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MusicScienceGuy
Greater Vancouver, Canada
Music is basically simple, but the piano makes it look hard
Interests: Alternative Musical instruments,
Convergence of music and science,
Psychoacoustics
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Jammer vs piano - part 0: Contents
Curious about music-theory based musical instruments? This blog is for you. TypePad, does not have an automatic Table of Contents. I have hand-created one 1. Comparing Pianos to a new instrument, the jammer Jammer vs piano 1B. What is a Jammer; highlights & discoveries overview Highlights & discoveries overview 2.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 15, 2019 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - Part 8 - Identifying the key, tonal centre & scale (major/minor) on jammers
Jammer shortcuts - Identifying the key, the tonal centre (tonic) and scale How do we read from the score where to put the hand, and what fingers we’ll generally be using on our jammers? For a brief summary on the minor key system and the terms used, see The key,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - Part 7 - The Minor Scale System
Explaining the Minor scale system My guide to the minor scale system: essential features and terms for all musicians Minor scales are poorly and incompletely explained in my textbooks; fortunately, the excellent teachers at Douglas College and the alternate viewpoint provided by my jammer helped me understand the system. I... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - Part 6B - Jammer Problems
Jammer Problems The jammer has these minor, technical problems: Playing two notes with one finger requires accurate placement of the finger-tip, which slows play a bit. The keys should be reshaped to give a larger target area. The piano has a similar problem where the white keys narrow between the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - Part 6A - Jammer Advantages
Of all the possible isomorphic keyboard layouts, the Wicki-Hayden layout seems like it may be the fastest and most ergonomic.
- How does it actually turn out in practice? Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - part 5 - Expecting the unexpected
There is irony in the following story. Ten years ago I noticed that singers that play the piano have, on average, much better pitch-sense than those that learned in other ways. ...
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Posted Jul 12, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - part 4 - Piano Lessons
The curious thing is that "learn, embellish; learn, embellish more" technique is very similar to the "deep practice" Daniel Coyle and others advocate. Training situations where one is at the edge of ability, making a controlled number of mistakes - and correcting them immediately – is an excellent way to practice. Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - part 2: No Qualifications, little Experience, deep Interest
Posted Jul 11, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - part 1B: What is a Jammer; highlights & discoveries overview
Posted Jul 11, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Jammer vs Piano - part 1: Comparing musical instruments; modern to age-old
Do you want to gain a fresh insight into musical instrument design and music theory? Do you build or use 21st-century musical instruments? If so, this series of articles is for you. Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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A Gentleman Craftsman: Roger Linn and his LinnStrument
Posted Feb 5, 2018 at MusicScienceGuy
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Concerning the sea ice extent decline slowing: I concur. To my eyes, the way the winds are currently pushing the ice around, plus the cloudiness of the big low over the central arctic may be creating nearly ideal camouflage for an extreme thinning of the ice. take a gander at the ice drift chart here: http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicespddrfnowcast.gif
All of the ice is being spread out, even the ice in Hudson's Bay and around Baffin Island. It's amazingly consistent, and can't last. Large areas are getting very thin ...
PIOMAS June 2016
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: As of May 31st the 2016 trend line is lowest on the graph. A sea ice volume decrease of 3037 km3 duri...
This is pretty dramatic. Has there ever been such a flow of Sea ice out of Fram Straight before?
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicespddrfnowcast.gif
What percentage of the MYI per day is leaving for the Atlantic?
Beaufort under early pressure
A high-pressure area has been moving in over the Beaufort Sea lately. It's quite big and quite high in pressure. Environment Canada has the current pressure there at 1042 hPa: I've coloured the land masses to make it easier to orient. I've also put in the red arrows to show which way the winds...
Dualo's du-touch S: a family begins
Posted Apr 10, 2016 at MusicScienceGuy
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Choral shells - Making a curved, floating sound reflector
Posted Jul 10, 2015 at MusicScienceGuy
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Choral shells - Making your riser into a choral shell
Posted Jul 1, 2015 at MusicScienceGuy
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Global Warming - Where's the heat?
Posted Apr 29, 2015 at MusicScienceGuy
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Global Warming - The "Blanket" analogy
Posted Apr 3, 2015 at MusicScienceGuy
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Checking latency reality - what is the "true" latency
Posted Mar 29, 2015 at MusicScienceGuy
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A responsive keyboard: getting 2 millisecond latency
Posted Mar 6, 2015 at MusicScienceGuy
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Dualo du-touch: The inside
Posted Dec 16, 2014 at MusicScienceGuy
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Dualo du-touch: outside in
Posted Dec 13, 2014 at MusicScienceGuy
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The Dualo du-touch has arrived
Posted Dec 8, 2014 at MusicScienceGuy
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Starting an Greater Vancouver Alternate Musical Instrument SIG
Does the layout of the traditional, “piano” keyboard strike you as weird? Do you want an advantage over other musicians and look really cool? I’m starting an Alternate Musical Instrument Special Interest Group (sounds cooler than "Club") in the Greater Vancouver area. Do you: - really, hugely want to learn... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2014 at MusicScienceGuy
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Farewell to the AXiS Keyboards
Posted Nov 18, 2014 at MusicScienceGuy
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