--- Tracie Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michele, Roy, how come I've never met you at that session?! I was looking forward to seeing Michelle, but I knew that. Now I have another to look forward to meeting. Maybe we can have a session!!! Like HGs I have 2 harps, one I built and one I bought. The bought one still works, tho' I haven't played in years. Mostly I don't have time to tune it. But I remember the stray comments from the uninformed. But the priest used to keep me from drying out.... I also played fiddle for a step-dance school. The kids were OK, but their parents were apparently training for standing around with pitchforks, I will meet them again again if I don't mend my ways. > session (which they apparently mistook for a dance performance) when > we wouldn't play the "right" reel for their dance. Cloggers? > Of course, it > didn't help that we just up and laughed at their demand because we > couldn't think of anything more polite to do... (They really were > obnoxious, and they're moved far far away now.) Must be cloggers > > I don't really have a problem with only 3X through a tune, but the > old-timey musicians who wander in surely do. With them it's 8X > through minimum and d*mn the narcolepsy. And 3X through is plenty if > everyone's playing it exactly the same way each time through, just > like they learned it from The Book. And spare me from the guitarists > who have to have the chords written down for them! Don't these people > even *listen* to music? 3x for Irish. at least 5x for French " " 25x for Contra. If you can't pick up a half dozen tunes ( by ear) at a Contra-Dance, you just aren't paying attention. and "Amen" on the books and guitarists. > > <gracefully descend soapbox> Yes, so gracefully..... So, I'm looking forward to meeting you. Roy
