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| How can i ...... Perhaps a solvent? The first one to come to mind is nail polish remover, but a good cabinet maker would know better than I would. How about applying just a little overnight and see if that loosens it up. The punchline is to use little enough to no... | |
| Has audiophilia changed your music taste? No. My tastes have changed. I listen to fewer symphonies and big bands and more small ensambles. I believe my tastes would have evolved much the same way had I lived in an age prior to sound reproduction. | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA Dimitri Shostakovich worked during the Stalin eraold USSR. Some Russian composers left when the leaving was good;Shostakovich stayed. Of all the art forms that are subject to censorship,music is the hardest to censor because it is the most abstrac... | |
| Passive intergrated Amps http://www.avahifi.comlink through to the "control" amplifier. | |
| Question on shipping speakers without boxes. The local ups store(which used to be mail boxes) is as good as the local manager. If she/he has read all the manuals and has good workers,they will make boxes-for a price. They will cradle everything in styrofoam, wrap everything against mositure,... | |
| I need more Funk Miles Davis,A Tribute to Jack Johnson(side 2,right off)Miles Davis,NefertitiTaj Mahal,Live at the FilmoreBuddy Rich,Big Swing FaceDuke Ellington,Live at Newport | |
| Vivaldi fans lend me your ears for a moment... As yet another Vivaldi fan,allow me to recommend any of Vivaldi's concerti for 4 violins. If the "seasons",a series of four innerconnected violin concerti based upon the same thematic material,is an ice cream cone,the concerti for 4 violins is a h... | |
| What to phase plugs do, and how do they function? I don't know either and await,with interest,the responses from persons who do. Yes,I have muddled through the posts about "time coherence",much of which is beyond me. | |
| Should Escrow be Required? Dear Buyer. Of course it is not your fault that you have no feedback,everybody has to start someplace. I would prefer to make payment into your bank account so there is a record in the federal reserve system functioning as a bill of sale. As soon ... | |
| Therapeutic music: John Coltrane's father was a primitive church minister in North Carolina;John was effected by religion at an impressionable age. Coltrane moved to Philadelphia to go to decent schools. After leaving the army,he made a detailed study (and practice)... | |
| An Aaron Copland Question Whatjd:I never met Copland and have not read a biography.(His What to Listen For in Music is excellent.) Perhaps he meant common in the sense of someone without a title of nobility,perhaps not. | |
| An Aaron Copland Question yes | |
| Choral or Classical Vocal Recordings - Must Have I'd add the Mozart Requium,Bach Motets,Handel Messiah,Beethoven 9th, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, some Palestrina,and some Schubert song cycles. | |
| Which artists do you just not get? MahlerI freely admit that it's my fault I don't understand his music and yes,I know he had to put up with his music not being performed during some periods because he was Jewish.I find his music self-rightous and long winded. I can take or leave O... | |
| Good Classical discs for "beginners" Before I answer the question allow me to suggest these two books: 1. What to Listen For in Music,by Aaron Copland. 2. Building a cd Library, by Ted Libbey.(That may not be the exact title,but it's close.) Here are some basic musics.--Baroque JS Ba... |