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In case anyone is interested, Mike Rafferty will be giving flute instruction at the Chris Langan Weekend this year. http://www.chrislangan.ca/

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OK this is getting complicated. I bought one of Lesl's books--hasn't got here yet. I also asked him to find out what tunes M.F. will be teaching this summer at the Augusta Harastage Festival in West Virginia. I plan on going because I live one mountain range over from there. So now you people talk about making a CD with Mike playing.
Well it might be of interest to someone that I just bought a $3500 professional camcorder, JVC GR-HD1. I bought it because this guy at <http://hoosierfc.com> and I intend to make a DVD for youth soccer traning this spring. I am at <www.youth-soccser.com> . It will go along with a book I have had on the market for 8 years or so ("Teaching Soccer Fundamentals). In any case, I will be at the festival and by then I will have, I hope, expertees in DVD makeing. Of course, CD's are lower fadelity and I will be able to make them too.
I would hate doing that, but it might be fun for someone else who will be at the Augusta this summer. They can use my equipement.

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Nelson meet lesl
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Great work, Lesl! Just got my copy of the book from Ossian, and it's a veritable treasure trove. Thanks for what must have been a true labor of love.
On the subject of MR, I also (finally) got Speed 78--what a beautiful record!
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Thank you Denny for the photo :D Yes that's me.. if only I could get the mic's out of my face..

Just a note to say the postmistress has informed me that the books take average a week to 2 weeks for delivery on media mail, not 3-4 days as quoted on the post office web site. :x Sorry about that folks. Anyone who hasn't yet ordered could have it sent priority mail with $5 shipping instead of $3.

We have gone onto the 2nd printing which I just picked up on Fri. Proceeds now going to the 3rd printing.

Please anyone remember to ask permission before filming at a summer camp. There's a video of Mike playing 2 of the tunes in the book on this link (scroll 1/2 way down the page)
http://www.comhaltas.com/seisiun/video.htm
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lesl wrote:Thank you Denny for the photo :D Yes that's me.. if only I could get the mic's out of my face..
Sorry! :oops: It was late here and I used the first one I could find...
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As if your Master Index could be wrong! It's only the most exhaustively annotated thing in my music library .... :-)

Anyway, those would be the two tunes in question, but alas, I don't have my Harker Bible --er, Lesl's book -- with me to confirm the page #.

Thanks for the link, L. That's cool!

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Most summer camps (Augusta among them) are perfectly happy with students making audio recordings of their classes. In fact, they encourage it. Not so with video recording, though. Most camps (Augusta among them, at least the last time I was there - and I doubt they've changed their policy) expressly forbid video recordings without the permission of both the instructor and the camp director. The obvious reason for this is that while audio recordings can be done fairly unobtrusively, video is a major distraction to the class. You can imagine what it would be like if every student was jockeying for a camera angle to record that quick finger ornament for posterity...

So if you're serious about making a DVD of Mike Rafferty while you're at Augusta, I suggest that you contact both him and the Augusta office well in advance and get their okay for the project. Don't just show up with a camera and expect to be able to do it.
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Mike's recordings are apparently now extremely rare and valuable:

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Dangerous-Reel- ... dZViewItem
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bensdad wrote:Mike's recordings are apparently now extremely rare and valuable:

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Dangerous-Reel- ... dZViewItem
What the heck?!?!?!?!?!? Man, I'm going to start look at my record collection a little differently from now on. . .

I have some old out of print stuff if anybody has 80 bucks they want to part with. And that's just the cd's. Wait'll you see what I'm charging for vinyl!!

(Okay forgive me, I've been with my second grade class all day, with too much suger, and the sarcasm has been building up in me to toxic levels. It was bound to come out sooner than later. I'm so sorry. But I feel a bit better now!)

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You think that's impressive, look what he wants for a Madonna CD!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... _Stores_IT

Wow. Is it hand-delivered by the Material Girl herself?
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Jeez, my sister used to have that album. I wonder if she does and she'll let her poor brother sell it for her. :twisted:

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bensdad wrote:Mike's recordings are apparently now extremely rare and valuable:

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Dangerous-Reel- ... dZViewItem
US $79.98 ??? :lol: :lol:
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Philippe Varlet has it for $16.99.
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chas wrote:Philippe Varlet has it for $16.99.
Do you mean he lists it, or he actually has it in stock and/or can get it? There's a difference sometimes, alas.
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