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Thu, 17 Jul 2008

"The Gun Seller" by Hugh Laurie.

Just finished to read this excellent detective novell (at Amazon, electronic version in russian).
People call it the best english humor novell for reason: it indeed is fun and interesting, although I suspect lots of its witty satire was a bit lost in translation, but nevertheless I do recommend it for easy reading.

And of course if you like House M.D., you have to read this novel, and you will not waste your time for sure.

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Morning trumpet exercises.

Today's morning I raped ears almost two hours, and at the end managed to play a chromatic scale (glide?) from second octave D (E trumpet) down to minor octave F (E trumpet), at least that is what my Korg tuner showed. Much more frequently I was able to play single first octave (only via descended direction though, I did not yet try to rise tones).
Korg AW1 tuner does not show octaves, but I really do not think, that it is possible to play one octave lower than what my the lowest sound was, but pretty sure it is possible to have at least one octave higher than my the highest tone, so I decided that I play several tones around first octave.

Ugh, it was supposed to move earlier to the office (before heat and traffic jams), but instead I fucked my brain via ears (and probably neighbours were not happy either, although I did not play on the full volume).

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