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Richard Robinson  
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 More options May 3 2007, 5:35 am
Newsgroups: uk.music.folk
From: Richard Robinson <richa...@privacy.net>
Date: 03 May 2007 09:35:31 GMT
Local: Thurs, May 3 2007 5:35 am
Subject: Re: the world's first rock band
a l l y said:

> "Jack Campin - bogus address" <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

>>>> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>>> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum
>>> has a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
>>> http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you
>>> to play on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert
>>> on them a couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)

>> I've added that link to the page.  It may be another Till Family
>> instrument - a letter I didn't reproduce mentions another set (in
>> some way associated with Ruskin) as having been disposed of.  Maybe
>> I should phone the museum and ask where theirs came from.  It's a
>> far more elaborate piece of woodwork than the New York one.

> It's great fun to play. You can bash away on it to your heat's content. Next
> time I've got time to spare in Keswick I'll bring the Belfagan camcorder and
> get someone to film me playing on it... Any requests?

Sticks and Stones is nicely appropriate. or the Bass Rock ?

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=T%3A.*rock
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=T%3A.*stone

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html


 
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