Art,

I'm sure you don't remember me; we met some 25 years ago before a Folklore Society of Greater Washington concert -- on the occasion when Kathy Fink presented you with the "pango" (or vice versa; scholars bicker...).

I say almost every time I perform that "Art Thieme taught me to sing" (in the sense of learning to let a song speak for itself)... not to mention providing about half my repertoire...

I've gotten lots of mileage out of "The Pinery Boy" and "The Shanty Boy From the Big Eau Claire".

Is it conceivable that in the above mentioned concert, while playing the musical saw, you said "There's a vas deferens between playing the saw and not playing it" (or words to that effect)? Or was it my fevered imagination?

George