Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:07 PM 8/28/05 -0400, Tina Manley wrote: >My husband is not the only one who buys nice gifts. I bought him a >1940's Gibson from an antique store and he plays it every day. ;-) Tina I once played a rather mean blues harmonica but that was forty years back. I do own a really fine Hohner Accordion but my wife has assured me that if I ever play it, she will be vaporware, instat. However, she does play the piano and I inherited a fine electric organ from my dead parents, so she assuages her guilt by guesting me to spirituals, old standards, and the like. I generally flee to my Bird House home office and crank up NPR classical music offerings to drown out this, but that is an issue for a different day. And there was a time when I goofed about with various banjo forms and uses but that was, again, four decades or more ago. Somewhere in my mess, I still have my Dad's banjo but, at this remove, I do not recall whether it is a four or five string model: I vaguely have reason to believe that it is a four-string model but, then, the last time I used it was before my San Francisco days, back in that summer of love, and everything before that is a bit, well, ghosted by what came after. Music is great. That is why I own a lot of CD players. And there is some really great stuff available, such as Zappa's THING FISH or the GYOTO MONKS. I want my wife to keep me, so I suspect I'll keep that accordion in the attic and keep my harmonicas in a rsting mode. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505