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Well, make a point of passing your tapes on with your photos when you go. Both should be known some day as "The Peter Laban Collection".

Peter, I suspect that if you ever sat down and digitized your library of ad hoc recordings, you'd make the internet very happy indeed.

Congratulations! You must be pleased.

I daresay that my "chante" sounds very little like Richard's, and quite unlike my "shan't". The French words "chant" and "chante" mean different things and are pronounced quite differently, and Richard was talking about the former. Richard's not talking about...

The use of marginally-relevant stock photos seems to be increasingly common in even supposedly quality publications these days. It's a function of the content management systems that news sites use to lay out their pages. All the actual content is served up from databases into a static layout templ...

I must admit, I haven't heard any speaker of English replicate that French "a" sound in an English word. Don't think I have, anyway ... I think Richard's point is that while Americans have neither the French nor the British A sounds, they use the same substitute for both, which means that...

Peter Duggan wrote:Ah, missed that...

s1m0n wrote:We don't have the vowel that brits put into "shan't".

What, no 'ah' sound?

It's the first thing that Americans try to imitate - and get wrong - when they try to affect an english accent.

Except we don't really say "shan't" much. It's more a word we read. Americans are unlikely to use "shan't" at all. We tend to prefer "shouldn't." I don't know why...maybe we find that "shouldn't" is a little more open-ended? I think that "won't" is ...

Well, there isn't really a "t" sound as such in the French word "chant". Now I'm curious. How does it sound in french, to you? ~~ Ah. Perhaps we should be distinguishing between "chant" (song) and "chante" (sing). You're right, the verb form has a more promin...

French chant is pronounced more or less like English shan't , etc. Eh? Do you just mean the initial "ch"? 'Cos the rest of the word is radically different ... Not over here. Except we don't really say "shan't" much. It's more a word we read. But if we say it, it's very like &quo...

Congratulation! It looks like a handsome flute. What's with the bottle wrench?

John Driscoll wrote: I reluctantly sent both flutes back to Chris today, as I don't have the funds available.

Did CN know went he sent out the flutes that you were just tire-kicking, or did you let him think you were a potential customer?

Perhaps, but it makes little practical difference.

These are mostly unstruments, I'm afraid. Or at least, I've never found one that could be played in tune or in any other instrument's company. I don't know anyone making music-quality versions of a bamboo whistle. They're cheap tourist-trade tat, IMO - a souvenir to hang on your wall.

Peter Duggan wrote: So, never mind the thread drift, has anyone got what I asked for?

Sorry. I think you'll have to make your own.