Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Hibiscus denudatus (rock hibiscus): Stuart Liddell piping ~ W Sep 1 2021 (2021-09-01 at 08:58 GMT-7) * Thanks so much, Stuart! Here's the recording of the lesson * Appreciating much of what I'm learning from you ... (Allman Brothers' with piping riffing on all 3 SSP chanters ... has ongoing appeal for exploring ... )


Thanks so much, Stuart! 

Here's the recording of the lesson - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSn2e_hx2c98s3T35kj_fx7X9TY66VgW/view ...

Just added the transcription of the June 2 lesson - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html (for my learning and revisiting too+)

Best regards, 
Scott
Appreciating much of what I'm learning from you ... (Allman Brothers' with piping riffing on all 3 SSP chanters ... has ongoing appeal for exploring ... )



Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrSXd9ooB4VMjPGB4X3rBZ4E8Vul13Au/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W August 18, 2021].  (see too:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html) SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html.



PS
Found this, yesterday - and it reminds me a lot! of the amazingly wide range of 'philosophies' that have found their ways to Harbin in the forms of books (or people) like this .... right out of 1960s and '70s thinking ... liking this ... and will explore further. ... eclectic, and somewhat New Age even :) 

The Inner of Game of Tennis (1972)
Timothy Gallwey

"A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, "Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game." The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey's revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of your own way to let your best game emerge. It was sports psychology before the two words were pressed against each other and codified into an accepted discipline. 

The new edition of this remarkable work--Billie Jean King called the original her tennis bible--refines Gallwey's theories on concentration, gamesmanship, breaking bad habits, learning to trust yourself on the court, and awareness. "No matter what a person's complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found the most beneficial first step," he stressed, "is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing--that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is." "

(from Thanks so much, Stuart! 

Here's the recording - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSn2e_hx2c98s3T35kj_fx7X9TY66VgW/view ...

Just added the transcription of the June 2 lesson - (for my learning and revisiting too+)

Best regards, 
Scott

Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrSXd9ooB4VMjPGB4X3rBZ4E8Vul13Au/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W August 18, 2021].  (see too:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html) SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html.



World Univ & Sch seeks to develop physical-digital bookstores in all 200 countries and in all 7139 known living languages, and relating to the WUaS Press - with machine learning, -  ... as WUaS seeks to collaborate with Google. Any chance you might begin to write a book about bagpiping, Stuart ? :)


On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:56 AM <meet-recordings-noreply@google.com> wrote: 


 


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Dear Stuart, 


Here's the Google Meet URL for tomorrow - meet.google.com/vet-tpwr-jge - at 5p Scotland time (9am Pacific Time, I think:)

(I never heard back from Brìghde Chambieul so it'll be just me in the lesson I think ... ) Thank you - and I learn very much from you, Stuart! :)

For tomorrow - Corrienessan's Salute  (crunluath breabach) and ... all as one in a new Piobaireachd rock and roll mode (see below)?

The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree  (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute  (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)

And a new exploratory tentative, very tentative, title of my upcoming Piobaireachd album - "Piobaireachd Rock and Roll" :))?

Further questions too about keys of tunes, both light music and Piobaireachd and keys of chanters (regarding the A, D and B flat chanters I have)? 

Long arm strokes for steadiness of blowing, on both SSP bellows, and bag ... re meditation regarding your extraordinarily steady drones (see below)?

Scott

PS
Can we continue a bit further with The Cameronian Rant on Wednesday - newly by memory, and regarding charting goals too per what we've talked about  ?

PPS
What do you think? - 

Is bagpiping a relaxation response meditation  practicing opportunity for you, Stuart, de facto, where you kind of 'lock in' to a meditation inner stillness oneness in your physical attuning with his extraordinarily steady drones, as the music he plays on his chanter, listening and feeling-wise, comes out beautifully and naturally, with the intermediaries of sheet music, or metronome etc.? :)) ...
While I've explored this before, I think long arm strokes on the SSP bellows is one technique to even out the blip re the other bag arm at full bag to less full bag ... how to best learn this steadiness of drones as meditation WITH LONG ARM pressure strokes  (on both arms) ... What do you think? 

See you Wednesday!
Scott
Nice interestingly eclectic Twitter here - 


Check out too Tweeting to the #ScottishSmallPipes #Hashtag on Twitter :) - 

eg

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1226921026761744389?s=20


https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1392184595542466564?s=20


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1420727977701171202?s=20


For learning Light Music on Scottish Small PIpes, if the opportunity arises tomorrow, further -  'The Cameronian Rant' 
 :) 


PPPS
Am exploring creatively a new approach to Piobaireachd - idea-wise (sort of with the rock and roll spirit - and per your playing "Thunderstruck" and other Gordon Duncan tunes, and similar so extraordinarily) - and perhaps we could somehow the following ... 

What tunes to play on this potential SSP Piobaireachd album? ? ? 

The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree  (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute  (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)

... and how best to play them with an AI synthesis of something like the Allman Bros' in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ~ 
https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I ~ for "Piobaireachd Rock & Roll," the new tentative title of my next SSP album, by year's end, I hope.

... and as I seek for World Univ & Sch goals to align with Google's goals, and for WUaS to begin to collaborate with Google ... but haven't heard back from Bill Roberts' yet (friend, and former landlord who suggested an approach for me to develop a career at Google to develop WUaS ).

Maybe Google could help with the AI synthesis of the Allman Bros /73 for bagpiping Piobaireachd Rock and Roll accompaniment ... where I just play the above said tunes, and new AI music software adds great rock and roll blues accompaniment (nee drums:) ... 

See you tomorrow, Stuart, sir! :)


PPPPS
In a quite related vein, just shared this with my mother, some creative old friends (and new ones too, where DEL at the close refers to  ..... .... ..:) - 


Hi Ma, my creative friends, All, 

This is quite a sketch by John Cleese (Romance with a Double Bass - 1974), Pt 4 -  

(and the other preceding parts are on his Twitter feed too:) ... he's Tweeting some amazing 'best ofs' ... since the 1960s even ... and even the adverts can be astoundingly great and smart :) ... dig for the Monty Python's :)

(Touches on, hilariously, interesting themes of nudity too, regarding British mores & more ... and re my 'Naked Harbin Ethnography' book esp - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

Retweeted this Cleese, with a little further creative exploratorium - 
'A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, having a dip in the river. The princess is' Based on Anton Chekhov story https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072095/plotsummary >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Comedy @WorldUnivAndSch Create sketch in #RealisticVirtualHarbin @JohnCleese @HarbinBook?:)

> https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1432772770052468737?s=20


Interesting to see a picture of Cleese's mother here - 
'Monty Python star John Cleese blames his 'tyrant' mother for problems with his four marriages' 
(before aging reversal genetic drug therapies are coming along)
- and his 4 wives as well ... he and quite a few of his wives explored psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in some depth it seems, but they seem to have moved on ... (so perhaps the bloom went off the psychotherapeutic rose for them ... :), 

I'm thinking he's saying his mother was a tyrant in the Daily Mail article for comic effect :) ... Am being a bit distracted - from practicing my Scottish small pipes, nee piano :) - laughing with the brilliant Cleese's genius, while working on my 2nd Scottish small pipes' album, this one of Piobaireachd (and hopefully coming into conversation somehow with the Allman Bros' in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ~ https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I ... maybe with machine learning)

What tunes to play on this potential SSP Piobaireachd album? ? ? 

The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree  (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute  (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)

... and how best to play them with an AI synthesis of something like the Allman Bros' in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ~ https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I ~ for "Piobaireachd Rock & Roll," the new tentative title of my next SSP album by year's end, I hope.

... and as I seek for World Univ & Sch goals to align with Google's goals, and for WUaS to begin to collaborate with Google ... but haven't heard back from Bill Roberts' yet (friend, and former landlord who suggested an approach for me to develop a career at Google to develop WUaS ).

Maybe Google could help with the AI synthesis of the Allman Bros /73 for bagpiping Piobaireachd Rock and Roll accompaniment ... where I just play the above said tunes, and new AI music software adds great rock and roll blues accompaniment (nee drums:) ... 

(DEL could not fit in my pipe case, this I know for sure :))

Scott



August 23, 2021 - 

Dear Stuart (Liddell, piper extraordinaire, and my current bagpiping teacher) - 

Thank you for your email. A week on Wednesday would be fine for me. 5pm on 9/1/21 Scotland time? 

Regarding integrating your teachings further, and per - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - I'm beginning a daily piping practicing journal to chart goals re: 

2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).
Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.

3 Set goals to chart development.

Memorizing piping music, from sheet music, is a clear way to "never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind" which I think you've expressed in a number of other ways in the past with me.

I'd like too to work also on playing the 4 Piobaireachd in the CoP Yellow Tutor - Piobaireachd Vol. 4 ... with a focus on beauty, perhaps with parallels with what you 'do' with Ceol Beag or light music, regarding your extraordinary bagpiping. 

Aiming to create an album of Piobaireachd by years' end - most beautifully played, with parallels to https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ (which I may re-record from memory, and with what I learn from you too) ...

What tunes to play on this potential SSP Piobaireachd album? ? ? 

The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Aladdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree  (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute  (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)

Other tremendous Piobaireachd which would complement the above pieces? 10 pieces total, or more? 

How to think further about all of this - and in terms of most beautiful Piobaireachd, as well as playing them creatively, having learned from you, in most beautiful ways? I think your thinking and teaching could open new possibilities in these regards :) Thank you Stuart sir!

Best regards, 
Scott




Dear Stuart  

Regarding thee lovely unique - bright and mellow - sounding Scottish Small Pipes, would be interested in developing the sound and recording too of my Walsh SSP, inspired by Brìghde Chaimbeul -

200 bliadhna bhon a rugadh Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Big Mary of the Songs) One of the greatest poets in history..this is a melody of one of my favourites ‘Nuair Bha Mi Òg’ (When I Was Young) #MàiriMhòr200 https://t.co/MdSMB1FQgc

Thoughts about this, and home recording too ? ie, If I were to do one thing technically to improve the recording sound on my MacBook Air of my SSP, what might it be? (Get a new better microphone, different software than Audacity, a sound proof space, etc. - am inclined to think in terms of MacBook Air recording only:) ... 



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Dear Stuart, 


Experimentally, took to a little noodling with 

'Noodling with Allman Bros Band w Jerry Garcia Cow Palace 73 are 2hrs 32mins' (attached .mp3 file ... recorded with Audacity ... as the Allman Bros' 73 played on Youtube from MacBook Air laptop speakers)

The Allman Brothers Band Featuring Jerry Garcia ‎– Live at the Cow Palace, 1973
https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I

was enjoyable, (if a little self-conscious due to the recording, and beginning this exploration) ... but beginning around 2hours and 32 minutes, it's in tune with an A chanter (SSP or practice chanter too) ... Would welcome your thinking about noodling with this ... a bit out of the box ... and yet I can also hear the great potential with this Allman Bros' tune for noodling with SSP or practice chanter !

Now how to create such riffing or noodling band music-making opportunities for each of these different 10 or so Piobaireachd (below) I wonder ... (And are these Piobaireachd in different keys?) ... and what kind of related-to-this-song back-up band rhythms, and music, with hypothetical AI machine learning I wonder ? 

Thanks (for your patience) in this exploration :)
Scott


So, could I somehow turn each of these Piobaireachd somehow into Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues (inspired by Gordon Duncan partly - and hearing piping and rock and roll together in my mind,-  but quite differently ... and preserving aspects the extraordinary Piobaireachd form ... even with its non-mensurality, light or heavy, somehow) but perhaps also adding or inventing the Piobaireaching Blues' Lamenting musical form ?

The Company's Lament
MacKintosh's Banner
Glengarry's Lament
Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The Little Spree  (crunluath fosgailte)
another (crunluath fosgailte) ?
Corrienessan's Salute  (crunluath breabach)
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles (crunluath breabach)

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experimenting here :)



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Dear Stuart, 


Am hoping you might find these explorations interesting, and opening creativity-wise too. 

Just played (experimentally Piobaireachd-wise further) the urlars of 
1
Corrienessan's Salute 
2
The Little Spree
3
The Desperate Battle 

with this same track (is it Bo Diddley? I think so) around 2 hours 53 minutes - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - to see what would happen ... and while it didn't really work tune-wise, music-wise, or rhythm-wise, ... key-wise they were all ok ... (and is Corrienessan's Salute in the key of A, The Little Spree in B, and the Desperate Battle Piobaireachd in the key of A  - since they end on these notes?) ... Experimenting around further ... re finding or even creating a kind of rock and roll with blues back up music-making that even might work with these 3 Piobaireachd ... (I might even ask members of Open Band to explore making such new Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues' accompaniment music, and this is the Open Band's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1432772770052468737?s=20 - with a very funny Romance with a Double Bass 1974 John Cleese outtake, and I explore playing baselines to Scottish Country Dance music with the Pink and Blue books by Liz Donaldson for Scottish Country Dancers in Berkeley ... when it happens, post corona-virus pandemic :0)

Will likely record my 2nd SSP album, this one of Piobaireachd, here by year's end ... with just Piobaireachd on the SSP ... with your super tutelage! Thank you!

Cheers, Scott




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Stuart, 

Looking forward to the lesson in ~15 minutes 

FYI, here's what I've been learning Corrienessan's Salute from, as well as your instruction last time. Would be interested in learning further how best to 'take' this tune directly from you & Andrew's recording (when I'm in doubt) ... Appreciating too the Inner Game of Tennis in these regards which you teach from -

Corrienessan's Salute 
Andrew Bonnar 2010
(More about the player, Andrew Bonar here - https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/andrew-bonar-1966-2017/ )



Here's the Google Meet URL for September 1, 2021 again - meet.google.com/vet-tpwr-jge - at 5p Scotland time (9am Pacific Time, I think:) Thank you!

Best regards, Scott



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Found this, yesterday - and it reminds me a lot! of the amazingly wide range of 'philosophies' that have found their ways to Harbin in the forms of books (or people) like this .... right out of 1960s and '70s thinking ... liking this ... and will explore further. ... eclectic, and somewhat New Age even :) 

The Inner of Game of Tennis (1972)
Timothy Gallwey

A phenomenon when first published in 1972, the Inner Game was a real revelation. Instead of serving up technique, it concentrated on the fact that, as Gallwey wrote, "Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game." The former is played against opponents, and is filled with lots of contradictory advice; the latter is played not against, but within the mind of the player, and its principal obstacles are self-doubt and anxiety. Gallwey's revolutionary thinking, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, was really a primer on how to get out of your own way to let your best game emerge. It was sports psychology before the two words were pressed against each other and codified into an accepted discipline.
The new edition of this remarkable work--Billie Jean King called the original her tennis bible--refines Gallwey's theories on concentration, gamesmanship, breaking bad habits, learning to trust yourself on the court, and awareness. "No matter what a person's complaint when he has a lesson with me, I have found the most beneficial first step," he stressed, "is to encourage him to see and feel what he is doing--that is, to increase his awareness of what actually is."

https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314 )



World Univ & Sch seeks to develop physical-digital bookstores in all 200 countries and in all 7139 known living languages, and relating to the WUaS Press - with machine learning, -  ... as WUaS seeks to collaborate with Google. Any chance you might begin to write a book about bagpiping, Stuart ? :)

 

-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Th September 2, 2021


Dear Stuart, 

Thanks for our learning conversation yesterday, and - 
A further riffing question: 
How would you (or I) riff with the Grateful Dead's 'Caution Jam' here - 
(which sounds like it could be in a chanter key, but which I haven't tried playing with yet ... would listen first, then explore riffing ... and even with Piobaireachd motifs ...which you know so well! :))
"Grateful Dead Live at Shrine Auditorium on 1968-08-23" (where the Shrine Auditorium is in LA, and is still operating it appears:)

Wanna work up a piping riffing duet performance or show, playing somehow with AI synthesized Allman Bros' and Grateful Dead on bagpipes - with A, D, and B flat (and other chanters) ... and see if we can get a gig at Shrine Auditorium in a year or two? :) 

"PIobaireachding the Blues" was an earlier tentative title for my first Piobaireachd SSP album ... (better than Piobaireachd Rock and Roll) ... but I have a ways to go on this journey, with much piping ahead :) ... slower too than some R&R:)

Didn't get the World Univ & Sch Minutes out yesterday ... a few further items with the state of California came up and WUaS's newer legal entity (a for profit general stock company in California ) ... but I will pretty soon. 

How's your week going, Stuart, and what do you have ahead of you this weekend? (I won't make it to the Caledonian Games at nearby Pleasanton over US Labor Day weekend, 9/4 & 5 ... maybe when I connect with a life partner to be, ... and we can go to the Pleasanton Games together:)

Warm regards, Scott

PS
Four blog entries thanks to SSP lessons with you (and to add to World Univ & Sch's SSP wiki 'school' not yet in Scottish Gaelic or in the Scots' language :) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes) 

Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSn2e_hx2c98s3T35kj_fx7X9TY66VgW/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W September 1, 2021].  (see too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/hibiscus-denudatus-rock-hibiscus.html) SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/hibiscus-denudatus-rock-hibiscus.html.


Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrSXd9ooB4VMjPGB4X3rBZ4E8Vul13Au/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W August 18, 2021].  (see too:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html) SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html.


Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [ttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1LnJ2fSqpAzTs7LlqLRi9QEhiGdq3ibjK/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W June 2, 2021]. W. June 2. (see too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html). SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html.


Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xDeuJtcwVu8i0ubW2sgDfey3zm5WtAEX/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, Th May 13 2021. (see too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/hibiscus-trionum-modesty-first-lesson.html. SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/hibiscus-trionum-modesty-first-lesson.html.


PPS
Do you speak a bit of Scottish Gaelic - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic ? 

Thank you, Stuart! 




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