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Happy Valentine's Day! 💝 I'm a sucker for a hallmark holiday because it means I can exercise my love of a good pun.

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Doing some research for a project and came across Samuel Morse's correspondence in the digital collections of the Library of Congress. Completely swooning over the way he signed off with these skulls.

As emperor, Augustus set about gaining control over the military (Beard notes the word “emperor” has roots in the Latin word for “commander”) and transforming Rome from “a city of brick” into “a city of marble.”

And so it sent chills down my spine to read this today

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Apropos of *gestures vaguely* I am reading up on how societies fell to autocracy and what happened once power was held by a single individual. Up first: Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard.

By contrast, this is what waveforms look like in my high register. Physically, a player's aperture gets smaller as notes get higher. I think a lot about moving air through so as to keep the note aloft, so to speak.

and this is my low range. You can see how the waveform becomes more complex.

After a conversation about the types of wave forms produced by orchestral instruments, my sound engineer bf analyzed a recording of me playing French horn. This is my mid range...