Learn About Music Instruments

I am reading an article. Sometime I feel it is a good article, and sometime I feel that it is a bit strange. The most important thing for me is to know if it is native speaker’s language. Otherwise, it might be just a waste of time if I work hard on it.

Quote:
Newness, a preoccupation with the unknown, a twinning of heralded benefits and fears of danger, is one trope of restructuring that is evident throughout the process of legal and policy transformation. Every candidate for new information technology has invited a superheated rhetoric of millennial social change, a ballooning of the claims Hardy made in his precise description of the effect of the Harmonium. When wireless radio technology was introduced in the first decades of the twentieth century, world peace was said to be only a turn of the dial away. The New York Times wrote: “Nothing so fosters and promotes a mutual undestanding and a community of sentiment and interests as cheap, speedy, and convenient communication.”
many thanks to everyone who made your points of views. Especially to Jude and Antipode.
I can speak English althought I am not living in UK, or USA. I even wrote my diploma in English, but I am not satisfied. I still feel that my English is too much of speaking style. I want to write a very good English, for the sake of business communication in my work. That’s why I must know what I read is good English, better from native author, which makes me feel same. It is more promising.
sorry, mistyping.

…which makes me feel safe…( not same, surely not )
Thanks to Lan. Unfortunately, I can not choose my native. If I could do it, it would be extremely difficult. It is funny that many people make themselves to be immigrant even they just paid once visit to Canada, or Australia, by bus tour. This is irrational if you do not really know this country.

I am still confused about what you said. The difference between foreign language and second language? How do you define it? In Finland, most people speak Swedish, so it is their second language. For me, living in Asia, Swedish could be foreign language, if I start to learn it. Right?
Thanks to Dolphinsandlivingher.
You are just making the point. I need to identify the article if it was written by a well-educated person, or a guy who was trying to make himself sound well-educated. I used to have a professor from Iraq, taking a thick dictionary with him everytime he needs to write. He replaced all easy words by the most weird ones. At the beginning, we foreign students do not know this trick and believe he is cool untill a day some native students burst to laugh. However, some article is not meant to be read by the public. The one I quoted is actually part of diploma work of a PHD student.

Unfortunately, I am a little one struggling for living. Image is important in business, and I do not want to be taken as one with poor education. Taht is why I have interests with a bit sophisticated language.

Written by a man that could put insomniacs to sleep.

Hi,
I have a decent knowledge of music and i can play Harmonium quite good.
I want to involve more in keyboard playing. Which keyboard model will be best for me to use at home or any musical programme.

Not enough information.

There are many different kinds of keyboard. I’m not a musician, but I’ve owned about five of them so far. The first question you have to ask is, are you more interested in live performance? or are you more interested in recording?

Any keyboard can be used for either purpose, but a live-performance keyboard will make it easier for you to change patches and tweak parameters while you are playing, while a recording-oriented keyboard may have more features—sometimes a LOT more features—but you’ll have to go into a menu system, or use an attached computer to access them. One feature that’s common on a "live" Keyboard is that the patches are organized in "banks." You have to use a knob or a menu or a wheel or whatever to select a bank, but then it’s just one button press to change from any patch to any other patch within the same bank.

Another question you must ask is, what kinds of sounds to I want? My go-to keyboard for right now is all about reproducing the sounds of vintage electric organs and electric Pianos. My other one (hasn’t been out of its case in more than a year) makes awesome sounds and sound FX and grooves for electronic dance and hip-hop type music. It’s really a crossover instrument—halfway between a traditional keyboard synth, and one of those "kaos" things that DJs use.

A third question is about your playing style. I.e., What do you want the keys to feel like? Organ keys are not necessarily light, but very fast. Velocity response is not possible for organ-style keys because an organ player wants the key to sound before there is time for a velocity sensor to figure out how hard (s)he hit it. Synth-style keys ARE very light, whereas piano-style keys are heavy enough to given your forearms a workout. (They’re often "graded" so that the keys at the bass end are heavier than the keys at the treble end.) Players who have spent a long time with one kind of keyboard may find it difficult to switch to the other kind.

Of course there’s a fourth question, how deep are your pockets?

Whether or not you know the answers to those questions, It’s time to go shopping. If there’s a music store anywhere near you, you need to spend some time there—a few hours at least—trying out everything they have. Make a commitment to NOT buy the first thing you see. Plan to go to the store a couple of times, or better yet go to a couple of different stores, before you decide to buy anything.

Also, once you figure out what you like, consider buying a used one. Craigslist is full of all kinds of instruments looking for good homes.

I am interested in studying Indian Classical Music at University in India specializing in Tabla after high school. It would make sense that I do relevant music courses in Grades 11 and 12 that would prepare me for this. For example study Hindi (which I am doing on my own), History of Indian Music, Music theory and a Keyboard instrument such as the Harmonium in order to study and learn ragas. I have been studying and learning Tabla for 3 1/2 years but I am sure I need a lot more preparation for university. If I could find a school of sound standards and some form of accreditation, I may be able to petition my school board and school to review the courses and possibly substitute appropriate ones for grade 11 & 12 credits. It would make my studies more cohesive and relevant to my post secondary goals. It would also make my work load more manageable since all my music studies are currently being done extra-curricularly. Any suggestions and/or advice?

Go to Google and type in Indian classical music schools west Toronto and tons of info will pop up, on the screen…………..Tom Science

Used in the Be Not Nobody album and the front of Harmonium. There are others answers but the links are still incorrect!

Try dafont.com. Hope that helps :/

hello, i have learned to play acoustic Guitar myself. i can play almost all the chords. i can even pick up some leads and chords by listening to a song. i have knowledge of Indian Classical Music as i have learned Harmonium. i just want to know when should i switch to electric guitar. i would really like to do that.
Thanks for the answer.

The main reason people say accoustic first is because with electric the temptation is to go right for the distortion and effects, and if you do that anyone can sound kinda cool right off the bat. Cos all that distortion can have the effect of masking improper technique. You can go electric if you want but stay clean for a while until you really know what you are doing.

I’d like to know what Slovakia is like. I hope to go from January to September and maybe longer if I like it. Bratislava is where I would be located. Pay would be £400 a month which is about 15,000 skk I think. Does anybody know about rent etc? I mostly just like to play Harmonium, exercise and wander about and write. Excitement would be nice, if not Slovakia any other ideas?????

well, I think you will have great time…I know one language school which is hiring native english teachers..try www.eku.sk…and email them, I am sure they will respond.
I think you will have time of your life.Beautiful nature, nice people, quality food, very CHEAP air ticket to anywhere in Europe..lot of happenings all year round..try cities as Nitra or Piestany, or Banska Bystrica…and travel as much as you can.Enjoy it:)

I just acquired an antique Chaplain’s Organ used during WWI. Do you think I could make any money carrying it around and taking requests?

http://jef.raskincenter.org/pictures/estey_Harmonium.html

There is another consideration to your venture aside from location: size of your organ.

That said, if you can play one organ, you can play them all.

Best of luck in your business

i listen to this song and i know i’ve heard it in a movie.
supposedly it is by flogging molly but i’m not sure.
it kind of sounds like the song music for a found Harmonium by the penguin cafe orchestra.
can anyone help?

Sorry, but I noticed nobody had answered yet, and I just wanted you to know that someone tried. But I can’t figure it out either.

I am looking for either notations to play on a Sitar or a Harmonium.

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please, it’s a rock song and it’s an electric Guitar. it’s not Harmonium but another one. ive been searching like crazy for this song but cant find it, does anyone know the name?
its not seven nation army nor can u hear me.. those who watched it in espn deportes.. in the commercial theres an electric guitar, then a Piano.. then villa appears celebrating, then, la gran final.. spain vs germany

It’s probably: Can You Hear Me by Enrique Iglesias

I think The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army was just unofficial anthem when the players walked out.