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- Mon Aug 16, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: Experience with Gliga Violins? Advice for first fiddle buy.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6233
Re: Experience with Gliga Violins? Advice for first fiddle buy.
I just found out the violin has the following type on the label "nelle officine GLIGA Fecit Anno 458.11.2002 " and I'm told it is a Gems model Gliga. The current price of the Gems 2 is $458 USD and Gems 1 $338. I'm starting to think that $300 AUD is too much for a 6 year old Gems Model. Y...
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:46 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Well known players who can't read music
- Replies: 67
- Views: 7117
Re: Well known players who can't read music
Brian Finnigan from Flook doesn't read the dots, but uses ABC to some extent when noting down new tunes. He doesn't give the correct length to notes though (or didn't in his workshops I attended), so you have to have heard the tune to play it right. Turlough O'Carolan was a bit of a harpist by all a...
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:59 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Cat Friendly house
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3016
Re: Cat Friendly house
I presume this sort of house is for people who can't let their cats outdoors? It might be cheaper to move to a more cat-friendly neighbourhood. Our cat is easily entertained by our moving furniture about, or placing a new bag, newspaper or cushion on the floor. He'll always sit on something rather t...
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:54 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Best way to propose? :D
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5865
Re: Best way to propose? :D
Congratulations Brian! Excellent news!
- Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:26 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: On style, tunes, ornimentation, timing.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2778
Re: On style, tunes, ornimentation, timing.
Take Nellie the Elephant - you can play it as a march, jig or waltz.I.D.10-t wrote:I think some tunes have even changed their rhythm to go from one dance to another, from reel to hornpipe.
- Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:44 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 6252
Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
No idea, though I was 2 years and 11 months old. It just doesn't feature in my memories at all. Maybe we didn't have a TV.
- Wed May 06, 2009 10:24 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: I am going to Ireland! Tips, suggestions?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2323
Re: I am going to Ireland! Tips, suggestions?
Celtpastor wrote:
- Doolin and the cliffs of Moher are worth visiting, too, and You'll find great music. However, it's become veeery touristic and commercial...
The Coaches of Moher
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:51 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: We all hate these, but...considering concertina
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17568
Re: We all hate these, but...considering concertina
They've coloured notes which appear in more than one place.Trip- wrote:
I have checked the C/G layout.
http://www.concertina.net/images/mws_cg_color_note.jpg
I have no idea why they colored only part of the same notes.
- Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:50 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: British Slang
- Replies: 93
- Views: 14136
Re: British Slang
One picks these things up hanging with t' fast & t' furious Morris Dancers.SteveShaw wrote:Your fount of erudition never fails to amaze me, Martin.
- Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:12 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: British Slang
- Replies: 93
- Views: 14136
Re: British Slang
I don't speak British but I do know that "whack off" means to fire somebody. I heard this in one of my classes where somebody said, "and he was whacked off." I was like, "Whaaa?" I always thought whacking off was something else... Ditto. I think someone's been pulling ...
- Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:26 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Good affordable tape recorder
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6923
Re: Good affordable tape recorder
:lol: :lol: I have no idea what they call them these days. My guess is that they have digital now? The sad thing is that I am 21. :tomato: Digital Recorders. I'm not sure you'd find any decent quality machines that still use tape to record on. Regarding the slowing down of recordings during playbac...
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:29 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: An interesting day in good ol' NorCal
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2348
Re: An interesting day in good ol' NorCal
Some places still can't take cards this evening. It's amazing just how dependent we are on technology anymore. Redwolf If a mere six optic fibres being severed can cause this much havoc, they'd be a great target for terrorist attacks. I hope NorCal and the world learn from this and provide better b...
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:27 am
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: I am not holding my violin right
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8354
Re: I am not holding my violin right
Sorry to hear you're having such problems Duben. I returned to the fiddle about six years ago after a 20-something year break, and it took several adjustments before I found a comfortable set-up. Part of the reason for giving up in the first place was that I never felt comfortable playing. The spong...
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Where's the best place to sit at a session?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1845
Re: Where's the best place to sit at a session?
You forgot to put an option for:
Next to the Guitar Player who thinks this is a jazz session
and
Next to the Fiddle/Flute player who is bound to prang you at least once with their bow/flute
Next to the Guitar Player who thinks this is a jazz session
and
Next to the Fiddle/Flute player who is bound to prang you at least once with their bow/flute
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:51 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Do you wear (or carry) a watch?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4777
Re: Do you wear (or carry) a watch?
I have lost at least two expensive wristwatches because I hate wearing one, and tended to take them off whenever possible and leave them lying around. They always irritate my wrist, causing sweating and chafing, and catching hairs. Since losing the last one I haven't carried a watch at all, my mobil...