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You could use a B chromatic harmonica, reverse the slide (so B row button in, C row button out) and pretend you have the equivalent of a B/C box. Not so, unfortunately. You simply haven't got the same possibilities for ornamentation. You are still pushing that button to get the notes of the tune and...

There is something of a vaguely disconcerting sexual allusion in 'vuvuzela' that I can't quite put my finger on...

It was a great slaughtering to watch yesterday :moreevil: But the Aussies were no lambs :D Beautiful football to watch, and I normally don't watch football :shock: Certainly the Germans were good, but the Socceroos were lamentable, so I wouldn't read too much into it just yet. We're getting quite a...

Are we still talking sport?

I love nearly all the old warhorses and never demur from playing 'em. They're warhorses because they're good. I once heard a radio commentator call Dvorak's New World symphony a warhorse. :lol: :lol: :lol: Even the Kesh is a seriously-misunderstood tune. I'm still struggling with Drowsy Maggie, whic...

The trouble is, it seems, you Americans take this football lark so....seriously.

Thanks for reminding me of that brilliantly-tasteless German-baiting ditty, Simon. Wonder if I can find any German controversial forums...could come in handy...

Personally I find it encouraging that the USA had the good sportsmanship to allow the English one goal more than they let them have in 1950 during our last match up. Good for England! Bloody Nora, I'm already an old man and here you are harking back to the time before I was even born! :lol: You kno...

Very few tunes I can think of need the only other missing note down below, the fourth of the scale. Tommy Bhetty's Waltz is one, as is the Ook Pik Waltz and the Dark Island. Put that sixth back with the Paddy tuning and the only tunes you can't have are the few that have awkward accidentals in them....

That would be like banning those girlies with the legs and the fluffy skirts who jump up and down at American football games. Nah! Lemmesee... lost what little credibility he had on that on, didn't he :D I've only been silent because I was watching the highlights of the Argentina game in which Lion...

That would be like banning those girlies with the legs and the fluffy skirts who jump up and down at American football games. Nah!

We have joke public toilets in the UK which have taps so fierce that water sprays all down the front of your trousers when you're washing your hands. That's my excuse anyway.

In the north of England, where I come from, "cock" has long been a term of endearment. My brother and I have referred to each other as "cock" for nearly half a century. Also, the expression "it's a cock-up" has no vulgar undertones.

Nanohedron wrote: I suppose we could make life a lot simpler for ourselves, but so far it hasn't occurred to anyone to bother.

Exactly. I mean, it isn't a big issue, so why faucet?

Wrong side of the mountains, owld tyke!

The main reason is I really missed the 'missing' notes on harmonica, and was baffled by the insane nature of finding chromatics on an Anglo. Missing diatonic notes on a harmonica can be fixed at one fell swoop by adopting the Paddy Richter tuning, which means raising the 3-blow reed by a whole tone...