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Bengy

@bengy

Musician with a Science background, I write about many things, causing collateral damage to a wide variety of topics!

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Bengy
@bengy Sep 1, 2026, 5:58 AM UTC

Turn Skipped...

Like most double musician households... there is generally an unspoken agreement that equipment purchases happen in turns... even though that probably still puts me at a disadvantage due to the fact…

269 upvotes 3 replies $2.02
Bengy
@bengy Aug 30, 2026, 12:31 AM UTC

Yay, Raffle Prize!

One of the things that I look forward to is the #silvergoldstackers raffles... the giant ones that pop up every now and then... and the randomish little ones as well! And @bulliontools has had a coup…

661 upvotes 11 replies $3.98
Bengy
@bengy Aug 25, 2026, 5:44 AM UTC

Tax time...

Oh tax time is upon us over here... I'd been putting off doing too much on it until the most recent batch of concerts was done... and now that it is, I'm collecting receipts and records to fix up the…

299 upvotes 5 replies $1.07
Bengy
@bengy Aug 21, 2026, 9:12 AM UTC

Newcastle Conservatorium of Music: Newcastle, NSW, AUSTRALIA

There are quite a few smaller place around Australia (and the world...) where I could swear that I've never played in... but that, as soon as I pull up and walk into the building, it all seems quite…

239 upvotes 5 replies $0.90
Bengy
@bengy Aug 18, 2026, 6:53 AM UTC

That isn't acoustic!!!

My wife recently bought a full sized 88 key keyboard to be able to practice whilst she is travelling... she often has lots of stuff to learn, and sometimes being away can be quite stressful for her a…

997 upvotes 11 replies $3.44
Bengy
@bengy Aug 9, 2026, 1:50 AM UTC

Whistling string...

It has been a while (a few months...) since I changed the second highest string (d string) on my Baroque Viola... it is one of these strings where the guage (diameter) of the gut is sufficiently thic…

208 upvotes 10 replies $0.88
Bengy
@bengy Aug 6, 2026, 12:08 PM UTC

Fixing up a Mazda CX5 Key Fob

I've been meaning to fix up my Mazda key fob for a couple of months... part of the housing had fallen apart and I have no idea where it is. I just know that one morning, I pulled it out and it was mi…

485 upvotes 13 replies $1.22
Bengy
@bengy Aug 5, 2026, 7:40 AM UTC

New batch of loaner Baroque Bows

After our little mini-festival, we ended up selling a few of our loaner bows... these are the cheaper factory bows that we lend out to people who play with us as apprentices, in large ensemble festiv…

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Bengy
@bengy Aug 2, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

2027 Main Concert Dates Locked!

Unsplash Phew... honestly, one of the most stressful times in running a small music ensemble is the year planning for the coming year. As a smaller fish, you have to dodge all the big budget organisa…

217 upvotes 4 replies $0.76
Bengy
@bengy Jul 30, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC

Prepping instruments for mixed pitch concert

Ahhhh... the joys of doing Early Music. In the Baroque era, there were many different pitches all across Europe for the A reference pitch.... generally, they were just whatever the local organ was tu…

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