For the birds

[Peter]

I bought a new (old) concertina last week, specifically this one:http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9081

I was able to get to the box where my mail is sent today at lunch and pick it up. Nice looking box. So I head on over about 2 blocks to a nearby park to play a few tunes with my new musical partner. Not just nice looking but nice sounding to boot! I'm big into Sliabh Luachra music so I'm knocking out a set of polkas when someone stops - I'm thinking to listen. I'm playing very softly, just loud enough so I can hear it. Go more then a 10 feet away and the insturement's sound would be lost into the backdrop of car horn, kids screaming, jackhammers, the usual Manhattan soundscape. Someone else stops and I notice that everyone sitting nearby is watching me. Wow! All that practice must be paying off! I start playing a bit louder for my audience and am immediately admonished by a well dressed office worker in a suit sitting in a bench across the path. "Quiet down, you're going to scare her off." Her? What are they talking about? That's when I notice that everyone isn't looking at me, they're looking behind me. I turn around - and am staring into the face of a Peregrine Falcon perched on a fence not 2 feet away. She opened up her wings (at this point I'm certain my face is about to be torn off and fed to a bunch of hatchlings) and she takes off to the other side of park and sets down on a light pole. Her crowd of admirers follows.

I cleared out of there not a minute later. Apparently when it comes to birds - everyone's a critic.

Edited June 8, 2009 by Peter

[Jack Bradshaw]

Just be glad it wasn't a flock of pigeons over your head....

[Patrick King]

The same happens to me with my name.

 

People looking behind me has never happened to me, but people looking at me playing has. They end up wanting to hear another one and I feel embarrassed because I can't pick out a good tune that everyone will like; or it's just that I know lots but can't pick the best ones out.

 

Cheers,

Patrick

 

BTW- Congratulations on getting a new concertina.

Have you ever thought that folk music 'calls' birds out of hiding?

Edited June 8, 2009 by Patrick King

[drbones]

Have you ever thought that folk music 'calls' birds out of hiding?

Ye know, Falcons belong to the group of birds known as Raptors. There's gotta be a rap music joke here somewhere.

Maybe after my coffee.

Is 'rap music' an oxymoron?

[Ptarmigan]

Is 'rap music' an oxymoron?

Not always drbones!

 

 

OK ... not very musical, but awfy funny!

 

{ N.B. This is how the Queen talks, when she's staying up at Balmoral! }

 

As for the Peregrine, don't worry Peter, you were quite safe cause they only kill birds.

 

Of course, if you'd been dressed up like this ..................

 

Cheers

Dick

[Hereward]

Blimey! When I opened this thread I had the idea that perhaps someone had composed a ditty for LDT or one of the other ladies on this forum, but then I realised that such archaic use of the English tongue is now frowned upon, even by cockneys and old timers I think.

 

Ian