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As snow comes across the mountains, a waltz for snowflakes fluttering around and around.

A good yarn by the late Oliver Sachs, thanks to the brainpickings website. Musicked Down the Mountain: How Oliver Sacks Saved His Own Life by Literature and Song: The extraordinary survival story of “a creature of muscle, motion and music, all inseparable and in unison with each other." "In his 1984 memoir A Leg to Stand On, Dr. Sacks tells the story of an extraordinary experience he had atop a Norwegian mountain a decade earlier, on 'an afternoon of peculiar splendor, earth and air conspiring in beauty, radiant, tranquil, suffused in serenity' many miles from the nearest human being — an experience in which the only thing that stood between him and his death was music; an experience that brought him not merely near death but in an intimate tango with it danced to the sound of life itself."

Welcome , Mopardamo, I recall similar wintery conditions years ago when living in St. Loius & further west in Chesterfield. Brrr! Good luck with your amp search.

The "motto" of ECM, Edition Of Contemporary Music, might be "the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence". Founded by Manfred Eicher, ECM is best known for jazz music, but the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM often refuses to acknowledge boundaries between genres. The recordings have an ECM Sound: pristine, immediate, wind across a crystalline landscape, sound + silence. I like, in particular, Terje Rypdal , Return Of Per Ulv on If Mountains Could Sing.

Glad to have you here, Clayton. Morris & members will help you keep your fine gear playing for years to come.

Wishing you success in your M1.0t mkII mod, Arnaldo. Welcome !