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Ever drive a sleigh?

Get out there and drive your own carriage, and put this person out of business if you think it's being done wrong. Try driving a pair--it's easier than a single, and gives you a "spare engine" so one of them can rest. This work is trivial compared to what horses did before motorized transportation.

@bfy51 I used to agree with you. Now, after I've used both kinds, I prefer the step-up. Why? Because it's safer! Horse can hurt himself going off the side of the ramp, so you need two extra people, one on each side, to prevent that. With a step-up I can load and unload alone.

It's so much fun to see people who do not know horses twisting themselves in knots, trying to see these trick horses' stunts as cruelty! Good training (and that's what we see here) has been known since the time of Xenophon, 2400 years ago. See the Wikipedia entry on Xenophon's "On Horsemanship".

I notice that sometimes in your riding, as with Anazir, you have the horse's head behind the vertical, as is done for Rollkur. Other times you push the horse out to the precise vertical, and with still others (Bernd) you never go behind the vertical at all. Is that because of the other training t...

Arthur Godfrey and Mrs. Josephine Hartford McIntosh, heir of A&P Groceries and owner of Sunnyfield in Bedford NY, worked to bring good dressage instruction to the US. They brought in Hans Kuhse, formerly a German cavalry officer, and Werner Plaatze (whose name might be spelt differently), a forme...

"I'm not quite sure of the footing here, but I'M GOING THROUGH ANYWAY!"

The only drawback to mules that I can see--um I mean hear--is the sound. "Would someone please oil that mule?"

Thank you for all those amazing pictures.

Can Tom perhaps sight-transpose from three sharps to four flats? Most of the note positions on the staff remain the same. It'll fit better under the ragtime fingers, but the accidentals will be tough. Who isn't itching to hear Tom play even more neat ragtime?

I wanna hear Tom play it. Indeed, I wanna hear Tom play just about everything.

Holy jumpin' pianos! I just figured out that I was wrong.

For some time I've thought that Tom's always-visible wristwatch was what gave him tremendous speed. But here in this video we CANNOT SEE THE WATCH, only the wall clock, and he's even faster! That durned watch has been slowing him down.

I like this version better than the QRS roll that I have. The minor-seconds as bells in the treble are nice. On mine I have to add them by hand.

"Two-forty for his speed" means the horse does a mile in 2:40 at the trot, which is a blazing 22 miles per hour. That was 150 years ago. Trotters of to...

Nice to hear a foot-pumped piano, rather than a vacuum-cleaner-powered one. It's a bit hard to get good expression into a march like that, except maybe going to mp for the trio.

I don't care what it said, that roll was arranged, not hand played! It would have to be four hands. Perhaps adapted fr...

Interesting arrangement. The second half, I swear, could done well with someone playing "Just Because" against it, on some other instrument. Euphoniums or saxophones, anyone?

Road to Boston

@marcel911 It's the speed of sound. The people clapping sound to themselves as if they are perfectly synchronized. By the time the sound of their claps reaches the mikes that are on stage there has been a time delay because sound only goes 1100 feet per second.

If the audience are 200 feet furth...

I'd like to thank Ron (and VBR and a few others) for understanding that what other musicians want to see in piano videos is the HANDS. It's very frustrating to see distance shots or just the head, or the audience. We want to see how he puts his fingers where they s'posed to be. I think I'm begin...

So, so much better than Florence Foster Jenkins.

@mxyplyzyk Your safety instructions are good, but overlook the possibility that someone might use "technical grade" SF6 that contains dangerous impurities. Although the SF6 is not toxic, there are many compounds of sulphur and compounds of fluorine that you do not want in your body.

@lljkSadi No, no, it's not dangerous or dumb. It's chemical engineering. Dangerous would be if there weren't any fire extinguishers handy. Hmmm. I didn't see any. And dumb would be if he didn't use a ten-foot pole and was thus contending for a Darwin instead of an IgNobel.

This is the kind of t...

"Get the d*mned gate open" Maybe buy some of those insanely expensive latches? We love them, keep buying more, and occasionally find the time to install them. They help prevent accidents, especially when trying to lead one hose out while leaving the others behind.

Excellent training for Travis. He does NOT get to hand the treats to the horse! And Bailey won't learn to beg for treats by nipping at fingers.

"How many know somebody got killed by a lion?"

(No hands went up.)

"How many know somebody got killed by a tiger?"

(No hands went up.)

"How many know somebody got killed by a bear?"

(No hands went up.)

"How many know somebody got killed by a HORSE?"

(ONE OUT OF THREE hands went up.)

From a talk ...

@trash266001 Doubt you'll find it written anywhere. I guess you'll have to transcribe the notes yourself (not an impossible task) or learn the parts by ear. Alternatively you could write your own arrangement, but it's hard to imagine improving on this one.

Could use fewer dogs and more helmets. Otherwise doing well. I could watch horse videos all day, if I didn't have to take care of horses.

Those hands. Those hands.

The venue is the Concord Scout House, which some would say is the very best place for New England Square and Contra Dancing on three planets.

Love Tony's precise calling and perfect diction! But how can I ignore Bill Tomczak and Peter Barnes, both precise and crazy? Or Ted, who's gone but still making us dance.

@WolfSkate Oh yes, what other kind of sound could Dr. Suess's musicians possibly play?

In learning or teaching brass or woodwind instruments, the instructor is liable to advise the student to make sounds that are less flatulent. Leonard has taken the opposite approach, to great success.

@familyguy1080 Yes, F#. You can see the F# in the left hand on the tonic.

@kalight2018 He says, "Beautiful instrument and in good repair. It urgently needs tuning and resolution of whatever difficulty is causing too much pedal." (He probably noticed that loose hose you later fixed! Good ears, that guy.)

The tuning you have in video #4 improves it, but the treble is st...

Bob, between about 20 and 30 years ago Dave Levin and his "Magic Piano" with about 1000 piano rolls used to appear in Harvard Square. Sometimes I helped him or appeared instead of him. Audiences were often terrific at singing along.

This was an entire upright piano, carried in a trailer. Unload...

Wonderful! No vacuum cleaner, just a pianolist playing with expression. I have a bunch of Lithuanian rolls, mostly QRS "WF" rolls, but I do not remember if I have that one.

It's been five years now. It's likely that Danielle has finally learned to ride.

To improve the horse himself, so that you easily gain better control, you might try having him trained for driving.

He goes as if he only wants to jump, and isn't interested in all the fussing around that's required to get to the next jump.

Is he a former race horse? Some of them can be very d...

So dark. Hard to see. Riding bareback with just a neck rope? Tyler does not know how to mount bareback from the ground, and has no sense of controlling the horse, so he's not really a rider.

Y'all were hoping he'd get hurt?

This is a very well managed situation. The rider moved forwards and continued to hold on. The girth was tight enough to keep the saddle reasonably in place. An adult (the parent?) was right there catching the rider without scaring the horses. None of the other horses took any evasive action.

Th...

Poor little guy. You can tell it's not the first time it's happened to him. See how calm he is, and how he knows his hind feet will touch the ground first.

I'll bet they were going uphill and the load shifted.

Hard to tell, but I think it's a jenny, not a jack.

@JumpingPerfection121 In general, your horse should be five times your weight. She needed a 2300-pound Belgian or Clydesdale draught horse. That horse was hardly more than her weight.

@TheBarbie Call the horse's name. What luxury! Please come and explain this to all my horses, who sometimes all crowd around me and fight to see who gets to push me around, and who sometimes just stand far away and continue grazing. Oh well, it's easier than herding cats or teaching know-it-alls....