Thank you Dale, Rich and all the members keeping this wonderful forum open for whistlers the world over. Because of this website, my hubby and I met MurphyStout, Tony Higgins and both Weekenders as well as part of the Weekender’s band in the San Francisco Bay area last Saturday. We had a wonderful time at the Weekender’s house playing tunes together, chatting, eating and evaluating everyone’s whistles.
Reguardless of all the things we disagree about from time to time on this board, there is one thing we all have in common. Keep on whistling,
I agree. Some of my most rewarding experiences have come from meeting pixel people that I’ve met on the board. It’s great when they’re no longer pixels!
For those who wonder, there is one shot with the other Weekender, playing guitar while I play the guit-jo (guitar-banjo).
It was nice to meet you and Norman, Nancy. For others, Norman is quite a musician in his own right. I didn’t realize until meeting Nancy, that the Oriordans are sort of a set for them as a couple. Norman gets the brass one and Nancy gets the aluminum.
Nancy has an elegant session technique. If she doesn’t know a tune, she picks up the bodhran and keeps good time in a very civil tone. It added a lot!
I keep wonderin’ what the neighbors think. Saturday night was this mostly Irish caterwaulin and on Sunday morn, my other group was crooning Spanish tunes of old California. Well, as long as the cops don;t show up, I guess we’re okay. On Nov 8 for the big fest, up the street, now that will be something…
FYI, I HAD decided it would be nice to leave this shot out but since you insulted the other Weekender as well, who also reads music…as well as all those others out there…And I aint embarrased to read a whistle tune on the banjo so go blush yerself.
Naw, its got surfers and flowers etc etc not hammers-n-sickles.. My fave Hywyn shirtski. That and a baseball cap and I feel like one of the Beach Boys! I’m wearin it right now.
And its been about 90 today, so its seasonally appropriate. SantaAna winds up here, the kind we had during Oakland hills fire.
That’s a pretty cool picture of me, if I do say so, myself. I was having a religious experience at the time, lost in the music. Then again, it might have been the beer. (Or you might have caught me rolling my eyes at the sheet music. )
Tony
Thanks for the new icon, I love it.
Oh, those are easy to hide - it’s the tail that’s a pain to deal with. And my long donkey ears - I know I have 'em, since people tell me I’m a jackass all the time.
Don’t think so. What we did was put away the cameras, pulled out our recorders (and Murph’s accordian) and played baroque chamber music. Actually, we adapted jigs and reels to this style. Much nicer than ‘pure drop.’
Tony
Geez, Tony, you weren’t sposed to tell. Sigh. Man, that Tony plays a mean ophicleide. Meself, I like the English Horn. You know, the one that is neither a horn, or english. the other Weekender shined on the cimbalom, but only on the Strauss waltzes. We did have one operatic selection that night, something about “grog” whatever that is.
Naw, mon ami canuckien, no Froooooonch tunes. I play some Cape Breton things that seem like slides, but those taint Froooonch, n’estce pas??
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