Topic: My musical life

[Clark Kent]

Some may not know this (or care), but I play music.  Yes with the CD player, et al, but also the old fashioned original way, by making it myself.
Some time ago (few years)  I bought myself a little thing called "Silent Brass" which i plug into the bell of my instrument and it sucks nearly all the sound of my instrument and feeds it back through a pair of headphones.  The next thing I got was something called smart music, which can be found at a website by that name.com, which actively listens to me as I play, and provides accompaniment for me as I play a concerto, or sonata, or something else, whatever it may be.  ver very cool.
Well, my music life these last severa lmonths has not been what I wanted it to be.  My PC has reached a point where a complete backup, reformat and reinstall was necessary now 7 times since it's purchase in July 2001.  Everytime I do this, I have to go through the process of reinstalling the program, then resetting ym smart music account so it sees my PC again.  With the new iBook, I feel that to be a thing of the past.  My iMac, which I've had for over a year, and my dad's iMac, which he's had for a couple years at least have never once had an actual crash, so I figured i'd put smart music on my lil travelling buddy, which will bring me full circle, since the first time I used this particular program (then called Vivace) it was also on a Mac.  Anyway, I'm super excited, because a new disc is on it's way for me so I can have the newest version of Smart music on my iBook, and will have a very cool option available to me for the first time ever:  the ability to have intelligent accompaniment anywhere I go, while I play as loud as I want without bothering a soul.
Anyway, just FYI.

[Capt. Mike]

Ahhh!!! But nothing really beats cranking up my home built Wurlitzer 250 W amp (my dad worked at the N. Tonawanda juke box plant, and could bring home the damaged amps..being into electronics, I'd fix them)(and I can still get the tubes)...now that the kids are gone, when the wife is out of the house, I can misbehave 

I tend to use my recently acquired Eko six string electric  (I haven't found a site with the style name, but I think it's a Japanese rip-off, 'cause it looks suspiciously like a Japanese Epiphone) or my 1968 Eko Cobra 12 string.  My Horugel hollowbody is being set-up right now by a really excellant luthier (John Hargiss, if you are in the Omaha area). 

Glad you've got a freat hobby, Clark...keep it up.


Mike