Tuning: “There is no perfection, only varying tastes in corruption.”

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Watch this and you’ll understand why no two horns are exactly alike. Selmer

More sax manufacture. Keilwerth.

And more…Yamaha.

1937 C. G. Conn factory.

Modern Selmer factory video. Hi-def.

Johnny Hodges’ heavily customized Vito (Beaugnier) alto.

A visual representation of overtones. You can see why higher overtones are smaller targets.

And another visual representation of overtones. At the end, amplitude > surface tension.

Pamelia Kurstin, Theremin.

Tuvan Throat Singing.

My fave episode of This American Life.

Toot, whistle, plunk, boom…I saw this film when I was a kid.

Willie the Operatic Whale…I saw this when I was a little kid.

“Jazz Trance” from The Mighty Boosh. “Don’t start scatting! We don’t need scat at this point.”

Funny Czech music video.

Nora the piano-playing cat

and, Nora hits the big time.

Conlon Nancarrow.