I don’t know very much at all about this music, but I’ve been listening to quite a few videos on the YouTube machine featuring the garmon, and I’m fascinated by the sounds.
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Community Gardens in Sam Smith Park
Check out the Community Garden Proposal for Colonel Sam Smith Park. Interesting idea. Can the park sustain one more use? Is this the right place for a community garden? I need to go have a look at the proposed site. In general I like the… Read More
Re-charging
Plugging in my brain to recharge for a couple days…regular programming will continue soon. In the meantime, you’ll have to find your own accordion music….
Garmon
The Garmon is a Russian free reed accordion-like instrument. Check it out in this wonderful video…
folks music
Oil Can Banjo…getting there
The oil can banjo is almost done. There are a few things I still need to work on. One of them has to do with the nut for the four main strings. When I strung the banjo, the nut appeared to be too low. This… Read More
Frida and Diego with Tuffy, Les and Paul
The Art Gallery of Ontario has an exhibition on now called Frida and Diego, Passion, Politics and Painting. We met up with cousins Les and Paul in the lobby and checked out the exhibition this afternoon. That’s Paul on the left and Les on the… Read More
Canjo next steps
This is a little paper jig I made to mark my drill holes on the neck and on the piece of maple I’m using as a dowel stick. You can see that I’ve drawn the placement of the neck on the can and marked the… Read More
Saturday mission…
Tomorrow, I’m going to try to find a good chunk of hardwood to use as a “dowel-stick” for my canjo. There are two other things I need as well – a kitchen fork that will work for a tail-piece and a set of banjo strings.… Read More
You Are My Sunshine
The Gutter Sheiks…found on the YouTube machine
27th Street 