Might Sound Better With the Sound Turned Off

Some have asked, "UNK, how do you get those strange sounds from your piano?"
So glad you asked! Here is a two-minute illustration of my piano fisting technique.

Chess Boy: Capablanca's Golden Bishop, Part 4

Skating Song Snippet

 

The short video, below, is a test of a new recording format for me. I'd appreciate any comments on the visual presentation and the audio. Is it too loud? Too muddy? This snippet is similar to "The Skating Song" on the CD "Christmas Raga." Notice the iconography! Enjoy!

 

HUMBLE GIVINGS

*KhRRRM* (to quote Conor)

I hereby propose to announce a new Christmas Policy, or rather, thematic guideline, proposed to me by m'colleague Tom, on Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve EveEve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve EveEve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve

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WHEREAS the truest gifts, are those which cannot be grasped nor even seen and

WHEREAS the spirit of the season is frequently burdened, obscured, clotted and obstructed by excess, and

WHEREAS a proliferation of bohemian decision making has deprived all but the patriarch of substantial means, and

WHEREAS the young, also, due to the arrival of many new "little tubs" are not only constrained monetarily but temporally, and

WHEREAS resourcefulness and scrappitude are guiding principles of the culture, as passed down especially from the matriarch, and

WHEREAS the greatest gifts come in small packages, and

WHEREAS the Lore of the Season emphasizes and enshrines especially that which is of especially small stature

SUCHAS The Tim of small proporsh in the Carol and, also, the Givings of a petite percussionist, and 

MOREOVER the smallness and humilitude of even the central figurine of the Babe, and the most humble quality of his bedchambers are immortalized and preserved in many songs and verses, 

THEREFORE

In the spirit of past guidelines such as Many Gifts, we resolve to institute a guideline of "Humble Givings" to be instituted in this season. 

SUCHTHAT those participants may be not only liberated but encouraged to fixate upon that which might be overlooked due to its diminutive nature, either in market value, physical size, or that which, in form or function, attains or aspires only to the smallest. 

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