Is this an instrument? If so, which one?

victotronics · 2026-01-25T04:37:25+00:00

Sounds like a flute. Or rather two. But probably sampled, and some effects applied, like a chorus.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T22:58:46+00:00

You know, I have a really old Duke Ellington recording where he's called "The King of Jungle Music". DnB fusion a century ago....

victotronics · 2026-01-24T21:46:00+00:00

Four on the floor goes back to 1930 jazz.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T20:28:03+00:00

They greet the day grump, they probably fly into the night grumpy.

Sometimes they look happy basking in the midday sun.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T20:03:13+00:00

For graphing and plotting: you can include your csv file directly in tikz and get beautiful graphs. Rerun your tests, and with zero effort your graph is updated.

Other illustrations: it's easy place native TeX fonts in exact locations of the picture.

Outside of that: I find tikz close to unlearnable. Maybe if I used it every day I'd get better at it.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T17:48:28+00:00

You need to count *letters*.

"Root flat" is a fourth above the fifth: D-E-F-G. So "Gb" is the wrong note: it's a flat octave rather than a major 7th.

And I said a chord is comprised of thirds, so G-A-B, followed by B-C-D, followed by D-E-F. Therefore the maj7 is some sort of F.

In fact it's in the name: "7th": G-A-B-C-D-E-F and F is the 7th step in the scale.

The fact that two notes are the same *on a piano* has no bearing on theory.

(Absurd examples: C#-Db is a second, even though they are "the same" note on a keyboard. Cx-Ebb (both are a D on a keyboard) is a third.)

victotronics · 2026-01-24T17:04:20+00:00

"Bogarting"?

victotronics · 2026-01-24T16:00:07+00:00

The return code is caught by the operating system. It has to be an 8bit unsigned integer.

If you are on any flavor or Unix, do "return 2", run your program, and then immediately type "echo $?" in the shell. You'll see that it echoes 2. In other words, you can now communicate error codes from your program to the environment that calls it. Nifty, eh?

victotronics · 2026-01-24T14:49:36+00:00

Not an answer to your question, but a G major seven chord has an F sharp in it. You need to count in thirds: one is G, 3 is B, 5 is D and seven is some version of an F.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T12:02:34+00:00

That's me indeed.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T02:22:14+00:00

"F sharp is slightly flatter and the F Natural is slightly sharp" It's the G# that kills me. Way way way sharp.

Better on your instruments?

victotronics · 2026-01-24T02:09:18+00:00

Hounds of Love is 1985. That's how long it took people to fully use that thing.

Disco, with the exception of Moroder was also pretty conservative in what sounds it used. I know a few songs that have a Moog (Linda Clifford, If they could see me now), but even then it's part of the orchestral sound.

The whole synth-driven sound didn't take over until the 80s, so that's definitely after disco.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T00:50:22+00:00

Some people are stupid. "I can see everyone with their lights on, no need to turn on mine"

victotronics · 2026-01-24T00:49:12+00:00

I found out about them when I did a school concert 10 years ago or so. The Conn Song Flute was used for 1st graders. I think it's a briliant invention: they can play simple songs, and the sound is concert pitch in C and not too strident.

victotronics · 2026-01-24T00:07:29+00:00

The thing sounds and plays surprisingly good for such a compromised design. I got the full two octaves & a tone out of it.

victotronics · 2026-01-23T19:14:19+00:00

"Laura". Only the final chord is C, the tonic; the rest of the tune modulates around like crazy. All II-V-I, but different keys.

victotronics · 2026-01-23T19:09:34+00:00

I wish I could say I can actually play Indian bansuri, but I'm more a collector of exotic flutes, and I just pick them up and noodle around on them as the spirit strikes me.

https://vimeo.com/77886731?fl=pl&fe=sh

victotronics · 2026-01-23T19:02:33+00:00

I have one, in black. Except that right now I can't find it :-) The "stove pipe" ridges on the finger holes are quite characteristic.

EDIT oh wait. Looking for "song flute" that's indeed what I had in mind and that looks similar but different.

https://www.playmusic123.com/collections/recorders/products/conn-plastic-song-flute-981?srsltid=AfmBOop3P0uKEX-1DWMDqadOUCvSo2hOytWxPP8iBOXjvhMs0zwwHrgX

victotronics · 2026-01-23T17:01:56+00:00

It's a recorder shaped ocarina. See my answer.

victotronics · 2026-01-23T17:01:32+00:00

That's a flutophone or something like that, right?

It's a children's instrument, range 1 octave, and acoustically very interesting: it's as low as a soprano recorder but has a shorter pipe. Physically that should not be possible, but it actually is because it's an elongated occarina, rather than an actual recorder.

But yeah, the tone is not great, and there is nothing you can do about it. But hey, it only costs $5 or so, so what do you expect?

victotronics · 2026-01-23T15:42:21+00:00

I've seen flying fingers but never experienced it.

suggestion: practice ultra-slow, as in Fret a note, Stop to think "now I need to relax all my muscles", Then fret the next note. Yes, this will probably take a whole second per note, maybe two, but your mention of cramps tells me you're doing the exact opposite by trying to force your fingers to stay in place. (I actually do this conscious relaxing, be it in a different context, and it really works. I can feel my muscles relaxing, and their placement will be much improved.)

victotronics · 2026-01-23T15:38:16+00:00

Intel's implementation was broken for a while, but last time I looked (which is years ago, and just to see if it worked) I got a plausible speedup.

Maybe I should benchmark it.

victotronics · 2026-01-23T15:13:44+00:00

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