• Sonic speed in air is circulating in 334 meters per second. 1 meter to pass through the 3 milliseconds.

• Through the steel (for example, through the railway) move the sound with the speed of 5060 m/s.

• With recording a MIDI is not stored the music itself, but it’s necessary to create a sequence of commands.

• Audio recording may sound like a completely different way, using a variety of output systems. Try to listen to your recordings with portable and hi-fi systems.

• Speakers into the room corners or against the wall, creates a distorted amplified bass sound.

• By mixing, it is useful to visualize the different instrument-players placing of the stage, in order to achieve a three-dimensional sounding. Move the various instruments to the left-right and to the front-rear.

• Recording sounds with computer, should be stored in another hard disk, where is not located the computer operating system. This increases performance and helps prevent distortions.

George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had got a headache, and did not feel strong enough to stand it. George thought the music might do him good – said music often soothed the nerves and took away a headache; and he twanged two or three notes, just to show Harris what it was like.

Harris said he would rather have the headache.

George has never learned to play the banjo to this day. He has had too much all-round discouragement to meet. He tried on two or three evenings, while we were up the river, to get a little practice, but it was never a success. Harris’s language used to be enough to unnerve any man; added to which, Montmorency would sit and howl steadily, right through the performance. It was not giving the man a fair chance.

“What’s he want to howl like that for when I’m playing?” George would exclaim indignantly, while taking aim at him with a boot.

“What do you want to play like that for when he is howling?” Harris would retort, catching the boot. “You let him alone. He can’t help howling. He’s got a musical ear, and your playing makes him howl.”

So George determined to postpone study of the banjo until he reached home. But he did not get much opportunity even there. Mrs. P. used to come up and say she was very sorry – for herself, she liked to hear him – but the lady upstairs was in a very delicate state, and the doctor was afraid it might injure the child.

Then George tried taking it out with him late at night, and practising round the square. But the inhabitants complained to the police about it, and a watch was set for him one night, and he was captured. The evidence against him was very clear, and he was bound over to keep the peace for six months.

He seemed to lose heart in the business after that. He did make one or two feeble efforts to take up the work again when the six months had elapsed, but there was always the same coldness – the same want of sympathy on the part of the world to fight against; and, after awhile, he despaired altogether, and advertised the instrument for sale at a great sacrifice – “owner having no further use for same” – and took to learning card tricks instead.

It must be disheartening work learning a musical instrument. You would think that Society, for its own sake, would do all it could to assist a man to acquire the art of playing a musical instrument. But it doesn’t!

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THREE MEN IN A BOAT (TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG)

Jerome K. Jerome