I say the above in regards to the fact that these videos are of me practicing piano a few hours ago, and both pieces are very much in progress. But, I've reached points in both pieces where I don't mind sharing because I'm am no longer embarrassed. My hopes are to be playing the second half of "Misty" soon and to memorize the Bach piece as I speed it up and fine-tune it. I also hate doing the trills and need to figure out how to play them correctly. My fingers just don't move that quickly.
What's funny is that the related videos for this piece are all videos of 8-year old asian kids playing a whole heck of a lot better than me. Again, practice makes perfect.
Hope you enjoyed listening to these works in progress!
The world's oldest known rocks are found near the Great Slave and Great Bear lakes in Canada. The rocks, which include granite, are around 4.03 billion years old.
Probably the earliest seismoscope was invented by the Chinese philosopher Chang Heng in A.D. 132. This was a large urn on the outside of which were eight dragon heads facing the eight principal directions of the compass. Below each dragon head was a toad with its mouth opened toward the dragon. When an earthquake occurred, one or more of the eight dragon-mouths would release a ball into the open mouth of the toad sitting below. The direction of the shaking determined which of the dragons released its ball. The instrument is reported to have detected an earthquake 400 miles away that was not felt at the location of the seismoscope. The inside of the seismoscope is unknown: most speculations assume that the motion of some kind of pendulum would activate the dragons.
