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New ! the First Lancaster Hurdygurdy Festival, 2007
Also known as The Ubiqitous Ego Box
Which is a nice phrase that I found knocking around one time, years ago.
There will not be a prize for anybody who recognises its source.
Music
The observant among you may have noticed that I'm a clarinet player. I
play "traditional" tunes - Scots/Irish/Scandinavian. No,
clarinet is not a "proper" instrument for this. Never mind, I do
it anyway. I've been doing it for 25 years, so it's traditional now.
Having spent a lot of time learning tunes, I've also found myself
getting involved with finding ways of storing them on a computer. One of
the outcomes of this is that a lot of them have found their way onto the
Web, under the name of Richard
Robinson's Tunebook. I'm proud of this. It first went up in June '94,
and so far as I know it was the first (there are now many others -
"the Tunes" seem to do well on the internet).
I also currently play in various bands :-
-
One Foot in the Gutter specialises in
Swedish dance music, played by 2 fiddles and a clarinet. So, if you want
to dance polska/schottische/waltz, etc, get in touch. We can also do
workshops, if you want to learn to dance them, or play them.
- Trio RAT is less specialised - clarinet, mandolin/octave mandolin
and guitar, playing anything that takes our fancy.
the Trio RAT Home Page has recordings of
some of our tunes (in mp3 format).
- Moorgate is a ceilidh band. This is a new band, and there are no
recordings. This is also, curiously, a 3-piece band (clarinet, melodeon and
guitar).
If any of the above has interested you at all, you might also like a
look at the Lancaster Clocks Back Folk
Festival Home Page
the Curious Potato FAQ
The signature that I use on newsgroup postings and emails reads ...
--
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
and people keep asking me where it comes from.
Stanislaw Lem is a Polish science fiction writer, and he's excellent.
My quote comes from "The Star Diaries", published in English
translation by Mandarin, ISBN 0-7493-0472-3 ("the 25th Voyage",
page 242). I suspect he wrote the whole story just to provide a context
where he could get away with using that phrase, but I could be wrong, it
might all be an excuse for the bit about the volcano.
Richard Robinson, 2003
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