Mastodawn

@menelion Same to you as well, may your #Yule be blessed, peaceful and joyous. It's gonna be a busy one here, with a morning service (the one I play on #SleighRide for) and an evening service for which I'm playing #HandChimes. First year I'm actually making it to the intergenerational pageant service in quite some time. I think I've maybe made it once or twice over the 11 years I've been here.

Tarren (They/Them)Oct 19

It's a busy weekend for me. Played some #DND5E at #UUCQC last night with my fellow #UUs, starting Dragons of Stormwreck Isle, and coming back to play #HandChimes this morning with the Chalice Chimes. Then tonight is another rehearsal for #JusticeChoir.

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Tarren (They/Them)Aug 24

Totally jazzed for today, even if I *am* working with no caffeine. But today is the day "Ring Out Peace" which I wrote for the #MusicWeeklies challenge back in January, actually gets performed in its proper instrument, the handchimes. Hoping the anticipation will pull ke through the decaffeination haze. So far, so good. LOL Will be playing that piece at the end of this #UU service.

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Tarren van Ettinger Jan 7, 2025

@musicweeklies has, as their latest challenge, the theme of #BackOn. After trying, unsuccessfully, to come up with a song that *sounded* like the theme, I shifted to the theme's relevance in my life. As the small #HandChimes group I play with is getting *back on* track, I decided to take a shot at creating a song that would be playable by a group like ours, made up of mostly novice/sporadic chime ringers, with only 12 chimes.

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Tarren (They/Them)Jan 5, 2025

@silveraura7 I saw you posted this about a year ago, but as far as #HandChimes, I might be able to give some pointers to other #Blind #BellRingers out there who could use thek. I don't have experience with standard #HandBells though.

Tarren (They/Them)Jan 5, 2025

Question for #VideoGamers: are there commonly available game controlers with motion-sensing capability that are shaped similarly to a TV remote and can connect to an iPad/iPhone/Android, or am I remembering/picturing wrong?

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Tarren (They/Them)Jan 4, 2025

@sclower I learned print first, because my school district wouldn't teach me Braille since I could read print if it was huge. But my print reading speed was very...............very...............slow. It might not be too bad for reading a room number or something, but not for reading books or anything. When I did learn Braille, however, I retained my knowledge of print, which I mostly use on occasion to identify products when I don't have access tech to hand. No way I'd be using it for books or anything substantial though except when I have no other choice. It's Braille that's enabled me to do things like read song lyrics fast enough to sing them, read my English students' lessons, thus saving my auditory processing capacity for listening to what they are saying, and even reading #music for playing #HandChimes.
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K. A. Andrews Jan 10, 2024

Any #Blind ringers (as in bell choir participants) willing to give a beginner some advice on how you learned proper technique as well as music? I would really like to pick up handbell ringing again, but I haven't played since I was 9 or 10, which was 25 plus years ago. Learning the proper motion of the arm is something of particular concern, as I don't believe I was ever taught the proper movement and don't know how to figure that out as someone who is not quite comfortable with choreographed motions of any type. #Handbells #HandbellRinger #BellChoir #HandChimes #Ringer #Musician