It's the first 70+ degree day in Wisconsin!!!Taken moments ago in the frontyard ...
It's the first 70+ degree day in Wisconsin!!!Taken moments ago in the frontyard ...
Dang right ! Here in North Carolina also, the waspers are out flying around, peepers hollering in the evening, won't be long until I see a blacksnake or copperhead.
' There is no substitute for PRACTICE"
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Usually the first sign of spring around here is the robin (Wisconsin state bird) making his appearance.
The first sign of summer is the REAL state bird ... the mosquito ...
Rain/hail, Lightning & Thunder storm on the Wet Coast.. fooled the blossoming Cherry trees, again.
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
Whenever I think of Spring, I think of this song...
All joking aside, though, it really is wonderful weather out there today...too bad it's going up into the 80s tomorrow (Virginia Springs are over before they begin)
"When I heard what Socrates had done on the lyre, I wished indeed even [I had done] that...but certainly I labored hard in letters!" - Cicero, "Cato the Elder on Old Age"
Mastercraft MSF400 F-style mandolin
Late 19th Century Ferrari(?) Bowlback
No-name, early 20th Century British Mandoline-Banjo
1960s Harmony Baritone Ukelele
The Magic Fluke Flea Soprano Ukelele (in 5ths!)
1910 German Stradivarius 1717 copy, unknown maker
1890(?) German Stradivarius 1725 copy, G.A. Pfreztschner, maker
We had two beautiful 70- or so days two weekends ago before the storms moved in. Some day it'll be warm again, they say...
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2006 Rogue (my toy)
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
Tom Lehrer! I hadn't thought of him in years! Great! Pretty soggy up here in NH also, Randi. The mandolin is still an inside instrument. I love playing it outdoors, hopefully it won't be long.
In Munich it is snowing. This is the sixth straight month with snow. So: playing a lot of blues!
Dull,rainy,windy with more to come in the North of England. In Scotland & Northern Ireland, up to 2 foot of snow in parts & i'm hoping that it doesn't come down as far as my home. Over here,spring is when the birds stop coughing !,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tanglewood TW-1000SR Guitar
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Cold, wet and windy here in the very West of Germany, exactly how I like it, reminds me so much of Orkney...![]()
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Still snow on the ground 50 miles north of of Aberdeen (Scotland), as I type it's started snowing again. The forecast as sunny for next few days, so I'm hoping to get out to the Cairngorms and do some hill walking.
John
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ABC. Notation for the tabophobic: ABC intro, ABCexplorer, Making Music with ABC Plus by Guido Gonzato.
FFcP: Just do it! (Any genre, (Honest!) just ignore the jazz references.)
Eastman 604, 2007 | Thomas Buchanan Octave Mandolin, 2010
Nova Scotia has had the mildest winter in years.
Rainy the last few, saw a Robin last week, earliest since I left Ontario.
Forecast for today in upstate South Carolina is 80 . . . but so far, no morels to be found.
Clark Beavans
It's snowing right now here in Montana
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