Brett-first take a good strong boltcutter and open the jaws w-i-d-e and clamp onto them strings. That should do as a good start until I can get home and provide more useful follow-up.;~)

Wow, Barry, can I use that as a quote on our website?

We had a great re-acquitence gathering last night with our old music friends in Palo Alto singing a nice bluesy version of "Titanic", some Obray Ramsey songs, Carter Family, and my rearranged C. Fox Smith sea poems to old Appalacian tunes. Also had fun with my folk-processed "West Indies Blues" which would have made it to the top 10 chart in the 1960's if the Kingston Trio had ever gotten hold of it; my mother still complains that I changed the tune.

Say, Richard, has our shipment of ROLL & GO: Outward Bound CD's finally come in? If so, please bring or send a set for show and tell on Saturday for the 3 pm gathering of the SF Folk Club at Faith Petric's. Don't forget to remind folks about that secret Sunday afternoon gathering at your house. We'll try to place a set of the CD's at the Museum Store at the Hyde Street Pier; you too can hear "Yangtse River Shanty" led in robust fashion by Dick Dufresne. Others can access a sample on our website:www.rollandgoseasongs.com if curious.

Big Sur was still there by the way, and we tried vainly to photograph those humungous trees between Santa Cruz and Saratoga along Rt. 9, needed bigger lenes, big wide angle held sideways.

Back to San Francisco to Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf Saturday morning.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble