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rjent wrote:I have played saxophone for 50 years, classically trained and did the jazz junk, RandB, country, etc etc. I finally found my groove a decade or so ago. I really like laid back ethereal music and the "beautiful music" genre(Celtic Woman, Celtic Thunder, Lorina McKennit, etc.). I know it is not for everyone, but I record my sax and synthesizers/keyboards for myself, I have some very limited downloadable stuff on the Internet, if someone else likes it, great, but it is recorded for me .... I could just not get into the screaming that became rock in the 70's. The do wap era was great as was the early country/western (Marty Robbins, Merl, Willie, Jim Ed Brown, etc.). Still listen to the old stuff occasionally, Hell I am just glad I can still hear ....

Dick

So are you going to just tease us, or can we listen?

BuckeyeDennis wrote:So are you going to just tease us, or can we listen?

Sorry Dennis, went to bed. LOL

Here is Silence is Golden by the Tremeloes https://soundcloud.com/rjent/silence-is-golden It was a Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons song, but the Trems made it famous.

Eddie and the Cruisers Boardwalk Angel on Alto and a curvie Soprano https://soundcloud.com/rjent/boardwalk-angel-final

Garth Brooks "The Dance" https://soundcloud.com/rjent/the-dance

My SoundCloud channel is https://soundcloud.com/rjent.

I have produced about 4 CD's over the last 18 years or so. These are just a sampling ....

I have been playing a long time, it's OK if you don't like them ....

Dick

rjent wrote:Sorry Dennis, went to bed. LOL

Here is Silence is Golden by the Tremeloes https://soundcloud.com/rjent/silence-is-golden It was a Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons song, but the Trems made it famous.

Eddie and the Cruisers Boardwalk Angel on Alto and a curvie Soprano https://soundcloud.com/rjent/boardwalk-angel-final

Garth Brooks "The Dance" https://soundcloud.com/rjent/the-dance

My SoundCloud channel is https://soundcloud.com/rjent.

I have produce about 4 CD's over the last 18 years or so. These are just a sampling ....

I have been playing a long time, it's OK if you don't like them ....

Dick

I'm gonna be totally honest here. This morning, I was catching up on the forum with my coffee and iPad. I clicked through your links to SoundCloud, and fumbled around for a bit trying to figure out how to make the songs play. The trick seems to be clicking on the amplitude graph, rather than the play/pause button. Twice, usually.

When I finally got the music to play, it seemed like some nice-enough elevator music, but nothing to get excited about. But then, I was listening to the tinny built-in iPad speakers. So I resolved to give it another shot when evening rolled around.

So after a busy day, I grabbed my good Klipsch earbuds and retired to some beautiful weather on the back deck. Found the links, clicked through again to SoundCloud, and remembered how to make it play.

All I can say is WOW! Absolutely gorgeous. The beauty is in the subtle details that can only be heard with good audio. If your woodworking artistry reaches the level of your musical artistry, you will be in a league with Shipwright on this forum, and few others.

I assume that you made your living as a professional musician?

BuckeyeDennis wrote:I'm gonna be totally honest here. This morning, I was catching up on the forum with my coffee and iPad. I clicked through your links to SoundCloud, and fumbled around for a bit trying to figure out how to make the songs play. The trick seems to be clicking on the amplitude graph, rather than the play/pause button. Twice, usually.

When I finally got the music to play, it seemed like some nice-enough elevator music, but nothing to get excited about. But then, I was listening to the tinny built-in iPad speakers. So I resolved to give it another shot when evening rolled around.

So after a busy day, I grabbed my good Klipsch earbuds and retired to some beautiful weather on the back deck. Found the links, clicked through again to SoundCloud, and remembered how to make it play.

All I can say is WOW! Absolutely gorgeous. The beauty is in the subtle details that can only be heard with good audio. If your woodworking artistry reaches the level of your musical artistry, you will be in a league with Shipwright on this forum, and few others.

I assume that you made your living as a professional musician?

OK, now you embarrassed me

Thank you, I really appreciate it. I was going to suggest listening with a good sound system, but many people just get glazed eyes when I say that, so I am glad you did listen to my stuff correctly

I am not, nor ever have been a pro musician. I got a tuition full ride through New Mexico State University back in the late 60's and 70's, but other than that I have just played and enjoyed, many bands, many gigs, none of which I do anymore. I am a retired businessman that made a living in the computer industry for over 30 years. When the technology started coming out that let me record what I heard in my head, I started to do it. My mic for the bell of the sax responds to the unique waveforms of a saxophone very well, and is what launched me to start recording.

Anyway, I know it is elevator music, I actually like elevator music

I am glad you enjoyed it. I have a lot more...........

Dick

Dick, I'm standing with that guy from Ohio. Your musical skills are SPOT ON! And, I should know, I was raised in a very musical family, even though I personally have NO talent in that department.

One brother teaches voice, a brother, and my only sister teach piano, and my brother's wife (the one that teaches piano) is a classical harpist. 2 more brothers, one rebuilds pianos as a hobby, (but can't carry a tone in a bucket, like me) and the other has an awesome voice. (If you counted, 4 brothers and 1 sister.) My older brother and I weren't blessed with the skills, but we can appreciate skills when we hear them.

OK, funny story. Jeffery, the one that does voice, and David, the one who does keyboards, at one time ran the Boulder City choir. (Just outside of Vegas, and was originally the staging ground for the building of the Boulder Dam, (later renamed the Hoover Dam.) When they stepped down, the choir administrator designed and built a plaque for my mother, which consisted of 4 Hot Wheel tracks laid out horizontally, to represent a musical scale. (Mom used to use Hot Wheel tracks to "inspire" better work, during practice, when the musical parts of the family were practicing.) She also used them to "inspire" the rest of us, when we needed inspiration. (The welts take a week to disappear. Don't ask me how I know!)

steve

skou wrote:Dick, I'm standing with that guy from Ohio. Your musical skills are SPOT ON! And, I should know, I was raised in a very musical family, even though I personally have NO talent in that department.

One brother teaches voice, a brother, and my only sister teach piano, and my brother's wife (the one that teaches piano) is a classical harpist. 2 more brothers, one rebuilds pianos as a hobby, (but can't carry a tone in a bucket, like me) and the other has an awesome voice. (If you counted, 4 brothers and 1 sister.) My older brother and I weren't blessed with the skills, but we can appreciate skills when we hear them.

OK, funny story. Jeffery, the one that does voice, and David, the one who does keyboards, at one time ran the Boulder City choir. (Just outside of Vegas, and was originally the staging ground for the building of the Boulder Dam, (later renamed the Hoover Dam.) When they stepped down, the choir administrator designed and built a plaque for my mother, which consisted of 4 Hot Wheel tracks laid out horizontally, to represent a musical scale. (Mom used to use Hot Wheel tracks to "inspire" better work, during practice, when the musical parts of the family were practicing.) She also used them to "inspire" the rest of us, when we needed inspiration. (The welts take a week to disappear. Don't ask me how I know!)

steve

Thanks Steve!

My family was and was not musical. My dad and mom learned to play guitar in the late 50's and didn't do it very long, weren't very good, and my dad couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. It was my grandmother who was the musician. She, born in the 1880's learned to play the piano by hiding and listening to her brother's piano lessons, then sneaking in and practicing on her own. She was very gifted musically and played everything by ear and taught me to do so. In high school (60's), my older brother played 5 string banjo and my younger brother played guitar. We played dances and just threw together jam sessions on the lawn at times with the neighbors all coming out and listening. I play(ed) harmonica, autoharp, and simple country fiddle, and sang lead and harmony back then, but my grandmother taught me the basics of the piano. I wish I had learned more .... kids LOL.

I have always had a love for music and the emotional connection the performer as well as the listener can get. Besides girls like a musician

Anyway, I am glad you liked it Steve, I just hope I am not too old to learn this dusty wood business .... I have a lot of ideas dancing around!

Dick