This is my personal web site. I will post whatever I feel like here. The most active parts are the sheet music archive and the image gallery. Occasionally I will also write a short someting on some topic, usually in conjunction with me travelling somewhere. This is what you can expect, nothing more, nothing less.

A new set of pipes!

Wed, 11/02/2011 - 13:41 — svenax

Is this cool or what? I have for a long time been interested in the historic revival of bagpipe music, and when checking in to Julian Goodacre’s website about a month ago, I saw that one of his replica sets was available for immediate sale. Normally there’s a two years waiting period. Said and done, I announced my interest and a little while ago I made a trip to Scotland to check them out and maybe make a purchase. After playing a few hours and pondering a bit, I decided to buy. So, now I am a member of the elect club of heretics who tries to perform on an instrument which is not a set of modern great highland bagpipes.

Correct beamlet gaps in Lilypond

Thu, 12/30/2010 - 16:52 — svenax

It has been a good day! Not only did I get an answer to my gracenote spacing problem, I also got the beamlet gap separation issue resolved. This was important for piobaireachd cadences, and those now look great! Have a look in the Piobaireachd section of the site to see the excellent output.

Correct grace note spacing in Lilypond. Finally!

Thu, 12/30/2010 - 02:55 — svenax

Hallelujah! After several years of futile searching I have finally found the correct tweak to make gracenotes non-stretchable in Lilypond. Yesss!!

To celebrate this great discovery, I have regenerated all of the tunes in the Sheet music section of the site. Because of the new and improved spacing this gets me, I have also been able to reinsert a bunch of line breaks that were removed previously to make the layout suck less. Now it doesn’t suck at all!

Time standing still?

Sun, 10/10/2010 - 19:11 — svenax

As you may know if you have read up on my personal information, I used to work for Bok & Webb AB until that company folded about five years ago. For no reason at all I went to the place where we used to be today, and lo and behold, the signs are still up! I guess time must have frozen or something.

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The New Creation (Genesis parody)

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:43 — svenax

This is possibly the funniest thing ever! A parody of The Bible by Sean Kelly and Tony Hendra, written in good old 1983. The excerpt of the first few chapters below originates here: http://www.palmyria.co.uk/humour/genesis.htm

Chapter 1

1. In the beginning God created Dates.
2. And the date was Monday, July 4, 4004 BC.
3. And God said, let there be light; and there was light. And when there was Light, God saw the Date, that it was Monday, and he got down to work; for verily, he had a Big Job to do.
4. And God made pottery shards and Silurian mollusks and pre-Cambrian limestone strata; and flints and Jurassic Mastodon tusks and Picanthopus erectus skulls and Cretaceous placentals made he; and those cave paintings at Lasceaux. And that was that, for the first Work Day.

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