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Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:22:35 GMT

Yeah, I am not an expert at all. I just try to listen to what I like. If it's Benny Goodman, it comes from 78s.

And thanks for the list! I have never heard of those performers, although I've listened to Mambo Italiano sung by Rosemary Clooney.

Â Milth. Herth Trio and the Jesters should be possible to find...

Re: Touch-typing

Cool Breeze — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:37:22 GMT

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.

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 rÃ¤ttigheter fÃ¶rbehÃ¥llas... (=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. ÃlkÃ¤Ã¤ 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.

Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:13:38 GMT

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.

Re: Touch-typing

Cool Breeze — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:17 GMT

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? 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.

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.

Re: Touch-typing

Mister Micawber — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:08:26 GMT

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

Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:48:09 GMT

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.

Re: Touch-typing

Mister Micawber — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:18:45 GMT

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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!

Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:11:03 GMT

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

Re: Touch-typing

Mister Micawber — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:52:59 GMT

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?

Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:27:03 GMT

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.

Re: Touch-typing

Grammar Geek — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:14:46 GMT

Ant, I sit at keyboard all day long. It's what I do. Bear in mind, my speeds are a lot slower if I have to type words I'm not that familiar with or words that have tricky spellings and I have to stop to think how to spell them. 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.

Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:33:53 GMT

Well, that's amazing! How long did it take you to get that fast at typing? And how intensively did you excersize?

Re: Touch-typing

Grammar Geek — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:22:18 GMT

Well, Ant, seeing as how I can reach typing speeds of up to 90 wpm, and in the upper 70s when corrected for errors, I'm not too worried about my bad habits.

Re: Touch-typing

Ant_222 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:20:39 GMT

I see. You stick with bad habits automatically unless you pay enough attention to the acquisition of good ones ;) Same for me, I tend to press SHIFT and SPACE with the wrong hand... But I am only learning, so I hope I can get rid of it before it roots firmly among my reflexes.

You mean you were tought to touch type in school??

And, I am still wondering which finger is it really correct to use for pressing ALT and WINDOWS...

Re: Touch-typing

Grammar Geek — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:53:42 GMT

I developed a bad typing habit, which is to use the pinky (the little finger) of whichever hand is also used to make the capital, rather than the pinky of the opposite hand, as we were taught to do. Since the result of that bad habit is a familiarity with positioning my hand "incorrectly" to make the right key combination, using the pinky for ALT+letter combos and Windows+letters combos seems pretty natural. Though the only windows command I use is the +E one.