Luck is not an Ally, it is the Result of Effort - Nikos Politis

 

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From the great book of Nikos Politis that has come out in 2026 called Mirror:

Here is the link:

https://www.dioptra.gr/vivlia/psixologia-prosopiki-anaptixi/kathreftis

It would be nice if it is translated in all languages.

The Magic of music Cassettes

 

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Yesterday in Athens' flee market called Monastiraki under the Acropolis, it was fun visiting the second hand music stores.

On one of them a cassette made in US was found with the title Dick Haymes Sings Irvin Berlin.

It was later played on a Grundig mono CR355.

The sound quality is fantastic. All the treble in the nice piano notes. The naturalness of the voice. It sounds as if the song is taking place inside the room.

This is one of the songs in this cassette:

A simple Melody, Pebble Drawing

 

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Pebble Drawing

A   -   C   -                    chords:     A ie   A C E, 2nd time F7 ie F A C E

E   -    -     -                               

-    -    -     -  

D   C  B   C                                   

D   -   G    -                                   G6 ie G B E, 2nd time E7 ie E G B D

-     -     -    -

-    -     -     -

-    -     -     -

repeat, the second time last G is one octave up     

Writing notes with white ink

 

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I tried a few day ago writing white notes on white music staff. 

The background was violet, the staff was white and the notes themselves white.

Erasing can be done by writing with violet.

It looks very nice.

 It was fun writing on a tablet with the tablet pen. 

I would like to have somehow virtual blank pages with 5 lines so that I could complete my book called The Melody Book. It has extracts of great songs played in the simplest possible way with the best possible sound quality on piano, using Bach's manual for his students rules.

I like the fact that notes can be written in white color. I could either try this way or acrylic white marker on paper.

Lupe

 

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I had the pleasure of meeting met Michalis.

Here is music he makes:

The Secret of Sucess

 

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Raising the pitch of every note after its beginning until it sounds correct.

In other words, ending of each note is higher in pitch so that it sounds correct.

A good record producer such as Tony Swain mentions in the following interview that a producer should guide the singer in good intonation. 

https://www.arpjournal.com/asarpwp/tony-swain/

Below is one famous song he co produced, Just an Illusion - Imagination:

Another point may be that the headphone volume should be low as the higher the volume the lower the pitch we hear for the same frequency. A very good book to read is Sound and Hearing - Life encyclopedia - Stevens, Warshofsky. Phil Ramone in his book Making Records mentions that if a singer is out of tune first thing to correct is the headphone mix.

Here is a last example:

Perforated Linoleum sheets as bass absorbers?

 

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Would smallish holes in a elastomer dissipating panel avoid it reflecting higher frequencies while still converting low frequencies to heat?

Possible use:

Inside loudspeaker boxes together with porous absorber to dissipate the mid, low acoustic energy travelling around due to the rear radiation of the drive unit.

Hung from ceiling pyramids made of perforated material. Such as those mentioned in the book Temples of Sound - Clark, Cogan used in the studio where Jim Morison recorded. Such pyramids are described in the book Audio Cyclopedia - Tremaine. There is a patent of Harry Olson (RCA technical director) describing similar type hung absorbers of various solid shapes made of perforated material.

If such a material is perforated linoleum would it increase low frequency absorption too thereby creating a better broader band absorber?