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Jon Silpayamanant
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Jon Silpayamanant writes Mae Mai, a personal blog at silpayamanant.wordpress.com about culture and history. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on why violins are the largest orchestra section, via an anecdote about listeners mistaking tuning for a movement. The comment does not judge the writing, and the linked post's content is cut off.
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Research blog of Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)
What Hacker News says?
I don't know if this is true - might just be a joke - but I've heard stories of people unfamiliar with Western classical music going to concerts and telling the people who brought them that they liked the "first part" of the music, their hosts thinking they meant the first movement or the piece that was played first, but they actually meant the tuning. See e.g. https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/if-you-a…
Comment linking /2013/11/06/if-you-appreciate-the-tuning-so-much-i-hope-youll-enjoy-the-music-more/
on “Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?”Submitted Korean Chôngganbo and Far Eastern music notation systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classical Music and Its Slave Orchestras as a story · 1 points
HN discussion