Thanks for Fipple Flutes

[walrii]

The wife and I visited our sons and the grandchildren this past weekend. We had a wonderful time celebrating Thanksgiving Day. One son found some recorders from school days and asked if I would like to have them. I looked them over (one was pretty nice, the other two, pretty poor) and was experimenting with them when my ten-year-old grand daughter came over and asked if she could try one. I gave her the nice one and we were soon toodling away, learning “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and the first part of “Deck the Halls.” She was a very quick study and learned both tunes in two lessons totalling about 45 minutes. Every few hours for the rest of the weekend, one or the other tune would float throught the house as she practiced. (Our son and his wife are said to be contemplating patricide.) Granddaughter wants me to send her a book for Christmas so she can keep learning. OK, OK, it isn’t a whistle. Still, such moments are very special, and I, for one, have a great deal to be thankful for this year. Happy Thanksgiving!