Well, I've made my rauschpfeife teaching debut, such as it was. As it turns out, my friend has a rather severe reed issue, and that was what was causing a lot of his intonation issues -- he'll still need a lot of practice with a tuner, but the first thing he needs is a reed that doesn't cause *my* instrument to go out of tune as soon as we try ( Read more... )

Oh, damnitall, I want this SO BADLY and yet I am so very very not with the discretionary income at this particular moment in time. And I don't need another flute. And I *just* cracked the headjoint on the *last* flute I bought (that I didn't need) and was contemplating an expensive repair for that. But look at that pretty little Kobliczek! I love ( Read more... )

So, a little while ago we finally sold "my" house, the one I bought with advice and input from the Ladies' Champion but technically on my own back in 1999. We've been in the "new" house for over two years now, renting the other to a friend of ours who used to live across the street; he got himself in a reasonable position to buy, so all that is now ( Read more... )

They're here! My instruments are here! UPS hit me up for an extra $35 in "unpaid fees," but we won't go into that because my beautiful instruments are here ( Read more... )

*gulp* Four digits' worth of bank account damage now on file with EMS! As it happened, when I went to browse on my lunch break there was a Kobliczek F alto recorder up for sale at the Used Instrument Agency that hadn't been there a little while back, so I figured this was what they call An Opportune Moment.

I don't believe this is the start of ( Read more... )

Such a lovely dinner last night with antoniseb, redshinma, sitpadeshu & Z, ubiq31, and klynn330! Every time we're able to do something like that more or less spur-of-the-moment, I'm reminded that 1) yes, the house is a good thing, and 2) we have some remarkably awesome friends. There are a few pictures here, if you'd like to ogle the Kiss My Ass wine. :) Much gratitude to ubiq31 for magically ( Read more... )

RAUSCHPFEIFE! I'm gonna have a rauschpfeife!

Practices have been going very well, but I've decided I shouldn't just play soprano crumhorn all the time -- firstly, you guys know how bored I get when I can't make a sound crew insane by switching instruments eight times in a set *grin*, secondly we need a little more tonal variation anyway, and last ( Read more... )

Pieces shalmestere, hudebnik, and I played yesterday on recorders: "Dou way Robin," "Ma Tre Dol Rosignol," Machaut's "De toutes flours," and "De tous biens plaine," the last in two different keys so I could get the line in my head for alto experimentation. There were one or two other pieces in there too, I think, but I forget because playing F fingerings on alto ( Read more... )

I was supposed to go visit La Belle Compagnie at Colonial Plantation this weekend, but the event was called due to rain -- so instead the sprout and redshinma and I hung out with shalmestere, hudebnik, klynn330, and ubiq31 on Saturday. We started out with lunch in a perfectly nice restaurant with fireplace -- and yes, it was cold and damp enough that that was a plus ( Read more... )

My brainpower and free time are sufficiently limited that my Pennsic wrapup is going to be random chunks of stuff again this year. Mmmmm, Pennsic chunks. :)

Music! Let's talk about music!

I didn't play any myself until just about the end of my stay, when I met cantigajoy by way of turnberryknkn's LJ. She is indeed an absolute joy, and she has awesome buzzy instruments ( Read more... )