washing lines and tries them on, even in the 60s!

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Well that was one heck of a polava. Went in for a flu jab, ended up with a free ride in an ambulance thrown in. Just got back now...and I'm on earlies in the morning. I fell unconscious about a minute after having it. No heart issue - just shock and an over reaction to the vaccine in my system. My b...

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Same musical family, same note range, same keys in the same places. So what REALLY is there to be afraid of if you already play the piano??

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What station are they on? Mental note to avoid that one... The instore radio station at the Co-Op, 'Co-Operative Radio'. But please don't let it put you off shopping there. It doesn't put me off working there...in fact they used to play the Stone Roses on there until their (presumed) PRS agreement ...

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A bit of old Arnie today. Not Schwarzenegger, however:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKvTTMsoBc

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Off for my flu jab today. Don't want any time off work, or doing carol singing smelling of Vick as was the case in 2015.

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There is an Overheard in Waitrose Farcebook page. It contains links to lots of Esther Rantzen/Private Eye-esque media snippets, like the Somerset newspaper headline 'Village People Angry At YMCA plans'. And plenty of middle class dilemmas for people who have so much money they don't know exactly wha...

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Overheard in Waitrose: 'It stinks of coffee in here'.

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Or Barlick?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnoldswick

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She's going to have to do something, or the choir won't have any room to sit in their stalls. Wedding music, funeral music, baroque studies, Tracey has it all and she'll play it...she plays at 98 services out of 100 there and her service is dedicated and loyal, as well as being facilities manager in...

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Come Christmas it'll be carols on a loop! If that means a two month respite from hearing that Rod Stewart song (and this other Elton John one that's played every day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRClPsBXAU then how I wish it could be Christmas every day, when the kids start singing and the ban...

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We did something on the digestive system in the last year of the junior school and we learned about the functions of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum. When my redneck grandmother came to pick me up from school in the afternoon, I told her about the duodenum, and with that she turned to the other...

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My favourite thing in Waitrose has to be ironing water. A whole market based on people's indifference to the fact that ironing water is available in the kettles and tumble dryer condenser reservoirs of Britain without having to go shopping for it. Seriously though, I like to take my trolley around t...

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A Fish Called Slaithwaite???

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Some of those chests of drawers (NOT draws - ooh missus!!) especially for sheet music storage would be good. I think the music shops sell them, in Oxfam Books and Music shops in some places they have them there to keep their sheet music stock in.

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I never thought of iTunes.

I actually make an inaccuracy, on 'Tubular Bells' he (Mike Oldfield) makes drunken troll-like noises into the microphone in the Bootleg Chorus.

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I think you'll find that's Status Quo.

The instore radio station is not all bad, we get the original version of They Don't Know (by Kirsty MacColl) that was famously covered by Tracey Ullman. That is played every other day.

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Gill the Piano wrote:We missed you too, Greta Garbo.

More like Kenneth Williams or Mrs. Slocombe?? 'Mister Humphries, leave my pussy alone!'

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How IS it pronounced? . 'Sla-witt', as I mentioned way back in April 2015, a couple of days before I took my sabattical from here. I always think every time I see a lorry drive up our residential street how on earth we managed before satellite navigation systems? I mean, we had to purchase road map...

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I can cope with Beyonce and her cigarette. But every day since I've been working there (early June) they've played this piece of garbage. Every day!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvwrOgUtWrI I think someone needs to be told that Rod Stewart may well have been cool back in the day, but it's 2016 a...

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Not in a loft. Take a look up this thread in a post dated 13.09.14 and you'll some of my photos of the organ. A lot of the music is hidden away in the pews, but since that photo was taken, the clutter has increased almost threefold. I might ask Trace if she wants some boxes from work to bung it all ...

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And yet, I cannot find Mike's Woodhenge. There is a handbell section towards the end of the piece.

Mike Oldfield doesn't have the credit he should have as a modern composer. Though he's only ever sung on the B side of 'Moonlight Shadow'.

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I remember when I was in the Cub Scouts, how overjoyed my mother was when I came home and told her I wanted to do my naturalist badge, all other members of the family were told I was getting my naturist badge.

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Finding out Waitrose will be coming to Bromsgrove (5 miles/11km away)

http://bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/th ... ent-12997/

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It's so much fun being back on here. I've missed it, you know...

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Slaithwaite was mentioned on the radio the other morning (the birthplace of British composer Haydon Wood) but was mispronounced as 'Slath-waite'. I did take the liberty of texting Petroc to tell him how the name should be pronounced, but he never did acknowledge it. In his defence, he has been makin...

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I was saying on another music-related forum a while back (before I got excommunicated from it for the fourth time) that there's this cheap and brainless, but quite obviously big selling pop song I heard on the instore radio station in work that went something like 'I'm a cigarette, I'm a cigarette, ...

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The organ at my church makes one heck of a hullabaloo when the blowers are on. I went up there to pass on a pile of books to the organist before the service last Sunday and it sounded like a cross between a snoring wart hog and a trump (not Donald!) It must be quite offputting to say the least!!! Mi...

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I saw this on Blue Peter in 1979 as a kid and I NEVER thought I'd ever see it again. Mike Oldfield showing Simon Groom how he reworked the famous 'Barnacle Bill' theme tune. I only came across it because I was looking for the B-side, Mike's own composition Woodhenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

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