I did a lot of googling about this problem yesterday, and the
current fix (more like a workaround) was suggested by something I
read, but there really didn’t seem to be very much enlightenment
going. So in the hope that this will enlighten someone else,
here’s the story.
My Zoom
H2 has developed a couple of idiosyncrasies.
One is that over half the time when I turn it on it tells me
(incorrectly) that it doesn’t have an SD card. This was a bigger
problem when it first started happening, when I thought I had to
take the card out and reseat it. It turns out that it always
seems to recognize the card the second time I turn it on, so it is
now a minor inconvenience.
But recently, it’s stopped playing sound out of the line
out/headphone jack. This is a fairly major problem for one of
the things I do — playing something while I’m practicing and then
listening to it.
I managed to narrow down the possible
diagnoses to a loose jack. Googling “loose audio jack” didn’t
really come up with much, but someone did mention using a piece of
rubber band to tighten the connection between plug and jack. That
turns out to work, at least temporarily. The rubber band I found
was much too thick in its virgin state, so what I have is a piece
the length of the plug and about a quarter the width of the rubber
band. I have it scotch taped to the H2, since I’m sure it would
fall out if I just left it in the jack.
Before I found this “solution”, I also spent some time figuring
out how to open the H2, to see if the jack could be replaced. I
did turn out to have the right screwdriver (not easy to tell,
since you can’t see the screwheads), but it looks like the jack is
part of the circuitboard, so that was a dead end.
We played:
Until further notice, we’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
We played:
Until further notice, we’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
At 7:30 PM on Thursday, July 21, the West Gallery Quire will
be hosting a special workshop, led by Francis Roads. It will be
at the Pleasant
St. Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St., Arlington, Mass.
More details, and pointers to the music are here.
We’re going to have another workshop with Francis Roads, one of
the leading scholars and performers of West Gallery Music. It
will be on Thursday, July 21 at 7:30 PM at the Pleasant
St. Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St., Arlington,
Mass.
Francis made a web
page with PDF’s for all the music we’re going to be singing.
If you’d rather download them all at once, you can use my
concatenation. If you want to print the concatenation
double-sided, you also want to print a
few pages single-sided so that there are at most 1 page turn
per piece.
If you can help with publicity, here’s a flyer
you can print out and hand out or post.
We played:
We’ll be having dropin meetings as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM
at my place.
In This
review of Red Priest at Rockport, he compares them unfavorably
to Solamente Naturale.
People (including me) often remark on how much less crowded
BEMF is these days than it used to be. There are several
conventional explanations:
I’m sure all of these explanations are valid, but I ran into
another one last night. A friend came over with his two dogs to
console me for losing Sunny, and I told him I was surprised at not
having seen him at BEMF this year. He turned out to have been
busy. One of his groups is doing a recording, but the good story
is that he’s now playing shawm in a rock band.
It reminded me of Michel
Godard, one of the best serpent players in the world. He
plays lots of kinds of music, from Medieval to jazz and the
digeridoo repertoire. He
attended the Historic Brass Society conference in 1995, and said
that it was the first time he’d been asked to play somewhere because of the
instrument he plays, rather than because people liked his music.
So if there are lots of players of early instruments who aren’t
going to BEMF because they’ve found places to play that aren’t
specifically early music-related, that would be a more cheerful
result than everybody getting old and losing their money.
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