I would like to modify MudGuard's definition! Physicaly I am 51 years of age. In my heart I can't wait for my eighteenth birthday to come, Seems like such a long way off yet!! Look old, live young!! (doesn't always work, but we can give it one heckuva try)

Like Mbo and I'm sure others, I often whistle or hum to myself as I go about my work. One day a fellow who is probably ten years my senior asked what tune I was whistling. I told him it was called Rosin the Beau. He told me that he was familiar with the tune but never knew the name of it. It seems his father and grandfather had been old time fiddlers and he had heard that song and others being played at various gatherings. Unfortunately he never picked up on any instruments in his youth and now what he learned will be lost. I wish I could hook some sort of recording device to his memory banks and save what he knows!

I guess the purpose of this rambling is: it is important for young folks to carry on our wonderful traditional folk music and for us old folks to encourage them!! GO FOR IT!!