<HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>OK, how's this for avoiding another big discussion on temperament? Anyone else "young" enough to remember this scene from an early Disney's Wonderful World Of Color cartoon starring Donald Duck's kooky uncle, Professor Ludwig Von Drake?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>======================================<BR>Molly, Jerry, and Shady left the Bushwoolies and continued walking along until they heard the strangest sounds coming from the distance. Thinking it was the Moochick doing something completely crazy, they ran towards the noise. What they found was a duck, wearing a coat, vest, tie, and spectacles. He had gray hair sticking out around his head, and he was playing the weirdest organ you can imagine.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"What the heck is that?" Jerry asked.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"I don't know, but I don't like the looks of it," Shady said.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The duck looked up and saw he had an audience and he laughed.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Looks like da professor has an audience!" he shouted. He had an accent, but Molly, Jerry, and Shady couldn't place it. The duck ran up to them, grabbed Jerry's hand, and shook it vigorously.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Welcome, welcome, welcome!" he shouted. "I am Professor Ludwig Von Drake, a genius of all trades! I know everything about everything!"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Modest much?" Jerry mumbled.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"So what brings you to da professor's neck of the woods?" Professor Von Drake asked.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"My name's Molly, and these are Jerry and Shady," Molly said. "We're looking for a rainbow for my cousin, Julie."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"A rainbow!" Professor Von Drake shouted, and he began laughing. "Ho, ho, how you gonna find a rainbow when it's not even raining? Oooh, you are a kooky little girl!"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Watch who you're calling names, fella," Jerry said.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it," Professor Von Drake said. Then he began banging keys on his organ. Color shot out of it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"What's that?" Shady asked.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"I'm playin' da color scale!" Professor Von Drake shouted. "The whole spectrum, don't you know?"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"If color can come out of that thing," Molly said. "Maybe it can make a rainbow."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Well, stranger things have happened," Jerry said.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"A rainbow out of dis?" Professor Von Drake shouted. "Dat's such a kooky idea, it just might work! Now, let's get a little color in here. You're gonna love dis!"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Professor Von Drake began to play his color organ and all the colors he sang shot out of it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Red yellow green red blue blue blue</DIV> <DIV>Red purple green yellow orange red red</DIV> <DIV>Red yellow green red blue blue blue</DIV> <DIV>Red purple green yellow orange red red</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Blend them up and what do you get?</DIV> <DIV>Cherise, chartreuse and aqua</DIV> <DIV>Mauve, beige and ultra marine</DIV> <DIV>And every color in between</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Color has it's harmony </DIV> <DIV>And just like I have said</DIV> <DIV>Red yellow green red blue blue blue</DIV> <DIV>Red purple green blue purple red red</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>More color came shooting out of the organ, practically drenching everything in sight with color, including Jerry, Molly, and Shady.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Blend them all and what do you get?</DIV> <DIV>Cerise, chartreuse and aqua</DIV> <DIV>Mauve, beige and ultra marine</DIV> <DIV>And every color in between</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Color has it's harmony</DIV> <DIV>And just like I have said</DIV> <DIV>Red yellow green red blue pink gray</DIV> <DIV>And white and plaid and blue</DIV> <DIV>Green white yellow and the and the</DIV> <DIV>And the stripes blue and black and plaid!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Wait a second, what's going on with all the colors?!" Professor Von Drake shouted.  "Blue red green green white white black oop, uh. . . . . . whatever happened to plain old lavender blue dilly dilly dilly . . . . . . silly."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Yeah, that's for sure!" Jerry shouted.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"That was some rainbow!" Shady shouted.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"You want to buy it?" Professor Von Drake asked. "I can sell it to ya, cheap."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"That was a great rainbow," Molly said. "But I don't think it was special enough for Julie."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"It would have cheered her up, though," Jerry said. "It would've made her laugh."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"I guess," Molly said, shrugging. "But it's just not special."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Eh, suit yourself," Professor Von Drake said, shrugging. Then he folded his organ and packed it in his suitcase, and walked off.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"And he said you were kooky," Jerry said to Molly. He shook his head, and followed Shady and Molly down a path.<BR>=======================================</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-- Geoff</DIV> <DIV>Los Angeles<BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Joseph Alkana <JOSEPHSPIANO@COMCAST.NET><BR>Sent: Mar 1, 2005 12:21 PM <BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org <BR>Subject: colors <BR><BR></DIV><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"><ZZZMETA content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name="GENERATOR"> <STYLE></STYLE> </ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY bgColor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT size=2>Just idle surfing a while ago and came upon this science for the day information regarding our senses. Seems to add a little perspective and elaboration regarding our perception of key color. Note: not intended to start another big discussion of temperament types!  :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050222_synesthesia.html">http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050222_synesthesia.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Enjoy!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Joseph Alkana  RPT<BR><A href="mailto:josephspiano@comcast.net">josephspiano@comcast.net</A></FONT></DIV></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BODY>