1) Recent notable videos by LinnStrumentalists

Here are some recent videos by talented LinnStrument players that I like. You've seen these players in previous videos, but I think you'll enjoy these newer videos of theirs.

First, here's a good one by Jesse Washmon, who plays his LinnStrument 128 in a vertical orientation and has beautiful skill in his two-handed performance of classical piano pieces:

Next, here's one from Jeremy Cubert, who never ceases to surprise me with his skill and versatility. This one uses the Evolution Clawhammer Banjo sound, but in a way that takes it beyond traditional banjo parts:

Here's one from Ernesto Domingo, who you may have seen in his performance of the old Johnny Santos hit "Sleepwalk" at the start of LinnStrument compilation video #3. In this video, he uses the left split to select background parts while he plays the right split:

Finally, here's one from Max Bajzek, who goes by the moniker "ThoughtForm". I enjoy his skilled solo gestural control of all three dimensions on LinnStrument:

2) Next LinnStrument Zoom call is tomorrow, Tuesday April 1

The next First-Tuesday-Of-The-Month-LinnStrument-Zoom-Call is tomorrow, Tuesday April 1 at 10 am California time. Or if you're in Europe and received this newsletter on April 1st, it's today. All are welcome, LinnStrument owners and potential LinnStrument owners.

To get the Zoom meeting link, click here or click "Monthly Zoom call with Roger" from the LinnStrument Support page. I hope you can join us, if not then on any first Tuesday of the month at 10 am California time.

3) Unrelated to LinnStrument: I didn't vote for Trump

I try to stay out of the political sphere, but recent events compel me to say something:

I didn't vote for Trump and don't approve of what he's doing to the US or the world.

I can understand the arguments for reducing government spending, for controlling immigration, and for incentivizing domestic manufacturing, problems that many countries share.

But I do not agree with the extreme nature, as well as the recklessness, lawlessness, and lack of due process, in how the Trump administration is implementing its plans, especially considering that he won the presidency with a tiny 1.5% margin of the popular vote. I also see no merit in his bullying, ridicule, insults, lies, bravado, lack of accountability, inability to admit fault, waging economic war against longtime allies, cozying up to criminal autocrats, breaking treaties, cheating, suppression of the press and educational institutions, persecution of enemies and dissenting voices, and generally abandoning longstanding democratic conventions and values.

As I grow older, I place an increasing value on kindness. I think it is possible to be both effective and kind at the same time. The US has problems that it needs to solve, but I believe there are better ways to solve them.

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