February 1, 2022
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Ionospheric Effects

Join us for the latest episode of The Agency Podcast. Listen right here or find it at all the best podcast places (no longer available on Spotify).

This week The Agency welcomes traditional musicians Patt Plunkett and Charlie Walden (Patt & Possum) to the program. Join us for some fab music and chat.

The agents also enjoy a lively discussion about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 film Notorious….and more!

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January 30, 2022
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Earworm

I’ve got an earworm. This tune has been circling around my brain all afternoon. The only thing to do to get rid of it is to share it (don’t worry, it’s not a tortuous earworm, like Pass the Dutchie or Seasons in the Sun) . Here’s Hopping Jenny performing the late Garry Harrison’s fab tune, Dull Chisel. I haven’t learned this one on the fiddle yet, but it’s one I learned on clawhammer banjo years ago at Midwest Banjo Camp.

January 30, 2022
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Grandpa working on a fiddle

This is one of the few photos we have of my grandpa Louis Knapik, my dad’s father . In this picture he is working on a violin. I know that he made and repaired violins but I have no idea, for instance, how many instruments he made or if there are any still around. I don’t know if I have even seen any of his instruments. I recall one relative who had a violin displayed in her living room for many years. Perhaps that was one made by my grandfather or maybe even by my Uncle Gene, after whom I was named. Gene was a well known as a violin-maker in near Chesterton Illinois. It has been many years, and at the time I wasn’t at all interested in violins. In the photo, I believe my grandfather is changing the pegs on a violin and to do so he is resizing the peg-holes using a tool called a reamer.

January 26, 2022
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Spotted Dick

Join us for the latest episode of The Agency Podcast. Listen right here or find it at all the best podcast hideouts.

This week:
…What is Elon Musk reading these days?
…Two great satires: Best in Show and Being There
…Wordle
…Yet another coming of age story – The Tender Bar
…Food and History + pudding in N. America vs pudding in the UK
…Can Eugene make a fiddle?
and much more!

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