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I still couldn't hear a bassoon but I could hear a baritone sax that seems less inept than the others

Oh, that's probably what it was. Misidentified instrument. Yes, definitely the bari sax.

it must've been a running joke with them as they did several LPs.

It's possible to go blind and retain no knowledge of seeing or of being able to see. It's as if there was never any such thing as seeing.

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wow that is illuminative of the workings of the brain.

A movie from 2006, Zyzzyx Road, is considered to be the lowest grossing movie of all time. It brought in $30.

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hopefully it made up its costs of production via home video and international release, at least.
pristine sounds 2005 is the only sound editor that can definitively deal with fine crackle and chuffs/scuffs on phonographic media, I have found. it deserves more attention IMHO.

Seattle, Washington and Athens, Greece are almost exactly the same size in terms of municipal population (~650,000), urban population (~3.1 million) AND metro area population (~3.7 million).

I also notice that Portland, Vancouver BC and Washington DC have similar municipal populations. (Close to or slightly above 600,000).

One might wonder why this is a popular size / configuration / density of civic and economic life... and what mathematical, economic or sociological laws might be causing cities to hover around that size.

Athens has been a point of human settlement for up to 19,000 years, and Seattle for only 4,000 years that we know about.

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wow
had no idea seattle had such a long history. learn something new
in the last years of his life, bandleader glenn miller led an orchestra called the allied expeditionary force band, which was his hand-picked band augmented with a string section, and it sounded MARVELOUS! he made several transcription disc recordings [mostly in german] in England's abbey road studios during the war. most of the master metal parts [master discs] of these recordings were lost sometime in the 1980s, and the only remaining tape copies were made in the 1970s.

i was pleasantly surprised to find out this morning that my 'location', Wynn, is actually a letter introduced in the alphabet of old english, used to represent the sound /w/. like walrus.

it looks like this:

Ƿ ƿ

originally, that sound was represented with a digraph of two u's, became used most commonly around the period of middle english, and then dropped out of use when double u came back and formed.......double u.

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as they say, "that's better than a dry, hacking cough."

when the soundtrack and movie "2001- a space odyssey" was reissued/remastered for CD, much of the original musical soundtrack master tape material was lost, and they had to find a specimen compact CASSETTE copy of the soundtrack to restore it to its original splendor. if you run the soundtrack music through a spectrum analyzer, the game is given away with a top end limit of 16,000 cycles per second which was the bandwidth of the specimen cassette tape they sourced with. tight single ended noise reduction was used to dehiss it as well.

Stanley Kubrick is buried on the grounds of his estate in England, under his favorite tree.

steve martin recalled a meeting with Kubrick one day, and in the middle of the meeting in a patio area, one of Kubrick's dogs walked up, squat, and "crapped a gigantic bundle of turds" (martin's description in italics) on the ground close by, and according to martin it stank to heaven but Kubrick totally ignored it.

The vast majority of people have a sixth sense -- proprioception. It was not recognized as a sense at the time that the "five senses" were listed and so it is not commonly considered to be a sense. Nevertheless, it is a very important sense.

Proprioception is the ability to sense the position of the parts of your body in relation to their adjacent parts.

There are people who have lost that ability through strokes and as from dietary supplements. If you take massive doses of Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), for a long enough period, you are likely to lose the sense, at least until you can bring those levels back down.

Imagine trying to walk if you have no idea where the various parts of your body are located. Without proprioception, you would have to visually look to see their positions and monitor their movement in the walking process. Walking would be quite difficult and at its best would be markedly different from the way people usually walk.

So there you got it. You want a sixth sense? You have it. But it has nothing to do with so-called psychic abilities.

the CIA has engaged in remote-viewing and mind control experiments.