Hello, everyone. I am happy to join this group again after a lapse of many years, seemingly because of several computer transplants. Also I lived in the sticks (boondocks, I think, to you) for 17 years and out of touch with other players. However, in that time I learned the art of the printer and in due course printed a hurdy-gurdy method which my wife (assisted by me) was working on. The computer had developed enormously in that time from being quite primitive to being able to set music. Wonderful! The rest of my time was occupied among vegetables, fruits and trees. Now we live in a new(ish) town designed by a famous American; all fast tree-lined roads, and a shopping centre. I can't find any music group to join, but we have a 39 year old weekly folk club run by Matt Armour until his sudden death some months ago. I seem to be a controversial figure because, as was pointed out many years ago by a bluegrass musician (I love it) I am a strange creature in that I am a classical musician with an interest in folk. I do not like the false separation between these forms of music, for they are both very varied and have close links.Neither can Iabide snobbishness in either direction. Music is music and the joy of the human spirit. This morning I heard about a famous American lawyer (he of the 'monkey trial) who was audacious in asking which would you rather: lose your eyesight or change the colour of your skin? So I ask what you would give up in order to retain the pleasures of music? My greetings to all, Michael
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