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- Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:10 pm
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Harmonica for mental block insurance.
- Replies: 9
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Re: Harmonica for mental block insurance.
You could use a B chromatic harmonica, reverse the slide (so B row button in, C row button out) and pretend you have the equivalent of a B/C box. Not so, unfortunately. You simply haven't got the same possibilities for ornamentation. You are still pushing that button to get the notes of the tune and...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:21 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
There is something of a vaguely disconcerting sexual allusion in 'vuvuzela' that I can't quite put my finger on...
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
It was a great slaughtering to watch yesterday :moreevil: But the Aussies were no lambs :D Beautiful football to watch, and I normally don't watch football :shock: Certainly the Germans were good, but the Socceroos were lamentable, so I wouldn't read too much into it just yet. We're getting quite a...
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
Are we still talking sport?
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:20 am
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Gallagher's Frolics
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8295
Re: Gallagher's Frolics
I love nearly all the old warhorses and never demur from playing 'em. They're warhorses because they're good. I once heard a radio commentator call Dvorak's New World symphony a warhorse. :lol: :lol: :lol: Even the Kesh is a seriously-misunderstood tune. I'm still struggling with Drowsy Maggie, whic...
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:10 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
The trouble is, it seems, you Americans take this football lark so....seriously.
Thanks for reminding me of that brilliantly-tasteless German-baiting ditty, Simon. Wonder if I can find any German controversial forums...could come in handy...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:11 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
Personally I find it encouraging that the USA had the good sportsmanship to allow the English one goal more than they let them have in 1950 during our last match up. Good for England! Bloody Nora, I'm already an old man and here you are harking back to the time before I was even born! :lol: You kno...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:50 pm
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Harmonica for mental block insurance.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5738
Re: Harmonica for mental block insurance.
Very few tunes I can think of need the only other missing note down below, the fourth of the scale. Tommy Bhetty's Waltz is one, as is the Ook Pik Waltz and the Dark Island. Put that sixth back with the Paddy tuning and the only tunes you can't have are the few that have awkward accidentals in them....
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
That would be like banning those girlies with the legs and the fluffy skirts who jump up and down at American football games. Nah! Lemmesee... lost what little credibility he had on that on, didn't he :D I've only been silent because I was watching the highlights of the Argentina game in which Lion...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:58 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Lambs to the slaughter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8357
Re: Lambs to the slaughter
That would be like banning those girlies with the legs and the fluffy skirts who jump up and down at American football games. Nah!
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:34 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: conspicuous consumption alert
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4095
Re: conspicuous consumption alert
We have joke public toilets in the UK which have taps so fierce that water sprays all down the front of your trousers when you're washing your hands. That's my excuse anyway.
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:30 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: conspicuous consumption alert
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4095
Re: conspicuous consumption alert
In the north of England, where I come from, "cock" has long been a term of endearment. My brother and I have referred to each other as "cock" for nearly half a century. Also, the expression "it's a cock-up" has no vulgar undertones.
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: conspicuous consumption alert
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4095
Re: conspicuous consumption alert
Exactly. I mean, it isn't a big issue, so why faucet?Nanohedron wrote: I suppose we could make life a lot simpler for ourselves, but so far it hasn't occurred to anyone to bother.
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:45 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: The Beautiful Game
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7508
Re: The Beautiful Game
Wrong side of the mountains, owld tyke!
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:41 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Harmonica for mental block insurance.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5738
Re: Harmonica for mental block insurance.
The main reason is I really missed the 'missing' notes on harmonica, and was baffled by the insane nature of finding chromatics on an Anglo. Missing diatonic notes on a harmonica can be fixed at one fell swoop by adopting the Paddy Richter tuning, which means raising the 3-blow reed by a whole tone...