I was wondering why you picked up guitar again. DId not know you were sidelined on the keyboards. Guitar certainly has its own charm, and switching from a pick to finger picking is a very interesting transition.
Hope to see you next Wednesday. David On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Long, > > I can keep my elbows into my body typing on a laptop. My problem is that I > can't reach out further for more than a few seconds without a fair amount > of pain from all the ligament tendon and rotator cuff damage along that > axis. If I get that close to the keys on an organ I still have trouble > reaching the other keyboards and my feet are too far forward to play the > pedals. Similar geometry with the piano, plus the reaches on the much wider > keyboard are too far on the right side. Also at my age there are some lower > back problems from trying to lean in at a low angle -- this doesn't work. > > But, after a few months I realized I could go back to guitar playing > (which I did a lot 50 years ago) because you can play guitar with your > right elbow in. After a few years of getting some jazz technique back and > playing in some groups in New England in the summers, I missed the > polyphonic classical music and wound up starting to learn classical guitar > a little over a year ago. This has proved to be quite a challenge -- much > more difficult than I imagined it would be -- and there was much less > transfer from jazz/steel string technique that I would have thought. It not > only feels very different physically, but also mentally, and has many extra > dimensions of nuance and color that is both its charm, and also makes it > quite a separate learning experience. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Long Nguyen <[email protected]> > *To:* Alan Kay <[email protected]>; Fundamentals of New Computing < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:47 AM > *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Alan Kay in the news [german] > > Dear Dr. Kay, > > May I ask, how would you type on a computer if you cannot play keyboards? > > Best, > Long > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > I should mention that there is both garbling and also lots of > fabrication in > > this report. > > > > I didn't say "abandon theory" -- I did urge doing more real experiments > with > > software (from which the first might have been incorrectly inferred). > > > > But where did all the organ stuff come from? I never mentioned it, so it > > must have been gleaned from the net. And I suddenly became a better > organist > > than I every was. And he had me touring around when I have not been able > to > > play keyboards for four years because of a severe shoulder trauma from a > > tennis accident. > > > > But the University of Paderborn and faculty and students were very > > hospitable, and it was fun to help them dedicate the building. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Alan > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> > > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:19 AM > > Subject: [fonc] Alan Kay in the news [german] > > > > > > > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Alan-Kay-Nicht-in-der-Theorie-der-Informatik-verharren-1644597.html > > _______________________________________________ > > fonc mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fonc mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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