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The double holes on a recorder have a flat space to make it easy to cover one and not the other. This isn't possible on a whistle, which has a much thinner wall. The answer on the whistle is to half-hole the Eflat. The hole is generally large enough that with just a little practice doing that is jus...

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This isn't likely a "divided by a common language" thing, but it's something that bothers me. I saw a movie a month or two ago, can't remember the name. It's about a team that goes out to look into a space ship that's gone incommunicado. There's some sort of scientist who helped design the...

I'm a little late to the party, but here's my 2 cents. I have a 9x20 JET metalworking lathe to make fittings, cut slides, and to turn the tube to just about the final OD. I do smooth things out with a straight chisel on the wood lathe and do just a bit of sanding. The lathe weighs about 250 lb/110 k...

Oh, the usual. You know, struck by a car in a grocery store parking lot a couple months ago, knocked 20 feet through the air, landed flat on my back, TBI, skull broken in two places. Other than that, couldn't be better. Good grief. Hope you're well on the mend! I just found out the fully keyed C fo...

Oh, the usual. You know, struck by a car in a grocery store parking lot a couple months ago, knocked 20 feet through the air, landed flat on my back, TBI, skull broken in two places. Other than that, couldn't be better. I just found out the fully keyed C foot for my boxwood Olwell is coming in Janua...

I just heard the news myself. He was one of a kind.

First, I'd suggest tuning to the G rather than the A. The A is one of the notes that's sometimes compromised, basically due to the size of the human hand (the tone hole has to be very small). Have you checked whether the second-octave d is closer to in-tune if you don't vent the top hole? I've had f...

Several years ago I occasionally got something akin to small areas of poison ivy on my lower lip, which would last for a couple of days to a couple of weeks at a time. That turned out to be from a cocobolo whistle that I was playing. Fortunately I haven't had it from any other rosewoods, and I much ...

It's nothing like sassafras, as it's closer to a ground cover than a tree. It's only maybe 4"/10 cm high, three compound leaves with usually 7 leaflets. Here's a pretty good pic of it in bloom. The little corona-like blooms will become dark purple to black berries. (damn, it's been a really lon...

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 4:15 pm Interesting. I was under the impression that sarsaparilla came from places like the Philippines, and was in danger of over-harvesting.

I didn't mean to imply that; my bad. You're correct, and the East Coast plant called sasparilla isn't related (I don't think).

Have you ever checked the ingredient list? I'm curious. I'm guessing I can get honest-to-goodness sarsaparilla in the States, but it's going to be a specialty with limited availability, considering the plant's tropical source and how prevalent its substitute, sassafras-based root beer, is. I have n...

Well, smack my ass and call me Sally. The broadcast on Friday said it was the last broadcast and we'd have to subscribe to Peacock. I looked it up, and everything I found said Peacock only. I'd set the DVR to record the Tour, and I've gotten the last two days. Watching (on delay) the climb of the Pu...

Thanks, Prof. Gumby. I can't even access TG4 from the US. I'm really shocked that we can't get the Tour on broadcast or cable here. It'd be like not being able to get the World Cup in Europe. Oh, right, that's the plan. :moreevil: ETA: comparing cycling in the US and football in Europe is, of course...

I'm watching evidently the last stage of the Tour available on cable. The further stages are only available on Peacock. I don't mind paying for Peacock for a few weeks, but I have a question that I can't find an answer for on the Google Machine. Can one watch live sporting events on delay? I'm not g...