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So many things seem filled with the intent
After looking for them for three days, I finally looked in the place where they *belong* and found my car keys to the car that has the CD player.
That means I can drive around listening to Christmas carols now! We've got one CD that my dad picked up in colonial Williamsburg of traditional songs arranged for piano, violin, harp and glass armonica, which is just sheer beauty in sound.
My dad had a thing for glass armonica music. Along with orchestrions and the Moog. He told me once when I was getting into his old LPs that after he bought the first Moog album in the 1960's, he'd play it every morning as he got ready for work, until the downstairs neighbors got together and petitioned him to *buy another album already.* Me, I like harpsicord and calliope and theremin. But we agree on glass armonica. I always looked forward to formal banquets as a kid because I knew that at some point in the evening, Dad would snag everybody's half-empty wine glasses and play Ode to Joy on them.
I'd listen to the glass armonica songs a lot more, except that glass armonica is all about perfect purity, and on a crappy sound system they *just don't work*. Even for someone like me who is so far beyond tin ear that we're getting into plastic, and whose usual mode of listening to music is either laptop speakers or FM radio, the slightest bit of off-ness in the sound system changes the piercingly lovely armonica notes into shrill nails-down-the-chalkboard cringing. And don't even think about ripping them to mp3! Even the car CD player, which is the best sound system we've got, leaves some of the should-be best songs (like Carol of the Bells, all in glass armonica) completely unlistenable.
That means I can drive around listening to Christmas carols now! We've got one CD that my dad picked up in colonial Williamsburg of traditional songs arranged for piano, violin, harp and glass armonica, which is just sheer beauty in sound.
My dad had a thing for glass armonica music. Along with orchestrions and the Moog. He told me once when I was getting into his old LPs that after he bought the first Moog album in the 1960's, he'd play it every morning as he got ready for work, until the downstairs neighbors got together and petitioned him to *buy another album already.* Me, I like harpsicord and calliope and theremin. But we agree on glass armonica. I always looked forward to formal banquets as a kid because I knew that at some point in the evening, Dad would snag everybody's half-empty wine glasses and play Ode to Joy on them.
I'd listen to the glass armonica songs a lot more, except that glass armonica is all about perfect purity, and on a crappy sound system they *just don't work*. Even for someone like me who is so far beyond tin ear that we're getting into plastic, and whose usual mode of listening to music is either laptop speakers or FM radio, the slightest bit of off-ness in the sound system changes the piercingly lovely armonica notes into shrill nails-down-the-chalkboard cringing. And don't even think about ripping them to mp3! Even the car CD player, which is the best sound system we've got, leaves some of the should-be best songs (like Carol of the Bells, all in glass armonica) completely unlistenable.