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Just to let You know: Finally made it to get the "Squashbox"-CD, even though it's been oop for quite some time. Well - usually, I don't really like fieldrecordings, and also, I haven't been into African music (so far) - but this album is reeeeaaaly GREAT stuff! Strongly recommend it! :thum...

In Germany, we all have health-insurance that covers everything for everyone, so all that heart&cancer charity is useless here. School and universities as well are almost entirely financed by taxes, so no need for foundraising either. Charity does happen here too, though! Last year's winter, e.g...

- just because something has been said many times , it dosen't make it a fact. :love: I like that way of thinking - basically my reason to question the "Hungarian" theory. ;-) However - what speaks for it would, as You said, be that local Folk-lore has it so. Even though the ideas about w...

Yes - but then again, wouldn't it seem more probable, since fragments of the mediterranean-caucasian-type of droneless doublechantered pipes dated to - what was it? 14th century? -have been found in France pretty near to Gascogne, that the Bouha derived - as argumented maaany postings before - direc...

What do You think, why it lost the drone?

thats said the 'everything has been done before' argument is very very damaging, nothing else is so capable of insuring that nothing new gets done, its defeatism and its bad philosophy. I have to agree. Better you should acknowledge what's been done, take it, and go further. Well, that's actually j...

Stuff like that has been done before, back in the 90ies! Check some of the later albums of the very unfortunately late Scottish Piper&Fiddler Martyn Bennet! There's nothing new under the sun...

Wasn't there even a theory, that the V-tenor-drone(s)-stock was actually there first, and the bass-drone is just a later addition? :-? However - afaik, the Gaita is a much older instrument than GHB, though both have gone through significant changes within the last centuries (I always find it so CUUU...

Here in East-Friesland, we have the coldest winter for something like a decade - snow since three weeks now and not seeming to disappear. And everyone (including me) seems to enjoy it! Wintertires on my car, "Paddyrasta"-CD in the stereo, handbrake in the bends - theeeere You go!!! And if ...

I'm looking for CDs of truly gifted and courageously arranging Cajun/Zydeco Boxplayers. I'm a big fan e.g. of Chris Ardoin, some of the stuff of Keith Frank, also Steve Riley veeery much (though I find his arrangements yet too trad.). I just adore the sound of the traditional Cajun/Zydeco box (not t...

aaaah - that's the one! Silly me...
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...call me stupid, but I don't find anywhere to download those Kwela-CDs - please help me out!

...just as the topic says: I am searching for South-African music on Concertina&Whistle, preferred instrumental. I don't mean "Boerenmusiek", but rather more vivid stuff. What can You recommend? Thx in advance!

...just as the topic says: I am searching for South-African music on Concertina&Whistle, preferred instrumental. I don't mean the "Boerenmusiek", but rather more vivid stuff. What can You recommend? Thx in advance!

Sorry, but I don't get that - if You take DECENT (= in working condition) UP-parts, not those from Pakistan, they're waaay more expensive than those of entire, simpler sets of NSPs!