TV remote control -- two of them work -- then they don't

LOL!
My kinda guy.

I probably watch a total of an hour of TV a week, and I'd be a prime candidate for 'cord cutter' if I lived alone.

Good Luck with the TV, and if it's time for the 32" Sharp to go to TV Valhalla, then be careful when you replace it to get........a TV, and not some big screen media player that will stream everything BUT local television.
There are not many of those left since 'cord-cutting' became a thing.

Since you're close to Seattle and you're in a place where topography isn't a Jeopardy! answer, you have a good variety of local broadcasters, and since you're not a kid, you're probably going to be fine with the 720 "HD" on a larger screen if you upgrade.
Personally?
My eyesight is starting to go south so I'm fresh out of rats to give about that either.

Sometimes I'll stream something on a tablet or a phone, since I'm already a Prime member.

 

And - don't bother about a "Sound Bar" or whatever they call them that they'll try to sell with it - apparently our ears by the time we get over 50-60, they can't appreciate the "good" high frequency fidelity - and get aggravated by the "better" bass response offered.

 

Our main front tower speakers have TWO tweeters: one for super high frequency. I suspect I've never heard that one.

 

I've got a new Digital Organ (ALLEN CF-17a):


With these speakers inside - and 4 speaker boxes ...


I was telling the technician who was voicing the organ that some notes weren't playing (high ones from 4500 to 8500Hz) - I played them and said - "these ones". He replied - "Yep, they're working - I can hear them!!!!" Whooops

 

I see that picture and immediately hear Widor's Toccata in my head .

 

i purchased a sound bar with my new vizier, hoping it would clarify sounds, but it got worse instead of better.

 

Hoping to learn that before I die - I'm going to have to live to a ripe old age - it doesn't look easy!!!

 

It would appear to require lots of fingers and toes. But, with 'real pipes' in a suitably large acoustic space...

Where is the finest pipe organ in Australia, Alan? I'll meet you there, one of these days. Not despairing your digital, but those resonances seem hard to fit into computer chips.

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For 'stateside' readers, next visit to Death Valley, take the extra-cost tour at Scotty's Castle including autonomous pipe organ. It is not quite in 'a space' but its contrast to Death Valley setting ought to expand your minds just a bit.

 

massachusetts has a very popular pipe organ maker, from what i have read.

 

Wiki lists several in The Commonwealth. Could not comment on new (global) installations in suitably large spaces, vs. renovating and maintaining 'pumpers' from Golden Age ending about a century ago.

Pre-digital pipe organs are large beasts. Each note and each 'stop' (eliciting distinct overtones) comes from a separate resonant tube. All are excited by airflow, with so much air called by the pedals, and everything switched at keyboard and stops. A steampunk nightmare, or a glorious dream.

They cannot exist in isolation from their rooms, resonant cavities, cathedrals, or what have you. As such they are musical instruments uniquely containing and including their listeners.

Old leather-bound air bellows ought to have been replaced by modern HVLP air compressors (set away and sound shielded) but I have no idea about that.

Most curious readers have access to Youtube where many wonderful Pipe Organ performances can be experienced, only limited by your end-user hardware. Only today did Alan (unknowing, you beast) make me feel that lack. Not your fault; quick to forgive.

I'd say we are pretty light on current musical composers invoking this enveloping experience. Could be wrong. But modulated air pressure within a volume including listeners seems hard to exceed.

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Now, the fail. This was to have been a 'remotes' discussion and I (with some triggering) sent it awry. In a much more interesting direction but you (who've never heard big sound) ought to pull it back.

 

I'm quite taken by the City Hall Organ here - it's user friendly. It's a bit inaccessible like most public organs. But it's just been overhauled completely - I've got to play it for about 10 minutes only. Unlike some which take some getting used to, I felt "at home" immediately - just too big to fit in my home.

 

OMFG. To speak as current children do.

 

We are in "Fred's House of Pancakes" - so a digression is reasonable??

 

Virgil Fox managed a reasonably large PIPE organ in his home - no idea how large the home was:

 

@Stevewoods started this so I'd defer to him of the pointy hat.

What a thing though, to discuss our world's most absurd musical instrument ever.

 

Decades ago I had joy, attending Virgil Fox' digital-organ concert framed in a suitably large space. His joy simply flowed and mine could not have been less.

 

Keyboards@91. Readers might count their fingers and look at all that stuff. Each keyboard is 'stopped' to some tubes and you'd just press keys (tones) as desired. Multiple keyboards (programmed to tubes) simplify your finger actions through time.

 

Have you seen this one:

 

Youtube. Which is to say, not me tube. They usta be in the clear in China but not presently.

 

It related to the largest Pipe Organ in China.