Today was a day of running a few chores, naps, and The Empty Bowl Project Preview Party. It's a toss up for the best part of the day, it's between taking the naps and the Preview Party, but I think the Preview Party comes out ahead. I get in a few naps every weekend, The Empty Bowl Preview Party only happens once a year. Again, the Preview Party was a sell-out, and it is always fun to be there, anticipating the crowds that will be in line for their own very special bowls tomorrow. The food was good, the soups were excellent (so I was told) and the variety of bowl pickin's was excellent as well. So far I have a couple items in mind for bidding during the silent auction, and I will be bidding for others throughout the day as well. Now, it is time to catch a few winks!
Gamut -- Noun. 1. the whole series of recognized musical notes. 2. an entire range or series. "The films offered at Kauai's Hawaii Ocean Film Festival run the gamut from sports to science. Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 16, 2009
Did You Know? To get the lowdown on gamut, we have to dive to the bottom of a musical scale utilized by 11th-century musician and monk Guido of Arezzo. Guido called the first line of his bass staff gamma and the first note in his scale ut (from the hymn Ut queant lasis"), which means that gamma ut was the term for a note written on the first staff line. In time, gamma ut underwent a shortening to gamut but climbed the scale of meaning. It expanded to cover all the notes of Guido's scale, then all the notes in the range of an instrument, and, eventually, an entire range of any sort.
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