Hello from the Shore

[pocaracas]

sweet!

Oh, that bass guitar's image is a bit too big for a normal screen.
You may want to use the [imgfit] tag to make it fit automatically.

My father in law has a piano which hasn't seen tuning in... decades... think you could guide me in some tweaking? that sucker is sounding horrible... but I can't tell it's getting any worse than it was 5 years ago!

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WEll well well....

The name aleph is derived from the West Semitic word for "ox", and the shape of the letter derives from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph based on a hieroglyph


which depicts an ox's head.

proto-sinaitic glyphs...

Proto-Sinaitic is a Middle Bronze Age script attested in a very small collection of inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula. Due to the extreme scarcity of Proto-Sinaitic signs, very little is known with certainty about the nature of the script. Because the script co-existed with Egyptian hieroglyphs, it is likely that it represented true writing, but this is by no means certain. It has been argued that Proto-Sinaitic was an alphabet and the ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet, from which nearly all modern alphabets descend.

Mem is usually assumed to come from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water (


), which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, mem (Phoenician ), ultimately coming from Proto-Semitic *maʾ-/*may-.

Looks legit, if a bit scrambled...
One hieroglyph from proto-sinaitic (which evolved into phoenician), another from egyptian (which also evolved into phoenician?!)