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vomitbunny wrote:When you play very fast, the wrong notes don't last as long.

They do in your mind, though.

"Save police time - beat yourself up".

There is not a great deal you can do about it. Some days I wake up to discover that my hands have been replaced by two bunches of bananas, and on other days I appear to have inherited Yehudi Menuhin's hands. On the banana-hand days you have to follow the example of British politicians who are embroi...

Thanks for that Denny. I know Lark well but the Pablo Salcedo site is interesting. I'll check it in the morning. (It's late here now).

Thanks Mitch. I'd come across that one already and will probably give it a whirl, but all other suggestions are extremely welcome.

This is a bit of a shot in the dark but, does anyone know anyone who makes good moxenos??

(Early panic for forthcoming gig).

Too late.

He's had a house there for years.

I know. I've suffered the headaches.

I'd worry less about speed than about keeping proper rhythm, even if it's slow. Speed will come with time, but bad rhythm habits are hard to correct. Use a metronome! Absolutely right!! Metronomes have their uses in that (if, for example, you are practising a difficult bit in a classical concerto) ...

Alright, the "Chiffie Post Award" goes to the first person who can logically tie the subject of ice cream men back to the playing of the musical pennywhistle. :lol: I play the odd couple of notes on the whistle, now and then, and I've had the privilege of playing with a few "musician...

Check this out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087072/

dear folks: a while back, i started a thread asking for new and exciting ways to use our whistles for evil. river otter was one of the folks who responded and mentioned tricking the neighborhood kids by impersonating on his whistle, the ice cream man. how about we keep track of how many kids we tri...

I will gladly deliver Mr. Hardy to any address you care to suggest, provided it is outside the United Kingdom.

Roger O'Keeffe wrote:i'm still looking for a metronome that doesn't slow down :o during the easy bits and speed up :swear: during the hard bits of tunes :lol: .

Curiously enough, these "variable-speed" metronomes seem to be very popular amongst classical violinists of my acquaintance.

CelloDog wrote:Isn't this what those Tabor whistles are for?
8)

If you want to board a train in rush-hour London, a cello in a flightcase makes an excellent battering ram.

Believe me - I know.

If you are forced to "de-train" at London Bridge station in the rush hour (as I am, from time to time), you will find yourself swept along in a sea of besuited drones all with their heads down and, increasingly, lost in an alternative i-pod universe. Check the BBC news at around 8am (GMT) ...

Re. the "be" prefix, I also enjoy its uses. In the UK, barristers are "bewigged", sailors and freelance musicians are, frequently, "becalmed" (thespians, however, are "resting") and drones are "besuited". Currently I am fiscally "bereft". H...