Three Valves wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:11 am Did she say if you will befall tragedy, happiness or a windfall of some kind??

I prefer tarot cards. Crystal medians are hacks!!

Played poker once.
All we had was a deck of Tarot cards.
I got a full house, and four people died.


(--Steven Wright)

Mike Oldfield

That's really well played. Well done.

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice...

UncleBeer wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:34 pm

bloke wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:58 am disgusting ”schmultz- flap”

I refer to 'em as "sea monkeys".

Oh dear.

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:37 am I never met him, but tremendously enjoyed him.

It's been two and a half months since the first announcement.
I sincerely hope that there wasn't much suffering - and that things were in place to offer Mr. Johnson relief from any pain, during that time.

Agreed on every count. RIP.

Three Valves wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:04 am When you get to be 50++ comfort IS joy.

Kids!!

Yeah, gimme this. Only practice breeds comfort, but...

Comfort breeds confidence.
Confidence breeds a good performance.
A good performance breeds joy.

One band director in my province got busted for payola.
I wonder if the practice is widespread.

Congratulations--was looking for a 3J in good condition a couple years ago. Gave up.

This can devolve into semantics astonishingly quickly. Watch: I claim these two things are true to a reasonable mind: 1. Doing anything to extreme excess is harmful. Anything at all. 2. Doing something you enjoy, if it's not negatively affecting the rest of your life in a material way, is not harmfu...

Great find.

Three Valves wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 10:16 am If this happened to me when I was in school I'd demand a refund and get a job until they decide to do theirs.

Amen.

Wow. You play at a very high standard. That's just gorgeous.
Equally interesting to me, you give the illusion that it's effortless.

Sounds amazing.
Even the idea of an Alphorn...

Three Valves wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:38 am Jealous....

I'm seriously jealous.
I wear a German watch and everytime I look at it, it says it's Oktoberfest time...

Amazing work, great write-up.
Really get the sense it's a labour of love.

Great photos, useful commentary.
Thank you.

Most of the spread risk isn't to the performers; it's to a non-socially distanced audience (including toileting at intermission...)

In some regions of South Germany not only the instrument is still called Bombardon but the player as well! Same here in Belgium but it is starting to dwindle. The instrument nowadays is simple called "bas" where it used to be "bombardon" or "keizerbas". Bombardon was a...

+1 for pictures...