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UK laws governing import and export comply with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) as does the Lacey act, so I would think that if any special...

I've always understood the term 'bal folk' to just be a shortened reference to 'le bal du folk' which means a folk dance with 'bal folk' more or less referring to the dance music itself. I see that...

Thank you. Some very nice tunes. My wife is from Aveize which is at the edge of the massif. When we visit family we try to get to some of the villages were this music is commonly found. I wish I knew...

Excellent! Good to hear. Looks like your recovery will be fairly fast. :)

Nope! We heared him clear in Flint and that's not what he said, but posting guidelines prevent me from providing a quote. :crying:;)

About five years ago I managed to hit my index finger with a hammer. The nail came off, but regrew and I haven't had any problems with it. I only took about a week off from playing anything, then...

Actually it isn't an overstatement. Beta-blockers can cause a variety of problems. For example, atenolol has some fairly strong side effects for some people....

And just to add a little fun I'll ask Bertram the question: Had you answered this question two years ago would you have given the same list?

For myself, I find that my favourites tend to change...

I've played one of Dan's instruments. He was local for me at the time. His workmanship is excellent and the tone of his instruments is very nice. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for at the time...

Every time I suggest going to Lansing my wife says "You already have enough mandolins!"

I didn't know there was such a thing as "enough." :mandosmiley:

About 10 years ago I had a Gibson A that started to split in a similar fashion. A luthier friend repaired it quite well by injecting glue into the crack using a syringe. He then set a strap button in...

For those going to Goderich in August, here is a handy link for road construction. When I joked about the construction I was really only half joking. We often drive up to the Tobermory area during...

It's about an hour and a half from Sarnia if they don't have the roads torn up like last summer! :))

For me, the shift in thumb position is governed entirely by the width of the neck. For mandolin/mandola I use what Roger is calling "fiddle hand" and for CBOM and guitar I use "guitar hand."

Ok, I'll fess up! Because I've been asked not to sing. :mandosmiley:

I bought my TC OM in 2009 from Elderly's. At the time they had two in stock, one with the cross and one with the knot. As I recall both had a small sticker on the back of the headstock indicating...

I'll second that. I play an $800 fiddle with a $900 bow, and an $800 mandolin with a $35 BC pick. Seems like a pretty decent deal on that BC pick to me. :)

Here's a little side note of trivia. Glencoe is a very popular name for small towns in Canada. It seems like there are two or three so named towns in every province. There are two that I know of in...

Why do you need a tie breaker? At my local session we play it most often in A dorian, sometimes in E dorian, and occasionally in D depending on who is sitting in. When we are really feeling a bit...

Usually whether a note is specified as a sharp or flat will depend on the key of the tune. For example in the key of D the F and C are noted as sharp F and sharp C rather than flat G and flat D....

I read through the detail of John McCoy's post and can say it is fairly accurate. You definitely will require work permits. Those can take time. Being a dual citizen I've never had to go through the...

I would definitely agree with that. Though I currently split my time between Michigan and Ontario I grew up in St. Anne-de-Madawaska NB, which is a French speaking area that is culturally more...

It's 3 days in Michigan.

At one time I had a canoe and kayak specialty sports shop in Flint. With kayaks we often took people out on the water to test paddle the boat before buying - not unlike...

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Anne, Fiddler's Companion has some historical information on many tunes, although you will find many to have obscure beginnings.

As to Coach Road to Sligo and Tar Road to Sligo, I've heard both...