Uh-oh, now I'm starting to feel like I'm expecting special treatment, if you involve the as-yet-untitled Frederik Magle.
I really thought a member or an admin might want to wrap one up and give me a price for mailing.
Yes, I am of Scottish descent, having to make money if I want to spend it,
but this money order thing is what's making this feasible for me, financially.
When Canadian banking laws changed, Ontario too, part of that was the "day of business".
Banks would have a teller where the paperwork was dated the next day, or the previous day, overlapping.
That's against the law now. Back then, I switched to Avondale Convenience Stores for money orders.
American Express sold them for $1, good for the U.S. too. Banks were over eight dollars plus plus.
Now, after the new American border security, a money order needs to be signed by a bank manager,
and anything I write on it, even the account number or serial number of the purchase, voids it.
That's a minumum $27 for a money order, with no regard for destination or amount.
Sure, thinking someone who wants to get ambitious and mail me a c.d. might make a few dollars is fine.
Considering the nature of c.d.'s as a product, used ones with the original packaging are just as good for me.
I'm saving a lot, and besides, I want to do business with magle.dk, some real online activity for me.
If life was as good as I'd like it to be, I'd be shaking hands with Frederik Magle, if he was promoting publicly,
after a concert in Ontario where I was in attendance.
I'd also be very interested in seeing his hands, what shape they're in from his extensive keyboard use,
and getting advice about maintaining these both sensitive and structural body parts.
I always say fifteen minutes on a piano is like two hours on guitar.
Frederik Magle is a difficult listen. He combines both complete cathedral artistry and historic appreciation,
but gets into tone and movement of sound through a far more difficult mechanical process than I can imagine.
I hear everything that interests me as a musician, with more elements of musicianship all together than I'm used to.
It's wonderful for me to think there's another, wider experience of sounds and technical mastery, like Jimi Hendrix,
only immediate, not over-dubbed, and beyond my imagination.
Listening for half an hour, an hour, lying in the dark with my headphones on, will expand my mind, and hopefully,
I'll start understanding and finding a similar expression in my playing.
Yeah, I'm venting, but what you said about Frederik Magle reading this thread gives me an idea.
It might seem not worth the effort, at first, or just for me.
Maybe there could be an addition to the domain, with a mailing address for orders.
Not everyone has online credit. Most North Americans don't trust it. I've been ripped off by MasterCard.
That's right. I bought a pre-loaded card that couldn't be accepted by the domain I bought it for.
By the time I could contact an employee directly the card has been consumed by fees.
Over forty dollars, gone without even being able to mail a letter to complain.
If mailing a c.d. is seen as a personal effort here, merely autographing it would enable a more respectful pricing.
That would make it more exciting for me, even if it's nowhere near hearing him live in performance.
Imagine being Frederik Magle, able to walk into any music store that has any kind of keyboard,
and being able to riff out dramatically with all sensitivities to sound, creating immediate and new acoustic realities.
Besides, I am of Scottish descent and would consider it a small payment to make,
considering the many hours and years of enjoyment when I can freely access this domain.
And I emphasize, this would be the fourth c.d. and only non Jimi c.d. I have for personal headphone listening.
And if Frederik Magle included a piece of broken keyboard ivory, and I bet he makes a few of those too,
I'd be having something to inlay into my new guitar, a global symbol for where I want music to take me.
Yes, yes, I can take a dive into the diva myself, if you let me. Even Corno Dolce might engender some Bach'l'nailya,
or Maglificent wistfullness.
