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Absurd, and if I were a shop keeper, I'd laugh. How could they enforce something like that? How could they tell one riff from another? Who's to say any particular riff is copyrighted? The logistics of that exercise in stupidity stagger me. Read it a little more carefully. It appears that there's an...

This was the first hit I got. Am doing other sound work right now, so do not know if this is the tune you mean. There are several options: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/TuneFind?P=The+Dear+Irish+Boy&m=title&W=wide&limit=1000&thresh=5&V=1&M=&L=&K=&find=FIND&...

Criminal!

And now, to add controversy where I shouldn't:

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple. -- which is obvious evidence in favor of Intelligent Design.

Hey thanks a lot folks. I'll attempt to synthesize (?) all this information and put it into a methodical practice session. Let us know what you find works best for you (maybe after a month or two). I don't think that it's a one-size-fits-all kind of thing. As with guitar, a lot depends on simple th...

Wanderer wrote:Last night, I made lemon-apricot chicken.

If you'da called me, I'da been right over--diet or no diet.

peteinmn wrote:I know the article is in English because I can recognize most of the words and some of it even seems to have kind of a sentence structure. But I’ll be damned if I can make heads or tails out of what it means.

Did you listen to the audio? Parts of that resemble English, too.

You can find ABC and dots at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2888 Edited to add: That version is in E minor and runs too low. If you transpose it into B minor and play it on a low G whistle, it works fine. (B minor on a high D whistle is a bit piercing, as it goes up to the second octave...

That's it. I'd recognize it anywhere. Here's a fun thing we can do. In a little while, I'll post a literal English translation of a poem in Chinese, and we'll let people have a go at translating it into readable English. So as to not influence each other, I'll lock the thread and people can email t...

DaleWisely wrote:Now we need a flute poem. This is from Li Po, 8th century.

Do you have a link to a Chinese version?

Hey thanks a lot folks. I'll attempt to synthesize (?) all this information and put it into a methodical practice session. Let us know what you find works best for you (maybe after a month or two). I don't think that it's a one-size-fits-all kind of thing. As with guitar, a lot depends on simple th...

Now that I have mentioned a half dozen styles, I will sit back and wait for the fact checking. About the only thing I can add is regarding distance and grappling. In my Aikido classes we were told that the minimum distance to maintained is about where the hands of the two participants (with almost-...

Afer writing a rather long response, I sat down with my banjo and soon realized that I don't really play exactly as I described it, so I'm starting over with something simpler. My first suggestion is not to try to play too loudly or too fast in the beginning. As burnsbyrne suggested, build up your m...

So, am I the only one that thinks it looks fake? I'm sure I had a beachball that looked just like that. (What was that movie with Elliot Gould?)

Here's my favorite Christmas song for everyone who's going home for the holidays. Christmas Time's A-Comin' by Tex Logan (professor of mathematics at MIT and fiddler with Bill Monroe) Christmas Time's A-Comin' Christmas Time's A-Comin' Christmas Time's A-Comin' And I know I'm goin' home. Snow flake'...

And about Aikido, I'm not as sure that it's one of the most effective systems. I think it would work, but I don't think it would be very effective. I've never practiced much Aikido though so I can't say for sure. From what it looks like, it seems it would do the trick in many situations. Everytime ...