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This isn't normally a forum where I post things like this (in fact, it's not been a place where I post much of anything lately; replaced my computer in the summer and since then have largely been absent), but this is something deeply important to me and to many people close to me:

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This fall, a number of ( Read more... )

and thinking about life.

I used to follow a journal here called oldandeasy. Irv was an aussteiger, someone who at some point chose to break completely with The Norm and do his own thing - and for years made print newsletters about his hitchhiking-centered life ( Read more... )

and: I AM OFFICIALLY BECOMING AN INSTRUMENTMAKER

which is to say, I HAVE MY FIRST ORDER!

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My first copy of the 1676 Hanns Geyer tenor trombone now in Linz will go to an instrument dealer in Los Angeles.

THIS IS EXCITING!

I can officially build functional trombone slides ( Read more... )

just found out that there are two previously unreported surviving bass trombones by Anton Schnitzer the Younger, from 1593 and 1598. One is in Kassel, the other in Ingolstadt - hopefully next summer I'll make a pilgrimage to document and measure both...

Deerhoof has released a new album. It makes the world a better place. Win win win win win!

thank you, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum for having existed.

think I'm going to be killing my account on there. It's just too creepy-evil-gaaaah ( Read more... )

Please check out:

http://habsburgercamerata.com

...you can buy bacon-flavored quasi-Cheetos-things here. I don't know whether to be amused or horrified ( Read more... )