I will be in the State o' Maine, Bah Hahbah and Acadier Tuesday to Thursday. I wanted to leave you with a little something to tide you over.
I should probably put up a couple of songs, too.
Just an offhand note on who gets to define Feminism.
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler? The theme song from "Dad's Army."
The real American folk instrument is not the guitar.
Quiet Rant about supposed life behind the Iron Curtain
Post 4500n- Roger Scruton on How to be a conservative.
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The piano thing is obviously right. We had one in my house when I was a kid, and none of us were musical; but my mother could play a few basic pieces she'd learned at church, and taught me some of them when I was young.
I think the 'feminism.' link is broken, sorry to say.
The 2014 link on definition of feminism is likely:
https://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2014/10/feminism.html
I seem to recall an All Things Considered report on the history pianos in the US from several decades ago. There was quite a boom at one time, but they deteriorated and were hard to repair, and slowly faded.
We used to have an old player piano, but it went too badly out of tune.
We had our piano tuned on-schedule last Tuesday for $125. Kind of amazing that someone can make a career out of housecalls that can take an hour on-site – plus transport each way – for that amount.
$125 is more than I paid for the piano, but less than I spent to get it from the sellers home to my home. I only had to fund the move once, however, and also only pay once for the piano purchase.
I had tried to switch to an electronic piano that looked indistinguishable from a real piano and would never need tuning, but it did not go over well in the household as it was not "real".
You remind me that the reason we stopped having the piano was that it was stolen. We lived way out in the country, but crime was rare; it was the only time our home was ever broken into (not only there but anywhere else I have lived). Yet the piano — which has several downsides as an object of theft — was one of the things the burglars arranged to take. Mom didn’t buy a new one because she decided to spend the insurance money on things she’d use more often.
Douglas2 - Fixed. Thanks.
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