The downstairs neighbours are remodelling their apartment.
This kind of thing seems to happen with astonishing frequency in China, and invariably seems to involve the laboured tearing up of wooden trim and floor tiles and so on, and quite often the demolition of dividing walls (regardless of their possible load-bearing role in the general structure of the building). For the past four days I have had to endure an almost constant backdrop of hammers and chisels pounding away at something.
This morning, I am trying to drown them out by playing Take Five very loud.
And you know, I'd swear the workmen are subsconciously accommodating themselves to Joe Morello's rhythms!
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I hadn't previously known anything about Morello, but I wanted to put in a link for the benefit of folks who might perhaps not even be familiar with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
I was fascinated to discover in that Wikipedia biography that he was a child prodigy on the violin (played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of 9, just a few years after taking the instrument up!); but in his early teens he met one of his musical heroes (and mine too), Jascha Heifetz... and realised that he'd never be quite that good... and so renounced the violin and started to learn the drums instead.
I found that a remarkable story. You don't often hear of someone being discouraged by meeting their idol.
It worked out pretty well for Morello - and for the rest of us. He is an extraordinary drummer.
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