My new Tenor Viol (viola da gamba) arrived! It was made in China and carefully packed. It is quite a bargain, but arrived (as expected) unstrung and not set-up. So I still have to order strings for it and have a violin shop set the bridge and soundpost ( Read more... )

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I'm sorry! It has been a couple of months since I have read friends' pages. It is good to catch up. I am now teaching four days a week and have Fridays off. I have almost recovered my strength from the exhaustion of Faire and actually have a little free time ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to all, and may 2009 be a much better year for you than 2008 was (even if you had a good year ( Read more... )

RenFaire Open House will be at the NPDC on January 10 from 10-4.

Please be there. Especially if you have dropped out of the Faire Cast.

Be there.

Faire needs you, but even more, you may need Faire.

Come out and play!

Merry Christmas, everyone ( Read more... )

Until yesterday I owned three harps. I had the harp I started with, which I was no longer playing, my travel harp (which might not travel on airplane business trips any more now that they are charging for checked baggage), and my big harp (not a full orchestral one, but a large folk harp ( Read more... )

The F#'s are microtonally higher than the Gb's.

OK! I've been authorized to find a substitute for my night class and sing in the recital ( Read more... )

I havn't posted in a long time. Life has been very routine. Even my musical activities are largely routine. Sometimes I'm the tenor section leader--often I'm the entire tenor section ( Read more... )