Re: [HG-new] Joining again

[Jim Petersen]

michael...

i missed this post but i really liked it. it just made me feel real good reading it...

i agree no form of music can abide snobbishness. and i have always really disliked the categories we put music into. i play what i hear and like. i try to stay away from other peoples concepts of what should or should not be played on the hurdy gurdy but i am always interested in something new. i have been known to really "folk up" a classic... *L* and other tunes too come to think of it. my playing is for my enjoyment and when it touches someone that is a bonus... but then of course it isnt my sole means of income.

although i can not answer your ending question i would say this. there is nothing that could take music away from me... i think it is more inside the soul... i wake up every morning with some melody running through my head i can hear it with "my minds ear" in any key or any instrument?

peace... i hope you find a place to plant your vegetables..

jim


Grey Aengus (aka Jim)http://www.greyaengus.com often in error, never in doubt


--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Michael Muskett <mic...@muskett-music.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Michael Muskett <mic...@muskett-music.co.uk>
> Subject: [HG-new] Joining again
> To: "hurdygurdy" <hurdy...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 8:06 PM
>
> Hello, everyone. I am happy to join this group again after
> a lapse of
> many years, seemingly because of several computer
> transplants. Also I
> lived in the sticks (boondocks, I think, to you) for 17
> years and out
> of touch with other players.  However, in that time I
> learned the art
> of the printer and in due course printed a hurdy-gurdy
> method which my
> wife (assisted by me) was working on. The computer had
> developed
> enormously in that time from being quite primitive to being
> able to
> set music. Wonderful! The rest of my time was occupied
> among
> vegetables, fruits and trees.
> Now we live in a new(ish) town designed by  a famous
> American; all
> fast tree-lined roads, and a shopping centre. I can't find
> any music
> group to join, but we have a 39 year old weekly folk club
> run by Matt
> Armour until his sudden death some months ago.
>   I seem to be a controversial figure because, as was
> pointed out many
> years ago by a bluegrass musician (I love it) I am a
> strange creature
> in that I am a classical musician with an interest in
> folk.
> I do not like the false separation between these forms of
> music, for
> they are both very varied and have close links.Neither can
> Iabide
> snobbishness in either direction. Music is music and the
> joy of the
> human spirit.
> This morning I heard about a famous American lawyer (he of
> the 'monkey
> trial) who was audacious in asking which would you rather:
> lose your
> eyesight or change the colour of your skin? So I ask what
> you would
> give up in order to retain the pleasures of music?
> My greetings to all,
> Michael
>
> >
>