Wednesday 10 June 2009

I'm digitising large piles of performance material, as it's much easier to email someone a part that I've got on a hard drive, rather than climbing up to the attic and going through boxes of paper before a trip to the photocopier up at the Spar shop and putting it in the post. Scanning, correcting and cleaning it all up takes time of course, but it's quite satisfying to take an eraser to accretions of pencilled-in markings - begone!

At the weekend I recorded a quick demo of a 17th century song (now on my myspace) but I hadn't taken into account that my guitar wouldn't be in tune with a fake harpsichord in meantone. After a false start where the two were hideously out, I figured out how to bend the Cs and Fs up on the guitar so they would near enough match. Another skill learnt. I wonder how useful that one is.

Dunnock frenzy in the garden continues.