Finished the OKC Memorial Half-Marathon and I did not die! I barely trained for this, so I'm really happy about it! Finished in 2:19, so right at 10:30 pace. I expected to have to walk-run it and finish in more like 2:45. Really really happy with that.
Daniel Ozick: "Auld Lang Syne for programmable music box and Zoot wind quartet"
Daniel Ozick: "The Addams Family on a Zoot"
Daniel Ozick: "Scarborough Fair on a Zoot as harmonica, cello and piano"
Chief Zoot Maker Daniel Ozick plays "Georgia on My Mind"
Playing an electronic wind instrument the size of a descant (soprano) recorder that's producing a completely convincing trombone sound is absolutely wild.
Decided to invest in a modelled instrument sound for the Zoot, this one a SWAM tenor trombone, and it's staggeringly good. It will take me a while to dial in the many, many settings perfectly, but even so I suspect that most people would not think that what they heard was coming from a synthesiser. Trombonists and orchestra musicians would spot itβthere are a few giveaways, made worse by my playingβwhich is no surprise; regardless, it's a hoot to play. Lots of Wallace and Gromit theme being played at Whartson Hall this evening.
Whew, that was a long day. Not strenuous at all, but I was completely wiped out before two o'clock.
Started the morning with Tina enjoying a spot of wild swimming, while I tootled away outside a convenient cafΓ©.
Playing around with guitar pedal effects on my Zoot electronic wind instrument, running through a very cheap little electronic effects box and a Flight Tiny6 ukulele amplifier. Nothing fancy, but sounds decent enough that I might look into better options in future. The main advantage of these particular items is portability.
Most of the time I have the headphones plugged in to avoid annoying, well, pretty much everybody, but this is an opportunity to crank it up a bit.
#Zoot #ElectronicWindInstruments #Ukulele #MusicSelfPlayedIsHappinessMade
Patched together a fingering chart for the Zoot from screenshots of the app display. Unfortunately, only the MacOS program can output a PDF chart, so I had to bodge this one in Open Office and Paint. Not the prettiest cut and paste, but close enough for jazz⦠assuming I could play jazz.
I did the same for the basic recorder fingering and put it on the back. Since that doesn't cover four octaves it only needed two screenshots.
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Jon Hancock
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