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Short of Sunday school lessons confused of Jesus songs and recorder lessons taught to the gradeschool music entumble I started playing the violin in 5th grade. I was pretty good at it until it took a tumble to the floor and dashed to pieces. I decided to switch to band class and learn the trumpet, a little more sturdy of a instrument. This brings to mind the Norman Rockwell trumpert boy painting......I played the trumpet from the sixth until 11th grade. I learned a sense of melody that consisted mainly in memory of marches and pep band tunes. I should ask Mr. Swecker what the set lists were from 1991 - 1993 for the Mark Morris Highschool Concert Band. The pep band sticks out more in memory. Louie Loiue. Hawaii Five 'O. Etc.
In college I started experimenting with different musical interaction modes. I went tuesday nights at a Irish Pub named Connor Byrne's in Ballard Washington for set dancing. My good friend Erin Gibbons, aka Euphoria, I have to thank for this dancing development. I also met some great friends to cross paths with here. The Roushes, Jane and Patrick.
Aside: Patrick also had a Moto Guzzi, an 850T, and was Lin Hamlin's from Two Bells roomate before Jane and he got hitched and moved off to Spokane.
There back now, Yay! <-- August 2003
An Irish band, The Simple Tones, with the Uillian pipe player Wally, his wife on banjo, Connor on fiddle, guitar and sometimes when you were lucky a concertina provided the background to swing and and dance our four position circular patterns by. Irish set dancing is the parent of Western square dancing. The music sets a different circle of grace to the movement of swinging and changing of partners that occurs in the Irish flavor by substituting for the western twang and range, the Celtic eirie aire. We would fill this pub floor up with three sets of four couples doing the Balley Vurney Jig Set (sp?, oral tradition right?), Lancers, and other old standards. In the years since this I have noticed that my feet can move in a electronica dance sense with poised ease. I think the Irish reel feel transfers to the DJ trance movement style with the sense of intimate knowledge of body position on a less structured space with repeatable precision of time.
instruments.
Drums, penny whistles, pan flutes and guitars to name a few. I've always been a little of a jack of trades but I have settled on the guitar for now.
trumpet
the BASS
Uncle Mike
visions of playing this old banjo that my dad gave me too...
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