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Re: Musical languistics - Mass Reply

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 22:18
Yscrews ill "J Y S Czhang":

> >Well, you disrupted the Cat in his attempt to > >relax with some nice music. That is a Nono! > >Bad! Bad human! As I'm sure you're aware, the > >Cat will express his Displeasure! > > No friggin' joke... ::rubs shin area with > scars::
[Says the Cat: "Serves him jolly right."]
> > He seems to like the quiet of the clavichord, > >but at > >a little over a stone, he's just to heavy for > >the > >action!!, so I have to shift him to a more > >instrument friendly location. > > Put him on a diet, LOL.
No fooling! He went in to the Vet today and weighed in at a bloody stone and a third. Too many doughnuts and similar. Mind you, he is trained to sit patiently for a bit of doughnut! Anyway, he's a big bloody Cat. I don't think he'll ever weigh less 12 or 13 pound.
> >Hm. Depends on the pipes! Some are smooth and > >sweet sounding. I suspect the piper in > >question > >blasts away at the acoustic universe with one > >of those HGPs? > > Oh yes. He is _tryin'_ to play bad-ass > punkjazz on them > scary things from some Scottish version of > Hell.
Ah, that would be England, yesno? ;) [The English greatpipe is a wonder, and no mistake! Not as skirling, though.]
> He's been evicted from 2 places in the past 4 > months!
Gee, I wonder why? Did he offer to play for his rent? ;)))
> He now shares a house with a Satanist > priestess, > whose cat - despite the household's *evilness* > - > runs like a bat outta Hell upon perceivin' > the paint-peelin', window-rattlin' sounds of > that > HGP, the musical world's equivalent to the > military world's RPG (Rocket Propelled > Grenade).
:) I am awaiting a set of Cornish pipes. A fuller, sweeter less piercing sound, plus the ability to vary the drone. And it has a bellows, so I don't have to puff away on the thing! Padraic. ===== Et ters davigaint deck y yaithes 'n el drichlend le Roy Markon; y cestes d' ils yspoil morès y ddew chaumèz e-z-el tons l' organón. .