A house session: The Hamster's Wake
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A house session: The Hamster's Wake
It was pretty good, lots of fire and energy. Drinkies: French wine, English ale, Dutch and American beer, Irish porter, lemonade and tea of some species. Munchies: Spanish cheese, Mexican salsa & chips, Scottish shortbread (homemade), crudités (Frooonch, of course), and good old American brownies (we invented them, you know ) We were a most international bunch, aside from the music itself. There were ten of us, with three flutes, two whistles, three fiddles, a button accordion, a concertina, a mandolin, two guitars, and a cittern. Oh, yes, and two punters.
Our lovely hostess was continually (and needlessly) fretting over her sweet and bumptious Irish Setter, worried that havoc would ensue (as if we weren't taking care of that already), and in the course of his inevitable escape outdoors she voiced a hope that he'd run away for good as he was prone to long stretches of adventuring. Naturally, when I stepped outside for a smoke he was right there and wanted to come in. She fretted some more, and relating the apocryphal tales of bodhrán heads and greyhounds to her, I suggested that if Dylan (for that was the dog's name) was such a handful, she could always make a drum of him. Hilarity ensued, and I gave myself points. The cats were smart and stayed on the cellar stairs where it was safe, staring at the madness of humans. Who knows what the cockatiel thought.
Our hostess also brought us the sad news that one of the household's menagerie -a hamster- had gone to his Maker that day, and the session was promptly designated a hamster's wake. We all agreed that there was a tune's name in that. I played a bittersweet air for the posthumously dubbed "Binkie" (sorry, Dale), and then the insanity immediately switched back to high gear with some very smoking reels, thanks to the very awesome mandolin player who had wound up driving the session, and rightly. And so the evening went. It was mighty.
I bowed out around midnight as is my habit, and got my usual razzing for it.
Folks, ITMers know how to par-tay.
N
Our lovely hostess was continually (and needlessly) fretting over her sweet and bumptious Irish Setter, worried that havoc would ensue (as if we weren't taking care of that already), and in the course of his inevitable escape outdoors she voiced a hope that he'd run away for good as he was prone to long stretches of adventuring. Naturally, when I stepped outside for a smoke he was right there and wanted to come in. She fretted some more, and relating the apocryphal tales of bodhrán heads and greyhounds to her, I suggested that if Dylan (for that was the dog's name) was such a handful, she could always make a drum of him. Hilarity ensued, and I gave myself points. The cats were smart and stayed on the cellar stairs where it was safe, staring at the madness of humans. Who knows what the cockatiel thought.
Our hostess also brought us the sad news that one of the household's menagerie -a hamster- had gone to his Maker that day, and the session was promptly designated a hamster's wake. We all agreed that there was a tune's name in that. I played a bittersweet air for the posthumously dubbed "Binkie" (sorry, Dale), and then the insanity immediately switched back to high gear with some very smoking reels, thanks to the very awesome mandolin player who had wound up driving the session, and rightly. And so the evening went. It was mighty.
I bowed out around midnight as is my habit, and got my usual razzing for it.
Folks, ITMers know how to par-tay.
N
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Well, Binkie may have gone to the big wheel in the sky,but it sounds like he had a hell of a send off!
I just had a thought,if it had been Wintertime and he'd hibernated,then 'revived'(as has been known with Hamsters),he could have been a rodent 'Tim Finnegan'!
I just had a thought,if it had been Wintertime and he'd hibernated,then 'revived'(as has been known with Hamsters),he could have been a rodent 'Tim Finnegan'!
"I blame it on those Lead Fipples y'know."
Re: A house session: The Hamster's Wake
And the tune itself? Where is that? Please deliver.Nanohedron wrote: Our hostess also brought us the sad news that one of the household's menagerie -a hamster- had gone to his Maker that day, and the session was promptly designated a hamster's wake. We all agreed that there was a tune's name in that.
A mighty description of a mighty time!
Carol
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Carol, I don't know the name of it. It resurfaced recently from my memory, a tune played on a flat set in, I believe, B, and haunting on the pipes. I can't say I did it such justice. Basically in Em, then the turns end in Gmaj. Great tune, and it gave me the opportunity to be a ham.
Carol, I don't know the name of it. It resurfaced recently from my memory, a tune played on a flat set in, I believe, B, and haunting on the pipes. I can't say I did it such justice. Basically in Em, then the turns end in Gmaj. Great tune, and it gave me the opportunity to be a ham.
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Re: A house session: The Hamster's Wake
...You know, I really should learn to read sometime. :roll:cskinner wrote:And the tune itself? Where is that? Please deliver.Nanohedron wrote: Our hostess also brought us the sad news that one of the household's menagerie -a hamster- had gone to his Maker that day, and the session was promptly designated a hamster's wake. We all agreed that there was a tune's name in that.
A mighty description of a mighty time!
Carol
Why, The Hamster's Wake, of course! Only nobody's composed it yet.
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By George, you might be on to something here, Kevin! It always works for me...temporarily, of course; the morning after, I still wind up feeling dead.kevin m. wrote:I'm sure that a 'drop of the Crator' would be mighty medicinal!Nanohedron wrote:Ah, sure, and 'twould have been the Music for putting the breath back into him.
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