chessert

chessert, 10 hours ago to swimming

I've achieved the level of baldness/receding hairline, where I have two options to avoid burning my pate: wear a hat; or slather on sunblock. 🙄

I need to remember this if I spend a day swimming! 🏊‍♂️

#Aging #Sunblock #Swimming

chessert, 3 days ago to random

Dang!
Barry Butler Photography

chessert, 12 days ago to Trains

What a beautifully restored locomotive! BTW, the Reading & Northern line runs through Tunkhannock, PA... which is where I shop for groceries. 😀

#Trains #Steam #Locomotive #NEPA #PA

https://youtu.be/UMT9KJvhhdE

chessert, 14 days ago to random

Seems legit?

chessert, 28 days ago to music

Opened this up for the first time in ~6 years. I stopped playing completely when I left the Army in 2009.

I bought this in 1983, I think (with a little help from Mom & Dad). My first — and only — professional Horn. The detachable bell is in the top half of the case, out of sight. It's a Yamaha YHR-862: a big bore, big throated Kruspe wrapped Horn. Perfect for Concert Band or a large Orchestra (Mahler), when you need to project.

#Horn #Music #YHR-862 #Yamaha

1/3

chessert, 1 month ago to music

Beautiful, magnificent, and noble.

You could point out the Cello has a similar range, tone, sonority... but the Cello can't project the power that a brass instrument can. Because brass instruments are powered by human breath: there's more human soul there by the very nature of the instruments.

1/2

#Music #Horn #Nobility

https://youtu.be/MfsjKiLgAnU

chessert, 1 month ago to random

This is a fine performance. But the ex-military Horn player in me (US Army 1986-2009) needs to know the economics of performing after beats in the range of a perfect 5th (or even a 3rd for the lower parts) on a Horn that costs over $7k?

I learned to hate marches, forever.

https://youtu.be/csaCJWGeEZ0

1/2

chessert, 1 month ago to Catroventos

Injustice has always been my flash anger trigger (for a lot of reasons & experience I'm not going to detail here).

But the older I get, the less apologetic and circumspect I become about expressing those opinions and heat. I guess rage can build slowly.

#Justice #Aging #Society #Commonwealth

chessert, 1 month ago to music

Many people don't understand why I chose to play the Horn... and particularly why I chose to try to make a career of it. Well, it started in grade school, at Miller Elementary School. We got to choose instruments in 4th grade. I chose Trumpet or Drums. They went alphabetically, and by the time they got to me (H)... Trumpets and Drums were gone.

#Horn #Music #Brass

1/4

chessert, 1 month ago to random

Hmmm. Second day in a row where I'm up way too early, waiting for sunrise and breakfast.

Keep digging, keep pushing! Normality is what you make of it, I guess?

chessert, 1 month ago to Israel

Only Benjamin Netanyahu could bring me to consider rooting for Iran. Consider what you have permanently(?) lost, Israel. Sympathy is gone. I hope you all enjoy the Gaza beach condos Jared Kushner will build (with Saudi money), on the skeletons of murdered Palestinians. Just my own observation: YMMV, of course... and I'll still try to respect that.

#Israel #Iran #Palestine

chessert, 1 month ago to random

I’m almost to the point of adding a filter for any toots containing “The New York Times” or “NYT”. I cannot overemphasize how little I care about any and all opinions expressed there. They do not deserve any of my attention. (Same for Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.)

#CorporateMedia #Disinformation

chessert, 1 month ago to MLB

@baseball
0-4 Rockies vs. Cubs

#MLB #Chicago #Cubs

chessert, 1 month ago to random

Why frustrated workers are hiring reps of their own https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/03/human-resources-hr-departments-us-workers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

chessert, 1 month ago to random

109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/tulsa-race-massacre-restitution-oklahoma?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

chessert, 1 month ago to MLB

@baseball
12-2 Cubbies! 2 innings left.

#MLB #Chicago #Cubs

chessert, 1 month ago to Bulgaria

I'm very happy to have Finland and Sweden join NATO. I've never been to either country, but I hope to visit in the future.

#NATO #Finland #Sweden #Allies

https://youtu.be/Nn7ojLa8WvE

chessert, 1 month ago to music

My second favorite piece featuring the Horn in Chamber Music (small ensembles). An older recording. Very good recording, despite using primitive recording technology.

Johannes Brahms, Horn trio, Eb major, Op. 40 - Recorded in London, 13 November 1933

Adolf Busch, violin
Aubrey Brain, horn (Dennis Brain's father)
Rudolf Serkin, piano

I. Andante (0:00)
II. Scherzo. Allegro (8:11)
III. Adagio mesto (15:11)
IV. Allegro con brio (23:30)

#Brahms #Horn #ChamberMusic #Music

https://youtu.be/Zt03Kn92Oho

chessert, 1 month ago to music

Oboe production. Quality musical instruments aren't cheap. Professional wind instruments are expensive, but nothing compared to professional (and historical) stringed instruments. Pipe organs, of course, are a separate entity, since they usually including an entire building. 😮

#Music #Oboe #Woodwind #Instrument

https://youtu.be/_xOj9bLkYVQ

chessert, 2 months ago to chicago

I think most folks would be surprised to learn the USA had two coal burning, paddle-wheeled aircraft carriers operating out of Chicago in WWII. 😀

#WWII #USN #AircraftCarrier #Chicago

https://youtu.be/2FaIc4qRdLI

chessert, 2 months ago to music

Another of those 1970s songs that still haunts me, and helped form me. Partly responsible for 11yo me becoming a hopeless romantic.

"Baby I'm a Want You" by David Gates & Bread (1972).

#Music #1970s #Love

https://youtu.be/3RQcFbjjEMM?si=V_g3cX2NgExPY4NF

chessert, 2 months ago to AppleMusic

Apparently an Apple Music subscription is now included in my Verizon wireless plan. Is this worth signing on to? Your thoughts, please! 😀

#AppleMusic #Verizon

chessert, 2 months ago to linguistics

One of the things I'd love to see technology address, is providing automatic language translation, for both documents and particularly videos.

The language translation features of Mastodon work well, but I still find toots that don't have a "translate" link/button... especially Asian languages.

#Language #Understanding #Translation #Community

chessert, 2 months ago to music

Q: What do you call a drummer in a three-piece suit?

A: "The Defendant"

From a drummer friend on FB this afternoon. 😀

#Music #Humor

chessert, 2 months ago to music

A fun dissection of the James Bond theme. Geek out a little with some music theory and analysis. 😀

#Music #JamesBond #Theory #Analysis

https://youtu.be/BGln_d078UA