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14 Dec, 2016
Not for anybody wishing to play from the score - or even to read it without eyestrain.
Would you believe that the score for the piano concerto came in an A5 format? For pity's sake; one can barely make it out, particularly as the orchestral parts are (quite appropriately) also included - which means that the notation is crammed together in even smaller type-size than is normal for a piano score. In addition, for some reason the print looks smudged.
As a pianist used to ordering music for my own use I fully expected to find the normal, standard A4 + score size for this concerto, particularly in view of the fact that nowhere on the sales blurb did it state that the booklet I would receive would be presented in A5 format. - ie useless.
Musicians expect to receive standard sized scores - music they can read comfortably when they are sitting at their instruments.
This doesn't cut it at all and I warn fellow-musicians: be very carefu not to be caught out as I havel if you decide to order any scores from this provider. I simply cannot recommend it.
07 May, 2020
Joyous, magical mug for hot drinks
OK, this mug would be even better if there had been an apostrophe before or after the final S of 'witches' , which would make the motto mean "a brew for one or more witch/es", depending on where that apostrophe stood. BUT obviously that's just a quibble from this punctuation fanatic. In every other respect my little mug is enchantin: its shape means that the hot drinks in it don't cool as quickly as they do in regular cylindrical mugs; it has GREAT capacity because of its pot-bellied cauldron shape, and the legs ... well those legs give me a lift every time I see them. I ADORE this mug. In fact, I love it so much I bought one for my daughter as well! Keep 'em coming! 3
P.S. Tell you what, if you ever personalise them with folks' names, I'll buy them over and over and over again :-D
23 Dec, 2016
flimsy construction
I don't know how long this little kitchen scale will last. it's made of flimsy, brittle plastic (in fact the weighing dish was already cracked on arrival and the only reason I didn't sent it back was that it was so cheap. So I've taped the crack, which will hold it for a while) and just doesn't inspire one with confidence that it won't suddenly fall apart, just when you need it most.
That said, it's true insofar as you can calibrate it easily and it does weigh items accurately, and it's good to be able to weigh to very small quantities. But again, I just fear that the whole contraption will suddenly go *boing* and I'll be looking for a more robust and equally accurate scales.
Somebody should make the same thing out of metal, like the good old days. I'd buy it like a shot. But I guess that would reduce sales turnover; wouldn't it? ;-)