Greg, can you help?
Minnie the Moocher's melody is singing in my mental ear...but on what record is it? Have you any idea? and Dave, a hearty welcome! |
Albert,
I am an ex Jekke naturalised Swiss, I'm not particularly tidy, don't have that in my genes, but often you tend to think that a certain amount of "compulsion neurosis" is part of the Swiss national characer, if a thing like that exists. And Yes Greg, the internet started de chez nous.
Cheers |
Very good thread and a great idea: Well, I'm 67 now, a shrink by profession and I live in the heart of the old continent. English is not my native language. I come from a musical "Jekke" family and I have been involved with music, actively and passively practically all my life. I am into tubes, vinyl and ESP's, but run a fairly decent digital setup as well, because I don't want to miss new important software in my fields of interest. I am heavily into jazz, blues, funk and classical music. I have a grown up son who is in the computer business and is a DJ as well. My wife died five years ago and I live alone now. The passion for this our hobby has not abated through the years, it keeps me alive and on my toes. I am fairly new here on AudioGon and I enjoy the threads and posts and often try to participate. The results are a mixed bag , I suppose I still have to learn the "mores", but thanks to all I have been in closer conversation with. I learn something new every day. |
I big wave accross the oceans to you, Larryr...and how right you are! |
Hear, hear Larryr. Wouldn't do without it! |
Greetings Larry,
I like your thought and I do agree, that when we feel "right", we are indeed in harmony with ourselves. I also agree, that the midrange harmony my tube gear will bring, invariably will put me back into feeling "right" no matter how my day has been. Music indeed can soothe the savage breast, and tube gear is amongst the most musical.
Remember the early CD's Larry? They invariably had the contrary effect on many people, who would feel not "right". I have a bit of experience with music therapy of both psychotic and depressive patients in a stationary setting and I would say that in both cases music often had a short term "rightening" influence. We used music from Bach's "Well tempered Clavier" because of its stucturedness and and its harmonic nature. Unfortunatedly it never got over an experimental stage, but I remember some interesting and rather touching moments. You know, your thought feels spontaneously -intuitively just perfectly "on the dot", though I don't doubt that good SS-gear will have the same effect, if its musical. That is what counts. If I listen to my SYSTEM, I generally feel not right, but if my system draws me into the music and I can forget about it, then deep contentment and happyness is close. A wonderful thought, Larry, thanks for bringing it up and sharing it with us. Warm regards, |
Oh Larry, don't you think, your thought would make a nice thread for others to comment as well? Just an idea... |
Kubla, I could take you in for treatment ( in exchange you could teach me creative writing, vide our hilarious thread elsewhere ) Why Detlof you may ask? Well, since antiquity the saying goes: " Only the wounded physician is able to heal ".
Cheers and regards,
Detlof |
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Well, we have machines for that now, but the custom of course continues. In spite of the machines, anybody who leaves his dog's droppings on the sidewalk, will be tarred and feathered by the enraged neighbourhood, if not lynched straight on the spot. The municipality supplies little plastic bags for that purpose. The dog tax is about $60 a year. You have to - no joke - train your dogs not to pick up food lying around or accept it from strangers, because it not infrequently happens, that those truly obsessed with cleanliness, will try to poison your pet...... |
Yes , Greg, those cleaner-scooters are indeed an intelligent solution, the Parisians would have never adopted the Swiss plastic bag do it yourself penitent way. They don't have that guilt complex about being "untidy", like my compatriots. Remember that medical student song: "Je suis homme d'nature....etc...." |
Greetings Karl and welcome to the fold. Cornfedboy in his inimitable way has said it all. I do indeed need to be healed, but not from my audiophilia nervosa though. May the banks be gentle on you, may your practice abound with rich clients and last not least, may your stereo florish.
Regards, |
Welcome Travis! This place is really full of fascinating people. Your mentioning of Gould's humming reminds me, when in my early twenties and at Salzburg with my then pianist love of my life, I stumbled into a room at the conservatory, where he was sitting before a Bechstein, in the warmth of late August, with a heavy overcoat on, a long shawl around his neck, a cap on his head and an electric heater going full tilt on his left and on his right, playing Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue at an incredible speed, yet with the most delicate of phrasings and not humming, but almost shouting. We sat down behind him in awe and amazement and as my chair suddenly creaked, he turned around, still playing, looked right through us, as if his gaze was fixed upon a point far from this world, turned back low over the piano again and played on. There was an incredible aura around this grey, frail figure, which, though he seemed physically already quite emasculated, emanated an incredible spiritual strength. I had forgotten all about this, but it just came back now , as if it had happened yesterday. So thanks, Travis! |
No you're far from dumb, Thedautsch! Your Kimber Select will be well broken in, once you restart building a system. May that be soon and the best of luck to you. |
Grandpad, here is another old fart, ten years your senior in fact, to welcome you, not as graceously as cfb was able to, however just as heartfelt. I went through the same as you did, only thankfully her suffering was just a few months. I also found solace in music and tinkering around with my gear. Have a very happy New Year! |
Hi Doug, haven't seen you around for a while. Great to see you like LL as well. How is your hotrodded lawn mower?!
Cheers! |
Grandpad, the thread you suggest, in fact exists. I myself live overseas, by the beautiful lake of Zurich, in Switzerland, in the heart of Europe. Regards, Detlof |
Beato tu, as they say in Italy, Doug, which can mean sort of lucky, happy, blessed you! Cheers, Detlof |
