DE: Halloween Free for all

[bjornwilde]

 [Leans up against 4th wall, all casual. Knocks over 4th walk.]

 

Oops.

Post in as yourself in Milliways (in costume since it's the day before Halloween), meet your pups, meet other pups, try out new pups, revisit old pups, start your own topic threads, whatever.

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[repositorian]

"...Sure," she says, pulling it out of the folder and handing it over. "Let me get mine."

[cook_the_rude]

Hannibal sits down at the harpsichord and opens the sheet music.

[repositorian]

"Conduct away, maestro," she murmurs, blowing through her flute to get the metal warmed up and running a few scales to get her fingers ready.

[cook_the_rude]

He waits until she's done, takes a deep breath, and then nods to her, starting at the same moment.

[repositorian]

She plays along with him, and though she's not professionally good she can hold her own very well, playing the music with feeling like she could dance to it. It's fun, and she ends up smiling--as much as one can while playing the flute--before the end.

[cook_the_rude]

Hannibal nods at her when the piece ends.

"You're doing quite well," he says. "A decently trained amateur that knows what she's doing, much as I myself. I hope the people in your church treasure what you do for them and won't rudely criticise you for non-existent faults because they're used to getting their classical music canned, and from the best professional performers in existence. That's a bane for music lovers everywhere."

[repositorian]

She smiles. "Thanks. So says my dad, too--he was a professional, though, so I take him at his word there. And no, we have a lot of instrumental preludes and such, because we've got a fair few people who play different things."

[cook_the_rude]

"Excellent," Hannibal says. "What was he professional at?"

[repositorian]

"Musician," she says. "Vocalist and french horn. He teaches now, though."

[cook_the_rude]

"Interesting," Hannibal says. "French horn. Orchestra musician, I take it?"

[repositorian]

"Band," she corrects. "No strings. He was in the US Air Force; if he'd been in an orchestra we'd have been up in DC." They're in Georgia, as Hannibal might have picked up by now through the accent.

"I know how to play all of one thing on French horn."

[cook_the_rude]

Hannibal laughs.

"And that is?" he asks.

[repositorian]

"Siegfried's horn call. It's just memorizing a combination of keys, because I can't even play a scale on the instrument, but that's what I wanted to learn."

[cook_the_rude]

"Certainly not the most trivial thing you could ask to learn," Hannibal says, nodding again.

[repositorian]

"Nah. I wanted to learn that in particular, because Wagner was my introduction to opera. My dad gave me the whole Ring cycle on vinyl when I turned 18 and I loved it. Still do," she notes.

[cook_the_rude]

"Vinyl?" Hannibal says, approvingly. "Which recording?"

[repositorian]

"Yep, vinyl. I like records when I can get them; I don't think they're inherently better than mp3, but they're fun to listen to. I got the Sir Georg Solti recording, the one put out by Decca? It's the Vienna Philarmonic playing."

[cook_the_rude]

"Oh yes, that is one of the recordings my uncle has," Hannibal nods. "You should see the wall covered in square record shelves full of classical vinyl recordings he has. You'd probably never want to come out again."

[repositorian]

"Nah, I'd come out for food," she says. "It sounds like a fabulous music room, though. I don't have very many vinyl recordings, but I've got the Ring Cycle, Irwin Kostal's Fantasia soundtrack, and a couple others I've found. They're all on my bookshelves."

[cook_the_rude]

"What are you playing them on?" Hannibal asks.

[repositorian]

"On a turntable," she says, as if this might be obvious. "I have one that converts to mp3 and can function as just as regular player, too."

[cook_the_rude]

Hannibal raises his eyebrows and shakes his head, smirking.

"Of course a turntable," he says. "So you connect it to a computer, not a conventional stereo?"

[repositorian]

"No, I connect it to the television stereo," she says. "It has the better sound system, since my computer is a laptop."

[cook_the_rude]

"I do prefer a more traditional set-up," Hannibal says, "but then, you probably don't have an office of one and a half stories to fill with music as perfectly as possible."

[repositorian]

"You'd be right," she says. "I have a bedroom, no office. If I'm lucky it's quiet enough to listen to music. Your office must be pretty sweet, though, I'd love to see it."