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Ged Brockie from Guitar Music Institute interviewed Richard Kaiser, founder of Wikiloops.com, and put that interview into a 1 hour podcast on their page, together with some info videos about Wikiloops.

Recommended for musicians at all levels.

Happy Easter to all who celebrate it, and happy 7th birthday (or anniversary) to Wikiloops!

And thanks for reading and/or listening, as always.

Presented by Philip Bloom:

And yes, we’ve donated a bit. What we could. And even if you can’t, please help spread the word. Thank you.

“I always wanted to write a song that’s 3/4 time waltz so this is what I got”

…wrote Jasmine Thompson when she was about Zuleikha’s current age (13). So what she and some others also wrote was this:

According to Jasmine’s own words, she was inspired by H. C. Andersen‘s “Under the willow tree” when she wrote this.

What an amazing young artist…

Without many words:

Thanks for viewing.

Sunday:

Monday:

Today (Wednesday). Fun with my long lens at work:

Today (Wednesday). Using two of my studio strobes at home:

As always, get the photos from Flickr if you want them (just click on them).

Also as always, thanks for viewing.

The Dutch – they’ve made it again: they won the World Solar Challenge. So congratulations to the Team Nuon Solar and their successful Nuna9 car! The video isn’t ready yet, but here’s the one from 2015, when they also won:

Well done, kids!

Thanks for watching.

What a cool image in today’s “Die Zeit”:

Our politicians as pirates of the – no, not Carribean, but the so-called “Jamaica” coalition (because black, yellow, and green are their parties’ colours).

Cool. Even with parrot!

I’ve had an Ampeg SVT when I was younger, together with not one but even two of its “fridges” – loudpeaker cabinets the size of a good fridge, but way heavier (about 75kg each; the (all tube) amp alone was about 40kg or so).

That was wonderful of course – except when you had to transport it 😉

Now something which sounds almost like the real thing exists for the guitarix project – it’s called gxsvt, and it’s part of the gxplugins which you can load into the DAW (digital audio workstation) of your choice – in my case, into Ardour.

I’ve first read about it in the LinuxMusicians forum, and its github page is here. It’s part of the extra plugins package which you can get here (or in your repositories, like in the ones from KXStudio which I’m using).

It doesn’t look like an Ampeg SVT:

– but it does indeed come close in its sound. I didn’t make any recordings yet, but here it is on my screen:

I’m very glad to have it. You will hear something as soon as I have something recorded with it.

Thanks for reading.

Von LiliCharlie – Eigenes Werk, CC-BY-SA 4.0, Link

Happy new (Chinese) year!