Here’s a lovely schottische Istumbled upon on YouTube, played on a two-row diatonic.
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A Teaching Challenge
Regular readers know that I have a music student. I’ve been teaching him to play the triple row diatonic button accordion, and he’s coming along well. The button accordion is a folk instrument and in many cultures the normal way of teaching and learning it… Read More
Don’t Eat Wild Mushrooms in New Jersey?
Plenty of rainfall has led to many wild mushrooms in New Jersey forests, but officials say don’t eat them. The center says there’s no easy way to tell the difference between poisonous and harmless mushrooms I can understand a warning that says, “don’t eat wild… Read More
Wayfaring Stranger
Wayfaring Stranger is a British folk tune from the 18th Century. There are countless recorded versions. Here’s some I enjoy. Jack White Bill Monroe, solo and finally, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Saccharomyces eubayanus
Thanks to East Texas Red for sending me this article from the L.A. Times. Scientists have found an elusive yeast in a forest in Argentina that is one of two yeasts that together formed the yeast used for making lager beer. Who knew? Yeasts are… Read More
My Attempt at Giving up Painting has ended in Failure
To steal a line from the Merle Travis, “like a fiend with his dope, and a drunkard his wine…” I’ve found my way back into the little studio I’ve been calling The Anchovy Can. It seems I’m unable to stay away indefinitely. Here is another… Read More
A Pleasant Surprise
We received a letter from the City of Toronto today. How unusual. It started like this: We are pleased to inform you that your property/garden has been nominated for the City of Toronto Etobicoke York Great Gardens Contest 2011. Unfortunately, it was after the nomination… Read More
Sheila Gregory paintings
Tuffy P (aka Sheila Gregory) asked me to post some pictures of a bunch of her paintings online, so I set up a blog for her and posted them that way. Please go have a look. Comments are disabled over there, but if you want… Read More
Assortment
The highlight of this assortment of mushrooms are the little hedgehog mushrooms in the bottom left. They are Hydnum repandum, but small ones. These mushrooms have little teeth underneath the caps. They’re very distinctive and they are a choice edible, on par with chanterelles. There… Read More
puffball
This looks to me like pear-shaped puffball, Lycoperdon pyriforme. Usually when I see one of these I see quite a number of them, but this morning, I only spotted the one. These are good edibles when young and completely white inside. If you aren’t very… Read More
27th Street 