Math is The Coolest Invention In the Universe

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I can’t believe they got a sousaphone to have such good tone.

I hated playing sousaphone in high school. Our sousaphones were leaky, and it didn’t matter how much electrical tape you wrapped them in, or how tightly they always sounded like vuvuzelas and required about 3 times the airflow rate of a real tuba.

This is a fun song. I wouldn’t mind playing it.

My favorite thing in marching band was we figured out the Isengard leitmotif from Lord of the Rings. It’s in 5:4, and uses intervals not used very often, but it had a powerful effect when we scored a touchdown and this played:

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Are our familiar Germanic number-names derivatives of P-Celtic number names borrowed into pre-Germanic?

It’s much easier to derive English four, five, and Gothic fidwor, fimf, from something like Welsh pedwar, pum, than Latin quattuor, quinque. Common Germanic usually transforms pre-Germanic p to f and pre-Germanic kw to hw (Grimm’s Law).

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Yeah, you need to check the Trump debate threads if you are after Adderall…

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Jeanie Schroder is a badass. I’m sure there was some good tech miking in there as well.

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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.”

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Yeah, sure, but that’s entirely ceremonial speech. He could have said 87, but it wouldn’t have been so poetic. Whereas in french there is no “eighty” or anything like that. There’s “four twenties”, and they break the number systems saying crap like “sixty-thirteen” getting there.

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Wouldn’t know for certain. Bit outta my pay-grade, if you know what I mean… :confused:

[quote=“MarjaE, post:63, topic:83867”]
It’s much easier to derive English four, five, and Gothic fidwor, fimf, from something like Welsh pedwar, pum, than Latin quattuor, quinque. Common Germanic usually transforms pre-Germanic p to f and pre-Germanic kw to hw (Grimm’s Law). [/quote]

You’d know way more than me about this. :slight_smile:

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I wasn’t meaning to make an argument for it, but when you said “four twenties” it’s all I could think of.

My chief beef with the French language is their habit of truncating the final consonant of a word by making a noise like they’re blowing their noses.

But there’s plenty annoying about their language, as you note :upside_down:

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But not enough. I’d forgotten that Italic is also divided between p-languages and q-languages. Apparently the q->p transformations are pretty common and completely unpredictable in Germanic, for example, Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos yields wolf instead of the expected wolwh.

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As a bass player, I always felt like my part was “play some oompahs, rest, more oompahs, long notes, shutup let the fancy cello do everything else”, even though I know you guys had it worse.

I liked Mendelssohn because he actually gave the bass something to do. That whole Romantic era was good for bass players.

The thought of playing a tuba in E major makes me cringe BTW. I’m going through the fingerings in my mind, and it does not feel natural at all. Brass players like flats and hate sharps. However, it’s been decades since I’ve played a brass instrument, so maybe that has something to do with it.

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Yeah, brass players like flats because our instruments are based on making the tube longer than the baseline length, using valves.

String players like sharps because their instruments are all based on making the string shorter than its baseline length.

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That makes total sense, but sax players like flats too, and they are uncovering holes to make their instruments shorter than their baseline lengths

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The simplest answer I can give you as to why this is is because

e^ix = cos x + i sin x

Now, if you want to know why e^ix = cos + i sin x, well, I can can explore this with you as well.

But, nevertheless, it IS indeed profound that these three quantities are related in this way.

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And @LDoBe , do I need to fork this topic, and bring in @PatRx2 to support me on why you are both wrong?

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Oh what does mister hurdy gurdy “I refurbish and play 12 types of antique stringed instrument, don’t touch my sackbut” know? :wink:

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Also, yes I’m aware that the reason why I like flat key signatures is for no other reason than that’s what I was taught on and I never really had to play sharp signatures.

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You can touch my sackbut, but not my crumhorn.

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Us music students were horrible, horrible jokers. It was quite a racket, and I may have acted like a bassoon.

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You really shouldn’t wave your saenghwang at passers-by.

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