2012/2/11 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: > Łukasz Czerwiński <[email protected]> writes: > >> 2012/2/10 David Kastrup <address@hidden>: >>> Don't get me wrong: it is probably quite enough work for getting someone >>> started. I'm just not sure whether it will be easy to sell it off. The >>> largest part of the work would realistically consist in digging oneself >>> into sparsely documented areas, just in order to be able to come up with >>> a good plan and implementation that would, if you discounted all dead >>> corners, take two days to do. >>> >>> It seems a bit like visiting a term of art classes in order to make a >>> convincing sketch at its end. The real deal is not the sketch, but the >>> ability to do so. And if all you are going to do is that one sketch, >>> the exercise seems a bit pointless. >>> >>> But of course, if you want to turn sketches into a living, having >>> someone pay what it takes to do the first sketch is going to be a _big_ >>> help. >> >> Like Janek, I'm also thinking of participating in GSoC. If one of us >> works on that bug during GSoC and moreover while coding also adds some >> documentation to the poorly commented code, this will result in far >> more than "one sketch", because we will stay connected with Lilypond >> after the end of GSoC 2012. >> >> If you think that Issue #34 is too little for GSoC, you could add to >> that some other similar issues with MIDI or grace notes in a form >> similar >> to: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_KStars:_Improve_the_ >> observation_planner_and_logging_feature > > I was just thinking of a story I wanted to share in this context. In my > high school days, I was in some sort of school band. I played > electrical guitar, another one (with a classical guitar education I > believe) bass, I somehow managed to get the son of a resident music > school director to play drums, and we had a flutist who had just changed > from recorder to "regular" flute and was rather fond of experimenting > around. > > Not much came off that, but the flutist kept the first "real" piece we > had been doing in his repertoire for quite a while. > > Now fast forward a dozen years, and the younger brother of the flutist, > the unmusical brother, calls me. The flutist is getting married, and > the younger brother has the idea that at his wedding, he'll play that > old first piece on the flute. It is my job to write down the notes (it > would be nice to put in some LilyPond angle in here, but in truth I just > wrote them by hand on notepaper) and to play the guitar. I write down > the notes (still know them by heart more or less) and start thinking. > > Several phone calls and letters later it turns out that the drummer is > living in Ireland by now, but will be in Aachen because of a friend's > wedding. So if we organize a drum kit... The bass player is living in > Munich, but considers the gag worth his trouble to drive a whole day > just to make an entrance, if we are getting him a bass guitar for the > occasion. I actually still have my own guitar, so I'm the one actually > playing on original material. > > Three days before the wedding, the brother makes his first appearance at > my house. He has taken the notes to a friend playing flute, and has > been working for close to half a year getting the scale he needs into > shape. Rhythm and interplay are all wrong. After the first day, he got > the rhythm more or less right. After the second day, we are playing > this together smoothly and I stop worrying about this becoming a total > catastrophe. On the third, he starts improvising solos. It was like > high school all over again. "Unmusical" or not, it was obvious which > family he was from. > > On the wedding, I made some sort of lame speech, put the flutist (who > can play pretty much everything) at the bass and picked up the guitar, > then we started, and I stopped, saying "that is not good. Take the > drums instead, I think I have a bass player here." Who actually arrived > just 20 minutes ago, having been stuck in traffic almost all the way, so > we had no real practice together. The same game with the drums, and we > had the original drummer pick up the drums instead, and gave the flutist > a flute. His brother was doing the PA stuff all the while (actually, > that was stuff he was good at in his youth as well), and was now holding > the mic for his brother. And then the same "that is not good. Take the > mic instead, give the flute to your brother". Of course everyone knew > that the flutist was being led on all the while, but nobody had a clue > just where. And the brother stood there with a puzzled look at the > flute while the flutist now held the mic, while we others played the > intro. And then the brother played. > > A few days after the wedding, he handed back the borrowed flute and > stopped doing music again. > > It was pretty much the "single sketch" equivalent, but it was something > that a lot of people won't forget. It was totally silly but worth doing > for some reason, and a number of people put in their smaller (but still > considerable) contributions of letting it happen.
wow... thanks for sharing this story! Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
