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Another thing to keep in mind is that those folks lucky enough to live in Ireland have the option of packing up and going across the road to another pub any time things start to go out of skew on treadle. Right. In the USA there's often only one game in town, 1 session in a 50-mile radius, and you ...

I would SO value one of the experienced players giving me a couple of hours of their time to help me along. Maybe I could make some noise a bit more often then. A couple of hours? I also would value that a great deal. Indeed, if I could get a couple hours of the fiddle player's time, I would call t...

Hi etc,

Another great site is musicmoose.org. Free instructional video on a plethora---nay, a panoply of instruments.

Caj

At one point I altered the source to abc2ps so that it accepts abc from standard input, burping PS in standard output, allowing such as: cat *.abc | abcflat | grep -i "K:edor" | abcfat -r | abc2ps = > eDorianChunes.ps ...but now I can't find that version. I'll have to do it again. abcm2ps...

About three years ago a professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville was fired because the 'philosophy of teaching' statement in his application for tenure was found to be someone else's. This first part sounds like there's more to it. In my area, the "philosophy of teaching"...

I wrote some simple commands in C, called abcflat and abcfat, for Unix text processing of ABC files. Abcflat simply takes an ABC file and squeezes each tune onto a single line. Abcfat reverses it to get back the original. Abcfat can renumber the tunes as it lays them out, and abcflat can add fields ...

Howdy howdy,

I was just wondering if you could comment on the feel of the MIDI box, i.e. its responsiveness and accuracy relative to regular concertinas.

Caj

As a melody player there's nothing worse than trying to play a tune with someone plonking along on guitar who doesn't know the tunes and hasn't immersed themselves in the idiom There's one thing worse: a plonker who simply cannot be corrected. We welcome and encourage all newcomers, but once in a w...

"This is a mighty fine session, I think I'll come here every week."

--From the song "The Spoons Murder."

back on planet ireland now, just had delicious fry-up and drank tons of water/coffe ready to face the world, the all ireland hurling final is on today I had to read this twice. My first reaction was "What a strange country" :lol: My first reaction was, "what a lovely way to describe ...

One does not have to have sessions at pubs. House sessions are allowed. Then you only have to get the wife's permission. :o If you start a public session, it wouldn't hurt to have a house session too, to help the musicians get on the same page. One other piece of advice is to keep doing it. I spent...

And this site dispels some myths.. [...] http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul00/articles/faqacoustic.htm Great link, thanks. I think the concertina sounds a lot better in a reverberant room, and I'm not alone. I'd hate to soundproof a practice room by putting up foam that ruins the reverberant prope...

I roll my own, it's a lot cheaper and theres less waste. When i'm having a cigarette and my darling daughter starts shouting for some thing I can put it down and it goes out instead of burning down to the butt and setting fire to the ash tray. that has got to be one of the most disgusting smells ev...

When I was in grad school, some students at the nearby seminary got onto a pipe kick and started smoking pipes in the grad student bar. My immediate reaction to the smoke was, "cripes, they smell like that store in the mall that sells crystal dragons and monogrammed golf club covers." I do...

I can also recognize one pitch: concert F, or C on a French horn. Before I had a good sense of pitch, I'd warm up by homing in on the concert F and then Bb.