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Posted on 06/17/2004 7:09:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
G'morning!--um, is it morning? :) LOL!
Thanks Hair. I'm thinking I'm gonna send her a birthday cake or flowers.
Knowing my step-dad, I can guarantee she won't see either one if I don't do it. I'm looking for an option that would include both...
Mandolin and five string banjo (which are the normal kind) are very, very different. But tenor banjo can be tuned an octave below mandolin, which makes it the same fingering, though bigger, of course. The finger stretches are a bit tough on some tunes.
One more idea, though maybe not a good one. Once upon a time, an aunt of mine sent me a cookie bouquet. It was the coolest thing! All decorated and with her message on some of the bigger ones.
LOL!
I hate it when that happens...
She's a diabetic. I know she'd share a cake, and probably cookies too...sigh...I'll figger something out.
I'm still trying to get the finger stretching right on guitar, so that sounds complicated! :) Banjo seems like a fun instrument, though.
Mando and tenor banjo are far more logically laid out for melody lines than guitar is, IMO. Nicely laid out in fifths, with no break in the pattern like the b string on guitar. But not as good for playing full chords...the stretches for playing chords can be realllllly long on the banjo unless you capo and play further up.
Most excellent gift!
Should be handy for those midnight trips to the Witch's Circle. ;-P
*wink*
go to proflowers.com They have birthday cakes and cookies, and flowers, too.
It's spendy, but hey, it's Mom.
It wasn't a deliberate thing at all! I'll be the first to admit that my mom isn't the happiest person in the world, but I've never tuned her out before. I've just let her go on and on because I was a captive audience, so to speak.
She started up the minute (literally) I walked in the door last night. As in, suitcase still in my hand! Sheesh!
I barely had a chance to say "hi" before she started explaining what the foyer looked like when *she* got home. Every room I went into, she had to provide running commentary as to what she had to clean and what she found, etc. Exhausting!!!
So, within 10 minutes, I couldn't take it anymore and I just stopped hearing her. I nodded as if I was listening, but I couldn't tell ya what else was said! It's a happy thing!!
As I sit here twiddling my thumbs and toes waiting for a phone call saying, "Hey, my revision is done- come look at the report!" *sigh*
I've experienced tuning certain relatives out like that. Nodding as if you're listening helps :) What you describe reminds me of how my Grandma acts sometimes. Sometimes it seems like complaining is her way of trying to make conversation--like she wants to say hi to you but doesn't know how, so she complains instead.
Now THAT would be an interesting conversation. :-)
Thanks for the info about contradance. I assumed from the root of the word it meant dancing 'in opposition to' someone, or dancing in a line going towards another line. I undertand what you mean when you mention the dancing in movies about Jane Austen books.
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