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"Maxon" <jen.magson@NOSPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> I fancied a String Quartet in Sims 1 - using the bubble blower as a base
> but
> I didn't get far with the animations. I had the music lined up and
> everything. But I have to say the thought of a Simphony Orchestra makes
> me
> cringe mainly because I'll want to conduct
Well, naturally. That would be the controlling Sim, surely?
and will get upset if they use
> the wrong edition of the music (I'll be following the score) and make too
> many mistakes
Ah, there you go. There would be a read score to digital sound option, of
course, and depending on how good the player is it introduces random
mistakes. As long as the score could be scanned, then you can listen to
whatever you like.... <bounce, bounce>
>(you should see me on a podium, I'm an ace shot with a baton).
Why do I have a vision of a second Beecham in my mind?
> It's a nice idea for a builder's EP though - think of the concert halls we
> could build.
Oh nuts to the building, it's the orchestra which has caught my fancy. It
could start off as a trio, and develop up to Wagnerian proportions. Oh, OH!
Sim RING!
I have aspirations to build Institutes of Art and
> Conservatoires, you know, and maybe even schools of architecture (the one
> at
> Manchester is a concrete bunker - must have been built in the 60s).
Oh, I don;t know. It does have windows. 8)
I have to admit to a rather perverse and unpopular liking for concrete. I
enjoy the flat planes and strange angles.
Birmingham has a lovely library that everyone hates. An upside-down
pyramidish shape. I like it. They stuck an extremely ugly modern glass hotel
right in front of it. Disgusting.
> However, I don't think it would do me good to cross my professional life
> with play time. Oh no, there'll be tears before bedtime.
Okay, you are ecuxsed. Excused, as well.
>
>>
>> He said it's the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra.
>
> Even in that I suggest you play triangle.
>
> That is the one where everyone plays their second instrument, isn't it?
Yes, and enthusiastic hammer-chewers.
>For
> me that would be trombone, if I can remember which way round it goes.
You put the narrow end in your mouth, dear.
> Completely hysterical.
>
Florence Foster Jenkins. Her spirit is alive and well and yowling.
Granny.