this week's magazines
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bunrabMagazines received this week:
Monthly:
Consumer Reports
Rider
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Natural History
Discover
Harper's
Mensa Bulletin
Weekly:
The Nation
The Economist
Science News
New Scientist
The New Yorker
Time
Not many catalogs this week - the after-Christmas pall, I guess. Only Colorful Images (address labels) and WinterSilks (which includes, among other things, the silk glove liners I use for extra layers under my motorcycle gloves, and on their own for playing Christmas-tree-lighting gigs when bare hands would freeze but regular gloves make it impossible to feel the keys.) An area coupon-clipper pamphlet, with coupons for a couple restaurants I'd actually like to try in Ellicott City and vacinity. (Remember, even though we're in Baltimore County inside the Balto. Beltway, we are only about 2 miles from the Howard County line and Ellicott City.)
I got a copy of the soprano sax part to LOTR on Wednesday and started practicing it Thursday, since I have to convince Chris I can play it before he'll add the third movement to the first and fifth. Ya know what? I can do it. I'm finding it much easier to get notes out of the soprano than I did when I tried one 20 years ago; perhaps 20 years more of playing other saxes has improved my abilities just slightly? Anyway, I can get all the notes, in the correct octaves. The risk was that either I'd be so tight on tightening up my embouchure that only the upper octave would come out, despite not using the octave key, or that I'd have such a slack embouchure that I'd only get the lower octave, and only some of the notes at that. But I seem to be able to get it right, and variable enough to get the octave I'm aiming for and even the upper side keys, although the D is awfully sharp, way too close to an Eb. But it seems that if I depress the third regular left-hand key at the same time, it brings it closer to in tune; now I just have to practice that maneuver until I can remember to do it automatically. As for the part, now to add all the grace notes, remember ALL the accidentals, and get it up to speed. But that's all doable now that I've got the notes.
Monthly:
Consumer Reports
Rider
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Natural History
Discover
Harper's
Mensa Bulletin
Weekly:
The Nation
The Economist
Science News
New Scientist
The New Yorker
Time
Not many catalogs this week - the after-Christmas pall, I guess. Only Colorful Images (address labels) and WinterSilks (which includes, among other things, the silk glove liners I use for extra layers under my motorcycle gloves, and on their own for playing Christmas-tree-lighting gigs when bare hands would freeze but regular gloves make it impossible to feel the keys.) An area coupon-clipper pamphlet, with coupons for a couple restaurants I'd actually like to try in Ellicott City and vacinity. (Remember, even though we're in Baltimore County inside the Balto. Beltway, we are only about 2 miles from the Howard County line and Ellicott City.)
I got a copy of the soprano sax part to LOTR on Wednesday and started practicing it Thursday, since I have to convince Chris I can play it before he'll add the third movement to the first and fifth. Ya know what? I can do it. I'm finding it much easier to get notes out of the soprano than I did when I tried one 20 years ago; perhaps 20 years more of playing other saxes has improved my abilities just slightly? Anyway, I can get all the notes, in the correct octaves. The risk was that either I'd be so tight on tightening up my embouchure that only the upper octave would come out, despite not using the octave key, or that I'd have such a slack embouchure that I'd only get the lower octave, and only some of the notes at that. But I seem to be able to get it right, and variable enough to get the octave I'm aiming for and even the upper side keys, although the D is awfully sharp, way too close to an Eb. But it seems that if I depress the third regular left-hand key at the same time, it brings it closer to in tune; now I just have to practice that maneuver until I can remember to do it automatically. As for the part, now to add all the grace notes, remember ALL the accidentals, and get it up to speed. But that's all doable now that I've got the notes.
