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Subject: Checking My Log-In From: Glade Date: 11 Sep 02 - 01:07 PM I just became a member of Mudcat after a few years of having my questions about lyrics and music and musicians answered by the so kind and knowledgeable Mudcatters. I was not even thinking of the date, the time just now seemed right. I've wanted to for a while & was about to start a Mudcat membership fund & save up for it when I noticed it was free. I'm really not cheap - I'm generous when I've got it. It's just that for some time now the money situation has been shaky around chez Glade. I thought of announcing my new status with 'Today I Am A Mudcatter,' but since I'm neither male nor Jewish, it seemed inappropriate. It took me a little while to figure out logging in even with the very helpful FAQs & I wanted to make sure I'm not classified as a Guest anymore. Glade |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 11 Sep 02 - 01:10 PM Let me be the first to welcome you as a member Glade. Would you like to tell us any more about yourself, musically or otherwise? In the meantime -- enjoy! BJ |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Glade Date: 11 Sep 02 - 06:52 PM Thanks, BJ! I really appreciate your welcome. About the only thing I can do musically is applaud. I've tried to learn the autoharp (I've heard that this is the easiest instrument to play)and guitar - not to play publicly, just for myself. Although I've been around and loved folk music ever since I can remember, I've had no success to speak of. My husband's friends think I'm tone deaf, so maybe that has something to do with it. To me, learning to play feels a lot like learning to type; tell me, does that mean I'm doomed from the start? I'm a librarina (did it again!, it's how I usually spell librarian the first time). I've spent a lifetime travelling; I'm well-read, ill-educated, shy to the point of incipient agoraphobia, pragmatic, usually grateful and mostly joyful. I can also get carried away talking about me, so I'll stop now while I still can. I really do have a lot of affection and respect for this site. Glade
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: smallpiper Date: 11 Sep 02 - 07:03 PM Welcome Glade and please do carry on telling us about yourself - its fascinating. I like to hear about new members. |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: greg stephens Date: 11 Sep 02 - 07:09 PM You're very welcome,indeed, Glade, to this strange community. Stick around.I can never spell tradtional right first time, so I can relate to your librarian problem. |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Sep 02 - 09:14 PM Yo Glade! Did yo mamma really name you after a air freshener? Just doing my part to dispell any notions you may have that all folk musicians are always sensitive and politically correct. *(Insert big grin here)* WELCOME Bruce |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Mr Happy Date: 11 Sep 02 - 09:34 PM i'm happy to konw ya! |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: GUEST,Bardford Date: 11 Sep 02 - 09:46 PM Welcome Glade! Shake a damp kazoo at your husbands friends. What do they know anyway? Are they a philharmonic?There's no such thing as tone-deaf! Find this book: Making Music for the Joy of It - Enhancing Creativity, Skills and Musical Confidence (A Guide for Adult Beginning and Amateur Musicians) by Stephanie Judy 1990, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc, Los Angeles ISBN 0-87477-593-0. I wouldn't have tossed the ISBN in there, but seeing as how you're a liberarian and all... Ms. Judy cuts through a lot of the assumptions and BS we accumulate about music and musicianship, learning and playing. Over 300 pages, well worth having a look for it. Cheers, Bradford
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Mudlark Date: 11 Sep 02 - 11:27 PM Welcome, Glade. Re tone-deaf...really, it is very rare. I have a friend who stopped singing in school because some sadistic jerk of a choir director told her she was tone deaf. After hearing about this endless times, at the end of a drive together, I said, "Wait a minute...let me open the car door." A tone sounded. " Now sing that tone..." And she was right on the mark. I hope you continue to hang out on Mudcat...and I hope with some encouragement you will begin to sing (which is, after all, the easiest instrument). You might want to experiment wth a dulcimer...to my mind easier to use than an autoharp as you play the melody line on a single string, much like picking out a melody line on a piano, note by note. Keep posting, and let us know about you, your relationship to music and how you progress... |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Amos Date: 12 Sep 02 - 12:17 AM Dang, that's a good story, Mudlark!! Welcome to the funhouse, Glade!! A |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: C-flat Date: 12 Sep 02 - 02:49 AM Welcome Glade, you must be the only Liberian here, on Mudcat, I think! |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: songs2play Date: 12 Sep 02 - 02:50 AM Welcome Glade, As through this world you travel, as through this world you roam, you'll meet some plonkers on the internet, who should be in a special home. Enjoy the 'Catters Forum. Where are you from ? from your message I would guess you are from USA. Query to other 'Catters, before we get a response from Glade. Where you you think she is from? Can you tell where someone lives, just from a short message ? |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: songs2play Date: 12 Sep 02 - 02:53 AM Yes, I know. I should have read the second message from Glade. |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Trevor Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:14 AM I think librarina is a brilliant word! |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: smallpiper Date: 12 Sep 02 - 05:50 AM I would hazzard a guess that she's from the USA and don't mind Gargoyle, Glade he clearly has his head up his arse! |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Guessed Date: 12 Sep 02 - 09:21 AM welcome Glade - no longer shady Glade I still appear as a Guessed though. |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 12 Sep 02 - 12:17 PM I agree about librarina -- that's a great word! A well-travelled agrophobic -- you're obviously a walking contradiction. and I agree with Mudlark about tone-deafness. I heard a programme on BBC Radio 4 (so it must be true) which claimed that our perception of tone and pitch is what helps us learn to speak. You just need to find it again and learn how to relate it to music. Buggered if I know how, though (but I bet there's someone out there who does). BJ |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: smallpiper Date: 13 Sep 02 - 12:30 PM I think its somthing to do with trying to sing in keys that other people are comfortable in instead of singing in a key that you are comfortable in or trying singing higher than your own vocal range allows. Find the range of your voice and be comfortable instead of trying to hit the notes others use -mmmmmmm does that makes sence or am I just rambling in an oakley fashion? |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Sep 02 - 12:40 PM There are two other librarinae I know of here at Mudcat. BOLO. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Checking My Log-In From: GUEST,Glade Date: 13 Sep 02 - 02:47 PM It's great to hear from y'all. Got it in one, smallpiper & songs2play, I'm in the USA. There may be other librarinae (love it!) at Mudcat, but to hear my fellow librarians, I'm the only one EVER to spell it 'librarina.' Now I can tell them that some fine people think it's kinda cool. Thanks for all the encouragement. Thanks for the ISBN, Bardford. BJ, I firmly believe that I was BORN under the sign of contradiction - hey, if it works for John Paul II, it should be good enough for me. Golly-gum-gee, I'm glad I joined up. Glade |
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