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Sunday, April 03, 2016

Bauru: Ham, tomatoes, melted mozzarella cheese & oregano (we chose the whole wheat baguette)
Acerola smoothie: Amazon cherry, banana, strawberries & OJ
Now operated by Amazon Juices UCSC
Features pastries by Kelly's French Bakery

Walked through the UCSC Department of Music building, to view the practice rooms:

OFF ............When no reverb effect is selected (no REVERB indicator is lit), a special natural damper effect is applied to the piano voices. This simulates the natural resonance of an acoustic piano’s strings and sound board when the damper pedal is pressed.
ROOM ........This setting add a continuous reverb effect to the sound that is similar to the type of acoustic reverberation you would hear in a medium-size room
HALL 1 ......For a “bigger” reverb sound, use the HALL 1 setting. This effect simulates the natural reverberation of a medium-size concert hall
HALL 2 ......For a really spacious reverb sound, use the HALL 2 setting. This effect simulates the natural reverberation of a large concert hall
COSMIC ....The COSMIC reverb effect produces an echo-plus-reverb sound that can add life and animation to your music

MIDI/Transpose: Allows access to the Clavinova’s Transpose function (to shift the pitch of the entire keyboard up or down), keyboard touch sensitivity adjustment, and MIDI functions
Voice Selectors:

Press the C7 key (right-most) while holding the [MIDI/TRANSPOSE] button
Press a selector to start playback of the corresponding tune, featuring the voice normally selected by that voice selector button
Tunes:

Shift the pitch of the entire keyboard up or down in semitone intervals up to a maximum of six semitones
“Transposing” the pitch of the Clavinova keyboard facilitates playing in difficult key signatures, and you can easily match the pitch of the keyboard to the range of a singer or other instrumentalist

Pitch control: Pitch control makes it possible to tune the Clavinova over a ±50-cent range in approximately 1.2-cent intervals

Serial Number 1213490
Indicates Hamamatsu, Japan, as the manufacture location, in 1971-1972 (?)
Found arrangement, in the piano bench, of Étude Op. 25, No. 7 (Chopin), "alternatively known as the "Cello" due to the prominent melody played in the left hand"

Great Meadow Bike Path
Passed the UCSC Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
Service road: had a number of 40 yard dumpster containers, for various materials: plastics, carpets, metals
Arboretum, through the back gate, walked into the gift shop
Smelled rich foliage smells, reminding me of the ravine near my childhood home
Up the hill, to Oakes College
Passed a number of signs: Collective Museum, the campus-wide art project by Portland-based artist group Public Doors and Windows (PDW); we sat at Ken's Bench
Koi fish
Porter Slug Grill and Cafe: open, but we overheard someone asking about something unrelated, and we though it was closed...not a big deal, since we needed cash and the ATM seemed down
Walked through Kresge College, to Owl's Nest, but closed
Back to McHenry BSOE
Drove to Marini's, on Swift, for ice cream--noticed the Ferris Wheel model working, but the marbles kept falling off

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