The Moon and Jupiter
There’s been a bit of fuss recently about 5 planets being visible in the morning sky. Here’s the Moon next […]
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Hardware
With the decision made it was time to get some bits needed to complete the initial drawings. I had decided
Fiddle
Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers looking serious
Thanks to Grant Crawford for this photo from the esf session in the Diggers, posted in Facebook. We do look
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Why not a kontrabas?
Having owned a three row chromatic nyckelharpa since May 2014, when I collected it from Olle Plahn in Falun, I
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Swedish fiddle music
Enjoyed our Yuletide session yesterday (yes, two in two days!) – lots of tunes played, songs sung, food eaten, drink
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Nyckelharpa and erhu!
Thanks to Anne, Dennis and family for today’s session. Here’s a good combination – nyckelharpa and Steven’s erhu. We even
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Life
Festive robots
Impressive. Wonder if they get pains in those diodes down their sides? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/35166591/google-s-robots-challenge-rudolph
Soyuz docking with ISS
Great to see live coverage of the Soyuz launch on terrestrial TV this morning; I have just watched the docking
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Fiddle
Eilidh’s Scots Music Group class December 2015
A link to Eilidh Steel’s Facebook post with a nice photo of the class: https://www.facebook.com/eilidhfsteel/photos/a.578620195603638.1073741829.490064694459189/752019598263696/?type=3&theater
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Festivities fast approaching …
It’s that time of year again …
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Chromatic nyckelharpa
A nyckelharpa at the Fiddle Festival
The nyckelharpa had a bit of an outing over the last two days in the session at the Scots Fiddle
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Fiddle, Life
Fiddle Festival 2015 concert
Another superb concert at the Scots Fiddle Festival. The youngsters in the Outreach Project were fantastic, well done Eilidh and all
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Fiddle, Life
Fiddle Festival 2015 – opening concert
Just been to the opening concert of the Scots Fiddle Festival with the wonderfully smooth fiddle four-piece Bottle Bank Band
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A trip north with the nyckelharpa
Last Wednesday Jean Cameron (who I had met at Halsway) and I were at the Fèis Rois session at the
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Microwave Band at the GMRT 2015
The “Microwave Band” entertaining guests at the dinner for the 2015 GMRT. Ian White GM3SEK on melodeon, Nadine White MM0WNW
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The case is finished
The case for my nyckelharpa is (nearly) finished. There is even room for strings in the box at top left!
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CTC bike ride – East Lothian
Good cycle ride with Edinburgh CTC group today in lovely sunshine. Last day of the summer? Met up at Fisherrow,
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Cockenzie and Port Seaton walk
Making the most of the weather – a little walk in Cockenzie and Port Seaton with Marwyn. Notes added on
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Almost total lunar eclipse
Well I never thought it would be Marwyn insisting that we get up for a lunar eclipse, but there you
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