[Milsurplus] Sea Chanteys and Cable Lacing.

[Robert Downs]

I don't remember that movie.  It sounds like one that I'd like to watch.The
one that I recall was "10"

Robert Downs

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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
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