Practice space
You guys are so... civilized!
You guys are so... civilized!
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Describe your practice space
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Yeah, that's more like it.
Else I might as well practice in a hospital or a morgue (the latter probably has more intriguing acoustics)
I'd post a photo of the "saxophone room" as my son calls it but I just cleaned it for guests. I'll have to wait a month or two for it to get back to a bed full of horns, reeds, mouthpieces, and music before I can give all of your a truthful look at the room. Of course, my wife will want to kill me when I post the picture.
As many of you know, I'm a computer tech. We could do the same style of thread about our workspaces.I'd post a photo of the "saxophone room" as my son calls it but I just cleaned it for guests. I'll have to wait a month or two for it to get back to a bed full of horns, reeds, mouthpieces, and music before I can give all of your a truthful look at the room. Of course, my wife will want to kill me when I post the picture.
I have, in my office (a converted 12' x 6' closet) at work:
* 30 or so laptops scattered across a bookcase
* 20 or so desktops on a wire-mesh set of shelves
* My main PC and two 19" flat panels (one portrait and one landscape)
* My main Mac and a 19" flat panel (both of the above on the same desk)
* Two 19" flat panels on a "anti-static" workbench
* An HP 4M and an HP 81xx all-in-one on the shelf below the workbench
* A converted telecom storage rack (nice, big and walnut) that has cubby holes for cables and parts
* A rolling worktable
On the walls, I have various artwork, corkboards, whiteboards ... and various ancient obsolete or non-working computer gear. I rather like the 5gb Bigfoot hard drive. The LCD that one of my users "I don't know how it broke; I only took it on a plane and didn't put it in a padded carrying case" is also a favorite.
It's also much more impressive when I have a variety of broken computers in various stages of disassemble on my various work surfaces.
I have a chair in the middle of all this. I feel like I'm in a Jefferies tube.
I didn't post a picture of the other side of the room...It looks like yours Randy!! Only minus the repair tools! Too much gear...Too little space...I think many of us here suffer from that.
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Great avatar, Ben. Had me fooled.
Great avatar, Ben. Had me fooled.
At first I thought you were commenting to Pete's bribe offer.
My practice space eh? ... Anywhere and everywhere I can find to play my horns as many hours a day I have time for/can stand until I find a fully detached house to rent in the west end near humber.
Until then, I practice at work - yes I have summer job that has a lot of down time so I get to play!! .. and lock myself in the aweful Humber practice mods ... EWWW! ... or what not.
*pleaseeeeeeeee let me find a house soon!
Until then, I practice at work - yes I have summer job that has a lot of down time so I get to play!! .. and lock myself in the aweful Humber practice mods ... EWWW! ... or what not.
*pleaseeeeeeeee let me find a house soon!
What do you think did it to me when I first saw it? ;-)
6x8 room.
1 wall brick, 2 wood, 1 unfinished wall leading into a bathroom (formerly finished, but there was a pipe problem... flooding... grrr... no horns were harmed in this incident, my Berbiguier, however... ). Concrete floors, no ceiling (just insulation and some scrap weather barrier for pergo-style floors as a barrier from the insulation). There is a door leading into a bathroom (the shower doesn't work, but the rest does... well... cold water things work... hot... sigh). But this gives me a water source for reed soaking, a mirror for checking embochure and how cool my hair looks when playing. Concrete floor with carpet scraps thrown down on the floor and some rolls in a couple corners.
Best part? There is a 425sq ft den and another brick wall inbetween the room and the living room, and that's got 15 ft to the closest bedroom.
I picked up a new Meyer 6M and was practicing in one of the two middle rooms since no-one but the kids were home. The sis-n-law came in from a friend's house and was like ... "was that you playing?" "yeah" "I've never heard you play before".
I guess the room works.
**BRENT**
1 wall brick, 2 wood, 1 unfinished wall leading into a bathroom (formerly finished, but there was a pipe problem... flooding... grrr... no horns were harmed in this incident, my Berbiguier, however... ). Concrete floors, no ceiling (just insulation and some scrap weather barrier for pergo-style floors as a barrier from the insulation). There is a door leading into a bathroom (the shower doesn't work, but the rest does... well... cold water things work... hot... sigh). But this gives me a water source for reed soaking, a mirror for checking embochure and how cool my hair looks when playing. Concrete floor with carpet scraps thrown down on the floor and some rolls in a couple corners.
Best part? There is a 425sq ft den and another brick wall inbetween the room and the living room, and that's got 15 ft to the closest bedroom.
I picked up a new Meyer 6M and was practicing in one of the two middle rooms since no-one but the kids were home. The sis-n-law came in from a friend's house and was like ... "was that you playing?" "yeah" "I've never heard you play before".
I guess the room works.
**BRENT**