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Wow, very cool!

Personally, I like the following groups and artists: Turlach Boylan The Chieftains Gaelic Storm And for Non-Trad Celtic: Loreena McKennitt Clannad Enya Good stuff. :) I wish I could expand my CD collection more though... I'd like to get a little more variety in there, but my budget tells me not to.

Normally I play my whistle a lot, but currently, I'm really enjoying my fiddling.

Peter Laban Wrote: There is a consensus also that the term 'blind' as referring to these musicians often had a slightly diferent meaning from the one we connect with it these days. 'Blind' was probably a term including people with bad sight. That's the way I think of it; I have severely limited per...

Wow, nifty picture! Tony, it looks like you were really having an excellent time.

Nothing like being out in the boonies close to nature with your whistle.

Wow! The Black Stallion series was THE favorite series of my youth! Great books! I remember when I started collecting them, the originals had started going out of print... I resorted to looking in used books stores, and I managed to get the entire series (except for two books). Read them all like 20...

Too cool Sarah!

Hee hee hee!

Yes, conformational problems can DRASTICALLY affect how good or badly a horse can perform. Secretariat had an abnormally long flexor tendon from his back to his hock (runs down the rumpus of the animal and connects at the hock), and that enabled him to stretch out in full gallop, thus wiping the tra...

True, the Horse Racing Industry is not the greatest; as a true country-cowgirl who's lived on a ranch since she was really young, I know a fair bit about horses. Yes, you don't normally put someone on a horse until they're 3-4yrs old. Of course, that tends to depend on the breed. Morgans (the horses...

First of all I would respectfully like to correct Lothiel, saying that Susatos and Dixons are made or polymer. If not memory fails me they are both made of ABS/PVC kind of plastic. Tony Dixon however makes his luxury modell flutes in eighter polymer or wood. Really? On Tony's site I was sure it sai...

When I saw the previews for it during Derby weekend, I was SOO looking forward to seeing that movie! :D (Haven't seen it yet; have to wait a week or so until it comes to the theatres here) Haven't read the book yet either, but if the movie is great (which, I'm sure it will be- probably better than '...

Congrats!

I have a Susato kildare D that I've had for quite a while, and it was my fav instrument until I got my Dixon (both are plastic/polymer type material). The nice thing I love about plastic/polymer instruments is that they are less touchy when the weather changes. My metal w/wood fipple clarke is soooo...