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Ant_222

#544586 Mon, 21 Jul 08 05:27 PM

Thanks for the feedback, GG!

P.S.: You made a typo right in the word which you said had a difficult spelling -- silhouette ;) To me, "excersize" is even more difficult, my fingers just don't want to type it.

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Mister Micawber

#544700 Mon, 21 Jul 08 11:52 PM

your omnipotent forefinger? Do you mean you use it for all the keys

Pretty much, Anton-- I'm an old hunt-and-pecker. My typing course was an LP record I bought secondhand in about 1960, but I wasn't a very diligent student. I guess I am off-topic from this thread title, though, eh?

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Ant_222

#545071 Tue, 22 Jul 08 07:11 PM

Mr. Micawber: A touch typing course on an LP! Never would have imagined that. BTW, are you still listening to LPs?

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Mister Micawber

#545161 Wed, 23 Jul 08 12:18 AM

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No. No turntable, no LPs, 78s or 45s anymore. In the closet: a cassette player, a CD player, an MD player, a cardboard carton of mixed cassettes, MDs and CDs, and a couple of celluloid reel-to-reels.

Love my iPod!

Mister Micawber

Ant_222

#545331 Wed, 23 Jul 08 07:48 AM

Aren't you longing for those heavy black discs? I think I certainly would, had I been born in that fabulous time... Rarely do you hear a CD sounding as natural as vinyl, because most of them are re-mastered form old and degraded magnetic tapes.

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Mister Micawber

#545334 Wed, 23 Jul 08 08:08 AM

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I'm afraid I'm not that much of a connoisseur-- most of my albums suffered from spilt Chianti.

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Cool Breeze

#545468 Wed, 23 Jul 08 02:40 PM

Grammar Geek
When I can simply think a common word and have it appear on the screen, it's a lot faster than words that require thinking about, like sillouette.

Sillouette? Tongue Tied I don't touch type. I use five or six fingers. I learned to type that way at an early age. I was four years old when I used to sit in my daddy's lap and tried to familiarize myself with his Remington typewriter. I was too strong and managed to break the s key. Embarrassed

With regard to music, I have hundreds of LPs and EPs and a player (Dual CS 505-3) that still works but I rarely play the LPs. I have burned the music I like on CDs. I have six 78s as well but my record player doesn't support that speed. Besides, a different stylus would be needed for them. In the old days record players used to have two styli, which made it possible to play 33s, 45s and 78s on the same player.

The 78s are on a wall as a decoration. The attract some attention especially among my young guests.

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Ant_222

#545481 Wed, 23 Jul 08 03:13 PM

CB: "The attract some attention especially among my young guests."

And my attention too! Could you name your six 78 rpm discs?

P.S.: Remingtons have a nice font.

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Cool Breeze

#545535 Wed, 23 Jul 08 04:37 PM

Ant_222
CB: "They attract some attention especially among my young guests."

And my attention too! Could you name your six 78 rpm discs?

Sure! Sorry about the typo. My apologies to GG as well. When I wrote my last post I hadn't noticed that her typo had already been corrected. Embarrassed

Anyway, you must be a real music expert if you know the artists on my 78s! Because the records are glued to the wall, I don't know, or rather, I don't remember what is on the flipside, and I am unable to check that.

1. Mambo italiano, performed by The Monn Keys, Egil Monn Iversens orkester, record label: Cupol. A Swedish record, which is obvious from the name of the band and the text on the label: Alla rättigheter förbehållas... (=All rights reserved...)

2. Poika varjoisalta kujalta, sung by Finland's foremost singer in the fifties, Olavi Virta. The Italian name of the song is Guaglione. Label: Triola, a Finnish record label. Some Italian singers were popular here in the 50s and 60s and even recorded songs in Finnish. No wonder that the number one Finnish singer recorded an Italian song.

3. Älkää ampuko pianistia, performed by Pekka & Repe. These guys' full names were Pekka Tiilikainen and Repe Helismaa. The former was a famous and well-liked sports commentator and the latter wrote the words for thousands of songs and he also wrote manuscripts for many movies. In English the name of the song would be Don't Shoot the Pianist, and it is supposed to be humorous. Label: Rytmi.

4. Keinu valssi sung by Henry Theel, one of the good Finnish singers singers of those days. Label: Melody.

5. Good Time Polka by The Milt. Herth Trio and The Jesters. Label: Decca.

6. Preerian keltainen ruusu by Olavi Virta and The Harmony Sisters. The girls were Finnish even though they had an English name. It has been a custom for a long time to give an English-language name to a group hoping that if some day miraculously they make it on the international market, their name will be easier for many people to remember. After all, I don't think a single song that wasn't sung in English has reached the number one chart position in the USA. This song was sung in Finnish, though, but it was a cover of The Yellow Rose of Texas. Label: Triola.

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