Comments on: What Music Gives

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:37:56 +0000

Oh, yeah, Paula, when I was a kid, and in the choir at church, there was a door in the choir room with a threshold about two feet off of the floor. Behind that door was the room with the pipes in it, separated from the sanctuary by thin cloth only.

Curiously, I like organs, and like churchy organ music, but get creeped out by the kind of people who seem to be organ fans, mostly. I can’t explain it.

I’ll always listen to any halfway-decent Bach performance on an organ, though, and the Wicks organ builders have my undying gratitude for also supplying Sitka Spruce and other goodies to the builders of homebuilt aircraft – I wants me a Pietenpol

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:21:03 +0000

The rifle stacks at the U.S. Springfield arsenal have been compared to such, in poetry, even.

M’self, I’m thinking of a pulse-jet calliope I’ve just read about, prolly best heard at a distance of several miles. I do wonder how they start and stop each one in time with the music. Starting up a Dyna-Jet is a pretty elaborate process.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:29:39 +0000

If you like shiny things all lined up in rows, try organ pipes!

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:03:51 +0000

Oh, I think I mentioned it to the Diva in an email, once; back when Major Donovan and Beth Donovan lived in Kansas City, near Fort Leavenworth, there was an autie girl who lived a few houses away. They mention that she didn’t seem to follow prosaic speech very well, but if you sang to her, she caught your drift, so to speak.

I cannot speak too highly of the Donovans and their site. As an ailurophile, I think they are ‘way cool for keeping eight cats. They also have two dogs (the smallest number they’ve had in years) two horses, lotsa chickens, lots and lotsa guinea fowl, some goats, etc and so forth.

Oh, and again, there is so much shiny goodness in the ancient artillery artifacts of Argghhh!

Artillerymen are the only rational sojers, and get to use shiny intellectual mathematical instruments which are very pretty to look at when they are say, 100 years old, but yet carefully and lovingly preserved, as is the case at Castle Argghhh!

Ok. My ulterior motive: Every now and then, The Donovan posts what he calls a “Whatziss?” which is a picture of a detail part of a piece of old rare military equipment. I’ve won more than my fair share of these, but lots of whatziss’s have gone un-named.

I’m appealing to all autie-aspies with military-gizmo perseverations to go over there and get it right the first time, next time John posts a perplexing picture of a part of a projectile-projector, or something.

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:00:23 +0000

Andy loves music. He’s never had any lessons, there really isn’t the money for them. But he enjoys composing songs on apples Garage Band. It’s amazing the sounds he puts together that sound good.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:11:37 +0000

@justhisguy, “shiny gizmos all lined up in rows”—-sounds (no pun intended) like just what the doctor ordered!

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:41:29 +0000

Now that’s multi-instrument-talent!

By: farmwifetwo

farmwifetwo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:27:50 +0000

I have the best photo. Earlier this winter little boy played grandma’s piano with his elbow and with one hand and a wooden spoon played the zylophone and the other played the drum. He still does it… Grandma leaves everything set up for him until the next time he comes and visits – they live next door.

It wasn’t “noise” it was music.. none we’d recognize… but it wasn’t random noise making.

Instead of gym next fall, I too am thinking of piano lessons or the “Mom” is going to have to dust off her music reading abilities and teach piano too.

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:42 +0000

P.s. Oh, also some serious discussion of foreign policy and military affairs by some pretty sharp people, some of whom have “seen the elephant.”

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:47:09 +0000

Oh, hell, yeah! We nerdy bandsmen have known this all along. We hold the senior position in military ceremonies, at the Right of the Line, you know. In fact, I was just about to cue up some Kenneth Alford; maybe “The Mad Major” in honor of my favorite just-barely-normal redleg, Maj.(ret.) John Donovan at http://www.thedonovan.com.

If you have the slightest autistic tendencies and like shiny gizmos all lined up in rows, you MUST look at the marvelous Gun Pr0n at his site.