Steve Earle sings "I've got friends that I owe/I ain't naming names cos they know ..."
Well ... I've got friends that I owe and I'm not so coy as Mr Earle.
Thanks to John, Cathy, Gordon, Billy, Paul, Frankie, Max, Brian, Danny, Emily, Chris for turning up to the one-off last night in the Rising Sun. Some of you guys came a long way and your efforts in getting across to Lewisham are much appreciated. Some of you didn't travel so far, but your efforts in getting here are no less appreciated.
It was a blistering session and the landlord declared himself gobsmacked ... I'm not quite sure what he expected, but he certainly didn't expect that sort of turnout and that quality of music!
I doubt that this will become a permanent fixture. However it's handy venue to have for the occasional by-invite-only "special".
Thank you for organising it Aidan. If I'm allowed any input, my suggestion would be to keep it infrequent and by invitation only, seeing as how our other local venues have demised by being too public. Sorry I had to leave so early, I'm still only half-alive after a virus attack. Most of my programs are running very slowly just now.
So come on Aiden tell us more. Who played what ? what tunes are taking your fancy over in Lewisham ? There are people on this site who very rarely (maybe never) get to a session never mind a 'blistering' one !
Danny ... I'm not really up for starting another regular session; I don't have the time for one thing. But it might be a useful spot for a one-off now and again.
Flossie ... hmm ... just thinking my way around the table last night there were pipes, flute/whistle/box, flute, pipes/low whistle, fiddle, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, fiddle, spoons, whistle and mandolin. As for the tunes ... well, as you can imagine, it would be nearly impossible to go into that level of detail. Let's just say that last night was an opportunity for two groups of people from two different sessions which I've frequented to get together.
Come to think of it, we had a one-off last January which was a bit of a prototype for last night. Maybe we should make it an annual event!
I hold copyright on that title. Saying that to make people think I was there is downright dishonest, trying to attract a crowd through my name. Shame on you.(0)
Heisenberg discovered that, with most quantum fiddle players, it is impossible to determine the key they're in AND the tune they're playing simultaneously.
In a set of quantum reels, the players tend to become "excited" to a higher energy state. This leads to the probability of a correct note appearing within the orbit of the bow diminishing. In such cases a "transition tune" may be introduced which often contains large numbers of D orbital notes. The Hamiltonian for this is often overlooked, sadly.
Of course, Prof Max, let's not forget emission energy is always at a lower energy level than excitation energy, ie lower frequency and longer wavelength, exactly identical to subatomic particles. this results in fiddle players playing out of tune and out of time with each other. This phenomenon has been observed repeatedly at the Blythe Hill Tavern in recent months, and is directly proportional to the number of beers consumed by said players.
And let's not forget the Pauli exclusion principle where no more than one fiddle player can start a tune at any one time. So when Paul starts one up and Brian butts in with one of his Paul politely desists for the duration of tune, usually very long.
Thanks ...
Thanks ...
Steve Earle sings "I've got friends that I owe/I ain't naming names cos they know ..."
Well ... I've got friends that I owe and I'm not so coy as Mr Earle.
Thanks to John, Cathy, Gordon, Billy, Paul, Frankie, Max, Brian, Danny, Emily, Chris for turning up to the one-off last night in the Rising Sun. Some of you guys came a long way and your efforts in getting across to Lewisham are much appreciated. Some of you didn't travel so far, but your efforts in getting here are no less appreciated.
It was a blistering session and the landlord declared himself gobsmacked ... I'm not quite sure what he expected, but he certainly didn't expect that sort of turnout and that quality of music!
I doubt that this will become a permanent fixture. However it's handy venue to have for the occasional by-invite-only "special".
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by Aidan Crossey
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Was this a private invite only session ?
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by BegF
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Thank you for organising it Aidan. If I'm allowed any input, my suggestion would be to keep it infrequent and by invitation only, seeing as how our other local venues have demised by being too public. Sorry I had to leave so early, I'm still only half-alive after a virus attack. Most of my programs are running very slowly just now.
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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So come on Aiden tell us more. Who played what ? what tunes are taking your fancy over in Lewisham ? There are people on this site who very rarely (maybe never) get to a session never mind a 'blistering' one !
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by flossie
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Danny ... I'm not really up for starting another regular session; I don't have the time for one thing. But it might be a useful spot for a one-off now and again.
Flossie ... hmm ... just thinking my way around the table last night there were pipes, flute/whistle/box, flute, pipes/low whistle, fiddle, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, fiddle, spoons, whistle and mandolin. As for the tunes ... well, as you can imagine, it would be nearly impossible to go into that level of detail. Let's just say that last night was an opportunity for two groups of people from two different sessions which I've frequented to get together.
Come to think of it, we had a one-off last January which was a bit of a prototype for last night. Maybe we should make it an annual event!
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by Aidan Crossey
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A "Blistering" session?
I hold copyright on that title. Saying that to make people think I was there is downright dishonest, trying to attract a crowd through my name. Shame on you.(0)
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by bodhran bliss
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That's a colourless smiley. IT escapes me.
I know Michael, laziness.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by bodhran bliss
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Sorry on Aidan's, and we other Sarf Londoners, behalf, Bliss. If he'd called it a "lligering" session, would you have felt any better?
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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Yes. Then you would have enjoyed solitude, and all that entails for Llig.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by bodhran bliss
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Oh? but there were 3 fiddles and only one bodhran. So it probably was a more lligoid phenomenon.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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Three fiddlers = one bodhran player. Einstein discovered that.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by bodhran bliss
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sounds like an Uncertainty Principle if ever I heard one.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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But you've also got to introduce Schrodinger's Cat somehow.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by lazyhound
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...as in the cat and the fiddle? (cow, moon, dish, spoon)
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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The cat that ate the candle ?
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by flossie
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Heisenberg discovered that, with most quantum fiddle players, it is impossible to determine the key they're in AND the tune they're playing simultaneously.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by maxF
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I've always found this wave/particle duality particularly irritating when I play music on the beach in Suffolk.
When the tide comes in, all the waves splash up on my box, and particles of sand get in the blowhole of my flute.
Most annoying.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
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I saw a t shirt recently with a picture of Schrodinger's cat on it and the caption "Wanted Dead or Alive." ho ho
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by AlBrown
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In a set of quantum reels, the players tend to become "excited" to a higher energy state. This leads to the probability of a correct note appearing within the orbit of the bow diminishing. In such cases a "transition tune" may be introduced which often contains large numbers of D orbital notes. The Hamiltonian for this is often overlooked, sadly.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by maxF
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Of course, Prof Max, let's not forget emission energy is always at a lower energy level than excitation energy, ie lower frequency and longer wavelength, exactly identical to subatomic particles. this results in fiddle players playing out of tune and out of time with each other. This phenomenon has been observed repeatedly at the Blythe Hill Tavern in recent months, and is directly proportional to the number of beers consumed by said players.
And let's not forget the Pauli exclusion principle where no more than one fiddle player can start a tune at any one time. So when Paul starts one up and Brian butts in with one of his Paul politely desists for the duration of tune, usually very long.
# Posted on December 17th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad