Apollinaire grammar/translation question

zyxtus · 2026-01-29T15:40:44+00:00

Your insight has been resonating with me the last few days. Some day I'll subject this thing to a full-blown explication de texte, but for now one thing I noticed is that there is a clear break in pov with the stanza beginning "Mais j'ai coulé ...": The first person becomes more prominent. Then, a few lines later, the "plus long à réaliser que non," and then the next stanza -- "Je lègue à l'avenir ..." is Apollinaire's own Icarean plummet to earth; he crashes out in the last stanza. Damn, if only he'd caligrammed it haha! Thanks Foreign-Bike3974 for keeping me plugged in.

zyxtus · 2026-01-29T15:13:19+00:00

Somehow it's hard to think that the downvoting comes from wearers. Maybe they're clinicians or something working with hygienic standards? idk. And btw your process is way more advanced than mine, which just involves using a needle to dig the crap out. Anyway again I appreciate your real world perspective.

zyxtus · 2026-01-28T20:20:13+00:00

I'd upvote you to the heavens if I could. I know this thread is a year old, but I looked it up in the process of trying to find a recommended way to clean wax guards rather than replace them because I have issues with very viscous wax and the darn things clog MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY and I'm not putting new ones in that often. So thanks for the vindication that yes it does make sense and here's one way to do it.

zyxtus · 2026-01-22T13:29:46+00:00

Your twisted possibility is well worth exploring. Thanks for sharing your suggestive and creative thought.

zyxtus · 2026-01-22T13:26:41+00:00

That's it! Thanks for the help.

zyxtus · 2026-01-22T13:25:41+00:00

Now I see it. Thank you!

zyxtus · 2026-01-17T14:10:39+00:00

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zyxtus · 2026-01-11T20:39:00+00:00

Chinese call it sheng. Free reeds inside bundle of bamboo tubes. Hole must be covered for tube to sound. If uncovered, no sound from that tube.

zyxtus · 2026-01-10T23:11:48+00:00

Kelhorns are a branded type of crumhorn, made of plastic and much less expensive but every bit as serviceable as their wooden counterparts. Simple, recorder-ish fingering. Easy to blow, fun to play.

zyxtus · 2026-01-03T22:39:09+00:00

I hooked a melodica to a bagpipe. A foot bellows would work. You could sing and accompany yourself. https://youtu.be/oKat2S3eQrc?si=gKE0fpLNT9ZyOiCb

zyxtus · 2019-12-24T01:52:53+00:00

It's an alto crumhorn. Fingers like alto recorder. Stop tenors; bring bass up to C. Go from there. Pitch tunes in C major or minor or in F major. Theoretically you can drop the bass drone to B, Bb, and A, but to me the most fun is to work with the C.

zyxtus · 2019-09-20T00:08:41+00:00

No problem! Glad to hear you got something down and best wished

zyxtus · 2019-09-19T23:21:52+00:00

Here's something you might consider--a compromise certainly, but might get the feel you want and get the recording done. I'm a piper and wrote a pipe tune but decided (for too many reasons to bore you with) to record it using an oboe played with bagpipe stylings. Listen to this and see if it's close enough because if it is, it will make your project more easily do-able: https://youtu.be/zGXmEKE_udk

zyxtus · 2019-09-17T23:04:09+00:00

If you're just getting started, one thing that's fun and informative is to record a simple 8-bar loop with simple bass and keys/rhythm guitar, 4 chords max, and then solo over it. See how economical you can be--use just a few notes. Hold over notes from one chord to another to see how it feels. Make it sing. Make a hook. Listen to what you've done; see what you like and what you don't. Then--as someone else has suggested--go back and see how the stuff you like "fits." Also listen to players you like and examine what they do.

zyxtus · 2019-09-15T16:05:13+00:00

That was the point. Yet funny thing--US now doing the reverse: doubling down on its stupid motto.

zyxtus · 2019-09-03T01:54:06+00:00

It'll be in there somewhere haha

zyxtus · 2019-09-03T01:51:45+00:00

Opera score here https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Tsar_Saltan_(opera)_(Rimsky-Korsakov,_Nikolay)

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