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Post by keff on May 30, 2023 12:55:15 GMT
In the past I have fancied playing trumpet but whilst other half is willing to let me buy one she says it can only be practised in the shed.
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Post by Zi on May 30, 2023 15:04:21 GMT
Have a special shed for it - fitted out as a music den!
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Post by keff on May 30, 2023 16:10:01 GMT
Came up with the idea the other day of having a new room built on the north side of our house to install a grand piano which essentially would be a music room and could be acoustically isolated to allow playing of a trumpet. Alternatively have something built in the garden. Shows I can dream but in reality couldn't put up with all the hassle.
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Post by pavane on May 31, 2023 8:23:14 GMT
A neighbour of ours recently had quite a large wooden garden room built. I think it cost about €15,000 but that covered everything, and it was all done remarkably quickly. Someone came and did the foundations which took a day or so, they were then left for about a week, then the largely prefabricated building was assembled on the site in another 2 days, and finally an electrician came and connected it up to the house supply. I'd be lying if I said it was 100% hassle free - the electrician came and said someone else should already have dug a trench for the cabling whereas the someone else thought that was down to the electrician. Maybe because he was in a bit of a grump by then, the electrician also claimed that the work would be more difficult and costly than predicted because of some pre-existing fault in the house wiring that his work uncovered. Allegedly. However, that only added a day on to the process (so 6 days in total when it should have been 5) in the end and was sorted out reasonably straightforwardly, and the owner is very pleased with the result. I've been in and it's a great space, very light and airy, and although it's a wooden building (nothing against wooden buildings btw, I have owned and lived in several of them) it's triple glazed and very well insulated and suprisingly warm in winter. I think the main hassle in the end was that in encroached on the patio a bit and it's taken a while to get around to sorting that out. I'd be tempted myself but the only place I could put it is a fair way from the house up a hill, but I'm still thinking about it - it would make a fantastic music room and I could make as much noise as I liked any time I wanted to.
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Post by keff on May 31, 2023 10:23:40 GMT
That sounds encouraging Pavane. The electricity supply was one of the issues I was thinking about although when we had our house rewired an armoured cable was fed to the garden shed with relative ease. In a previous house I dug a trench by hand across a lawn to wire in our garage and had to make it 45cm deep, if I remember correctly. Anyway it looked deep at the time.
On the last occasion that Gareth Malone was hosting a music programme on the TV he seemed to have had an extra room built at the bottom of his garden to house his music studio.
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Post by Zi on Aug 10, 2023 14:51:01 GMT
I thought I'd come here and say: Argggghhhh! I feel better now.
I have wondered about taking up a vegetable (ie the vegetable orchestra for those who remember!) as I do now have a lot* of really, really nice pumpkins...
*I mean 'a lot'!
I've forgotten everything I think I might have known about the clarinet...
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Post by keff on Aug 10, 2023 18:43:21 GMT
Enjoy the gardening whilst it is summer. Clarinet will not harm even if left until autumn.
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Post by Zi on Aug 10, 2023 19:57:02 GMT
I'm not sure if I'm enjoying it or not. But I'm really pleased with how we've started to create some flower boarders despite assistance from the rabbits. I don't learn musical instruments very easily but I do forget at an extremely impressive rate. So, I think I excel at unlearning musically... I do think you're right that when the weather is such that being outside is nice, then working on the garden makes sense.
Have you played the violin at all, keff?
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Post by keff on Aug 10, 2023 20:12:51 GMT
No violin of late....there is nobody to keep me company and I get lonely on my own!!!!! I could/should pick it up again in November, Christmas carol season.
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Post by Zi on Aug 11, 2023 7:51:37 GMT
No violin of late....there is nobody to keep me company and I get lonely on my own!!!!! I could/should pick it up again in November, Christmas carol season. I wish I had the ability to do that but if I wait till November I'll manage three notes... I wonder if there is a carol with three notes. I'm sorry about the lonely. It's very, very quiet here at present - maybe everyone is on holiday or battling with their turnips... I'll try to do something clarinet-y soon... I'm afraid the garden has just gobbled a lot of my time. I'm on a mission with it to provide a haven for insects and wild life and I have probably become obsessed...
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Post by pavane on Aug 11, 2023 10:51:03 GMT
I wonder if there is a carol with three notes. I think there are several with, if not three exactly, not many more. I dusted off my carols recently and my selection breaks down into 2 groups: the jazzed-up versions, which are hard, and the straightforward versions, which are easy - in many cases, very easy. Good King Wenceslas, for example, only has about half a dozen notes. I went shopping yesterday and was slightly shocked to notice that use-by dates on fresh things are already straying into September. I'm intending to do at least one carol on each of recorder, clarinet and lyre, so I probably need to get started fairly soon. Ish.
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Post by Zi on Aug 11, 2023 11:30:20 GMT
That's good news. Maybe I can set myself a challenge which consists of being able to play 6 notes on as many instruments as possible... but not all at once. I haven't been to the shops since lockdown. I think I've forgotten what you have to do... We're vegetarians so most of the stuff now comes out of the garden (at least in summer) which means gluts but not many use-by dates. I'm much better at cooking than I am at musical instruments so that isn't much of a problem though there are only so many things you can do with runner beans.... I don't think I've ever seen anyone getting a tune out of one either! Just my luck! Nice to see you here pavane - I do hope things are as OK as poss!
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Post by pavane on Aug 11, 2023 12:01:50 GMT
If you haven't tried polpettone I can recommend it as a good way of using up beans.
Thank you!
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Post by Zi on Aug 11, 2023 13:36:32 GMT
The recipe is perfect! I can do lots with that! Thank you!
Re many instruments all at once - that is truly awe-inspiring!
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Post by pavane on Aug 11, 2023 14:40:08 GMT
Glad the recipe looks useful - it's really tasty and we eat lots of it.
The sax player often played 3 at once which is truly weird but all the videos I could find seemed such poor quality that I wasn't sure it would be all that obvious what was actually happening. I'd be happy enough to be able to play one at a time!
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