Dan - Thanks for your reply. It's funny - my wife's last name is Milner also. I just ordered your CD on Irish ballads and Sea shantys { ? } the other day from Elderly because of the name similarity and here we are "chatting" with each other. I saw the info about the session at O'Neills on another thread and we hope to check it out. Hopefully we'll have a chance to chat. Look for a chubby middle aged white guy with glasses and a pony tail. Gee - how many of those could there be anyway?

As far as musical instruments go it's just a research trip for me. I already got a new Weber mandolin and a Martin OM-28V this year and any other purchases would be risky for my health. But someday I hope to have a mandola and an octive mandolin, cittern, or mandocello. Or something else in the mandolin on steroids family. But here in Texas you just don't find any of those types of stringed instruments. I'll check out Matts. Thanks