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    Aaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!

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    With my spouse's permission, I ordered the following CD's from the Button Box last week as a Yule gift to myself:

     

    Noel Hill, The Irish Concertina 2

    Mary MacNamara, The Blackberry Blossom

    Chris Timson & Anne Gregson, Peaceful Harbour

     

     

    The box arrived yesterday. My spouse has confiscated AND hidden it until December 21.

     

    My Edgley is on the way to the shop :( (I never ever should have sold that turbo Stagi. Bad Rhomylly, no biscuit. Note to self: buy a backup concertina asap)

     

    I have laryngitis so bad I can't talk, much less sing.

     

    I am going completely nutters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Obit John Langstaff

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    I wanted to add this.

     

    As background, the first act of every Revels performance ends with "Lord of the Dance." At the end of the song, the cast dances out in a linked-hands line into the aisles, into the audience, and, one by one, reaches out to draw individuals into the dancing line. The added audience members reach out and pull more people into the dance, and it goes on and on. The lines then snake into the theater lobby and dance around for 5-10 minutes. It is a very powerful experience.

     

    Peter Smith wrote this in 1992. I know Jack Langstaff wholeheartedly believed in these words, because the first time I heard them, he was reading them. I also know, without knowing how I know, that this is what happened when he died Tuesday.

     

    "I have no idea -- any more than anyone else has, of course -- of what happens at the moment of death; but if it is something other than encountering oblivion, I realize that I cannot conceive of anything I would more joyfully welcome than having my hand taken by someone -- a complete stranger, perhaps from the other side of the globe -- who had died in the milli-second before me, someone who brings me into a very wide aisle and an infinitely long chain of people who are revelling in a dance which is a dance of life rather than a dance of death, people who are all connected, through their handholding, not only to one another but also, at the point where the line begins, to the one who is indeed The Lord of the Dance."

    Obit John Langstaff

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    Thanks from me, also, Barbara. I thought I was done crying over this but I guess I'm not.

     

    I had the very great privilege of being part of the Washington Revels from 1996-1999. I had the occasion to meet Jack a couple times, and he was always gracious and kind.

     

    He was a true "ancestor of my spirit." I would not be the person I am today if it weren't for him and Revels. After my near-suicidal spiritual crash in 1997, Revels literally kept me going for several years, gave me a space to heal, and, eventually, to reconnect with that which is spiritually important to me.

     

    When I was working on the Abbots Bromley book, he could not have been more generous with his time and extra material for the book.

     

    Today I have hauled all my Christmas Revels CDs in to work, and will likely listen to them exclusively for the rest of the season.

     

    Yesterday I was listening to the first Christmas Revels CD, when these lines literally raised the hair on the back of my neck:

     

    "St. George shall die by sword

    that circle 'round his neck.

     

    As winter dies, so shall he die

    then to life again, like spring!"

     

     

    Fare well, Lord of the Dance.

    When Did You Start Playing?

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    I had a "false start" in 1992/1993 on some cheapie Chinese thing that HMT committed highway robbery with by charging me $350 for it, but only stuck with it for about 2-3 months.

     

    So I consider 2003 as the year when I started playing -- at 40.

     

    I was raised by 2 musicians, including a morris musician. Although my dad is quite the three-hole-pipe expert, he can't figure out free reeds to save his live -- ha! My parents never pushed the music, fortunately. And since my dad was a band director, he could basically bring home any instrument I wanted to try -- at no cost -- for the two or three weeks that my interest lasted.

     

    There was also a piano in the house. I suppose I'll inherit that monstrosity someday -- a converted (in the 1950's) baby grand player piano with a bad leg. I loathed the thing as a child, mostly because it was my job to dust it on a weekly basis.

    I Need This Like I Need A Hole In My Head

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    By the way, you now have a Great Dane (which, incidentally, seem quite rare in Denmark), but you didn't bring home every dog from the pound, so a question you should ask yourself regarding this accordion is, "why this one?" And what if you see another the day after this auction ends?

     

    Probably because it's too cold! They have really short fur. Also, amazingly, they are the "official" dog of Germany.

     

    I've decided to save my money for a Jack baritone English. There's at least 3 bids on the melodeon now, so it's going to go somewhere.

    I Need This Like I Need A Hole In My Head

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    Do not take any notice of me Rhomylly,I talked Helen out of taking on a dog from her builder and the following week she went out and got two Cocker Spaniels to add to her collection. If I talk you out of this Melodion you will bid on a Clarinet or something next week.

    Al

     

    Helen did what?????

     

    Like I should talk. Have I mentioned recently the emaciated (and still 130-pound) Great Dane that is now part of our family? As in, a Great Dane that is still mostly puppy and an almost-walking 1-year-old in the house. With the two other dogs, two cats and two not-small adults.

    I Need This Like I Need A Hole In My Head

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    Al, she really asks about the curtains???

     

    I haven't the skill, the time, the tools or the parts to repair it myself, which would mean shipping it off to someone else...once I saved up the $$ to pay them. And all the good places (BB, HMT, BobT, etc) are probably so backed up my daughter would be old enough to play it in her high school band before it was fixed.

     

    And I don't have time to improve my skills on the Edgley, much less time to even learn new tunes.

     

    But it's so cute...and so lonely...and it is basically playable...

     

    And $10 plus $40 postage I could certainly afford...

    Holiday Instrument Wish List

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    Dear Santa,

     

    Please put me down for:

     

    continued good health for me and my family, including the furry ones

    one (1) copy of Noel Hill's new CD

    one copy of the William Kimber book

    the funds to go to one concertina event in 2006

    a nice vintage Wheatstone English, minimum 48 keys, black

    the time to learn how to play it

    the time to get better on my Edgley Anglo

    more gig opportunities and fat hats to go with them

     

    I have been a very good girl this year.

     

    me

    Southwest Concertina Workshop

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    Posted

    Thanks, Dan!

     

    Can't help with the canciones, sorry. I am very likely not only the wrong accent but the wrong gender to be made privy to the local folk "in the know" of such things :(

     

    I will be breathlessly waiting for more info so I can get my hotel reservation and vacation request alllll squared away (or would that be hexagonaled away?)

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