Denny Anspach writes:

"Well, my freight car music is on the order of Brahms, Beethoven,
Dvorshak, Grieg, and Puccini; and is unlikely ever to change."

While it is difficult to say that this thread is within scope, it IS [ I
think ] rather harmless [ thank goodness ]. I mean...we aren't going to get
into a dispute about music are we? So...I'll offer this. My favorite music
to listen to while working on resin frt car kits is the soft, lingering,
melodic sounds of large steam engines working slowly up grade. I spent the
period 1980-2004 chasing various examples around the US shooting film and
video and, of course, did many sound recordings. The only real problem with
my choice of "music" is the occasional time when I'm trying to add a
delicate part...say a door stop...to a box car side when the engineer of,
say, N&W 2-6-6-4 1218 decided to blow its "hooter" whistle. Maybe that's why
my per centage of success at applying certain tiny parts is not that good
when listening to MY music. Maybe I should try something less
strident...like Bohemian chants.

Mike Brock

Any
choral music gets the nod, but Wagner in any form does not. Meredith
Wilson's "Seventy Sick Trombones" is a favorite, as well as just
about any other piece of music from the "Music Man"- not excluding
the hypnotic rythmic chanting of the salesmen in the song "Rock
Island" (yes) riding the cushions into Mason City. Arthur Honegger's
"Pacific 231" probably gets as close as any to true "railroad music"
otherwise.

Music is my constant companion when I am either at the bench or the
layout. At the present I am listening to a lovely Ravel violin sonata
:-) , while a taking a needed break from crawling around on the floor
trying to find in the dark the ONLY remaining lateral running board
grab iron screw eye within a hundred miles >:-o .

Denny
--
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento






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Denny Anspach writes:

"Well, my freight car music is on the order of Brahms, Beethoven,
Dvorshak, Grieg, and Puccini; and is unlikely ever to change."

While it is difficult to say that this thread is within scope, it
IS [ I
think ] rather harmless [ thank goodness ]. I mean...we aren't
going to get
into a dispute about music are we? So...I'll offer this. My
favorite music
to listen to while working on resin frt car kits is the soft,
lingering,
melodic sounds of large steam engines working slowly up grade. I
spent the
period 1980-2004 chasing various examples around the US shooting
film and
video and, of course, did many sound recordings. The only real
problem with
my choice of "music" is the occasional time when I'm trying to add a
delicate part...say a door stop...to a box car side when the
engineer of,
say, N&W 2-6-6-4 1218 decided to blow its "hooter" whistle. Maybe
that's why
my per centage of success at applying certain tiny parts is not
that good
when listening to MY music. Maybe I should try something less
strident...like Bohemian chants.

Mike Brock

Any
choral music gets the nod, but Wagner in any form does not. Meredith
Wilson's "Seventy Sick Trombones" is a favorite, as well as just
about any other piece of music from the "Music Man"- not excluding
the hypnotic rythmic chanting of the salesmen in the song "Rock
Island" (yes) riding the cushions into Mason City. Arthur Honegger's
"Pacific 231" probably gets as close as any to true "railroad music"
otherwise.

Music is my constant companion when I am either at the bench or the
layout. At the present I am listening to a lovely Ravel violin sonata
:-) , while a taking a needed break from crawling around on the floor
trying to find in the dark the ONLY remaining lateral running board
grab iron screw eye within a hundred miles >:-o .

Denny
--
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento






Yahoo! Groups Links