Archives for January, 2007

A few ideas for your Out of Office message


I am currently away from my desk, beating my head against the wall. Your message will be replied to once I have reached a level of numbness sufficient to cloud my vision to the point I am able to formulate an a pp ropriate response to your request.
I am currently out at a job interview [...]

Making learning musical spellings fun


One of the problems that I found with the relative pitch ear training course was the monotonous exercises - especially learning the spellings of the intervals. The way that David Burge recommends learning how to spell the intervals correctly is to sing up and down a scale naming the notes, but I found this [...]

Panda paddle update


As an update to this, I have been contacted by Akira Fuji (the guy in the video):
Sorry.
That is only one handmade with panda.
Orignal is Mikky mouse design by Tenyo.
But Mikky paddle was finished products.
sometimes, you can see in yahoo auction in Japanese.
Akira
Looks like I will be trawling through the Japanese ebay in the next few [...]

What is this paddle effect called?


… and more importantly, where can I get it?
I found this effect being demonstrated on a video of what looks like a Japanese TV show - I’ve no idea what the show is called, but the effect is really cool.
If anyone knows what it’s called, or where I can get it please let me know [...]