Down Up Dick

Recorders are very loud and piercing, but, other than that, I’m enjoying them. I’m continuing my progress by learning scales in...

Picking up life lessons in the kitchen. Sometimes, despite your care, you still get sucky avocadoes. Or you screw up an egg flip...

Just too many people and cars, and I’m too old to move.

I‘m gonna hafta renew my California driver’s license this year, but I dunno if I’m gonna do it. Driving is crazy here, and I don’t...

I noticed a difference in listening patterns today. When I was growing up we mowed lawns so that we could buy the year's album when it...

I have been playing with some modes and found it to be quite an aufschlussreich. I was starting with the first 4 triplets of "Jesu...

The above decision was a good one. I’m enjoying the Baroque flute this time, but playing time is still limited. My new soprano...

I read recently that certain online experience was akin to a night in a pub. But what does that mean? I haven't gone to the local pub...

Now you can get down wit yer bad cuttin’ board! Chop it!

perhaps but I am earnest. The clickety-clack is like a Clydesdale drawing a phaeton across cobblestone or leather-soled shoes on a...

^ leave it to a musician to talk about resonance from a cutting board! Lmao.

My wife had the temerity to challenge my playing today. I should have thrown away her chicken thighs for her insolence...but I didn't...

I tried out my Baroque flute today with about the usual results: it kicked me. The darn thing is really hard to play unless one plays...

I got my soprano recorder yesterday, and it’s a great looking instrument. The wood grain (though plastic) is really nice looking. It...

Well, I’m after wood from now on, if I buy any more. Yeah, I’m familiar with Peter Schickele, and I’ve got a book about PDQ Bach. I’m...