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Hohner 21 Tremolo Deluxe

Vaibhav — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:53:58 +0000

Today I bought a Hohner 21 Tremolo Deluxe (Harmonica) for myself. Its a Silver body, 21 Notes (3 Octaves) Harmonica. It has two Reeds for each Note and is precisely tuned by hand, slightly apart from each other. Although I don’t know how to play a MouthOrgan, this tuning difference between reeds produce a Tremolo Sound which in this case is very pleasant. With its complete scale tuning over three octaves, it is possible to easily play beautiful melodies in pop, folk, country and many traditional styles. And one more thing it is tuned in C Major Scale.

Hopefully, I will find someone who can teach me “How to play a Harmonica”. If you have link to a good online tutorial, please let me know.

English interpretation of the song ‘Jai Ho!’ by Pussycat Dolls

Vaibhav — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:46:19 +0000

As there were reports previously, The Pussycat Dolls have teamed up with two time Oscar winner A.R. Rahman for an English interpretation of the song ‘Jai Ho!’. Listen here for a preview of A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger ‘Jai Ho!’ (’You Are My Destiny’). Video of this new version is yet to be release.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ awarded with eight Oscars which includes ‘Best Picture 2008′

Open Mind Index

Aakash — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:02:36 +0000

OMI stands for “Open mind Index”, as they said it. Here this utility can actually help you to calculate your openness for the variety of music. All you need to enter your last.fm username to generate this graphical statistic given below.

For this, of course you need to have a profile on last.fm, those who don’t know what last.fm is, it’s a social music site where you send data of about whatever you listen on your computer. This is done with the help of a small plug-in available for download after you sign up for service. When you enter the username, your music data (most specifically, top artist of last 12 months) is downloaded from the last.fm site and used for calculation.

The following table lists the OMI values and there corresponding description. (Mine is 119)

Below 20:      an extremely small bandwidth of tags; a faker or fanatic of an artist
20 – 39:         a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a specific tag
40 – 59:          a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a few types of music
60 – 79:          a substandard of bandwidth of tags
80 – 89:          a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little below the average
90 – 99:          a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean
100 – 109:       a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little above the average
110 – 129:       a high bandwidth of tags
130 – 149:       a very high bandwidth of tags; truly open minded
above 150:      an extremely high bandwidth of tags; an absolute freethinker and freak

Apart from the above, site also list the global statistic, worth to checkout (http://www.musickum.com ).

How to activate the preloaded songs in Nokia N73 ME?

Aakash — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:31:11 +0000

Here is info about how to activate the songs comes with the Nokia N Series (ME) Mobile phones. I did about 4 hrs of Googling to find it out. To activate the songs in your mobile phone all you need to send a simple SMS message to 5555. In my case (Nokia N73 ME), it is

MAESTRO

Send the above message to 5555. Secret code comes with the pack. You need to scratch the code that is printed on the back of pamphlet which has the list of all preloaded songs.
You will receive about 100 notifications from 5555 in your inbox in reply of the above message. They are required for activation of songs. You can delete them without opening. It won’t affect the playback of songs.

The message that you need to send can be differ, it depends on the model of your mobile. For some model it is

LEGENDS

You see how easy it was, now groove to the music.

Info: Visual Radio and supported Operators and Radio Station in India

Aakash — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:32:10 +0000

In a normal radio station you can tune in to listen to the music. Whereas, when you tune into the visual enabled radio station you can also interact with the radio station while listening to the broadcasting songs. You will see a visual, interactive channel with more information and opportunities to participate and give feedback. You can see the information about the currently playing song, such as the artist name, title of the song, biographies and pictures of the artist. You can even download the ringtone of the currently playing song instantly.

While listening to a Visual Radio enabled FM channel, you can switch the interactive Visual Radio service on or off whenever you want to. You can get updates about upcoming albums and new artist etc and you can submit your feedback and take part in Polls.

To connect to the visual radio you need

A Compatible mobile phone (list of phones)
A proper access point to Visual Radio data
A Visual Radio enabled station where you are

Given below is the list of Supported operators and Radio Station in India.

Operators:

(You need a working access point to access the Visual Radio. WAP Access Point is the working access point for above listed operators in India.)

Radio Stations – Service Id:

Radio Mirchi Kolkata – MIRCHIKOL983
Radio Mirchi Delhi – MIRCHIDEL983
Radio Mirchi Mumbai – MIRCHIMUM983

(Service ID is required while connecting to the visual radio station with your mobile.)

Click the image for more information

Aerosmith India Tour

Aakash — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:32:47 +0000

Popular five members Hard Rock Band Aerosmith is all set to rock India in the month of June. Aerosmith, with 14 albums to its credit and history goes back to 1964 released their first album in 1973. It has sung some of the most popular power anthems like “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” from the 1998 blockbuster film Armageddon, as well as Dream On and Crazy.

Aerosmith will perform in Bangalore on 2nd June (Saturday) at Palace Grounds.

Brett Lee featuring Asha – You are the one for me

Aakash — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:34:37 +0000

You are the one for me.

I guess Brett Lee should keep stick with Cricket only and Asha should keep away from this kindda weird stuff. A Very Funny Video.

Last.fm Social Music Revolution: Scrobbling

Aakash — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:48:12 +0000

Did you notice, I’ve just added a playlist at left navigation “Currently I am litening to…”

It’s a good tool about online music for social music
freak to shout out what they are currently listening. http://www.last.fm
is an online radio site. You can listen to online music checkout the Charts and
what are other people listening to. This might not be a very new idea but what
is more tempting to me is that you can show a list of your recent played tracks
to your blog or website. That means visitors of your web-log and your friends
get updated about your listening habits. You do it by Scrobbling a song played
by you on your PC (In my case: winamp and window media player) or online (at
last.fm).

Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name
of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile.

You can get a data list feed in the XML/Text/RSS format also.
Like

Recent
Tracks: 10 recently played tracks
Recent
Weekly Artists: your most recent weekly artist chart
Recent
Weekly Tracks: your most recent weekly track chart
Top
Artists: 50 most played artists from your music profile
Top
Tracks: 50 most played tracks from your music profile

Zune launched in US Market

Aakash — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:38:10 +0000

Zune has been launched in US Market. This gadget seems very
tempting to me. That’s obvious for a music freak like me.

For those folk who don’t know
what is it, it is a Microsoft’s new product, A Digital media player. Remember the Apple’s IPods.
It is one of those kinds of stuffs. It got lot of features. I am waiting for
its launch in India.
Check out this nice thingy here.