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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2004/06

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] sameer's vibrato et al
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:17:39 -0400

Reprehensible it may be, but if it is legal there is a lot of hot air
blowing around needlessly. I too am sorry for our loss of respect etc in
the rest of the world. Maybe if our government were a little more
forthright with their reasoning we wouldn't look so evil. Or possibly we
would look worse. As a friend of mine told me, world opinion certainly
matters, but at least they don't have a vote.
Herb

> From: Rhondda May <rmay@-----.com>
> Reply-To: doublereed@-----.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:58:17 +0800
> To: doublereed@-----.org
> Subject: [DR-L] sameer's vibrato et al
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> Firstly I apologise to Mr. Dlouhy and any others for my encouragement of
> off-double-reed-topic posts; I wrote that post in a vodka-induced state
> following my Public Law exam (Jennifer's right; I'm studying to be a
> lawyer). Thanks, Kat, for your post, which I found very interesting.
> Herb, to be quite honest, I have looked at the declassified Justice
> Dept. document (now being discussed in the media), but not very
> thoroughly. When the hotsy-totsiest legal minds available try to get
> around international law to do something that is so clearly (at least to
> me anyway) reprehensible, we are in major trouble. Americans who have
> never lived abroad for any length of time have no idea how we appear to
> the rest of the world. No idea. (That's my broad generalization for
> this list for 2004, set flamethrowers on stun, please!)
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> Sameer, I would be interested to know which notes you're getting the
> vibrato on. My teacher, Sara Lambert Bloom, used to talk about one's
> "resonance" being better on some notes than on others. D on the 4th
> line of the treble clef, F on the top line - those were two notes we
> always used to use to try to find our bodies' resonance. I would say
> that since, as far as I'm concerned, vibrato has to do with a balance of
> the airspeed and the opening of the reed, you could be subtly adjusting
> your airspeed/ opening for some notes and that's when your vibrato
> "happens". That assumes your vibrato "happens" and is not the result of
> you wiggling some part of your anatomy consciously. If that is the
> case, it's actually a good thing, because it means you only have to work
> out what to do with your air/embouchure to get it to "happen" on other
> notes.
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> Best regards to all of you, and please don't ask me for legal advice
> just yet-
> Rhondda
> Hong Kong
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> Sameer Alabdullah wrote:
>>=20
>> "treatment of them is child's play compared to their
>> treatment of us
>> don't you think? Not an excuse of course, but soldiers in war
>> are sometimes
>> very angry."
>>=20
>> At some level I might agree with you but try to look at the bigger pictu=
re
>> here. Who started this from the first place?? If you read the history of
>> Iraq and the middle east you will find that Iraq has always been the lan=
d
>> where blood was shed. One of our Kaliphs called Iraq "the land of lies a=
nd
>> betrayal." This maybe be a sterotype but many people here in the middle =
east
>> think that Iraqis will stab you from the back when youa re not looking a=
nd
>> they are many more mean things and barbarians. BUT there are reasons for
>> that.
>>=20
>> Nobody deserves to be killed or treated in such ways. Not the Amercians =
nor
>> the Iraqis. But there is a cause and an effect. These people want ther
>> country back and they will do anything.
>>=20
>> I was in Kuwait during the whole Iraqi Invasion in 1990-91 and witnessed=
the
>> liberation war and watched US soldiers (of course along with the British=
,
>> French and rest of the Arabs..etc etc) drive thru my main street and I w=
as
>> happy to get my country back. We can't thank you enough. BUT you must le=
ave
>> the land to its people. Trust me I get furious everytime I drive south
>> towards the Oil wells in kuwait and see dozens of military cars and conv=
oys
>> transporting gears and stuff back and forth between Kuwait and Iraq. It'=
s
>> not fun watching military people driving around in your streets all the
>> time!! Try to imagin that next time you are taking your family for a dri=
ve!!
>>=20
>> Sadly, I will still read about more American soldiers being killed in Ir=
aq
>> and more innocent Iraqi civilians being blown away because the US will n=
ot
>> leave Iraqi land. They will never do that. They didnt just go thru all t=
hat
>> to simply leave it after 1 or 2 years. It's all about US presnce in the
>> world!! It's politics. And I hate politics so much and i'm so sorry I wr=
ote
>> this email and responded to such topic. This IS a double reed list. Now =
can
>> someone tell me why I have a nice vibrato on some notes but not on other=
s??
>> I been playing for 3 years (on and off). Is that normal?? ;)
>>=20
>> Sameer Al-Abdullah
>>=20
>> =3Dand I miss you like the desert miss the rain=3D
>>=20
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E!
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