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I would also suggest coming out to the session at Dora Keogh's (on the Danforth just across the DVP, Sunday evenings, about 5-9) and introduce yourself to the session leaders (Ena O'Brien and Debbie Quigley; Patrick and Julie Ourceau are also often there), and ask the question there of the flute pla...

I hate to even suggest this, but you aware of a condition called "focal dystonia" (also called writers or musicians cramp)?
You might want to do some reading to find out more, and make sure this is not what is happening.

m.

When is your 10th anniversary?? Three or four years from now?? If not, my advice, FWIW, is to give your wife a wonderful smaller gift and a card saying you'll pay for (and this really means put her on the waiting list, unless you come across a good second hand set on somewhere like Uilleann Obsessio...

Brian's class was wonderful last year, but this year I'm going with Benedict and Debbie! What a great group of pipers this year! I can't wait!! See you there,
Marg

Neil, I'll be there - what classes are you thinking of signing up for?
Marg

You could also contact Alison Lupton, a lovely flute player and singer from Cambridge, ON
http://allisonlupton.com

Matt wrote: >Even though I have to wait until 2009 to play them, I will keep reading up on the in's and out's to get better acquainted with the pipes!< I might suggest that your waiting time would be even better spent listening, rather than reading! Forgive me if you already know this, but it makes ...

You guys must be psychic! I was just watching the series again on CD this weekend. Incredibly, this series was my first introduction to ITM when PBS aired it in about 1987. Growing up in a farming community in 70's rural Saskatchewan, there wasn't much call for Planxty, the Bothy Band or De Dannen -...

As a self-professed workshop junkie (I've driven 12 hours to attend "local" workshops), I find that I get a lot out of workshops, on a couple of levels. As a preface, I am just an intermediate level player on the flute and pipes, but I find that for my level of skill, I benefit from both t...

Thanks for the encouragement! That is kind of what I thought - these once in a lifetime opportunities sometimes change you (and sometimes not!). By the way, I am in southern Ontario (near Toronto) and really know absolutely nothing (yet) about who might be involved with this music here, unfortunatel...

Perfect, thanks! That is very helpful. Incidentally, I am still wondering about the finger reach - the only way I can think of to ask about this is, when I stretch my right hand fingers out fully along a ruler, the tip of my thumbnail on 0 cm, the tip of my little finger reaches 20.5 cm. Any thought...

So, I just called Boxwood and spoke to Chris Norman (!! I thought I'd get an answering machine - I probably woke him up!!). The class standard will be the E tonic banusuri - Chris suggested Anubodh as a supplier - he also suggested that there would be others there with little or no experience - so I...

Oops, keyboard fingers, sorry Talasiga!

<Getting back to your Hariprasad prospectus, how much time do you have before the classes begin? And what is you fluting background in terms of instrument size?> Hi Tsaliga - recognizing that the bansuri is a flute, I did in fact post this inquiry here on the flute forum - it was moved to the folk w...

Just realized today that Hariprasad Chaurasia will be teaching at Boxwood this summer - I love listening to Indian classical music and particularly the bansuri, but I recognize and respect what a complex artform it is - can anyone advise me about the possibilities of learning to play at this late st...