Forum members location map

[Charlie Huang]

Add your location here:

Click here

Type address on the bar, find your location and place a placemark (blue upsidedown raindrop) on your location) and OK it.

[davidmdahl]

Cool idea! I found my address on the map, but don't see how to mark it with the blue raindrop.

Best wishes,

David

[calden]

Thanks, CCC, for doing this. But like David I cannot add myself.

Carlos

[Charlie Huang]

Bugger... Is it that it won't let you?

[calden]

CCC:

I can type in my address, and it takes me there, but there's no option to place a marker there.
Carlos

[Charlie Huang]

Hmmm, do you see four buttons on the top left of the map (or is it just for those who create the map)?

[kyokuhon]

I, too, see nowhere to add my location.
K.

[Charlie Huang]

Well, I dunno then. The help section doesn't say how other people can add them on.

There was a site that let's you add your location, but I completely forgot the name. Frappr needs a hosting site, which is a pain...

[Curt Geesdorf]

while the central members map don't work, you can see my location at
geesdorf.theunixplace.com/curt_geesdorf.kmz
(GoogleEarth needed)

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Curt

[charliecharlieecho]

The map says "View only". Is there a way to change that?

[theblackadder]

Having just joined this forum, allow me to assist. Google maps has become incredibly user-friendly since 2007.

Anyone with this link may edit the map freely.
www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zSUHc-lGRaF4.k_sVpUN2Xy6M

Try to create a new layer for the region of the world that you reside in, if it isn't already created.
Highlight that region layer, click the left edge of the layer box, it should turn blue.
Enter your address and save it to map, then rename the address tag as your username.

Don't worry if you place your address in the wrong region, I'll just set the geography police on you.

Oh, I have taken the liberty of adding Charlie Huang's address to the map under Western Europe. The address was not explicitly available on his original map due to privacy snafus, but it was easy to find and match the exact tree that he placed his marker over.

If this bothers you, you might wanna reconsider adding yourself to the map.

Also, do not point out the irony that the Blackadder does not reside in the UK, I'm just a huge fan of british comedy.

[edcat7]

Hello Blackadder and welcome,

We had a place where to put our location but it disappeared when the layout was redesigned. Charlie is no-longer active on the forum but he lives in Birmingham UK rather than Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Tell us about yourself, what musical instrument are you interested in?

Best wishes

Ed

ps I'm also a fan of Blackadder too but like other American sitcoms such as Friends and Big Bang Theory. I wonder if Americans are really like how they are portrayed on tv. Over here very few are like Hugh Grant.

[theblackadder]

Played mostly stringed instruments: guitar, viola, ukulele. Started in my teens, stopped after junior college.

Wanted to try wind instruments, so I went for the chromatic harmonica. That lasted all the way till last year.
I originally enjoyed its compactness and raspy voice, but I couldn't stand that the instrument kept getting in the way of the music. It's really not an elegantly engineered instrument.

I live in Singapore so getting chinese instruments is relatively easy, but not cheap. It seems that local stores either carry cheap junk or expensive quality instruments.
Ordering online from reputable sources from China is still the best way to get the most value for ones money.

In an effort to run away from reeds, I am currently waiting on a dizi that I ordered from redmusicshop (recommended by an acquaintance who plays the erhu).

I also intend to try single reed instruments like the hulusi and bawu.
Hoping that it would be easier to maintain 1 beefy reed as opposed to 64 delicate reeds.

My main worry for now would be the loss of chromaticity.  Although, if I could find a pair of dizi one semitone apart and strap them together...

I watch american sitcoms too. I have a love-hate relationship with Big Bang Theory. I'm in my last year of undergraduate physics, and I hate how people who watch that show expect us to all be geniuses. Television portrayed stereotypes are not to be trusted.

[edcat7]

If I won the lottery I would have face-to-face tuition on the liuqin by Easons. Redmusicshop is very good (I have a very good gaohu from them) but Eason is the best place for quality instruments.

If you are new to woodwind then start on the hulusi; you don't have to spend a ton of money, a budget C would be fine. To play Chinese tunes you don't need a chromatic instrument.

(Wish I could write Chinese, all I can manage is the menu and a few poems)

[theblackadder]

Hmm, the bawu looks more aesthetically pleasing to me, but the problem is most books with accompaniment music is for the C hulusi.
Haven't been able to find a bawu in C yet.

I am a native mandarin speaker, and my mandarin standard has fallen abysmally due to lack of usage in university. Now writing is hard as I tend to forget how the more complex words look like, but I can still read the words when they are presented to me.

There are many chinese instruction books and song books available online, if you can wade through the chinese part of the internet.
This link provides some scans of some common music books in chinese.
wzpdf.blogspot.sg/2011/02/001.html

I don't advocate piracy, and I prefer actual hard copies of books. These scans are pretty low quality too.
But the online sellers of these materials rarely put up previews, so you can use the link above to check out the books beforehand.
You need to install UnicornViewer to view .PDG files though.

Decided to head down to Eason to get a copy of 中央音乐学院笛子曲目(1-6级) sometime this month.
It was the only book which I could read comfortably, not very wordy and the language used is simple.

[edcat7]

I have a couple of bawus but I haven't spent much time on them. My teacher borrows them for performances. I much prefer the hulusi: the shape is unusual, changing notes are much quicker and you got the bonus of the drone.

[theblackadder]

Did you start off with a teacher?
I am pretty confident of my music theory and I've been self taught the entire time, except for 4 lessons taken just to ensure proper bowing form.

Was planning to do the same, familiarise myself with the fingerings. Then get a month of lessons to learn proper embouchure, and self-study from there. Can't commit much money and time due to school and research projects.

What are some bad habits that one might pick up playing the dizi?

[ngchongpoh]

Thanks to theblackadder, i've just added myself into the map inside SGP. In this tiny dot on world map, there are 2 persons.

See if there will be more...the last message was Mar/2015. Hope to find more on this tiny dot.