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Nope, never tried it myself. Hope you weren't offended by the little joke... actually my brother is a drummer. So no personal dislikings
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Isn't it strange that as electricians some of chose to play drums instead the "electric" guitar?
Of course I started playing drums when I was 13 and didn't own a pair of pliers till I was 20, so...
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sparky66vw and the rest a u drummers: I have 40 years in this trade and find the most amazing coincidences. At a recent national conference, there were 3 of us together and come to find out all 3 of us were Master Electricians, Machinists AND blacksmiths...and I have been searching ever since I was 14 on specifics on how to be a hep cat, have the wrong skin color, ain't a musician, but I lurk on the ECN forum and now I know!!!!You have made my snowy day! [This message has been edited by Almost Fried (edited 01-31-2007).]
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The best drummers are able to split thier minds into right and left legs. Also left and right hands. Each limb using a different tempo. And some can do that, and a backup vocal at the same time. (Bill Berry [ret.] from REM comes to mind.) Heck, some can probably do the lead too. Ian A.
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"Heck, some can probably do the lead too."
Don Henley comes to mind
Although he did not sing lead while drumming is on ALL Eagles songs...just a few selected songs.
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I'm sorry, but I'd just like to give this thread an award, both for longjevity, and for "thread deviating farthest from original topic"
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What's a luminaire? Ian A.
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When we develop job specifications (those books that get used to prop up wobbly table legs), our wonderful spell checker in Microsoft Word keeps trying to change it to luminaries. I guess it's better that the problem that we used to have with lighting protection and lighting contactors...
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We got introduced to the term luminaire ahead of you guys. I think it was the 15th (1981) edition of our IEE Wiring Regs. which first used it. That was the first edition which adopted a completely new "international" format too, supposedly based around a common European model.
That same edition also saw many other European influences introduced to with "luminaire," including the TN-S, TN-C-S, TT etc. designations now used to describe our different supply grounding arrangements.
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our wonderful spell checker in Microsoft Word The German version of Word 2000 is infamous for inventing and suggesting words that flat out don't exist. Can be a lot of fun sometimes... Grounding systems... Austria, unlike Germany still uses the old terms in the code book. On one hand they are much longer (Schutzerdung instead of TT, Nullung mit Fehlerstrom-Schutzschaltung instead of TN-C-S with RCD), but on the other hand they're far more descriptive.
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