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 Pete
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North Coast NSW, Australia
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3/20/2005 | posted: 8/11/2005 at 5:33:26 AM ET
suzyq, Under The Boardwalk was the Stones, with a magic 12 string bridge, but we're still friends, right?
""I also remember from an earlier post that you had said the the highs in an Ovation are biased, but you never explained what you meant. "" Don, it's the use of fibreglass, I find it lacks body tones, and always sounds to me like a non-solid top accoustic ie: cheap, thin and limited in harmonic overtones.
I have never owned a Martin, (I have a Gibson, and Fender, Burns and Guild electrics, but my 19 year old Suzuki Professional accoustic beats everything else I have played or heard, inc the Aussie Maton, hands down) but I have had a lot of students with them over the years. I find if the string size is dropped back to an .011 1st, they are faster and lower, but a lot of flatpickers buy them just because of that squared-off neck.
Dijeredoo is played by the kids I teach, and when that ancient sound, unchanged for at least 10,000 years, is produced by a classroom of Aboriginal kids who's forebares were living in the stone age only 200 years ago (and who are very bright, and very musically talanted)the effect is hair-raising.
The kids, we teachers say, ""zone out"", when the Digeredoo is played in the classroom, and even us white folk feel ourselves drifting off.
And, for those who are reading this who, unlike Don and myself, have not heard one played, these things are LOUD...
Baruch 3:14
| suzyq
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11/18/2004 | posted: 8/11/2005 at 8:54:57 AM ET
Hi,
Pete thanks, I've never been good with names or remembering groups what sang, especially after all these years, we're still friends and I remember liking Under the Boardwalk, plus other things that they did. I'm not sure about ovations - I might have been referring to the fact that people give standing ovations for just about any performance, standing ovations should be reserved for very special performances - I'm very sparing in giving a standing ovation.
Don thanks for Peter, Paul and Mary - as I explained keeping names straight for some reason has never been one of my strong points.
Hope the Professor who wrote about his concern for the future of music checks in. The tradition in dance is to pass on knowledge to the younger generation and I would hope that this holds true for music and all of the arts.
| suzyq
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11/18/2004 | posted: 8/13/2005 at 9:20:16 AM ET
Don,
You mentioned that your wife needed a checkup, hope she is doing well.
|  imnidiot
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Ashley PA
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3/28/2005 | posted: 8/17/2005 at 10:32:39 PM ET
suzyq, this is in reply to your query about my wife. She is doing fine, she had to have a series of four infusions to replenish her iron level. this in conjunction with daily iron and vitamin C should put her back on top. Thanks for your concern.
I am a fragment of my imagination
| imnidiot
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Ashley PA
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3/28/2005 | posted: 8/17/2005 at 10:36:17 PM ET
suzyq, my wife is doing fine. She finished a series of four iron infusions. this in conjunction with a daily iron suppliment should put her back on top. Yhanks for your concern.
I am a fragment of my imagination
| suzyq
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11/18/2004 | posted: 8/18/2005 at 12:54:05 AM ET
Don,
Glad to read the good news -
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