grip

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 2:53 pm

hehehehe, loren, you brought this on yourself buddy....

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:01 pm

Is it a plane? is it a bird, golly no, NO, it's..it's....

RECORDER-MAN!!!!

RUN AWAY!! RUN AWAY!!

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:15 pm

Loren, I'm ok with you making recorders. Don't pay attention to these brutes, they're not secure in their manhood, obviously. But the lacy shirts with the puffy sleeves?? Aren't you overdoing it, my friend?
Tony

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:25 pm

Sure, laugh it up now wise guys.....

"No Whistles for you!!!"

Loren

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:53 pm

Well, I'm pretty much of a liberal, y'know... So, hey the guy makes rexxxxers, wears lacy shirts with the puffy sleeves (don't fight it, we just had written testimony) and all... I mean, whatever his phantasy, right?

However, this PLUS confessed Bostonian? Like, baroque reXXXXXrs, okay fine.

Now, Bostonian Blurdy Baroque Blockflute Builder may seem over the border.

please, spare the guy, help him out--see, if my daughter told me "Dad, I'm gonna marry a B5", sure I'd bless her

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:18 am

See, now, I'm going to be nice to Loren. That way, when he goes into the flutemaking business for himself, for a little practice on his techniques he'll take the dogwood branches curing in my back yard and make me a lovely flute, all for free! And the rest of you will just have to be jealous. Don't worry, though -- I'll rub it in plenty!!

Loren, you will do it for free, won't you? Don't make me look bad here, man!

Steven

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:37 am

Steven wrote:See, now, I'm going to be nice to Loren. That way, when he goes into the flutemaking business for himself, for a little practice on his techniques he'll take the dogwood branches curing in my back yard and make me a lovely flute, all for free! And the rest of you will just have to be jealous. Don't worry, though -- I'll rub it in plenty!!

Loren, you will do it for free, won't you? Don't make me look bad here, man!

Steven

Free for you Steven, and none for those curs who mock me mercilessly - Laugh now insolents, hmph!

How long has that Dogwood been cut, or at least felled? Might be wise to send it to me soon, so I can rough turn and bore it for seasoning purposes, or at least give you the specs to have it cut to seasoning size billets locally.

Loren

amar · Post by **amar** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:43 am

that's how they are, the recorder-mans
forgetting their friends. haaarumph.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:56 pm

Loren wrote:Free for you Steven, and none for those curs who mock me mercilessly - Laugh now insolents, hmph!

How long has that Dogwood been cut, or at least felled? Might be wise to send it to me soon, so I can rough turn and bore it for seasoning purposes, or at least give you the specs to have it cut to seasoning size billets locally.

Loren

Too cool! The branch came down in the fall, and it's been outside since then (hadn't occurred to me to use it for much other than firewood). I'll have a look at it this weekend to see what kind of pieces there are (how long the straight bits are, etc.), then maybe put them in the shed.

Steven

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:49 pm

Too cool! The branch came down in the fall, and it's been outside since then (hadn't occurred to me to use it for much other than firewood). I'll have a look at it this weekend to see what kind of pieces there are (how long the straight bits are, etc.), then maybe put them in the shed.

What's this? Loren's making you a recorder out of your firewood? Cool. Hey Loren, can I send you my flutophone to get tweaked? So, like, do you advocate tonguing every note on those Morris dances?
Tony

NicoMoreno · Post by **NicoMoreno** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:04 pm

I envy you Loren...

I would have loved to become an apprentice in a musical instrument shop... or at least learn to make instrumentst somewhere...

Good luck!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:11 pm

Umm...Amar? My grip is kind of what you described. Upper hand is just below the pads.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:43 pm

Bloomfield wrote:You know, there's an awful lot to be said
for this Irish traditional
folk music and folklore, because
first of all
you have to learn it
and first you must learn the Talk
and then you must learn the Grip
and after that you must learn the Truckly-How
and then
you have the whole lot
only just to keep on practising it.

Because
Seamus Ennis knows far more about this
than even the old Folk Lordy-Lordy themselves.
Because Seamus Ennis
once met a little Lebrashoneen Truckly-How
at the bottom of the Garden Doth and up the Garden Path
which came up from that,
in the Limeretti-Lumeretti Hillhockers,
before the Earthian Throe,
before the Leprashonerian -
long before the Argay Foray -
and that was in the Deep Pond Doom
before the Emerald Isle was dropped...

in the water.

(Seamus Ennis)

Thanks Bloomfield. I just love the recording I have of that. Last time I listened to it my mom was in the car with me. After the first few lines, she said "What in the world is THAT???" By the time he got to "the old Folk-Lordy-Lordy" she burst out laughing and laughed through the rest. When she got words back she said that she only understood a bit of it , but what she understood was just too funny.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:19 pm

amar wrote:that's how they are, the recorder-mans
forgetting their friends. haaarumph.

And WHO started this???

Loren

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:23 pm

NicoMoreno wrote:I envy you Loren...

I would have loved to become an apprentice in a musical instrument shop... or at least learn to make instrumentst somewhere...

Good luck!

Thanks!

Hey man, nothing to stop you from taking a similar path if it's what you really want.......well, you can't have MY job

, but you know what I'm saying. Lot's of hard work and sacrifice involved, but it's doable if your heart is in it.

Best,

Loren