Capítol del programa ‘Els últims artesans’ de Televisió de Catalunya dedicat al luthier David Bagué:

I’ve played thousands of guitars from working and playing in the Industry for 20 years. I’ve owned several hundred, bought and sold (I only have 4-5 right now-fairly light when I play music full time)

So last year I discovered a life changing Strat, my Custom Shop Suhr. Beautiful Guitar. It’s Emerald Green. Not my first or even 5th color choice, but it’s not about color. It’s about playability and tone. So I use it all the time.

I needed a good humbucker equipped guitar with a tremolo, because my existing guitar was too ‘bitey’ for my taste. I wanted something with depth and body, Like a les Paul, tonally, but not the weight, or the look.

So, I came across an Ernie Ball MusicMan JP6 the other week in Denver. It was another one of those moments like an electric shock. I hunted around, and very shortly afterwards came across a silly deal on that model. It arrived this week, and sure enough it also deserved induction into a rare category called ‘lifechanger’

It too was Emerald Green. Now, I’ve always been one to be sensitive in the Spirit to let the Holy Spirit speak to me about Numerics (Bible Numerics) and Etymology (word meanings) Colors also have representations, like If some sees red, or they are feeling blue etc. So I thought, this is really strange, I have these two guitars, both Emerald Green, and my connection to them far surpasses that of a regular instrument…

After I realized this guitar was the pinnacle of what I was searching for I felt the Holy Spirit saying, connect the dots Fletch, search the meaning of the color Emerald Green. Here is what was said

In the Christian faith it is the symbol of faith and hope. It is considered by many to be the stone of prophecy. For some the emerald acts as a tranquilizer for a troubled mind.

Ok, considering that I work with a Prophetic Ministry, and my sole focus in playing music is to bring glory to God, and my goal each time in Worship is to have people encounter the Love of the Father, and give hope to the hopeless…… the connection is too large to ignore.

Oh my goodness this is fun!  - let me know how many times it took you to save a life..  Go to web-site and get interacting!

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Thinking about tools, collections of tools and garden tools.  In making some recent images it struck me how like garden implements some of the instruments are:

Ear rakes for example…

I wondered around garden imagery and The Garden of Earthly Delights came to mind.  A triptych painted by Hieronymus Bosch in the 16thC depicting scenes on a grand scale and probably intended to illustrate the history of mankind according to mediaeval Christian doctrine.

Such triptychs are intended to be read from left to right and often portray Eden through to the last Judgement.  The subtext was contained in the centre piece.

(Francis Bacon)

It strikes me that it would be interesting to consider making such a triptych loosely related to some of the themes contained in the early ones.  One could indulge in symbolism, the notions of fear and dread, the body and its parts, invasion of body, pain suffering, metaphoric objects and the hope of healing..

Interestingly the outer panels of ‘The Garden..’ lack colour, the imagery is striking as it shows a round world possibly reflecting a time before the ‘colour’ of creation.  The technique is called Grisaille and the word means grey.  It strikes me that opening the doors of this amazing painting is a little like opening up a body; the pale and grey outer body opens to reveal the colour and complexity of the inner workings!

painting inspired by open heart sugery at  www.dycusart.com 

I never thought I would lament the end of radio.

In the pre-Internet age, commercial radio, TV news and the front page of newspapers, all provided a shared experience to their community (not, mind you, that this was an unmitigated good). Unlike the other two media, though, radio also reached back in time, since it didn’t just present the music of the day. I grew up with a good independent radio station, and as a result, I had a de facto education in alternative music from the rise of punk onwards, which was augmented by listening to this show every week. That kind of historical context can be lost if you’ve gotten all of your music online.

I thought about radio on the weekend when this question came up: “What is the most influential modern instrument?” (post-electric guitar, not post-sousaphone). My immediate response, “The drum machine,” was met with incomprehension. While you could argue whether this is the right answer (and please do, in the comments), you have to have some knowledge of the antecedents of today’s music in order to answer the question.  I’m not sure how widespread that will be from now on.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shoo some kids off my lawn.

Exhibit A: New Order – Blue Monday (12″)

This new tunable steel tongue instrument was made by request. It is Clear Coated Steel with Purple MILLTONE lettering and a Purple Sri Yantra graphic inside. If there is a design you would like just let me know.

Model 4G-CLR-322, Nov. 24, 2009

Purple vinyl Sri Yantra inside

Fun and Easy to Play, Enjoy this short demo.

Click here to visit the eBay auction for this tunable Steel Tongue Hand Drum.

Thank You

It’s not often the dear old Grauniad surprises me with something, fusty old organ that it is, but this is a story about an organ – or rather a piano – that has really piqued my interest…

A 'fluid' piano-cum-sitar-cum-harp

It’s a prototype piano that has completely variable ‘fluid’ tuning that produces a sound similar to Asian instruments (a sound which I adore). I’m a hopelessly bad pianist (I can read music but at about a rate of three notes per minute!) but I can see the attraction in this amazing fusion of what sounds like both piano, harp and possibly sitar to create a breathtakingly beautiful and intuitive instrument.

Stringed instruments (like the sitar or the guitar or the violin) have always stumped me. I just don’t have the manual dexterity for them. But a piano I can just about cope with and the opportunity (albeit in prototype-only form) to be able to play an instrument with such tonal variety is almost irresistible. The inventor says it’s an “unsettling” machine. I’d disagree, even with him. I’d say it’s exciting, stimulating, mind-opening.

What a fantastic way to bring the richness of the Asian musical tapestry to an instrument capable of being played in a staid old ‘Western’ way. Pure genius. If only I had the space and the money to commission one for myself. Oh, and the talent.

Click the picture to go the the Guardian article and listen to this fantastic sound.

Now that we make our own vinyl graphics, we are beginning to design our own unique graphics. This is the first MILLTONE tunable steel tongue hand drum with graphics that were not made from any picture or image. They began as a doodle on Larry’s scrap paper.

Model 4G-HCPR-321, Nov. 23, 2009

New Original Graphics

Fun and Easy to Play, Enjoy!

Click here to visit the eBay auction for this new MILLTONE tunable Steel Tongue Hand Drum.

Thank You.

3207631    ทันตวัสดุอุปกรณ์และบริภัณฑ์    Dental Materials Instruments and Equipments

คุณสมบัติ ความคุ้มค่า ความเหมาะสมในการเลือกใช้และการจัดเตรียมทันตวัสดุ อุปกรณ์และบริภัณฑ์ตามลำดับขั้นตอน การป้องกันและควบคุมภยันตรายที่อาจเกิดจากวิชาชีพ

(Properties, cost-benefit, efficient selection, sequential preparation of dental materials, instruments and equipments; prevent and control of occupational hazards.)

(3207631 จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)

3207644    เครื่องมือทดสอบคุณสมบัติทางทันตวัสดุศาสตร์    Instruments for Testing Dental Material Properties

หลักการและวิธีการใช้เครื่องมือในการทดสอบหาคุณสมบัติทางทันตวัสดุศาสตร์

(Principles and use of instruments for testing dental material properties.)

(3207644 จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)

3207740    เครื่องมือสำหรับการทดสอบและวิเคราะห์ทันตวัสดุ    Instruments For Dental Material Testing And Analysis

หลักการทำงาน การเตรียมชิ้นตัวอย่าง และวิธีการใช้เครื่องมือทดสอบและวิเคราะห์ทันตวัสดุ การใช้กล้องจุลทรรศน์อิเล็กตรอนแบบส่องกราดและส่องผ่าน เครื่องมือทดสอบยูนิเวอร์แชล ความแข็งผิว ความแข็งแรงกระแทก เครื่องมือวัดความขรุขระของผิวหน้า การใช้เพอร์ฟอร์มานซ์ลิควิดโครมาโตกราฟี เจลเพอร์เมีย-ซันโครมาโตกราฟี ดิฟเฟอเรนเชียลสแกนนิงแคลอริมิเตอร์ เทอร์มอลเกรวิติอะนาไลซิส ไดนามิก แมคานิคอะนาไลซิส เครื่องมือวัดสี

(Principles, specimen preparations and technical manipulation of instruments for dental material testing and analysis: operation of scanning and transmission electron microscope, testing equipments for universal, surface hardness, compact strength, equipment for measuring surface roughness, operation of performance liquid chromatography, gel permeasion chromatography, differential scanning calorimeter, thermal gravity analysis, dynamic mechanic analysis, color measuring equipment.)

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202422     การควบคุมแบบหลายตัวแปรและอุปกรณ์     Multi-variable Control and Instruments

วิธีปริภูมิสถานะ การเฝ้าสังเกตการ การควบคุมได้ การควบคุมด้วยดิจิทัลและการออกแบบการควบคุมกระบวนการขนาดใหญ่

(State space method, operability controllability, digital control, and design of large scale process control.)

(202422 มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์)

In his new book, former vice-president Al Gore says we have in hand all the tools we need to solve the climate change crises, except the collective will to do anything about them. I respectfully beg to differ. Finding the will is not the problem. We already have it and we have it volumes sufficient to the task. Gore is also wrong in claiming we have the tools we need. There are entire classes of scientific and economic tools that we are missing. It is because we lack the right tools that we are unable to focus and channel our will for solutions.

The short version of my argument is that we don’t have scientific, universally uniform, and ubiquitously used metrics for measuring overall environmental quality. Because we don’t have the measures, we can’t and don’t effectively and efficiently manage our natural capital and environmental assets. Without metrics akin to barrels of oil or bushels of grain, we don’t have markets for matching environmental quality supply with demand for it.

Without tools as essential as metrics and markets, we can’t harness our existing will to improve our relationship with the earth. What will do we have, you might ask? Our collective will is expressed in the profit motive. What we need to do is set up metrics and markets to harness the energy of the profit motive. We need to create systems for trading natural capital (and human and social capital) so that we generate real wealth and drive happiness indexes north by realizing human potential, building thriving communities, and nurturing sustainable environments. The profit motive is not our enemy. It is the source of energy we need to deal with the multiple crises we face: human, social, and environmental.

Now for the long version of my argument. The problem is the problem. We restrict our options for solving problems by the way we frame the issue. Einstein supposedly pointed out that big problems, ones framed at a level where they define the entire paradigmatic orientation to a class of smaller, solvable problems, cannot be solved from within the paradigm they emerge from. We tend to define problems from the modern point of view, in a Cartesian fashion, from the point of view of a subject that is separate from, and in no way involved in the construction of, the objects it encounters. What I want to point out is that it is this Cartesian orientation to problem definition that is itself the problem!

Set aside your opinions on the basic issues concerning climate change, and think about what’s going on. It is undeniable that human activities are implicated in changes to the environment, and that we have to learn to manage our effects on the planet, or they will feed back on us in potentially harmful ways. This is the nature of life in the flux and flow of ecological relationships. It is one of many ways in which observers are inherently implicated in constructing what is observed, which is recognized as holding true as much in physics as in anthropology. These are uncontroversial facts, quite apart from any concern with climate change.

And what these feedback loops imply, as has indeed already been pointed out by generations of scholars and thinkers, is that there is no such thing as a pure Cartesian subject separate from its objects. We shape the things in our world, and those things, in turn, shape us. Subjects and objects are mutually implicated. All observers are participant observers. It is inevitable that what we do and think will change the world, and the new world will require us to think and act differently.

The plethora of environmental crises we face are therefore situated in a new non-Cartesian paradigm. It is a fundamental error of the first order to approach a non-Cartesian problem as though it were merely another variation on the usual kind of thing that can be addressed fairly well from the Cartesian dualist perspective. When we think, as Al Gore does, that we should be socialistically organizing resources for a centrally-organized 5-year plan of attack on environmental problems, we are missing the point.

This approach can be put to work only in terms of an authoritarian form of control directed by a dictatorial panel of experts, a military junta, or a self-appointed czar. Framed from a Cartesian point of view, no democratic process will ever compel voters to do what needs to be done. As was illustrated so dramatically by the fall of Communism, the socialistic manipulation of the concrete particulars of human, social, and environmental problems is unsustainable and socially irresponsible.

The fact is that non-Cartesian problems are only made worse when we try to solve them with Cartesian solutions. This is why non-Cartesian problems are often described by philosophers as “hermeneutic,” a word that derives from the name of the Greek god Hermes, known by the ancient Romans as Mercury. Like liquid mercury, non-Cartesian problems merely split and multiply when we grasp at them clumsily ignoring our own involvement in the creation of the problem.

So we can go on trying to herd cats or nail jello to the wall, but to be part of the solution and not just another way of being part of the problem, we need to set up systems of thought and behavior that are not internally inconsistent and self-contradictory. No matter what we do, if we keep on marshalling resources to attack problems in deliberate and systematic ignorance of this cross-paradigmatic dissonance, we can only make matters worse.

What else can be done? Just what does it mean to go with the flow of the mutual implication of subject and object? How can we explicitly model the problem to include the participant observer?

“The medium is the message,” to quote Marshall McLuhan. As was pointed out so humorously by Woody Allen in his film, “Annie Hall,” this expression is often repeated and often misunderstood. Though all can see that the news and entertainment media are ubiquitous, the meaning of our captivation with the media of creative expression has not yet been clarified sufficiently well for generalized understanding.

Significant advances have occurred in recent years, however. The media we are captivated by define and limit not only how and what we communicate, but who and what we have been, are, and could be. Depending on the quality of their transparency and of the biases that color them, media convey moral, human, and economic values of various kinds. The media through which we express values include every conceivable technology, from alphabets and phonemes to buildings, clothing, and food preparation, to musical instruments, and the creations of art and science.

Media are at the crux of the lesson we have to learn if we are to frame the problems of environmental management so that we are living solutions, not exacerbating problems. Media of all kinds, from pen and paper to television to the Internet, are fundamentally technical. In fact, media are the original technologies. The words “text,” “textile,” and “technique” all derive from the Greek “techne,” to make, and have even deeper roots in the Sanskrit “TEK.” Technology is our primary medium of shared meaning. Technology embodies the meanings we create and distributes their values across society and around the world.

What we need to do to effect non-Cartesian solutions then is to dwell deeply with our shared meanings and values, and find new ways of living them out, ways that embody the unity of subject and object, problem and solution. Nice rhetoric, you might say, but what does it mean? What is its practical consequence?

Put in academic terms, the pragmatic issue concerns the nature of technology and how it provides measures of reality serving as the media through which we experience the world in terms of shared universals. Primary sources here include the works of writers like Latour, Wise, Jasanoff, Knorr-Cetina, Schaffer, Ihde, Heidegger, and others cited in previous posts in this blog, and in my published work.

To do more to cut to the chase, we can start to think of language and technology as embodying problem-solution unities. Words and tools are situated within ecologies of relationships that define their meanings and functions. We need to be more sensitive to the way meanings and values become embodied in language and technologies, and then are distributed across far-flung networks to coordinate collectively harmonized thought and action.

To get right down to where this all is leading, though it is probably far from obvious, the appropriate non-Cartesian orientation to the problems of environmental management raised in Al Gore’s new book ultimately culminates in creation of the technical networks through which we distribute measures of what we want to manage. These networks comprise the ecologies of meaning and values that we inhabit. Not coincidentally, they also create the markets in which human, social, and natural capital can be efficiently and effectively traded.

When these networks and markets are created, finding the collective will to deal with the environmental challenges we face will be the least of our problems. The profit motive is an exceptionally strong force. What we ought to be doing is figuring out how to harness it as the engine of social change. This contrasts diametrically with Al Gore’s perspective, which treats the profit motive as part of the problem.

Technical networks of instruments traceable to reference standards, and markets for the exchange of the values measured by those instruments, are what we ought to be focusing on. The previous post in this blog proposes an Intangible Assets Metric System, and is related to earlier posts on the role of common currencies for the exchange of meaningful quantitative values in creating functional markets for human, social, and natural capital. What we need are these infrastructural supports for creating the efficient markets in which demand for environmental solutions can be matched the supply of those solutions. The failure of socialism is testimony to the futility of trying to man-handle our way forward by brute force.

Of course, I will continue living out my life’s mission and passion by continuing to elaborate variations, explanations, and demonstrations of how this could be so….

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Time now for something different!

This is my weekend music post.

Let’s rock out live in the studio with Yes band’s mega bass player and vocal arranger prog rock’s very own Chris Squire!

From his first solo album circa 1976 “Fish Out of Water” here’s “Hold Out Your Hand” and “You By My Side.”

New information page uploaded: “What is a mridanga (khol)?“

Enjoy

6.1 TEST 6: Self- Assessment Technique

6.2 Our self evaluation

Francisco’s

Assistance (15 pts.):
     15 – Missed less than two sessions X
     10 – Missed three sessions
       5 – Missed more than three sessions
       0 – Missed all sessions

In-session participation (15 pts.):
     15 – Was actively there, participating and paying attention
     10 – Was quietly listening X
       5 – Was barely there at all (mentally)
       0 – Wasn’t there or was creating distractions 

Classwork (40 pts):
     40 – 90% to 100% of assignments X
     30 – 70% to 89%
     20 – 50% to 79%
     10 – Less than 50%
       0 – None

Gave peers feedback when required (15 pts.):
     15 – Every time X
     10 – Almost always
       5 – Rarely
       0 – Never

Feedback quality (15 pts.):
     15 – Always true insight, valued feedback X
     10 – Almost always
       5 – Rarely
       0 – None

Total 95/100

Paulina’s

Participation (20%)

20- Always active participation in the classroom

10- Not always participates

0- Never participates

Assignments (30%)

20- Did all the assignments

15- Did 80/50% of the assignments

5- Did less than 50%

Assistance (20%)

20- Always there

15- Only missed two classes

10- Missed more than two classes

Class work (30%)

20- Have all class works

10- Have 50% of all class works

5- Less than 50% of all class works

Total: 100%
6.3 Reflection

     The final unit offers a great perspective on an alternative was to view our progress; although it is technically hindsight, assessing oneself at the end of a course can really help us prepare for the upcoming courses or units. We think self assessment could be applied most successfully to an adult classroom where the Ss could keep track of their advancements and keep or create a comparison to what they were expecting to get from the course. Overall, it’s a very good tool fr the language teacher.

I wrote about the Tenori-On a few weeks ago.  After watching several demonstration videos and how Paul De Jong used his magical-awesome music skills to make beautiful music with it, I was in love.  However, the Tenori-On is well over $1000.  Yikes.

I just read about the Bliptronic 5000 on CreateDigitalMusic.com.  It’s basically a cheaper version ($50) of the Tenori-On that you can buy on ThinkGeek.com.  The interface is really similar to the Tenori-On, but it has fewer “modes” and the sound quality is not as good.  But hey, maybe that’s the type of sound that you’re going for.

The coolest feature of the Bliptronic that the Tenori-On lacks is a collaborative function.

According to ThinkGeek.com:

“An infinite number of Bliptronics can be attached together using the link ports and included cables. When one Bliptronic reaches the end of it’s pattern, the next Bliptronic is instantly triggered to start playing. This allows you to make longer songs where each person controls a section of the song. You can even set the tempo and instrument differently on each Bliptronic in the chain to achieve unconventional musical results.”

From CreateDigitalMusic.com:

“You know the grid craze is in full steam once ThinkGeek offers a $50 clone. The Bliptronic 5000 is somewhere between the Tenori-On and monome. It certainly looks like the monome, with an 8-by-8 grid of light-up pads in a square form factor. But like the Tenori-On, it has built-in sounds and speaker, it’s made of aluminum, and it runs on batteries. The Bliptronic also simplifies its user interface. Its 8×8 pads are simply an eight-note octave with eight steps. There’s a play button, and knobs for tempo and tone selector. There’s also the ability to link up devices and play them together – bonus points for that, as aside from basic MIDI function, the Tenori-On as shipped by Yamaha failed to deliver some of the original collaborative features promised by designer Toshio Iwai’s original proposal.

The “old-skool” sounds are pretty lo-fi-sounding from what I can tell, but this unit does have a certain charm. If you’ve got a monome and a Tenori-On and a Launchpad in every room, you can amuse your friends by keeping one of these in the lavatory. And who knows, someone might pick this thing up and do something terrific with it. (I sure can’t argue with the price.)”

I know what I’m adding to my Christmas wish list this year.

I’m officially in the mood for Christmas…and I think I want an accordion. Via VSL

Continuing with Native American designs this tunable steel tongue hand drum by MILLTONE features some of the great traditional Native American symbols.

*Click here for more Native American symbol information.

The Hand. Representing the presence of man. His work, his achievements & his history.*

Dragonfly Forms. The graphics are an abstraction of the dragonfly, which can be used as a talisman, especially with the Southern Pueblo Indians. At Isleta it became a double armed cross. This was worn as a symbol of both Catholic conversion and respect for older traditions.*

Weaving Pattern. Navajo Storm Style. Many of the Navajo patterns are followed closely by weaving families, while other designs are created fresh each time. A few designs are similar to designs seen in Plains Beadwork and paintings.*

Model 4G-HGLD-325, Nov. 27, 2009

Native American Weaving Pattern

Dragonfly Symbols on Tongues

Fun and Easy to Play, Enjoy!

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FLÛTE TRAVERSIERE
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INITIATION pour les 4, 5, 6 ans

Daniel Steinhardt is a genius… It’s official. While his name may not be as well established as some of his innovative boutique builder counterparts, it is merely a matter of time.

Daniel founded thegigrig.com to meet the working/pro musicians needs with a range of products the other companies have not considered, or not had the foresight to develop first.

Their flagship product is the Pro 14, a large pedalboard switcher that enable a musician to route up to 11 pedals into it, and simultaneously call up any number of desired pedals with just one tap of the foot. You have a variety of output options, to run effects pre gain stage, and into effects loops, set overall levels on each setting to avoid volume spikes, and so much more.

Competitors products are almost toys in comparison, to the Pro 14 and MIDI 8 products, but it doesn’t end there. Daniel has a wealth of other products like the distributor, virtual batteries, loopy 2 etc. His generator can handle over 50 effects running at once, all with power to spare, and no larger than the competitions offerings.

Currently I use the Gigrig humdinger (buffer with an isolated outout) that allows me to connect my stereo guitar rig to two amplifiers without the typical ground loop and phase issues that occur. I also use the  multiple distributors which allow me to connect my pedals to get power instead of using daisy chains or multiple adaptors. I also have a few wetboxes and pedals for good measure.

Daniel really is an innovator and I wholeheartedly recommend his products!