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Subject: New Years resolutions From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 27 Dec 98 - 02:48 AM I got a CD "Ramble to Cashel" consisting of Celtic fingerpicking music, one of Segovia playing Baroque and Renaissance pieces, and one of Bream playing Baroque pieces. Before I started to learn to play the guitar I used to claim it was an unsuitable instrument for classical music. I planned to learn Blues. Now that I understand the instrument better, I can really appreciate these CDs So, one of my New Years resolutions is to spend at least a day a week of my guitar playing time on Carolan, Milan, Weiss, or one of the other composers of the Baroque period. (Another resolution is to not make such snotty value judgements about instruments I don't understand ;-}) Murray |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: McMusic Date: 27 Dec 98 - 03:14 AM Someone had to come up with this thread, didn't they? Oh well; here goes. To quit smoking; get in better shape; practise daily on the guitar and the fiddle; write more; argue less; smile a lot; be patient; cure cancer; distribute loaves and fishes; and, lastly, bring about world peace. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Art Thieme Date: 27 Dec 98 - 12:19 PM Don't make these any more---LIFE always gets in the way & they never get accomplished. Art (just doin' the best I can anyhow) |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Frank in the swamps Date: 27 Dec 98 - 03:44 PM I swore many years ago that I would never, ever again make any more new year resolutions. I've stuck to it ever since. Happy to all, Frank i.t.s. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Helen Date: 27 Dec 98 - 06:08 PM Hi all, I don't make "resolutions" either but I have set myself a goal to lern to play solo pieces on the Celtic/lever harp rather than just playing chords to accompany other people's instruments or singing. I think that setting goals means working out a plan of action based on the goal I want to reach, and making a specific date to get to the major goal, and also to get to steps along the way. I haven't actually sat myself down to plan it all out, but one thing I want to do is set aside a specific time to practise once a week rather than just going to the sessions and playing along with everyone else. I'll still go to the sessions (wouldn't miss them - we had our 10th annivesrsay this year) but I'll also play the music in practise sessions which I want to learn to play. So "resolution" or "goal" - that's my ambition for this year, apart from having about 10 times more money than I had this year, which is another story completely. (Living on the poverty line may be good for the soul but it sure isn't good for the stress levels.) Love and best wishes for 1999, Helen, in Oz |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Barbara Shaw Date: 27 Dec 98 - 07:26 PM I guess I'm the eternal optimist, still making (and breaking) resolutions each year. As usual, I resolve to:
Eat less |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Art Thieme Date: 27 Dec 98 - 08:52 PM PLEASE, What is a CELTIC LIVER HARP!!??? |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Big Mick Date: 27 Dec 98 - 09:01 PM I resolve to continue the journey. All the best, Mick |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Helen Date: 28 Dec 98 - 05:52 AM Art, It's lever, not liver. I thought I had misspelled it, and the thought of a Celtic harp made out of liver - well, it's not worth contemplating. Yechhh! Just in case you don' know about lever harps: A lever harp has flip levers to change each string up one semi-tone, unlike a pedal harp which uses pedals to change all the strings of the same tone, e.g. all the C-notes, up or down a semi-tone. Helen |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: hank Date: 28 Dec 98 - 09:52 AM Like frank I'm keeping my resolution of several years ago not to make any resolutions. For the rest of you, work you list in backwards order! (I really want to see world peace, I'll even help you distribute loaves and fishs if you get world peace) |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: dick greenhaus Date: 28 Dec 98 - 12:32 PM Art- It's a Celtic version of the harp in The Two Sisters, which was made of a white breast-bone. Liver is easier to carve, if less stable. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Nansaidh Date: 28 Dec 98 - 03:10 PM Yes, my resoloution is to learn more contemporary songs on the fiddle. Anything without a barnyard animal in the tune will do fine! Work on back-ups, and improvisation. Oh, and play those FAST Irish tunes! |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 28 Dec 98 - 08:14 PM Art, why don't you lever alone and stop making jokes. Anyways, you ask the wrong question. Dick, maybe Celtic liver is better for making harps than other kinds of liver. I can't give up the habit of making New Years resolutions. The secret is not to remember them by the time the next year rolls around, so you can make them over again. It is interesting to hear about people's musical plans, though. For example, I knew Helen played the harp; but I somehow visualized her playing solos. I think they are good resolutions, Helen. Playing in a large group is fun; but I really think your technique slips if you do it exclusively. Orchestral musicians tell me they have to keep up their practice sessions even with all the rehearsals. And the Celtic harp is such a beautiful instrument on which to play solos. It has such delicate tone, and, like with the guitar and keyboard, you can play complete pieces. Nansaidh, I only know one fiddle tune whose title mentions barnyard animals; but I'll admit that one gets overplayed some. Murray |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: MissMac Date: 29 Dec 98 - 12:34 AM I resolve to learn to play recognizable tunes on the tinwhistle, and to read sheet music more than just the melody line. MissMac |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Barry Finn Date: 29 Dec 98 - 12:49 AM Resolutions? Can't remember any I haven't broken. I did give up smoking a year ago, I hardly (maybe twice a month) drink anymore (really, I hardly ever did), I don't do drugs now, I gave up coffee & candy, maybe a month or two ago & now I find that if I give up one more thing I'll be banished by society, by my offspring, by my spouse & by the Great Harry, I'll not give up another thing. What I'll will do is start staying out late at night & sing till the dawn, get up at noon to start the work day off properly, I'm gonna lean every song that's not in RUS & I'm gonna really try this time to learn to play guitar & concertina while waiting for my shit to roll in. Sorry, this year I've gone straight to the toilet, I'll try again next year. Barry |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Nansaidh Date: 29 Dec 98 - 09:28 PM Murray, Some barnyard tunes you just HAVE to know about! Pig Ankle Rag Possum up a gum stump Milk cow blues Turkey in the straw is the one I'm guessing you already know about. Have a great New Years! |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 30 Dec 98 - 05:43 AM Well Nansaidh, A possum is not a farmyard animal. I don't think of Milk cow blues as a fiddle tune which leaves Pig Ankle Rag--and I'll admit I don't know that one. Hey Barry, one year I resolved to start smoking again. I had some really top quality Havanna and Brazilian cigars stored away from the days when I did smoke. On New Years Eve I lit up one and it was great!! Unfortunately I am the adictive type when it comes to smoking and when I started to roll the equivalent of two packs a day with Bugler again I decided to quit. I didn't even wait for New Year. I still don't know if I am healthier, or even feel better; but I am a lot more comfortable in all the non-smoking areas that are taking over the globe. On a more serious note. What is the difference between a button accordian and a concertina? MissMac: I think it is really hard to read the chords, harmony, etc. without playing an instrument that can play them. You should get a keyboard to learn it. Murray |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Joe Offer Date: 31 Dec 98 - 03:09 AM Somebody told me it would improve my love life, so I quit smoking almost five years ago. Still waiting for the improvements, but things are looking up. but I figure if I gave up smoking, I never had to make any more resolutions, ever again. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Bert Date: 31 Dec 98 - 09:32 AM I didn't look at this thread earlier because I don't make resolutions either. Murray, I've always assumed that plucked and struck instruments are not used more in classical music because it's easier to synchronize bowed instruments. If they are heard at all in an orchestra there's usually only ONE of 'em. Art, a CELTIC LIVER harp is one played by an Irish Liverpudlian. Having looked at all your resolutions, perhaps I'll try to play more Sing more Smile more and all that stuff. Happy Noo to Mudcateers everywhere. Love you all Bert. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 02 Jan 99 - 12:44 AM Actually, Joe, I was under the impression that giving up smoking would improve your performance. I'm not sure it helps you find someone with whom to perform. I have a friend who claimed he gave up smoking when he got married. His wife didn't smoke and he got tired of kissing a woman with no taste. The restaurants here are divided into Smoking and Non Smoking zones at the moment (soon, I fear, they will all be non-smoking.) If you look in the window, the people at the smoking tables appear to be talking and laughing while at the non-smoking tables they seem to be somberly attending to their meals. I don't draw any conclusions--I just state an observation. My friends father gave up smoking in his late 60s. He vowed that if he reached the age of 80 he would start again. He did reach the age of 80 and he did start again. Sure enough fourteen years later he was dead. You have a point, Bert, about synchronizing. After all a piano can be heard over the whole bunch, but it is not an orchestral instrument. Murray |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Craig Date: 02 Jan 99 - 01:48 AM Joe, I gave up smoking twelve years ago to improve my love life...and I still don't have one. Buh duhp bump! Craig |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: BSeed Date: 02 Jan 99 - 02:18 AM The one New Year's resolution I can remember that I kept more than a week was my 1968 resolution to stop inflicting my cigarette smoke on my housemates: my wife and 7 month old son. A couple of weeks into January I went to a friend's house for a poker game and bummed one cigarette. I found it to be immensely unsatisfying, compared to what I was smoking instead of tobacco. I never touched another one, and I cannot imagine starting again--although I have a dream from time to time in which I do. I again resolve not to smoke any tobacco in 1999. I also resolve to try to be the kind of person I would like to be, more patient, kinder, more generous, more in control of my impulses, a little better at doing what needs to be done, and--most of all--less critical of myself. --seed Did that last bit cancel all the rest? I hope not. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Banjeray Date: 02 Jan 99 - 07:47 AM I am pleased with myself for having kept the one resolution I made so many years ago; To never make another resolution. I would however be willing to help with creating world peace and while I don't think I would be able to distribute loaves and fish, I would volunteer to help in the catching of the fish. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: skarpi Iceland Date: 02 Jan 99 - 10:13 AM Hmmm New years resolusions ? Try to finish off some off the new song´s that I and my band have been writing and put It on a cd. And I will learn more about Irish tradional music and try to go to Ireland for the first time In my live . So love each other , have a good live and be good to each other and live In peace like we we do here In Iceland. skarpi Iceland. Slán go foil. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: harpgirl Date: 03 Jan 99 - 09:23 AM I resolve to : drink more beer gain some weight smoke nontraditionally tell more lies have more sex play more music That should about cover it, don't ya think??? harp
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Musicman Date: 05 Jan 99 - 03:46 AM Found this the other day: (spelling mistakes not mine!!) Once't ther' was a 'ittle boy-- What maked some resolushuns, On New Year's Day --'at he would stop A-bein' sech a "Noo-sanse." He sed, he'd start in takin' bafs Without no drivin' to it; He sed, he'd go to bed at night Soon as he's telled to do it. An'after this he'd stick to trufe, 'An never tell a fib; He never more'd put a frog |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Musicman Date: 05 Jan 99 - 03:54 AM Found this the other day: (spelling mistakes not mine!!) Once't ther' was a 'ittle boy-- What maked some resolushuns, On New Year's Day --'at he would stop A-bein' sech a "Noo-sanse." He sed, he'd start in takin' bafs Without no drivin' to it; He sed, he'd go to bed at night Soon as he's telled to do it. An'after this he'd stick to trufe, 'An never tell a fib; He never more'd put a frog In baby sister's crib; He'd never take the cookie box When Cook had jus' fresh filled it; He'd alway say: 'at it was him Took Muvver's c'lone, an' spilled it. He'd let the poor cat live in peace, No more fill Gran'dad's pipe wif grease: He'd quit a-teasin' 'ittle girls Wif catty-pillars in their curls. When Sister's best beau comes to call He'd never hide-an' tell--a-tall; He'd never climb on kitchen roofs To hide his Granny-ma's false toofs; He'd never take Aunt Belle's gold puffs, An' sruff 'em in her new beau's cuffs. Green apples? No, he'd never steal, Nor monkey wif Big Bruvver's wheel: He'd clean his teef, an' scrub his neck, An' never sulk the leastes' speck, When comp'ny comes an' he's helped last Folks 'll forget his naughty past. These resolushuns, when he maked 'em, He meaned to keep--but oh, he breaked 'em! So now he says: "Folks, do not fear! I'll make a bran' new set--Nex' Year!"
Happy New Year all, Musicman |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Frank in the swamps Date: 05 Jan 99 - 06:18 AM Having kept my last resolution, I'd sure like to help Harpgirl keep hers, say Harp' head up Blackwater creek in a canoe next full moon, I'll have a case of pale ale and the old guitar handy. P.S. I'll even polish the scales on my tail!! Frank i.t.s. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: kris Date: 05 Jan 99 - 07:15 AM Liver brings to mind my new year's resolution - drink less. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but it didn't last. Actually, I'm thinking of taking up smoking again so that I can give that up. Its more a case of New Year Intentions with me - but its the thought that counts. Kris
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Eric Date: 05 Jan 99 - 02:10 PM Play with my daughter and appreciate my wife every single day. Learn one song a month by heart (thank God for the DT). Rule the world and change all the can-openners to a LEFT handed design so the rest of the world can suffer for a while. E. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: the pixie Date: 05 Jan 99 - 03:17 PM REGARDING DREAMS OF SMOKING AFTER QUITTING. THESE ARE A REAL GIFT FROM GOD TO HELP YOU THROUGH A TIME A TEMPTATION AND CRAVING. I HAD MANY OF THEM WHEN I QUIT AFTER BEING A VERY HEAVY SMOKER FOR 43 YEARS. ( 3 1/2 to 4 packs a day. ) I really don't think I could have done it without the dreams where I was smoking like a house on fire. I could taste and smell the darned things and even knew in the dream I had quit but thought, what the heck, do it anyway. I would always wake up with no more craving for a long time. Been clean for 4 years now. I don't "stink" like a stale fag anymore. THANK GOD AND PRAY A LOT. IT GIVES A LOT OF STRENGTH. GOOD LUCK! SLAN, Pixie |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: the pixie Date: 05 Jan 99 - 03:21 PM REGARDING DREAMS OF SMOKING AFTER QUITTING. THESE ARE A REAL GIFT FROM GOD TO HELP YOU THROUGH A TIME A TEMPTATION AND CRAVING. I HAD MANY OF THEM WHEN I QUIT AFTER BEING A VERY HEAVY SMOKER FOR 43 YEARS. ( 3 1/2 to 4 packs a day. ) I really don't think I could have done it without the dreams where I was smoking like a house on fire. I could taste and smell the darned things and even knew in the dream I had quit but thought, what the heck, do it anyway. I would always wake up with no more craving for a long time. Been clean for 4 years now. I don't "stink" like a stale fag anymore. THANK GOD AND PRAY A LOT. IT GIVES A LOT OF STRENGTH. GOOD LUCK! SLAN, Pixie |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Bert Date: 05 Jan 99 - 03:29 PM That's a good one Eric, ....Learn one song a month by heart.... I might just try that myself. Get yourself one of those old fashioned Bulldog can openers, they work with either hand. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: harpgirl Date: 05 Jan 99 - 08:01 PM Frank i.t.s., Just point me towards Blackwater creek from the Aucissa. I'll be there...harpgirl |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: McMusic Date: 05 Jan 99 - 09:28 PM Harpgirl, Yer my kind o' wooman. I shore 'dmire wimmin' who don' let them thar societal convections restrain 'em. |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 05 Jan 99 - 09:31 PM I make resolutions, but never on New Year's Eve because I am usually drunk and blowing horns and can't remember them. Besides, making resolutions on New Year's Eve implies that you haven't the resolution to make resolutions as required throughout the year. I gave up on world peace long ago, and am selfishly concentrating on personal peace. I suppose I do resolve to continue my resolutions. To continue to keep a television out of the apartment. To read material that infuriates me. To at least pretend to be nice to people and patient with them. To make more relish and pickles. To change the oil in my car more often, and to stop driving at breakneck speeds. To visit my relatives more often, whether they like it or not, and to be nice to their slobbery, thieving dogs. To be more organized (a continuing battle). To continue with community projects, no matter how many rule-spouting bureaucrats I butt heads with. To polish my shoes more often. To avoid all fast food establishments. To be more patient and tolerant(a REAL challenge).
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: John in Brisbane Date: 05 Jan 99 - 11:59 PM Forgetting the personal goals, I have the following musical ones for 1999:
- To be able to sing from any music, without prior knowledge of the tune.
- To be able to notate a tune from within my head.
- To post a further 100 tunes to the DT by 30 June 1999. (This'll help me with the first two).
- To write at least one new song each month.
Regards John |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: harpgirl Date: 07 Jan 99 - 11:45 PM Frank, The next full moon is a Blue Moon...where do I put my rig in at Blackwater...how far up or down from there...describe the river. Or I could meet you at Buzzard's Oak on the Santa Fe north of Devil's Eye Spring...once in a very blue moon...harpgirl |
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Subject: RE: New Years resolutions From: Barbara Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:33 PM I thought a Celtic liver was what you needed to drink like a Celt. Harpgirl going up Blackwater Creek, Going up alone Jump on that Frank like a [hot]dog on a bone Disclaimer: stolen from Cripple creek, and any semblance of good taste remaining wasn't from me. Music man said he admired Harpgirl's lack of restraint in regards "societal convections". I wonder if they were misdemeanors and if she got time off for bad behavior.
For the new year I plan to work on learning more and better how to make groups of a capella singers work. |
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