Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
Odd...I didn't even take it as an insult, but as an uncomfortably pointed reminder of the historic and racial issues many of us don't think about that are inherent in celebrating such a day. And so, to deflect any further political awkwardness, I tried to make light with a redirective reply.
I'm afraid that on that last count my success was less than I might have wished.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
Well, it wasn't a bad insult. It was meant lovingly, ya know.
Mind, go into the history of Europe at the time, and what Columbus was really up to, and the various points of view involved, plus subsequent history/politics/whatever, and you'd need a sight more than a can to keep the worms in.
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
Tell us something.: Mostly producer of the Wooden Flute Obsession 3-volume 6-CD 7-hour set of mostly player's choice of Irish tunes, played mostly solo, on mostly wooden flutes by approximately 120 different mostly highly-rated traditional flute players & are mostly...
benhall.1 wrote:Well, it wasn't a bad insult. It was meant lovingly, ya know.
Mind, go into the history of Europe at the time, and what Columbus was really up to, and the various points of view involved, plus subsequent history/politics/whatever, and you'd need a sight more than a can to keep the worms in.
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
benhall.1 wrote:Well, it wasn't a bad insult. It was meant lovingly, ya know.
Mind, go into the history of Europe at the time, and what Columbus was really up to, and the various points of view involved, plus subsequent history/politics/whatever, and you'd need a sight more than a can to keep the worms in.
benhall.1 wrote:But it's a pretty good rejoinder of yours.
BTW, that's a direct result of my studying the awesome Gracie Allen, IMO probably the unequaled comedic master of the dark arts of conversational jujutsu. See, the Tube is good for something.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
