Interesting Observation

dhanyasi · Post by **dhanyasi** » 30 Dec 2008, 20:57

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhOCkdNN ... 3F&index=7

I have not thought about the influence of the first person... it seems pretty imporntant

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 30 Dec 2008, 21:47

I wish that people, when posting links, would include some comment about what it is all about so that we can decide if it is worth following the link.

dhanyasi · Post by **dhanyasi** » 30 Dec 2008, 22:19

nick H wrote:I wish that people, when posting links, would include some comment about what it is all about so that we can decide if it is worth following the link.

Oh come on nick.. it is a one minute clip and there is nothing I could say that either does justice to the clip nor give away the punch line... let see how you summarize the clip without giving it away...

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 31 Dec 2008, 05:24

dhanyasi,
awesome clipping! how true! thanks

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 31 Dec 2008, 05:50

Hilarious Dhanyasi

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 31 Dec 2008, 06:38

In the computer lingo it is FIFO. And then there is a sympathetic vibration. But think of the poor vidvaan who has to stay through the whole of the Tani though he may have the same urge

Especially among the elderly ones where the risk of Enlarged Prostate (EP) is high! At least these days 'Pampers' are available for adults too; but think of the olden times (with 5 to 6hour long Katcheris)

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 31 Dec 2008, 10:24

Dhayasi... the way my 'broadband' is it will take four or five minutes to watch a one minute clip, so I seldom even try to watch video: I need to know if it is something special enough to make the effort!

CML's comment makes me suspect that it might just apply to me even <Blush> !

(But the situation is better in Chennai, where my body looses more excess fluid in sweat, than in London)

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 31 Dec 2008, 11:05

Nick, it is in Tamil. Here is the gist. It is a Q&A session portion of the jaya TV mArgazhi mahA utsavam. The question was 'should percussionists especially mridangists need to know the song for them to play well. The succinct answer from the mridangist is ' In our music you can not separate music and layam. If you want to play for the song rather than for the thalam, then you need to know the song'. He then segued into some humorous comments about how people go out to the bathroom when the thani starts. It is like one person gets up to go and everyone feels a need to go too.

vainika · Post by **vainika** » 01 Jan 2009, 11:51

lol. Reminds of the time I had a waterfall aquascape in my living room, with water trickling down fern-studded rocks and into a little pool that housed a salamander, aquatic plants, and some catfish. Most people who visited found the sounds of trickling water soothing, but the rest had to make a beeline for the bathroom

The pitter patter of water splashing on rocks and fingers tapping on mridangam may trigger similar urges

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 01 Jan 2009, 12:43

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 01 Jan 2009, 15:11

Many thanks, vasanthakokilam

In our music you can not separate music and layam. If you want to play for the song rather than for the thalam, then you need to know the song

I know that my teacher, and many other mridangists, would agree wholeheartedly with the observation.

how people go out to the bathroom when the thani starts. It is like one person gets up to go and everyone feels a need to go too

Unlike yawning, which is definitely contagious, I don't think there is a physical reaction ---but once our musical reverie is spoilt by our feet being trampled by the rude thani exodites, perhaps we are apt to notice other bodily discomforts that could, otherwise, have remained subdued at least until the end of the item!

An aside: In my last London job, whenever I entered the computer room I had to leave to the toilet within a few minutes. I was vaguely puzzled by this for years, until I heard that the body reacts to cold (our computer room was always kept several degrees colder than the offices; the machines liked it that way!) by thickening the blood, so, to thicken the blood, the kidneys get working. If you ever want me out of the room, no need for hints, just turn up the AC; works every time!