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That's not a cap. It's just a shadow from the flash.

Hmm. Gives me another idea. How about a cork from a bottle of Patron or comething?

I like the white plastic. To me it kind of gives it a quirky "See, it really is a plumbing pipe" appearance, while also being attractively clean and pure. So rather than cover it, I sought to enhance it just a little. If I could, I would etch silver rings with a nice pattern such as the on...

Is your sampling method valid? Did you check with several "classical" musicians that play ITM? Or check with several ITM players to see if they had classical training? You'll find that some of the best ITM players have indeed received classical training. I'm not trying to slam classical t...

One thing I wonder about with classical musicans, the ones that are really very good, is why they do not sound Irish. I mean, if they are really very good musicians they ought to be able to hear that they do not sound the same with the vibrato and the tonguing and playing rolls as turns etc. So why ...

Too much competition and comparison going on there.

Why not ditch the whistle and learn to accompany him with some other instrument? You could try one of these. I've seen them in person, they sound nice and look great.

http://www.strumstick.com/

Or you could play guitar or bodhran, too.

The Star Spangled Banner

If there's a session while you are visiting, I guess you'll meet me, too.

Consider whale watching or taking a boat out to the Channel Islands.

Enjoy your visit whatever you do. It might be nice in September and maybe even the forest fire will be out by then (burning since July 4).

Try to get the wine tasting on the agenda for team building. Or maybe see if you can go whale watching or out to the Channel Islands. Much better than Disneyland.

A good thing to practice, if you want to do boring, monotonous practicing, is to practice ornaments on the scales. Look for Ryan Dunn's You Tube videos. They're searchable and also they are posted on WhistleThis.com. WhistleThis also has a monthly or so tune to learn and you can go back and learn th...

You could try Casey Burns, too. He makes nice flutes. Not sure what mid-level means. I'm not sure I'd consider his flutes mid level, unless you leave out the tuning slides. But I'd think you'd want at least that much for the second stage of fluting.

http://caseyburnsflutes.com/cat_d.php#dprices

Brit vs. Canadian my money's on the Canadian. I have never seen this show though and if it really was about survival, a camera would last about how long? 2 days max? Best survival movie? The one about the kid who went climbing in Utah and had to cut off his hand when it became trapped under a rock i...

I sent a link to my boyfriend who is annoyed at how many flutes I have. I only have 8.

He's blowing too hard.

The trouble with growing an avocado tree from a seed is that you won't get a good tree. Good, productive avocado trees are grafted to a root stock of a different variety. If the graft part dies, the root stock part will grow, but will not produce good fruit. We have one, about 40' tall, that is grow...

You can learn from sheet music if you want, but if you've forgotten how to read it, it's not really important that you MUST learn to read it again. When you take classical music instruction learning to read music is a MUST, as is learning to play it EXACTLY AS WRITTEN. Folk music just ain't like tha...