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Spoons Jacob Nicely done. That's good going for 3 years at it,did you play anything before. It has a feel of Coalman and 1920's Irish American to me. Great feel 2 it. Is there a dog joining in, they seem to be 'SPOT' on too? More please. And keep the dog in. Re the flute. Very very tricky for me to...

Here's a clip of me playing a reel I composed earlier this year called the Perfect Cadence, also Rika's reel after my girlfriend (or exgirlfriend as of 28 october >_<). I wrote it for a music theory class so I had to add all sorts of fancy key changes but I kept them within a flute's normal key rang...

The world needs more things like this.

Thanks for the answers. It seems that no one is fond of "coughing". But I guess it's just a matter of individual preferences. I don't really see the negative sides of it, maybe someone would enlighten me? I don't "cough" on whistle (do on harmonica tho, because I vamp with tongu...

I thought the term violin was of Italian origin, and fiddle of Germanic origin. But I'm no entomologist . :wink: Germanic includes English, as was said. English is a Germanic language. Sorry that's a bit of a pet peeve of mine- people referring to native English (ie Anglo-Saxon) words as "Germ...

this is not a thread to discuss the latin etymology of "in" versus old german etymology of "in". Awwwww......... talasiga! :( :cry: Spoilsport! O course Latin has the preposition "in" meaning much the same as the Germanic, which is also used as a prefix ( in clusive, i...

awildman wrote:Is that because the sheet music tells them to do that?

No, that's just the problem, it doesn't, actually. But it's what they're used to hearing/seeing. I've seen it too.

Flyingcursor wrote:

djm wrote:No, it's still a concertina and sounds like crap.

djm

I was going to invite you to the upcoming concertina, accordian, harmonica festival but never mind.

No banjo?

Jack wrote:
Some Quakers have birthdays, others don't. It just depends.

Mm. What is the reason?

I'm late, but, Happy Birthday dude! Hope you had a great one. Quakers don't do birthdays?

wow... I love it.

Jerry Freeman wrote:

Congratulations wrote:Oh participles! How you dangle so!

My favorite:

My mother said on the phone many years ago, "I saw two deer today, driving across the Iowa countryside!"

Best wishes,
Jerry

Clearly we should all be speaking Latin. Completely unambiguous.

The first is hilarious. "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra". I recommend it highly if you like cheesy 1950s sci-fi.

I've been meaning to see that one. Thanks

Lemme just say, to any new whistler or otherwise ITM player, I've never bought a tunebook for money and I never intend to (except for copyrighted material, say). I'm sure I'll break that rule eventually but I've been at it for a few years and it's served me just right.