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defacto7

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353. Sort of retired now....

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 04:05 AM

Feb 2013

Before that, I was an opera singer for 15 years. I was a concert pianist as kid. Since retired, I am a stay at home dad who designs, builds and maintains pipe organs. I play with open source computer programming and troubleshooting and run a bunch of servers for the hell of it. And I also dismantle old electronics and try to convert them to new electronic uses. I dig old radios and quadraphonic stereos of the 1970s. I do a lot of solar energy research in my extra time and I have this never ceasing interest in battery science and hybrid cars. My education is in Musical arts, Cosmology and Astronomy. I also am an inventor of extremely practical devices that are of great use to me and of absolutely no value whatsoever to anyone else... like a machine that can wind piano strings quickly and meticulously. Ever tried to sting a piano by hand? I also have had a profound interest in musical pitch and tuning temperaments. Bored yet? One more... I love to paint with oil and with words.

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