User talk:Dmetric/Archived talk

Hey Dmetric :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

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Have fun, keep contributing :) Dysprosia 15:33, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Robert Volkmann

Hi. Are you you same del_arte who owns [1]? Then I guess my copyright violation detection of Robert Volkmann was a bit too fast. andy 16:11, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I just got an edit conflict trying to say the same thing! If you are the original author and you are happy to release the text under the terms of the GFDL, please can you let me know (User talk:Angela), or say so on the article's talk page (Talk:Robert Volkmann). Thanks. Angela 16:15, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)

PDQ Bach

Thank you for your creation of the PDQ Bach page, which is informative.

I don't believe that it is customary to include birth and death dates of fictional characters in the date references, however. They may be removed. Discussion at Talk:1742. Louis Kyu Won Ryu 18:52, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I'd completely forgotten about the "vertical" Bruckner rhythm in the sixth - thanks for reminding me. I got hold of a score of the piece when we first discussed it, but I've not looked at it properly yet, and I'm taking a bit of a break from any serious Wikipedia editing at the moment. I'll have a look soon, maybe at the weekend. Thanks again for the reminder. --Camembert

Hi, I've listed StanisÅ‚aw Skrowaczewski on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to deleted such things outright, but I see no reason it won't be deleted in a week's time. Angela 23:07, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Don't worry about the Die Drei Pintos thing - everybody makes mistakes, but the great thing about the Wikipedia is that there's usually somebody there to fix them. If you'd not added the (admittedly slightly incorrect) info to the page in the first place, it wouldn't be there at all now :) --Camembert

Thanks. Dmetric 13:27, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Lysenko

Hi there. I reverted the spelling of Mykola Lysenko's middle name, as it reflects the Ukrainian pronunciation and is often spelled this way in various books I have seen (e.g. Ethnic identity, music, and politics in nineteenth-century Ukraine: The world of Mykola Lysenko). If you are interested in purchasing Ukrainian music, the place I would recommend is http://www.umka.com.ua/eng/. Look under the Classical and Church sections if you are looking for composers such as Lysenko or Bortniansky. This page also lets you listen to samples before buying, so you get a good idea what you are purchasing. The quality always amazes me when I get my package. I have probably ordered about 100 CDs of various categories from this web page. --JamesTeterenko 19:12, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

evolution of the glyph

thanx for your graphics for the evolution of the glyphs for 1 thruough 5, they really help clarify what I'm talking about. I look forward to seeing your graphics for 6 through 0. Numerao 20:07, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

if you have time could you make graphics showing the diffrent calculator 7s? Numerao 21:11, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Someone else already did it. I would've tried to make them slanted, just like I see them on my calculator, watch, alarm clock, metronome, etc. but the image given does illustrate what you wrote in the article. Dmetric 21:12, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Circle of fifths

There is a question at Talk:Circle of fifths that I want to see if you have any opinions on. (Note that I completed the major scale articles so that all of them have articles of their own.) Georgia guy 01:00, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Contrabass oboe

I was just reading your additions to the "bass oboe" article and wonder if you could add some clarification to the last sentence, about the contrabass oboe. Do you mean this as a synonym for bass oboe or would this be an instrument an octave lower again than the bass oboe? If the latter, was one ever made? I think there is mention of an instrument such as this on contrabass.com. If an octave below the bass oboe, however, it wouldn't be in the contrabassoon's range, but in the bassoon's range, as the bassoon is two octaves lower than the regular oboe. Badagnani 21:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

input request

Would you mind looking in on Talk:Jesus H. Christ#"Bored church attendees"? Thanks for your time. Tom e r ^talk 00:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Imperial March score

A quick note about Image:ImperialMarchMelodySnippet.png — the summary you wrote says that you transcribed it in D major, but that's actually F-sharp minor, so you're missing a sharp from the key signature. Pagra shtak 18:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I might be following the Baroque practice of using one less sharp than is strictly required. Or maybe I ought to get rid of the key signature altogether. Dmetric 20:54, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another quick note: the Imperial March is acutally in G minor. I performed the Imperial March in 2001 in the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, so that's how I remember.crazyviolinist 04:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the piffero

Are you sure this is the Haydin instrument? Because "piffero" can be one of two instruments, in Italian: the one described here, and the military fife. Currently, the first meaning is prevailing, but at the times of Haydin... Mikelima 09:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806), a chronological thematic catalogue of his works by Charles H. Sherman and T. Donley Thomas, one of the instruments listed for Symphony No. 10 is "piff." and the abbreviations table says this stands for "piffaro." I have not actually looked at a score or recording of that work. The two Haydn Symphonies I've worked on are scored for pairs of oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets plus the usual strings. Dmetric 18:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to ask the same question. But surely it is the fife that’s meant here? What you wrote was “Michael Haydn's Symphony in C major, Perger 10, calls for pifferi in addition to regular flutes. (My emphasis.) Surely that fits better with fife than with a highly localised folk instrument of the double-reed family. (In effect a late survivor of the shawm, somewhat distinct from the oboe.) Another problem is that, unless he was writing for an orchestra based in the high north-west Appenines, I can’t quite think how the players could have been expected to acquire the instruments. If I am bold (as we are supposed to say) (or wildly speculative as we ought oftener to admit) and change the reference to put it in the context of ‘piffero is also the Italian word for the fife and can appear in orchestral scores with that meaning’, I hope you won’t be offended. I promise I will not be remotely offended if you revert me!

As you may have guessed, I am almost as suspicious of wikipages I have have not edited as I am of those I have. So I followed up your organ stop mention. A stop that was spot on! (According to [www.organstops.org], which looks to me like a good authority.) —Ian Spackman 20:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That about the organ stop I read in Grove's.

As for the M. Haydn, the Sherman-Donley catalog says that Symphony was written in Salzburg in 1773. Could Haydn have had access to "a highly localised folk instrument of the double-reed family ... for an orchestra based in the high north-west Appenines"? That's a question I'd like to ask Sherman or Donley. Dmetric 23:24, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! --Ipoellet (talk) 00:47, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I'll change it to {{GFDL-self}}. I am glad this image has turned out to be useful. Dmetric (talk) 20:26, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! I've copied it over to the Commons, reset all the article links, and the Wikipedia instance of the image will be deleted soon. --Ipoellet (talk) 20:54, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you for leading me to find out Wikipedia has so much detail on Detroit architecture and WSU buildings in specific. Dmetric (talk) 21:17, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]