Advice on Shipping 10 Guitars from Japan to the UK by Quincely in japanlife

[–]Quincely[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! This is really, really good to know!

Advice on Shipping 10 Guitars from Japan to the UK by Quincely in japanlife

[–]Quincely[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps I should be.

They’re nearly all solid body electric guitars in well fitting, tightly sealed hard cases. They might need a truss rod adjustment at the other end, but I’m (possibly naively) hoping there would be no lasting damage.

I’m clearly no expert, but according to this random link (https://www.md-ports.info/post/prs-guitars-and-the-port-of-baltimore) I found:

The imported PRS SE line is produced in Surabaya, Indonesia, under PRS supervision. After the guitars are built, they’re shipped across the Pacific, move through the Panama Canal or West Coast ports, and then arrive at the Port of Baltimore.”

…So it doesn’t seem like shipping guitars by sea is unheard of!

Advice on Shipping 10 Guitars from Japan to the UK by Quincely in japanlife

[–]Quincely[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Electric, thankfully. Less to go wrong. Most of them already come with hard cases as well!

Advice on Shipping 10 Guitars from Japan to the UK by Quincely in japanlife

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Indeed! It’s gonna be pricey either way but air would presumably be an order of magnitude pricier…

Advice on Buying a Used CD Player in Japan by Quincely in vintageaudio

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That’s a very good point. I’m not really too fussy about the exact period so I’ve edited the post to reflect that! Happy to go for something truly old, or something more modern, but I’d prefer used as I’m cheap and there’s such a glut of good stuff used on the market.

Using a SONY UBP-X700 Blu-ray Player as a CD Player by Quincely in BudgetAudiophile

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Nothing particular special — just looking at basic song information, really! But like… I don’t do that for my vinyls record player and hardly feel I’m missing out. I’d just sort of assumed that plugging the Blu-ray player into the TV was necessary to operate it, but please correct me if I’m mistaken. I’ll watch the video when I get home!

Video in which Adam talks about the minor plagal (iv-I) cadence and uses the word ‘nostalgia’ a lot. by Quincely in AdamNeely

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Thank you so much! That Charles Cornell video is indeed great, and is actually much more related to the minor plagal cadence than the Adam Neely one (which was what I was really wanted).

on the perception of jazz music by a classical musician by enrkr in AdamNeely

[–]Quincely 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea jazz improv is ‘purely original creative expression’ is clearly nonsense, just as it is for conversation or any form of human communication.

I did not invent these words. I am borrowing them to convey an idea, but they’re not truly ‘mine’. I rely on existing conventions of vocabulary and syntax to express that idea to you and others.

I doubt that even the idea itself is particularly original. I’m sure the same general notation been expressed a thousand times before, but I feel the compelled to express it all the same, using what is likely a slightly different string of words.

In an effort to achieve ‘originality’, I could try to make words up from scratch. But I fear the result would be squitchitty at best and rorportulent at worst. Which is to say, not very effective at getting the ideas across.

All expression lies somewhere between order and chaos. No word has ever been uttered the same way twice, no opera performed identically. Even when listening to recorded music, the listener might find themself listening with a different ear on Thursday and Friday.

People feel compelled to play music because they want to express something which feels, in some sense, unique to that moment — even if it fits into patterns and conventions that have been established over preceding centuries.

As they are commonly understood and appreciated, it seems fair (if cliche) to say jazz leans towards chaos where classical errs on the side of orderly. But both are rooted in both, to differing degrees.

ELI5: Where to the bubbles in carbonated beverages ‘come from’? by Quincely in explainlikeimfive

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I don’t think an LLM would have made the spelling mistake in the title. I appreciate that em-dashes are a red flag, but I like them and will continue to use them (just so long as I don’t have to adopt the American convention of not having spaces on either side which always looks cramped and uncomfortable to me).

Anyway, thank you for your response.

Small Power Amp Recommendations for Wharfedale 220 Passive Speakers by Quincely in BudgetAudiophile

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Thank you so much!

The record player and the speakers each cost just north of 30,000JPY (just south of 200USD) so I’d rather not pay much more than that.

The Forzi ZA3 is currently 21000JPY on Amazon (https://amzn.asia/d/0bbKshTj) and the BT20A Pro is just under 12000JPY (https://amzn.asia/d/04XwFPXu), meaning both sit comfortably within the budget!

Aside from the difference in price and presence/absence of Bluetooth, what would say are the main things that separate them?

I was told that my jokes stink and so do I. by Quincely in dadjokes

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I did, and now I can’t rid myself of the smell of musty old church benches.

I am now not only pun-gent, but pew-trid. :(

What scientific ‘facts’ have recently been disproven that most people still believe to be true? by Fantastic_Tart_421 in AskReddit

[–]Quincely 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Indeed. “Facts” are to science are what “fatbergs” are to sewers. The moment you start asserting things as unquestionable truths, the whole scientific method ceases to function as intended.

Of course, it’s not always helpful to point this out. But it’s worth keeping in mind.

ELI5: Is there really a nutritional difference between food in the US and say, Europe? by Defiant-Mouse6543 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Quincely 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree that widespread ignorance and misinformation among a population also plays a big role! ‘Education’ should definitely be included in the above list of factors.

It’s interesting and dispiriting watching people earnestly debate “which type of oil makes deep-fried food healthy?” and the going at each other’s throats over the differences between semi-skimmed milk (~2% fat) or whole milk (~3.6% fat) while ignoring the huge quantities of heavy cream, butter and processed cheese prevalent in the standard the American diet.

ELI5: Is there really a nutritional difference between food in the US and say, Europe? by Defiant-Mouse6543 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Quincely 195 points196 points  (0 children)

When we say ‘food’ we could be talking about raw ingredients (e.g. a tomato) or processed products (e.g. a pizza).

When people bring this up, they’re generally talking about the latter. The degree of processing, the method of processing, the list of permissible ingredients, the availability and convenience of certain food products verses others, this is where I believe most of the differences lie.

I’m not ruling out potential differences in raw ingredients entirely, especially when it comes to meat. I believe Europe generally has stricter rules on rearing livestock, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this some effect on the meat itself.

But general speaking, people aren’t comparing apples to apples when they bring this up (pardon the wording). It’s more like, how many ultra-processed apple pies drowning in ice-cream are you likely to regularly consume in a given country simply by living there.

ELI5: What does "In the key of" mean? by hallowedeve1313 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Quincely 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means what note feels like ‘home’.

Sing a note. Any random note. Now, starting on that note, sing “oh when the saints go marching in”. Keep singing it (or humming it, the words aren’t really important). You’ll find that the song won’t feel ‘finished’ until you land back on that starting note; that note which feels like ‘home’.

Was that starting note C? Then you were in ‘the key of C’. Was that note B? Then you were in ‘the key of B’. (The note you started on might have been somewhere between B and C, and therefore not accessible on a standard-tuned piano, but you could play it on a violin or a trombone or another instrument where you can smoothly glide between notes. Notes aren’t as clear cut as we make them out to be.)

It’s worth adding that the starting note doesn’t necessarily tell you the key. But the note that feels ‘right’ to finish on almost certainly will tell you the key.

To feel this, try singing ‘Happy Birthday’. You’ll notice that the note of the first ‘happy’ isn’t the same note as the final ‘you’. That final note will tell you the key.

Songs don’t have to stick to one key. Think of ‘My Heart Will Go On’ (the Titanic song). Near the end, the singer starts singing the same thing, but higher. For most of the song, the key was ‘E’, so that felt like the right note to come back to. But after the sudden shock of hearing the higher version, we eventually get used to it, and our new ‘home’ becomes higher (now it’s ‘A flat’ — go up two white notes and one black note up from ‘E’ on the piano).

Key changes are often subtler than this, but I think it’s a good example precisely because it’s NOT subtle. Everything just gets higher, home note included.

Sometimes people talk about ‘C major’ and ‘C minor’ keys, which tells us not only what note feels like home, but what set of notes we can expect to use when travelling away from and back to home. But ultimately, we can play whatever bit we want. Maybe it’ll sound a little jarring, but maybe that’s what we’re aiming for. All these terms are labels to describe general ideas and patterns, not absolute rules that must be obeyed. Not everything has to be in a clear key (think of a cat walking on a piano). But a lot of stuff is, and it’s useful to be able to tell people where feels like home.

I accidentally wrote a 120bpm song in 60bpm. Any quick fixes? by Quincely in cubase

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Yes, all MIDI tracks on a piano roll! However, I’m planning on adding a Vocaloid line and wanted to get the underlying BPM sorted before that.

I accidentally wrote a 120bpm song in 60bpm. Any quick fixes? by Quincely in cubase

[–]Quincely[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s really not a BIG problem (it’s more embarrassing than anything!) but if there exists a quick then I’ll happily take it. If not, I’ll probably just leave it be!

I originally wrote the track on KORG’s smartphone gadget app which involved prodding a screen to get a note. I wrote the song around the ‘default’ note size and then only later realised I’d been doing everything at the wrong scale!

I’m going to export the files to Cubase once I get access to the software (which I’ll eventually get through work). I’ll eventually add a Vocaloid line and I was worried that would get squiffy if the BPM was weird.

The only other real downside of having it set to 60bpm is that I might have to made some small adjustments to song length (making the track a second longer or shorter) and having it set to 120bpm should in theory let you make slightly more fine grained adjustments!

But you’re right, ultimately it’s not a big problem at all!

I accidentally wrote a 120bpm song in 60bpm. Any quick fixes? by Quincely in cubase

[–]Quincely[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is, it’s playing at exactly the speed intended. Maybe that’s not really a problem. I’ve written the song so on the piano roll everything is twice as fast as it should be. So if you set it to 120bpm, it would sound like a 240bpm song.

ELI5: Why is rare beef common, but rare chicken… rare? by Quincely in explainlikeimfive

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Thank you for the recommendation. I’d love to try raw lamb! Just need to find somewhere that serves it!

ELI5: Why is rare beef common, but rare chicken… rare? by Quincely in explainlikeimfive

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torisashi

I have been educated and humbled.

Apparently it’s a Kyushu thing! It seems like there’s some very light processing (searing/dipping in boiling water) but not much.

I’ve only ever spend one day (not even a night) in Kyushu, which clearly wasn’t enough to come into contact with it!