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>hink of windows computers that pop up annoying boxes to “update java” or “do you want to restart” *on top* of what you were doing (I know ipads aren’t windows).
In more than two years of heavy use I have never seen such a warning, ever. It is possible to crash an app, but they are totally sandboxed, so you just restart it if you do.
> so a brand new ipad might run for 10 hours, but with with one year of heavy use the battery could easily wear out to 4-5 hours
No. I have the original ipad and the battery life is as long as it ever was. The ipad battery is not anything like the batteries in a laptop and the drive is a low energy SSD. Also, the battery percentage is constantly displayed. Like Tony, I have never ever found this to be an issue.
It isn’t a netbook, laptop, or android device and doesn’t behave as they do.
>By far the best thing I would like to see is a way to pack up and store the covers when not in use
For my L&H transport cover for the concert grand that I don’t use much, I put the column cover inside the big cover, fold it half lengthwise and then roll it up as tightly as I can and bungee it with two heavy bungee cords. It goes into a reasonably sized roll–no worse than a lightweight sleeping bag.
The base cover is always a problem, though.
Better to figure why you’re breaking so many strings and fix the root cause. Are they breaking at the base of the string? at the tuning pin?
I talked about mine here:
http://barbarabrundage.com/2011/02/23/part-6-ipad-cases-for-the-gig/
(My harp case has a string pocket so I don’t have to worry about those.)
Meant to say it’s definitely not Laura Erb’s arrangement. She does have some arpeggios as fill, but not the full chord left hand or the filigree pattern later on.
Erb’s version is actually pretty simple compared to some of her others.I’ve only heard as much as you can hear on the itunes preview, but I don’t think it’s Laura Erb’s version. Probably her own arrangement, I would presume.
>Then for real inspiration, Sarah Bullen on her album “The Essential Harp” includes the Dances d’Automne.
These are also on the Isabelle Perrin Andres CD.
If you do a google search for Matrix for this site, you’ll find a number of threads about the Matrix as a harpmobile.
Yes, what Sid said! When I gigged on a 23 I didn’t hear it any less often than I do with a Thormahlen. People are just clueless. There’s nothing to do but smile, nod, and go on with what you were doing. As Ray Pool so wisely said, “People don’t want to be educated–they want to be right.”
> the musicians’ union made a direct appeal
This was well before the Titanic sailed, just to be clear, not while it was sinking. They tried on behalf of all the White Star Line musicians, not just those on the Titanic.
The musicians lost their status long before that. In a story that will be familiar to many professional musicians, for several years the musicians contracted directly with the White Star Line. Then a big agency came along and persuaded the company they could do the music cheaper. The agency got an exclusive and immediately turned around and told all the existing musicians that if they wanted to keep the gig they’d be working for the agency at a much-reduced pay scale.
Now in order to be legally under the captain’s command, the musicians were still getting a very small token payment from the line as well (something like a shilling, if I remember correctly). So the musicians’ union made a direct appeal to the White Star Line to do right by these poor guys. They responded by not giving them the shilling anymore so they no longer had any kind of quasi-crew status at all, although they were still bound by all the restrictions of crew members.
After the ship sank, when tributes to the courage of the musicians were pouring in from all over the world, there was a letter from the agency, too. It was a demand for payment for the parts of their uniforms that hadn’t been fully paid for yet.
Walter Lord, who wrote the classic A Night to Remember, wrote a less well known collection of essays (The Night Lives On) after the finding of the Titanic in 1985, in which he revisited a lot of things where his opinion had changed since he wrote the first book back in the 1950s. One chapter is devoted to the musicians. It’s very interesting reading.
Sorry, didn’t mean to hit post so soon. I don’t know what else you can do except to keep trying to contact them. If email doesn’t get results, there is a phone number. They’re the only people who can straighten this out.
However, based on past experience I would also say don’t be surprised if the answer is no, you must register for the whole thing if you want to do more than one day. It’s possible you haven’t had a response because they’re deciding what they want the policy to be and haven’t come to a decision yet.
