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Congratulations. It's all downhill from now on. I have a Lanikai tenor but a different model. You will love it.

Sandy

My Lanikai tenor is about 17 inches and my Martin baritone is closer to 20 on the scale. But as Tim wrote, there is a certain variance with ukes, especially older ones. I tune my tenor to low G as it gives me more leeway than re-entrant tuning for the type of music I play but you can get sets of str...

Excellent. Maybe now (if I practice enough) the ladies in the office of the Vietnamese magazine I write for will stop laughing at me.

Sandy

Very tasty! Liked it a lot.

Sandy

MTGuru wrote:

MTGuru wrote:Added: I crossed posts with IB. Now I've got to take a look.

Is it this thing? ... The PH-20 "Pipe Humming" harmonica? And does that endpiece actually move, or is it just an open tube?

http://www.suzukimusic.co.uk/harmonicas/diatonic.htm

That's the one I was speaking of.

Sandy

Next thing you know TMZ will report he moved from Oxyclean to Oxycontin.

Sandy

Some years ago Suzuki had a slide harmonica. I never tried it but they still list it on their website (or did a few weeks ago).

Sandy

Mukade. great contribution. We don't often see senryu and I miss it.

Sandy

You may have slow fingers but look at poor Eric Clapton. He had slow hands and look what happened to him.
Say, whatever did happen to him?

Sandy

Some years ago Bill Moyers did a special on the song on PBS. I think the DVD is still available in their catalog. As I recall it was quite good with examples from many of the different musical forms mentioned above as well as others.

Sandy

Mel Bay seems to have a whole series of tinwhistle books. I have "You Can Teach Yourself Tinwhistle" and it does NOT have tabs but does have standard notation and fingering schematics at the beginning of appropriate sections where it introduces new notes. (Perhaps this is what you mean by ...

I almost got a tattoo the other day but then the doctor said I wouldn't have to go into radiation treatments yet.

Sandy

Also Las Meninas by Velazquez. Michel Foucault's openng chapter in The Order of Things is based on it.

Sandy

Excellent, Steve. Just what the doctor ordered! (At least for me.)

Sandy

An English professor encouraged me to read Catcher just before he flunked me. :-? Told me I desperately needed some direction and this was one of the books to read to get it. It was a recently published work then and I still haven't read it. Perhaps I should have but I got direction from another sou...