Thanks, I'm only mostly useless... but not completely!

Oh man, I had a heart attack when I saw what a new programmmed one was... eeep!

I have the feeling that I should do the weeding now before spring comes and it all explodes... but it is sooooo cold out there...

Pass on commenting on the too big to fail stuff... they really annoy me with their arrogance, incompetence, and waste.

Well.. large... a handful of people in a very very niche field!

Thanks, I'll fix that now!

If only... it usually seems like the bigger they are the "too big they are too fail"!

Haha... it is much less confusing when it is described in person with an instrument to demonstrate!

Oh, I didn't know about that! But if it was not movable, then that would have helped solidify pitch standards. I'm a bit up in the air about the pitch reference being anything special... but temperaments,

Yeah, it is a pretty crude shunt of the entire keyboard mechanism to the right or the left, so that they start plucking/hitting the next string on the line!

Ah yes, the electronic keyboards do have an advantage there! But we like the feel and response of the old acoustic things!

All in a days work for an Early Music nerd!

It is really an Early Music sort of thing... modern day musicians (including classical) never really think about it.

Yes, we haven't quite had fruit yet... except for the lemon!

Eep... that isn't any good! I have started to set an alarm for about one hour... and then I give it up for the day. I can't really afford to injure myself... precious princess musicians!!!

Oh... I haven't reached that point yet thankfully!

Haha... it is one of my best growing plants!

It will get there... and in the end, it will be difficult to tell... unless you are seeing it live!

True... but in a recording, it can do a pretty damn good imitation, and that is why we need to get back to live music!

I hear you on the cold... I have the gardening gloves on... but then they start to get a bit damp, and then I take them off... and then my fingers are freezing... and then you get that cold feeling, you