Subject: Re: RIP Les Paul From: "Harriet B. Jacobster, AuD" <hjacobster@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:45:35 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--------------000608050604020102020405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The world has lost a great one. RIP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harriet B. Jacobster, Au.D. Board Certified in Audiology hjacobster@xxxxxxxx Brian Gygi wrote: > > Les Paul, innovative guitarist, inventor and all-around delightful > person died at 94. Most of you know him, but for those who might be > unfamiliar with him, he was an autodidact who developed the electric > guitar, multitrack recording, delay, and many other staples of modern > recording (he also was the first to record pieces at a slower speed wo > when it was played at normal speed it sounded like he was playing much > faster than he really could). He was truly an original. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1&hp > > ?Honestly, I never strove to be an Edison,? he said in a 1991 > interview in The New York Times. ?The only reason I invented these > things was because I didn?t have them and neither did anyone else. I > had no choice, really.? > --------------000608050604020102020405 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ccffff" text="#000066"> The world has lost a great one.<br> <br> RIP.<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> Harriet B. Jacobster, Au.D.<br> Board Certified in Audiology<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hjacobster@xxxxxxxx">hjacobster@xxxxxxxx</a><br> <br> <br> Brian Gygi wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20090813181852.2EB62557C@xxxxxxxx" type="cite"><br> Les Paul, innovative guitarist, inventor and all-around delightful person died at 94. Most of you know him, but for those who might be unfamiliar with him, he was an autodidact who developed the electric guitar, multitrack recording, delay, and many other staples of modern recording (he also was the first to record pieces at a slower speed wo when it was played at normal speed it sounded like he was playing much faster than he really could). He was truly an original.<br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1&hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1&hp</a><br> <br> ?Honestly, I never strove to be an Edison,? he said in a 1991 interview in The New York Times. ?The only reason I invented these things was because I didn?t have them and neither did anyone else. I had no choice, really.?<br> <br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------000608050604020102020405--