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Originally Posted by electricflyer
I guess we won't expect Carl to be in the audience.
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The show there is actually a radio program open to the public.
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Carl needs to expand his musical horizons!
Sweet Wife has a B.S./Music Ed. Degree. Her major instrument was flute with a minor in Strings. Her flute private lessons were with the Principal Flutist of the Atlanta Symphony. Her string teacher was the head of the string dept at Georgia State. That's where she learned the masters, Bach, Mozart
who will work the daylights out of any flutist, and Beethoven who will pummel a string player.
Her daddy and her uncles taught her mountain music. And there is a definite science to bluegrass, a reason a 5 string banjo has a drone tuned to G, and rules that must be followed, just like in a sonata, or it's junk and not bluegrass.
She does both equally well.
I don't know which I like best, provided both are done well. But mountain music makers will let you sit in amongst them, for free. The Symphony won't let you do that for any price of ticket!
Now the first time I ever heard the "Grand Ol' Opry" was a proper initiation into the genre. I was about 6. We were visiting my grandparents way back in the mountains of Cumberland Gap, TN. We were there to get the tobacco harvest into the barns.
Supper had been server and the sun was setting. 'Pap Paw' had a radio set the size of a small chest o' drawers. (They had no TV) The inside of this thing lit up like a small city at night. With some deft of hand my uncle dialed in "The Grand Ol' Opry" from Nashville on a wire that ran 50 ft across the yard.
Children were advised to keep silent. The arms on Pap Paw's chair were 18 inches across and made a place for me to sit. I had never seen a family gather around a radio with such interest. When they broadcast a gospel song, the family would sing along.
Now
that, Carl, was hiring the musically handicapped!
Which explains, now that I revisit my ancestors in my memory and think about it, why I have NO musical talent.
They were good Christian people and took seriously the imperative to "make a joyful noise"
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Originally Posted by wa8yxm
That is about 180 miles from where I'm stuck.
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You are STILL stuck? So we need to mount a rescue mission?