Thank you Mak. You, at the keyboard sound great! Doesn't he Chrissy?
Playing very well. The sound volume is just dandy, to me anyway.The moving graphics are wonderful too. It's going in my library.

Can't believe that we are listening to a hundred year old Rag, played thirty years ago. Lovely! Thank you again Mak!
I think it's about that time that I bought some of my first LP recordings of Scott Joplin rags, played by Joshua Rifkin. And today have one played by our dear friend Mak. (thanks chrissy and moose)

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Your welcome Tobin Dax and Mahesh.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last, enjoy each others companyas this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

I found out a while ago that Maksutov had passed away, however I've been away from this forum for a while and wasn't aware there was a thread about him.

So, despite being late I'd like to say I am sorry to hear that he died, and my condolences to the family. I always enjoyed his posts. I will miss him as well.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last, enjoy each others companyas this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

Actually, I started tearing up in the middle of Target yesterday. (I'm going to revive the "Film Buffery" thread to talk about more details of the product in question, too.) There's a nifty-looking new special edition of How the West Was Won, and Mak and I had spoken often about what a shame it was that there hadn't been a good release of it yet.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Great idea Gillianren.

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last, enjoy each others companyas this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

I just found this thread - I tend to ignore the chit chat sections, and I will/do miss him. Too.

He always weight in with careful and well constructed thoughts, a heavy stable plank in the board.

Good speed.

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It's ok not to know. We should try harder to find out.

I think it would be in his spirit to try to be honest about my opinion about this.

I like it, though it's obviously the work of a passionate amateur rather than an professional.
The tempo was chosen to be as fast as he was able to go while keeping the precision Joplin' s music needs, something I'm thankful for as other performances often ignore precision for the quest for speed.
This means the music, at least to me, feels like Joplin while it's not as easily recognizable as such, since he's normally associated with up-tempo piano.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Actually, Joplin hated people who played his music too fast. He wrote it in much slower tempo than people realized.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I agree, Mak told me he prefered it slower and he did it to how he thought it should sound, I like it. Plus he also added he didn't care what anyone thought .

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Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.Admiral Hyman Rickover.USN.

"Make the most of every day like it could be your last, enjoy each others companyas this will make good memories for when we pass". chrissy

I'm sorry I didn't see this thread earlier - though I've only been on sporadically these past several months.

It's very heartbreaking, heartwarming, and touching to see such an outpouring of emotions and honesty on this thread. It's always tragic when someone we know and love dies - especially as suddenly as Matsukov did.

I did not know Matsukov. He and I seemed to be in different posting circles. Even so, I feel I truly missed an interesting and just all around good human being - a "mensch" as Jewish tradition calls it (I say that even though I'm not Jewish in the slightest).

Matsukov, these posts are proof enough that I regret never getting to know you. the BAUTers obviously thought very highly of you - and loved your presence. If I do seem rather distant and formal in this post, it's because I'm usually hesitant to assume instant intimacy around people I never met. Regardless, I trust very much that it is my loss that I didn't get to know you. May you rest in peace, and if there is somehow somewhere that "better place", I'm sure you're there now...from what the posters say about you.

Yeah, so he could hit you over the head with it!

Ah Jeeees, I still miss ole Mak. Not that many people make a big deal out of putting me on their ignore lists anymore. . . .

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin

I always preferred the drunk looking Hugh Grant avatar.

BTW: I like your current psycho-cyber-plumber avatar!

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin

Last night I was looking around thinking about changing it...
Then I said to myself, "nah...."

You get a good persona going, you don't want to constantly keep changing it like that Mike Alexander guy. I worry about him sometimes. . . .

(Especially after that Sarah Palin episode he went through. )

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin

Mike was very pretty during that 'episode' thank you...

Wow, I'm lost for words... Even though I've pretty much not been here for about a year, Maksutov was one of the folk here I remembered most vividly. I'm sorry I wasn't here for a while and couldn't say it earlier...

Well, he certainly captured the spirit of music, which is, essentially, fun.

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Given the date and knowing Mak's preference in this area, I will be pulling down my thumbed copy of The October Country and reading favorite stories this weekend. Darkened living room with just a reading light, 'Homecoming", "Uncle Einar", "The Wind", and waiting with some hopefullness for those things seen at the edge of vision, molded from the dark...

...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain...

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