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downbrae ; hollow ; medusiform ; stigmata ; pickax ; gazelle ; solid ; finch ; golddust

the purpose of this blog is static & solmizational; its intention is to transmute the migratory raptures into songful blather.

wrecked gamut in the sense meaning early organs had one key, or two

piano was Chinese & now it is chalk

gamut is a great word -- it comes from the Latin gamma ut; gamma the Greek letter used to denote the lowest hexachord (precursor to scale); ut's the first word of the Hymn to the Baptist whence the familiar doh-re-mi (Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes); somehow ut got reverst to do somewhere along. so gamma ut means doh #3, which happens to be the lowest in pitch. & gamut means base of the whole range, etym, radial center.

gamma from the trilitera gml, meaning throwstick. the sense of it is: first the ox-head, then the house. now this.

ossifrage left as

cradle & landlock

the hand-drum stuttering

is money turnd to wires

organum meaning tool or functional subset. irk ; wright ; orgie ; georgic ; bulwark . the idea goes back far -- a low voice holds a low note as base (gamut), two melismatae curl & cross thru the open space above: a flexible line, tropic. introduction of the tenor (holder of the original line) because all had become filagree. replacement of the voice by an instrument (organon) -- the first organs ran on billows & were operated by several monks at a time. luminous degradation in the sense meaning all space is shoreline.

(the cod warns the shark:

but I taste just like fish)

quandoquidem patris rapinae

notae sunt populo et natis pilosas

fili non potes asse venditare