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Ear pads for Grado SR225 headphones
I have both the Grado SR2225 headphones, and the Sennheiser Urbanite XL. I like the ear pads on the Sennheiser much better. The Sennheiser is covered with some sort of soft fabric, while the Grados are with foam.
Can you suggest a compatible…
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Did Nat King Cole express contempt for fans of his pop recordings?
It seems to me that I've seen Nat King Cole quoted to this effect: I know that my Jazz records are good and my Pop records are junk. But how can I turn down the money I can make with the Pop records and with audiences that clearly don't know good or…
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Who is the 'Sandman' in America's song?
America was a band that was formed in the 1970's. The lyrics of their song Sandman are as follows:
Ain't it foggy outside
All the planes have been grounded
Ain't the fire inside?
Let's all go stand around it
Funny, I've been there
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Looking for verses to the refrain of "Hoch sollst du leben"
From my childhood in the 90s I remember that we used a song for the birthday celebrations at my elementary school that had the classic "Hoch sollst du leben" birthday song as a refrain and had two or three verses. I think it was played from a tape…
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Can you identify cello and piano piece in last scene of Agatha Christie ABC Murders (v. 2018 John Malkovich)?
I thought I knew my classical music well until I heard this piece in the 2018 BBC/AMAZON PRIME VIDEO production of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders with John Malkovich as Poirot. It is a cello and piano piece, possibly a Sonata, definitely in the…
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Is there an online encyclopedia for music?
There are some good “internet encyclopedias” for various topics, for example mathematics has ncatlab, philosophy has the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and literature has the Literary Encyclopedia. These are really good sites because they are…
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Other than the electric guitar, which plucked chordophones (guitar-like instruments) originated in the United States?
Many countries all around the world took inspiration from stuff like the Lute, the Baroque Guitar, and the Classical Guitar to develop new forms of guitars, that deeply shaped the folklore of the regions, both culturally and socially.
One of the…
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Was American Idiot the first Punk "Concept Album"?
American Idiot clearly put Green Day back on the map, and tells the story of Jesus of Suburbia, his disillusionment with society and government, and was said to be influenced greatly by singer Billy Joe Armstrong's personal thoughts and feelings at…
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What stock character/stereotype/thing does Cab Calloway imitate near the beginning of this 1950s "music video"?
Source: https://youtu.be/8mq4UT4VnbE?t=22
Ever since I first saw this performance of Minnie the Moocher, I've been wondering what that means. He is walking stiffly with his upper body with strange leg movements while "brushing" part of his chest…
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Example of a pop song where a male singer sings F2/G2
On this post on Music SE,
In popular music I don't believe it's true. You hardly see women singing above F5 or G5, while tenors, like Bruno Mars for example, easily reach A4 or C5. At the same time, you can find women (not only contraltos) singing…
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Why is Kenny G so hated among jazz musicians? Are there objective reasons behind the hate?
Kenny G is an extremely common answer for "artist you dislike the most", "music that irritates you" or similar questions. There's a somewhat popular photo of Miles Davis and Kenny G, where Miles Davis seems to be the less amused of the pair.
We…
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Starting points into Indian classical music according to Abhijit Banerjee
I was listening to an interview with Esther Duflo on the Conversions with Tyler podcast series. She was asked about Indian classical music and here response was that her husband Abhijit Banerjee (a co-recipient of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in…
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Hoax easy-listening record?
Years ago I was told that someone (Eydie Gorme?) had made a record in the early '60s, possibly under a pseudonym, where she purposefully sang every song a half-tone flat, as a joke. Has anyone else heard of that?
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Male/Female Key vs. Octave
In many pop songs today, when the song is sung by one gender:
The same gender as the singer would sing it in the original key and register.
Another gender would sing the transposed version written in a different key that is usually a 5th away from…
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Why are major keys traditionally happy and minor keys traditionally sad?
From the 15th to 18th of last July, I was in a music education camp in Alpensia Resort of Pyeongchang. On the 17th, a masterclass teacher taught this to me and all of the other students, while working on the analysis of Schumann's Widmung.
In a lot…
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