[Milsurplus] Sea Chanteys and Cable Lacing.

[Hubert Miller]

Jog my memory a little. The "Bolero" I seem to recall as being in the soundtrack of a movie I saw several decades ago. I  recall it was played during scenes
of Napoleon's Spanish campaign, like where heavy cannon were being hauled across high upland. Anyone recall ?
And now, back to our canon. 
-Hue        

I prefer Maurice Ravel's Boléro to lace by.  From Wkipedia:  "While on vacation at St Jean-de-Luz, Ravel went to the piano and played a melody with one finger to his friend Gustave Samazeuilh, saying "Don't you think this theme has an insistent quality?  I'm going to try and repeat it a number of times without any development, gradually increasing the orchestra as best I can."  

Sorta like a sea chantey, but in a classical music style.  The result definitely has an insistent quality - over and over again for what seems like an hour.  I played it as a violinist in a symphony orchestra and toward the end was hoping for loss of consciousness that never came.  

Of course, since then it has put me to sleep more than once - while lacing cables - but that was usually only in the afternoon, whenever I've missed my nap...

-Mike  KC4TOS