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The amount of energy that you are obtaining is at best 60% of the energy that it took the water company to pump the water to your house. To obtain enough power to drive a generator you would need a six inch water supply and I think that the water company may ask a few questions. You can also obt...

This is a video lesson on how to record a grand piano. Simple is best and digital describes the signal rather than record it. Bosendorfer and Steinway constantly strive to improve what is already a world class product. Why do so many sound engineers feel they need to reinvent the wheel.

I think that "best pianist" is not the way to describe Valentina. Her comfortable poise and somewhat unusual technique without doubt make her one of the best and most original interpreters of classical music.

@theonlyones1 My teacher always carried his violin with him (even during maths lessons) Perhaps musicians like to stay close to their instruments, but it would be awkward to walk around with a piano

All the comments are very interesting! Yes her French is not perfect, Yes as I slightly built girl she doesn’t have lungs like a gas holder, but she has a quality that is ideally suited to Carmen. Modern opera is brought to the screen allowing us to see the singer in close-ups. Katherine’s slight...

Why has no one else mentioned the excellent orchestra!

When I studied physical chemistry the amount of endothermic energy needed to split a compound was equal to the amount of exothermic energy released when it recombined. Therefore are all these devices doomed to failure by Newtons basic law (energy can neither be created or destroyed)

Since the hydrogen and oxygen are mixed how is it possible to burn the mixture without it "flashing back" to the electrolysis device?

@ekskawator Difficult to avoid! Carmen was a cigarette girl and the story was set around a cigarette factory.

Zimerman and Beirnstein give this work the true meaning of concerto for piano and orchestra, rather than the all too common piano vs orchestra. The habit of some conductors to come in early and fast at the end of a cadenza particularly infuriates me!

Has anyone considered that this work may have "hung around" possibly movements that were originally written for other concertos and then replaced. No one really knows how a work formulates in a composers mind. For large works opus numbers were only added when the work was finished rather than whe...

How does the seal work? Is it mechanical or a stuffing box type?

I am confused. The mechanism seems to be using a 700 watt electric motor to compress air which in turn blows a fan that acts as a generator to light a 100 watt lamp, resulting in 15% efficiency. Even that part is fake. A 15 watt motor (even if modified to generate electricity) would produce a ma...

@lucy0loves0music Teresa Stratas was cast for the film version partly because her physical build made the story plausible. It is difficult to play the part of a character dying of consumption when you are the shape of most opera singers. The last act in the film version was quite controversial wh...

@burtsbees2 Some of Tchaikovsky’s finest music seems to rarely performed. Many people seem blissfully unaware that he even wrote an opera. Another “gem” is his symphonic poem (sometimes referred to as the Manfred symphony) Few concert halls have an organ that will do the work justice. It can be p...