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What is music?
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Vibrating air We hear music with our ears; sounds combined in patterns that we recognize as music. Part of the recognition element is the foregoing learning process we have been through – we are not born to identify sound patterns as music, it is something we learn. This means that some people confidently can say […]
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Musical Instruments in the Industrial Age
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The production of musical instruments shows similarities with other industry items, such as shoes, clothes, refrigerators, and cars. You’ll be able to find many brands, many production facilities, and often, many combinations of those – meaning that you can’t always count on something of a particular brand being produced in a particular place. All brand […]
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I’ve Got Everything Under Control
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We say so many stupid things – one of them being “I’ve got everything under control”. But no, you haven’t…
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The Expensive Hobby – Music
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Tradition sets some expensive standards for musical instruments
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If it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger
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Life will give you some challenges, that’s unavoidable. You may want to go to these with an attempt to analyze the situation and play the game in the safest possible way, not taking any unnecessary risks. But then there are those challenges, that somehow will be unpleasant, no matter what you do, and where the […]
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There’s No Such Thing As a Free Meal
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After many years of backlash for the salmons in Danish rivers, they have started to get back, but still not in large amounts. Sport fishers are of course unhappy about that, and many initiatives have been made during the years to breed more fishes and put them into the rivers, hoping that when they grow […]
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Talk About It
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What exactly is the environment? Something about trees, flowers, and wildlife, you might think. And what is a blog about the environment? Quite often, it is about plastic, smoke, and other pollutions, and about the terrible acts of cutting down forests and killing the whales. So, there is a discrepancy between your image of the […]
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We, the environment
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It is common to believe, that there are us, the humans, and then, somewhere outside the human sphere, the environment. So, you can walk around in the city, talk to people, eat an ice cream, and whatever – and it will have nothing to do with the environment. Well, that’s not true! First of all, most […]
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In the West, We Have Freedom of Speech
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It is a common belief among people in Europe and the USA, Australia, and other parts of the world considered “The West”, that we are somehow better at everything regarding human rights, freedom, and democracy. When China puts someone in prison for having expressed a slight unhappiness with something the Chinese government has done, we […]
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Do the Highest Priority Tasks First
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Having been a project manager for most of my adult life, I have learned that this is a thing people always believe in: You must do first, what is on top of the priority list. But there are sometimes very good reasons for those tasks to be on the list in the first place – […]
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