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    Recommendations for music with Cello and Barogue?

    I have at least four versions of this , a first pressing, the Testament reissue , the ERC and the 4th slips my mind at the moment. The Testament is indeed very very good, and pushes the original close. I do find the entire recording a bit disconnected for want of a better word and no version I...
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    What are you currently listening to (Classical)?

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cd-notes-keith-jarretts-barber-bartok Whilst I'm not Rando, maybe this may help. About half way down is mention of the skiing accident. It prevented him from stretching as assiduously as he used to prior and to a degree limited his repertoire after...
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    Zero Distortion: Tango Time

    Awesome Tang, that's very cool. I've been looking for one of those two for many years. I knew it existed on vinyl ( I have a Japanese CD version) ;nice to get concrete proof. I bet you can't wait to play them.
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    Zero Distortion: Tango Time

    And last week I received a few records from The General. This ended my search for best Bach Chacone. Prihoda?
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    Zero Distortion: Tango Time

    Misread the intent of your post, sorry .Suitably chastened and gone. Back to Tang's thread.
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    Dune (2020) / Directed by Denis Villeneuve ... Starring Timothee Chalamet

    Which Solaris do you like, Spirit? Tarkovsky's magnificent original, or Soderbergh's godawful remake? Can you tell which way I lean?
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    Zero Distortion: Tango Time

    Actually Tang, looking more closely , I think you may be right about the photo being staged.Most reputable ICU's wouldn't have big bedspreads like that ( infection risk, difficult to access patient). Second, the blood looks like to running into a drip near patients' neck ( either internal...
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    Zero Distortion: Tango Time

    Oh. Well either way Tang, bloody well done. Thai ICU has a very good reputation , at least amongst those I talk to and meet at conferences. And not just your docs- nurses, physios, pharmacists etc. I worked with an ICU doc from Thailand for a year a while back- learnt a lot from him.
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    Zero Distortion: Tango Time

    The nerd in me can tell from both screens that your patient not doing too bad, Tang. Nice one
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    Ginette Neveu - French Violinist

    My memory may be failing me but I think there's also a Brahms '48 on Tahra ( Roger Desormier cond.) Might be wrong though.
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    We've been formally fitted for masks and shields. Best fit equals no beard. I know of at least one centre where if they can't fit you properly, you don't look after Covid patients.
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    We ran out a few days ago. Got more in yesterday. Some recommendations state w should be using P20 So we were using surgical masks if needed. when I wasn't playing around with silly ventilator designs, i drew up a sketch for a full face shield with a plastic hood so entire head enclosed. A...
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    FYI, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, in guidelines just published in conjunction with the European Society of Intensive Care, specifially stated insufficient evidence to recommend use of said drug. Note that this is not to say it shouldn't be used, just that it isn't regarded by those...
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    My son in law also made the point that the most serious time when the virus is disseminated is at the time of intubation as the fomites are released into the air. As a result unless the OR has negative pressure room ventilation they will not do an intubation under those circumstances due to the...
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    Greetings to all

    At the time , I had 2 tables. An Oracle Delphi mark VI and the Garrard. Preferred the 301 by a long margin. I'd always had a hankering to own an SME ( having heard a 30 at my friend/dealer'e house). AT the time , the only way I could afford it was to move the other two on. Don't miss the Oracle...
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    Greetings to all

    Later for me. Very cute early on, but just beautiful later .
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    Greetings to all

    Scully- droll drool.. I forgot to mention my great lost love in the above Epistle. A Loricraft restored 301 , Shindo bearing and platter, Lignolab plinth and a EMT997 arm. Sold it so I could get the SME. I love the SME but the damn the only piece of gear I've ever regretted moving on was that...
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    Greetings to all

    Thrill of the chase and all that. Exactly :-)
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    Oh , yup, I know its been done. We're trying to make it as simple as possible; with as little electrical work as necessary . We can get respiratory rate and extrinsic PEEP sorted . Most modern ventilators have ( or should do) the capacity to alter ratio between inspiration and expiration. We're...
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    Greetings to all

    Hah. Thanks Spirit. I'd only be stressed if I thought there was a chance of getting it. Fun looking though.
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    Not sure if this will work but we've been playing around a bit. Tried converting an ambubag into a ventilator option. Bearings taken from a skateboard, motor from a power drill. Still early days and it is very rough but our thoughts were to try to make this as small and as cheap as we can get...
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    Greetings to all

    Given I've already been posting on another thread, I thought I should introduce myself.I'm a Kiwi , but currently working in Australia to help out at an interesting time. So I'm currently sans music but not sans hope. I've been a music lover for 40 years. Not sure where that came from, my father...
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    UltraAnalogue Recordings to offer digital downloads of selected tapes.

    Yay. I've often drooled over these releases and bemoaned my lack of a tape player. Something very nice to look forward to ...
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    I appreciate surfki's efforts but doctors have put their lives on the line on many previous occasions, what's different this time? My mother was intubated in February after she had a heart attack and came down with pneumonia, so what? Gee,thanks. That makes it worthwhile. I'm sorry to hear...
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    Sorry, then think of it as life support. Someone asked about Procalcitonin. In about 75% of cases , the admission procalc is low. I do monitor it as a surrogate for a) either wrong diagnosis or B) as a marker of bacterial superinfection ( secondary bacterial infection on a background of a...
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    Sorry for late reply , Steve. Last night I had to ventilate two of our nurses and one of my colleagues. Sort of ran out of time. I'll post a few more thoughts a bit later.
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    Hah. I did have a reply to the steroid post all prepared but then realised that a) I'm a guest in someone else's house here and will play by the rules and B) I haven't been here long enough to be rude . There is a reason you won't find me posting on threads pertaining to amplifier design- I know...
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    Quiet so far. But elsewhere fairly frantic so I've been helping out elsewhere until they no longer need. I live by myself so it was pretty easy to pack a bag and go.
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    This Corona Virus Mania is Just Too Much, We All Need to Chill!

    T Thanks Ron , I'll introduce myself more formally when I have a wee bit of spare time. As you may imagine, haven't got a lot of that . Short answer to your question is no, not yet.

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