Hi Long,
I can keep my elbows into my body typing on a laptop. My problem is that I
can't reach out further for more than a few seconds without a fair amount of
pain from all the ligament tendon and rotator cuff damage along that axis.If I
get that close to the keys on an organ I still have trouble reaching the other
keyboards and my feet are too far forward to play the pedals. Similar geometry
with the piano, plus the reaches on the much wider keyboard are too far on the
right side. Also at my age there are some lower back problems from trying to
lean in at a low angle -- this doesn't work.
But, after a few months I realized I could go back to guitar playing (which I
did a lot 50 years ago) because you can play guitar with your right elbow in.
After a few years of getting some jazz technique back and playing in some
groups in New England in the summers, I missed the polyphonic classical music
and wound up starting to learn classical guitar a little over a year ago. This
has proved to be quite a challenge -- much more difficult than I imagined it
would be -- and there was much less transfer from jazz/steel string technique
that I would have thought. It not only feels very different physically, but
also mentally, and has many extra dimensions of nuance and color that is both
its charm, and also makes it quite a separate learning experience.
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
> From: Long Nguyen <cgb...@gmail.com>
>To: Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com>; Fundamentals of New Computing
><fonc@vpri.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:47 AM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Alan Kay in the news [german]
>
>Dear Dr. Kay,
>
>May I ask, how would you type on a computer if you cannot play keyboards?
>
>Best,
>Long
>
>On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I should mention that there is both garbling and also lots of fabrication in
>> this report.
>>
>> I didn't say "abandon theory" -- I did urge doing more real experiments with
>> software (from which the first might have been incorrectly inferred).
>>
>> But where did all the organ stuff come from? I never mentioned it, so it
>> must have been gleaned from the net. And I suddenly became a better organist
>> than I every was. And he had me touring around when I have not been able to
>> play keyboards for four years because of a severe shoulder trauma from a
>> tennis accident.
>>
>> But the University of Paderborn and faculty and students were very
>> hospitable, and it was fun to help them dedicate the building.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan
>>
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>> To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:19 AM
>> Subject: [fonc] Alan Kay in the news [german]
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>> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Alan-Kay-Nicht-in-der-Theorie-der-Informatik-verharren-1644597.html
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