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I am horrible at playing any of these, but this is my opinion. The holes are dependent on the key and range and the instrument. Narrow bore forces you up the scale, but then you have to deal with odd sized holes that are hard to half finger. Narrow bore has a weaker octave and you need to let loose,...

Ripley's Believe It or Not My grade school had that in the library. Several volumes, small, approximately 4X6 books of the strange and P.T.Barnum stuff. I didn't need to look it up in the card catalogue, it was past the librarian's desk, three rows back on the left hand side, on top of the shelves ...

I have an Oster, fast feed adj. Keep it clean and oiled, works just fine.

I have the Dixon aluminum body and an Oak. Both are great but opposite ends of the spectrum.Want to bend notes to the pitch you want and play into the third register? Oak. Want a strong bottom octave and intonation that seems to be spot on when you are off? Dixon. As a transverse flute player I like...

I really do not want my kid seeing me come from the machine shop just to plunk down in front of an LED screen. So I picked up my fife and played some tunes I haven't for a long time, but it seemed to be in my fingers,stick, and lips. Mesmerized by my awful transverse flute playing, I offered my favo...

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Hope this helps.
I don't stop by as often. Sorry about the delay

Peter Duggan wrote:I think it's also used for cookware, cutlery and all kinds of things and has never bothered me.

I bet you bake with that stuff too.

Kick back, relax and relearn your flute. Treat each note in that thing like it it is a sweet beautiful thing and the softer you make it the better it becomes. Forcing octaves sounds like force, not like expression, music, or emotion. Learn to play as quietly as possible, and when you need power, it ...

Hops? Rose water?

benhall.1 wrote: You should trust people more, Nano.

To expect that the general population is full of thieves is a certain kind of trust. He has confidence and relies on others to steal his stuff. How much more trusting can one be?

It seems isolated. Ever hand a stranger your camera and ask for a photo? Been offered by a stranger to take your photo? Set a timer and walk away from your device and have it take a photo? A stick will produce a worse picture, but the control of the camera is always yours, either out of a desire of ...

For the non-filter crowd this cone should work well if you use a courser grind. All the oils and silt of a french press. If I am going to make hot chocolate it is going to be Champurrado with a fat tablespoon of instant coffee mixed in at the end. It's going to be more difficult to make now that I ...

Personally, I drink coffee in a ritualistic way formed over years. I'll skip the history of gas stoves and perks automatic drips and the like and tell you what I have found to be my liking. Pour an 8 oz. mason jar into a coffee cone that has appropriate filter. Rinse the jar three times with minimum...

Soju. Most military bases I went to had a liqueur store that sold that stuff. Wonderful earthy flavor that we classified as a "Sit down" drink. Korean vets brought it back along with their extended family and most people that served over there. Being in the military during a time when they...