Here is a sound clip of our band playing “Oh Donald Abu” Since I have no idea how to put a sound file on here you will have to put up with (Or ignore) the other stuff on the page. It does have a good picture of my banjo and another of the pegs on another photo, too bad Sandy got in the way. 
http://members.shaw.ca/uproaraddicts/hilarye.htm
I hope it works.
Poor Hils, her thread sat around a day and no one thought to say, “Hey, is her daughter Sandy Jasper, chief elf, whistle maker, and confirmed cutie-pie, playing a KEYBOARD?!”
Let me say, too, that the little niece Tisha is too cute for words. (Put that picture up on the cutie-pie thread, Hils!)
The tune is a toe-tapper, well-played.
Now…tell us about 18th-century-looking Benjamin Sweet and how you and instrument maker Ralph may be related…
M
(the busybody)
Just listening to the great recording…makes me wish I had a band!
Yep MVHP,(Is that “Most valuable hockey player”?) Sandy Jasper playing the keyboard. It’s natural as the piano was her first instrument. Tisha? Yes I would like to put her picture on the cutie pie page but alas I don’t know how, please feel free anyone who has the know-how.
Benjamin is my 6th gr grandpfather born 1680 in Cork Ireland. I am still trying to connect Ralph Sweet I believe we did have the same ancestors in England but can’t connect them to Benjamin yet. Mine (Capt John Sweet) went to Ireland during the Civil war in England, changed sides and ended up fighting for Cromwell. Ralph’s went to the USA they were the more peaceful ones. Mine ended up in the ministry in Ireland so they became peaceful too. That is my Dads side, my Moms side were farmers from Donegal who moved to Scotland in 1836.
Thanks Walden, by the way the person whooping and hollering and playing the spoons and accordion in the clip is an 86 year old Irish man from co Louth.
On 2002-12-25 15:49, Hils wrote:
Yep MVHP,(Is that “Most valuable hockey player”?) …
Ha! I’ve only been on ice skates two or three times in my life. If I were ever to enter a hockey game, I’d end up “Mighty Variable Hockey Puck”!
I hope you’re having a great holiday
M. Virginia