Kiwi, where did you go???

[-=Drifter=-]

my oh my oh my
what did i tell you children!?
when will you learn to behave?!
and stop drawing my body with other faces!!!!!

(intbel - was that you playing? that was beautiful!!!!!)

[parahandy]

I believe the tune was Brighteyes at least that's what it said at the foot of the screen.

[sallybode]

I had hoped Kiwi would post yesterday. On the home page down at the bottom it tells you who is logged on unless they want to be anonymous. Intbel is usually always monitoring though his loggin is filtered through "THE ANTI- PROPAGANDA MACHINE !"

Actually I saw Kiwi's name and he just didn't post.

I think he is mad at me.

[sallybode]

Intbel, you are mutl-talented. What an artist you are on the mandolin. I told my son that it is a "mandolin" not a Ukelele.

No one really plays these that I know much and it is one instrument I have never played.

I was very lovely. Too bad you live an ocean away, we could have a great jam session.

[Intbel]

Intbel, you are mutl-talented. What an artist you are on the mandolin. I told my son that it is a "mandolin" not a Ukelele.
No one really plays these that I know much and it is one instrument I have never played.
I was very lovely. Too bad you live an ocean away, we could have a great jam session.

I get maybe one jam session every two months - with a friend who plays an electric guitar with a neck which is (in comparison) six feet long.

He is only interested in blues riffs.
Amazingly we manage to achive some pleasing if unlikely sounds.

I'm not replying to Frank - he is a philistine. Turkey in the Straw indeed!

[sallybode]

Here's my rendition of a piece by Scott Joplin. The animation was done in Xara Xtreme. Deserves to be pulled out of moth balls.

The MIDI file is me on my piano. (Should have used the saxophone voice--- but whatever.)

Drifter may remember this, but Inty, you haven't seen it before.

[Intbel]

Here's my rendition of a piece by Scott Joplin. The animation was done in Xara Xtreme. Deserves to be pulled out of moth balls.
The MIDI file is me on my piano. (Should have used the saxophone voice--- but whatever.)
Drifter may remember this, but Inty, you haven't seen it before.

I like the anim - and the audio.
Strange piece - starts off somewhat melancholy, then goes somewhat ragtime. Just never gets really cheerful.

[-=Drifter=-]

sally, both the anim and the piano playing were superb!!!! you are truly talented and blessed!

while listening to the song i was expecting to see buster keaton or charlie chaplin come walking onto the screen... but it never happened

[Intbel]

my oh my oh my
what did i tell you children!?
when will you learn to behave?!
and stop drawing my body with other faces!!!!!
(intbel - was that you playing? that was beautiful!!!!!)

Yup it is and thanks for the compliment.
As with graphics I'm learning as I go.

[sallybode]

Intbel, the name of the piece is "Solace" and is written by Scott Joplin who knew a lot of heart ache in his life. Incredibly talented, lived at the turn of the last century, he should have been widely celebrated, but because he was a black man, he was often ostracized.

He wrote some incredible stuff, I can reach an octave spread with my hands, pretty good for a woman, the man had octave and a half spread, I can only do that by rolling my hands. Amd then there are all these other 32nd notes coming close on their heels, no can do. He must have been tall, and at least had another inch longer on each finger to my hand.

I play happier stuff, it just is I like the tango beat of it. You have to dance it with a rose in your teeth.

He made the world more tolerable, at times he couldn't entirely blot out the way it really was. Can we either?

But the world can be both beautiful and terrible. It is the choice to see the good in it that is the challenge.

BTW, Drifter, can't ruin your image if you don't post your picture somewhere more easy to find.