[Rhodes22-list] Music Humor - I think: Another Mandolin Player...

[Mark Kaynor]

Gosh, I love Google - these really put the term "base ukulele" in a whole
new light:

Base: portion of the point to which the spear or arrow shaft or knife handle
was attached 

Base:One of a set of nitrogenous compounds attached to the sugar-phosphate
backbone in a nucleic acid. In DNA, the purine bases are adenine (A) and
guanine (G), while the pyrimidine bases are cytosine (C) and thymine (T). In
RNA, the purine bases are adenine (A) and guanine (G), while the pyrimidine
bases are cytosine (C) and uracil (U). See the Figure at NHGRI. 

Base: A Base is an Execution Environment supporting Operators which: Are
scalable. This means that the system should support many instances of the
Operator running within the Base and many incoming Paths to those Operator
instances. Are fault-tolerant. This means that faults in the Operators and
in the Base hardware or software environment should be masked, recovered
from, or otherwise handled gracefully by the Base. Employ persistent state.
This means that the Operators may have need for state management which is
persistent across multiple Operator instances as well as crashes and
restart. Are user customizable. This means that the Operators themselves may
have been programmed by end users; it cannot be assumed that the Operator
code itself is "safe". The current prototype for the Base Execution
Environment is iSpace (see below).  

Base: n. 1. When building a freefall or canopy formation, the initial target
individual or group of people to which the others fly. 2. BASE (LEG): n. The
portion of the three-legged landing pattern where the jumper flies across
the direction of the wind downwind of the landing area before turning for
final approach into the wind toward the target. BASIC SAFETY REQUIREMENTS,
USPA: Minimum standards overseen and published by USPA and generally agreed
upon as the acceptable standard for safe skydiving activities. The BSRs form
the foundation of self-governing by skydivers. USPA oversees the BSRs. 

And on and on and on .....



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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kaynor
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:29 PM
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Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Music Humor - I think: Another Mandolin
Player...

Slim,

Gee, and I thought he meant base as in "not adhering to ethical or moral
principles" and I was gonna give him hell for denigrating Zeppelin like that
....

Mark 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Steve Alm
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:22 PM
To: Rhodes
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Music Humor - I think: Another Mandolin
Player...

Glad you liked it Jim.

As for the ukulele, first of all it's bass, not base.  (not being anal--just
trying to help)  Next, I'm skeptical that what Rummy has is a bass uke.
>From Mark's link on that, it would seem the bass uke is an extremely 
>rare
instrument.  I'll bet Rummy's got either a tenor or a baritone uke.  The one
we're most familiar with--the Tiny Tim uke--is a soprano uke.

But I've seen little short-scale basses before.  The strings are like big
fat rubber bands and flop around very loosely under the fingers.  Not at all
like the taught strings on everything else.  When played acoustically,
they're almost silent, so they have pick-ups.

For anything to be called a "bass" (bass guitar, bass violin, bass flute) it
has to be able to play the really low notes.  Low notes and short strings
are acoustically incompatible, so you have to jump through some special
engineering and electronic hoops to get the thing to make any noise.

Slim


On 2/10/05 4:03 PM, "Jim White" <jdwhite at utpa.edu> wrote:

> Made my afternoon with that one Slim. BTW was that a base ukulele I 
> heard in the background?
> jw
> 
> At 03:51 PM 2/10/2005, you wrote:
>> With all these mandolin players, let's start with a little Led Zep.  
>> Here's a rare, live version of Going To California:
>> http://home.mn.rr.com/almhome/California.mp3
>> 
>> On 2/10/05 12:49 PM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I sense the possiblity of a new musical group within the list, "Slim
>> and  the
>>> Rhodies"
>>> 
>>> Rummy.....this list has talent.
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