What would you give a person who has nearly everything and a cellar full of fine wines. There is one item they likely do not have - a wine cork grinder. This grinds up wine corks so that dumpster divers can not see what expensive wines you have opened by reading the text on the cork. A wine cork grinder is shown at
Basset hounds work, too! Mine is indiscriminate, but my friend Arv's Lena will chose the Harlan out of a tray of corks to chew on.
That is certainly a talented parrot that you recorded. I have heard some amazing tales of the powers of mimicry possessed by parrots, but to imitate a whole orchestra in tune, along with Mickey Mouse singing "Largo al factotum..." is truly unbelievable. In all seriousness, that sounds like a doctored recording in which you've sped up the vocal track while leaving the instruments untouched -- or is it merely a novelty recording in which a castrato sings the title role?
Mark Lipton
I used a wave editor called GoldWave to process the recording from an old acoustic one. I first removed some noise with special filters. I then used a progrom that allows you to increase or decreach the pitch while keeping the tempo the same. I also used a special effects filter or two in a few places to make some pars more squawk-like. The bird can talk if he wants to.
You mentioned castrato. So far as I know, the only castrato recordings were recorded in the Vatican in 1902 and 1904. You can hear a soprano castrato at
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