CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



baumli
@cal91  
Oops! Sorry. Yes, I meant Chet.
I was swiping on my phone.
Lol.

I hope you enjoy!  He reminds me of a time when I first got into jazz 25 years ago. Brings back great memories.
For those who like Jazz...

i recommend "lets gets lost" a documentary biography of Chet Baker that seize upon his soul.... The best jazz documentary ever.....
Cal91
I have been obsessed with Chopin
Chopin was amazed by Bach.... The best way to play it for me is in this light....Moravec is so good with Chopin because he plays it like some kind of Bach, he plays less the melody than the harmony between chord...His color shades sense makes that possible... Others even the best plays romantically the melody only....I begins to understand Chopin with Moravec....

Think about Scriabin that no one can ever whistle.... Why? because the harmony, the colors between chords replace the melody with an abyss.....Chopin is the ancester of Scriabin with Liszt.... Who can play Listz? Almost no one can play Scriabin also.... Music is where an abyss walk.....

For any melody an harpsichord will do all right....For the abyss between chords , and each abyss has his own colors, we need to invent the piano with his pastel shades....
@ mahgister & devilboy

I just read about Chet Baker. What a tragic figure with the drugs, troubles with the law, and the loss of his teeth which affected his playing. I then listened to a YouTube recording of "Chet". That's the kind of jazz I like. I then watched his last interview before his death. Very sad.

That a creative genius like Chopin would hold Bach is such high regard is a testament to the otherwordly talent Bach possessed. mahgister: what is your opinion of Gould's interpretation of the Goldberg Variations?

@cal91  yes, the story of Chet Baker is a sad and tragic one. But what a gift he was!

@mahgister  Chopin is my favorite composer. I love Beethoven and others but what Chopin wrote for solo piano moves me like nothing else I've ever heard in my life. You had a great statement that you begin to understand Chopin with Moravec....
Wow. I REALLY need to listen.