OT: Have you ever noticed...

how microphone stands fall in slow motion but guitar stands fall in double-quick time?

Actually the speed of the mic stand dropping is inversely proportional to the cost of the microphone on it; i.e. you have more time to watch your expensive mic fall than your worn-out SM57.

Valuedependent Timewarp ?
Very true & annoying anyway....

Per

Well, he´s supposed to be responsible for keeping the tempo, isn´t he( or she )...

and that after 100 or more punch in's we start to slowly un-learn the guitar lol

Cast base microphone stands can do some wild things even when they almost fall. Some singers do tricks with them on stage pushing just enough to make them almost go to the tiping point and then catch them when they spring back because of the counter weight of the base.

Most guitar stands have no cast counterweight at the base but it's a cool idea to make them more stable.

Sorry to be serious.. I do love the "butter side down" conversations..

My sister fell out of my car once. It was particularly funny because I had a paper route and I would dragoon her into riding shotgun and throwing the papers into the box. So she was always leaning on the door. Once as I pulled way from the box pretty quickly, the door popped open. She'd been pounding Cokes the whole time and evidentally had a good store of gas built up. As the door fell open, she looked around at me and yelled, "I'm falling out", but the strain I guess pushed out the gas so she did this huge burp as she was yelling. So I look around just in time to see "The Exorcist" basically, because it made her voice go down about two octaves. I was kind of scared to back and get her, expecting her head to spin around and scream "The piglet is sweet!" Though there are many powers vested in me as a trusted deliverer of the Lancaster, SC Observer, exercism wasn't amoung them.

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I believe that there is also a Law that governs one's belief that you can easily tweak
your project just one more time without doing a save and all will be just fine....
and then you know what happens....

Oh, God, I know that one well... Too well.

When I was first starting down the electronic music path, years ago, I started working with Jeskola Buzz. Don't laugh, I got a lot of cool sounds out of that thing! It wasn't exactly stable, though. I lost a lot of work using that software!

Don't forget how drum risers fall. They just sort of implode like that house in Poltergeist.

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And stage lighting tripods are very pretty when they go down. Almost sparkly.

lmao I think there is aesthetic beauty in the destruction of [someone else's] expensive equipment. Once at a symphonic recital I saw a $20k cello fall to the ground, and the guy, not realizing it was on the floor, stepped backward & put his foot right through it. It was positively sublime. I swear I heard angels sing.

expensive music equipment falling does indeed have it's own intrinsic comedic value. but you have to admit, nothing is funnier than a huge cardboard stage prop falling down during a play or a musical. usually a storefront, but sometimes a palm tree or a bus. talk about SSSLLLLLOOOOWWWW motion!
it makes me laugh just thinking about it.