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The books below have been sold. A couple of lovely books of Airs that need a new home... Walton's 110 Ireland's Best Slow Airs, with the 2 CDs of the lot; Airs & Melodies (very) Peculiar to the Highlands... (Simon Fraser collection) (spiral bound, Mel Bay edition). $30 for both, including postage

Here's a range of Susato whistles I'm not using, and prices. All are like new, and include slip cases. Post is $5.00 per shipment Priority Mail, in case you want to buy more than one...grin. Please respond via email: lenf(at)godsfool.org (at = @) All models are Kildare, black, 2-piece tunable, no fi...

Most likely I'll plod along with what I've got for now, but the advice will be of help should PC compatibility become a necessity. It sounds like a pretty simple database, so I'd second the idea of plodding along with AppleWorks for the present, or at least as long as it can stay on Macs alone. Fil...

And yes, the whistle does look very much like an original Clarke if the Clarke whistles of the day were unfinished, ie. silver in color. So, of course, I'll email them and try to find out. :-) Could you see if the whistle had conical or straight bore? Yes, it's a very clear conical bore, and the he...

OK, I pulled out the DVD, stuck it in the computer and played the sequences with zoom and pan. The piano self-destructs as Harpo plays some Russian-sounding bits very dramatically. The same false frame is in the piano cabinet as it explodes, crafted to look like a piano string frame but it is strung...

Maybe it would be good to send a detailed email of your wants to Kelischek Workshop, the folks who make the Susato whistles. susato@susato.com Given that they produce the whistles in a range of 22 keys, along with a wild assortment of other instruments, I would guess they could help you along the wa...

This discussion reminds me of something my grandmother told me. When she was a little girl living in the lower East Side of NY, it was a common practice for the oldest child to take piano lessions. He/she would then teach the next oldest, who would teach the next in line etc. In this non-affluent J...

Size, tone, etc. I've come to quite enjoy my sole Bb whistle. On the main C&F site it lists Bb as a standard key, but I've not noted that many firms that have a current model in that key. (And I'm not noting the exact whistle I'm playing at present so as to not slant the replies one way or anoth...

Hi, I. And by watching the finger move and listening to the music one can conclude that it´s not Harpo who is actually playing (at least not live). That goes for many scenes where he´s playing the harp as well. /All the best, Falkbeer Harpo was very musical and as far as I know he did all of his ow...

It's somewhat sad that I'm exicted about buying a Kitchenaid mixer this weekend so we can start making homemade pizza dough and other goodies. What's sad about that?! A KitchenAid gives you freedom to try all sorts of bread recipes you'd never attempt if you had to knead everything by hand. But a f...

Does anyone put out a CD with just Airs? Joannie Madden's Songs of the Irish Whistle vol 2 has a lot of them. But is there anyone else? Thanks. Donn Well, there is the two CD set to accompany Walton's "Ireland's Best Slow Airs," which is, of course, all slow airs, 110 of them. You can buy...

I've searched about but have found no references to which make of whistle Harpo Marx is playing in at least two of the Marx Bros movies. In "Night at the Opera," (1935) he enters the orchestra pit with a whistle in hand. In "Day at the Races," (1937) the whistle (looks like the s...

First thing I'd do is talk to my most friendly banker in the area. They usually have a lot of experience in getting such funding accounts off the ground, and will often do a lot of the paperwork and such gratis. Too, the higher ranked employees likely know some high profile person in the area who wo...

This guy's kinda cute for a mite: http://www.bugwise.net.au/images/250/herbivory_002.jpg Soil-dwelling and herbivorous, though. Looks kinda like a cross between a bunny and a Volkswagen. But, seriously, do you think that all the skin and hair and etc. mites sit around and pass around pictures of hu...

During a year spent in Terre Haute (French phrase meaning "out in the middle of nowhere..."), I rented a beautiful old upright and went on a ragtime tear, even finding an original copy of this rag and several books that contained others by Niebergall and other women composers of the area. ...