The ground is damp from the night's rain but the sun is trying its best to come out and help dry it out.
It's a real Saturday folks, so enjoy everything you are planning to do.
It's a real Saturday folks, so enjoy everything you are planning to do.
Right, get this.
I won two Hohner Superchromonica chromatic harmonicas in that auction I mentioned.
They both need a little bit of work but nowt to be afraid of.
I have owned a Bandmaster de luxe chromatic harmonica since I was 20 and played it lots.
So I start trying to play my Hohner.
WTF!!!!????? notes missing? In the wrong place? What the FECK is going on?
It is as if you buy a Bluthner piano, learn how to play it then you buy a Steinway and when you hit the keys, which look fecking identical by the way, the same thing happens. Wrong notes. Two keys next to one another both play the same fecking note. Etc?
So for the first time in my life, after a lot of time on tinternet, and after 47 years of playing the old one, I look more closely at my old Bandmaster and see the little words "Seydel's System".
All is clear, as mud.
Never went into it before, always simply played it by ear, very happily.
Now I discover the lost city of feckin Atlantis of the Harmonica world.
There are several ways of designing and building and tuning the layout of the notes on a Harmonica, none of which I ever knew. I know you can tune a guitar lots of different ways, and that there are basically 3 different types of harmonica. But never knew all this sh!t.
It is a tiny bit like learning to drive a car where the gears chosen by the gear lever are different in the same positions on other cars. I even once owned a French Renault 6, left -hand drive and the gear lever sticking out of the dash where reverse was to the left shove it in, 1st was to the left pull it back, 2nd and 3rd were leave it the middle (it springs to there) and shove it in and out and fourth was turn it to the right and shove it in. That didn't take too long to learn.
But this Hohner, which is tuned far more conventionally than my Bandmaster, unbeknown to me (and the Seydel system seems much more logical anyway) is like having 24 gears or 48 when you take into account pushing the button on the end,) And I have to relearn about 1/4 of them.
You may wonder why I was so keen to get these. Well the sound is feckin brilliant and they are the Rolls Royce of harmonicas. The Bandmaster was made in the GDR, ffs! but I never bargained on all this. I should have started with a far more conventional and simple diatonic harp. But a girlfriend asked me what i wanted for my birthday and I told her "a chromatic harmonica" so, bless her, she went out and spent a load of dosh she didn't really have at the time on the one I have had for years. Neither of us knowing that it was a bi of an odd-ball.
Every day is a feckin school day.
And I am FED UP of having to go to school!
I'm feckin retired for God's sake!
Anyway, all this takes my mind of the fact Wifey's leg problem has now been pronounced an "ulcer" which ain't very funny.
All caused by it getting wacked by a car door shutting on it as she was getting into the car during the gales about 3 weeks ago.
Think I'd better go to bed now.
Sleep well all.
And on that note.......
Morning all tis raining Im off to do a tip run my mate had his bathroom re-done this week
so instead of paying for a skip I said just fill up my trailer & id take it away so breakfast rolls
on him.
Sold my camping trailer but kept my roof tent & awnings I may
sell em or not, thinking of building a campervan. Vans are very pricey tho
Have a nice day zooners.
Im off to do a tip run my mate had his bathroom re-done this weekso instead of paying for a skip I said just fill up my trailer & id take it away so breakfast rolls
on him.
Sold my camping trailer but kept my roof tent & awnings I may
sell em or not, thinking of building a campervan. Vans are very pricey tho
Have a nice day zooners.
Morning All
Sunny and 9° here this morning.
Have a great day.
Aren't they just! I'm just waiting for my new MH to be delivered - and the caravan to be collected. It had to go 'cos I just didn't have the physical strength to hitch and unhitch it - I did try but it meant I was far too reliant on other people to do things for me at the time of MY choosing.Sold my camping trailer but kept my roof tent & awnings I may
sell em or not, thinking of building a campervan. Vans are very pricey tho
Oooh!Aren't they just! I'm just waiting for my new MH to be delivered - and the caravan to be collected. It had to go 'cos I just didn't have the physical strength to hitch and unhitch it - I did try but it meant I was far too reliant on other people to do things for me at the time of MY choosing.
Pics please!
Pretty please!!
But yes they really are feck off stupid expensive.
I've licked this but sincerely feel for you, not funny especially in the feckin rain.
Right, get this.
I won two Hohner Superchromonica chromatic harmonicas in that auction I mentioned.
They both need a little bit of work but nowt to be afraid of.
I have owned a Bandmaster de luxe chromatic harmonica since I was 20 and played it lots.
So I start trying to play my Hohner.
WTF!!!!????? notes missing? In the wrong place? What the FECK is going on?
It is as if you buy a Bluthner piano, learn how to play it then you buy a Steinway and when you hit the keys, which look fecking identical by the way, the same thing happens. Wrong notes. Two keys next to one another both play the same fecking note. Etc?
So for the first time in my life, after a lot of time on tinternet, and after 47 years of playing the old one, I look more closely at my old Bandmaster and see the little words "Seydel's System".
All is clear, as mud.
Never went into it before, always simply played it by ear, very happily.
Now I discover the lost city of feckin Atlantis of the Harmonica world.
There are several ways of designing and building and tuning the layout of the notes on a Harmonica, none of which I ever knew. I know you can tune a guitar lots of different ways, and that there are basically 3 different types of harmonica. But never knew all this sh!t.
It is a tiny bit like learning to drive a car where the gears chosen by the gear lever are different in the same positions on other cars. I even once owned a French Renault 6, left -hand drive and the gear lever sticking out of the dash where reverse was to the left shove it in, 1st was to the left pull it back, 2nd and 3rd were leave it the middle (it springs to there) and shove it in and out and fourth was turn it to the right and shove it in. That didn't take too long to learn.
But this Hohner, which is tuned far more conventionally than my Bandmaster, unbeknown to me (and the Seydel system seems much more logical anyway) is like having 24 gears or 48 when you take into account pushing the button on the end,) And I have to relearn about 1/4 of them.
You may wonder why I was so keen to get these. Well the sound is feckin brilliant and they are the Rolls Royce of harmonicas. The Bandmaster was made in the GDR, ffs! but I never bargained on all this. I should have started with a far more conventional and simple diatonic harp. But a girlfriend asked me what i wanted for my birthday and I told her "a chromatic harmonica" so, bless her, she went out and spent a load of dosh she didn't really have at the time on the one I have had for years. Neither of us knowing that it was a bi of an odd-ball.
Every day is a feckin school day.
And I am FED UP of having to go to school!
I'm feckin retired for God's sake!
Anyway, all this takes my mind of the fact Wifey's leg problem has now been pronounced an "ulcer" which ain't very funny.
All caused by it getting wacked by a car door shutting on it as she was getting into the car during the gales about 3 weeks ago.
Think I'd better go to bed now.
Sleep well all.
I cant believe I read through a lesson on Harmonicas to get to the important bit
.Hope you and W look after that as I have heard they can get pretty bad
. Oh alcohol is not good for them or is that the tummy 1s.Look after Mrs Steamers leg
.J
I like burying the good bits!I cant believe I read through a lesson on Harmonicas to get to the important bit
Hope you and W look after that as I have heard they can get pretty bad
Look after Mrs Steamers leg
J
Though sincerely this isn't a good bit. We are keeping a very good watch on it, and W has her leg up all the time. as we were told to.
My mother the doc was a dermatologist so I know quite a bit about leg ulcers and they sure are not good news. The numbers of times she told me about some old dear with them whipping the bandages off as soon as she got the chance and digging around in it with a knitting needle. Just made them so bad the only cure became amputation.
she will get an appt with the practice nurse hopefully on Monday, we have been told to keep the "honey" bandage that he put on, in place until she sees it.
Wish this sort of sh!t didn't just keep happening.
so Mrs Steamer is in her Steamer-chair!!
Glasgie
Well-Known Member
Guid afrternoon
Uneventful day really
Ikea this morning including breakfast
1 hour at the gym
Watched Italy - Scotland Rugby, good to see Italy are improving perhaps might get a win next year
Hair cut No. 0.5 or baldy if you like
Tomorrow Scottish Motorcycle Show across at Edinburgh, well Ingilston really. Window shopping only I guess !
Now dinner time what will I cook.......................................sod the cooking what will I drink !
Uneventful day really
Ikea this morning including breakfast
1 hour at the gym
Watched Italy - Scotland Rugby, good to see Italy are improving perhaps might get a win next year
Hair cut No. 0.5 or baldy if you like
Tomorrow Scottish Motorcycle Show across at Edinburgh, well Ingilston really. Window shopping only I guess !
Now dinner time what will I cook.......................................sod the cooking what will I drink !
Pics will come - when I get it!Oooh!
Pics please!
Pretty please!!
But yes they really are feck off stupid expensive.
Aren't they just! I'm just waiting for my new MH to be delivered - and the caravan to be collected. It had to go 'cos I just didn't have the physical strength to hitch and unhitch it - I did try but it meant I was far too reliant on other people to do things for me at the time of MY choosing.
I had a caravan in the past Hobby 28ft x 8ft lovely van but too big to lug about on our twisty roads, a MH
will be better for you if you had to rely on someone else to hitch it up. Jump in the MH an off ye go when
you get tired just pull in & put the kettle on, easier to find somewhere to park.
Looking forward to seeing the MH.
Guid afrternoon
Uneventful day really
Ikea this morning including breakfast
1 hour at the gym
Watched Italy - Scotland Rugby, good to see Italy are improving perhaps might get a win next year
Hair cut No. 0.5 or baldy if you like
Tomorrow Scottish Motorcycle Show across at Edinburgh, well Ingilston really. Window shopping only I guess !
Now dinner time what will I cook.......................................sod the cooking what will I drink !
I watched the rugby too good game, I thought the ref was good.
Was thinking of going to the bike show tomorrow as well.
I too am looking forward to the pics.I had a caravan in the past Hobby 28ft x 8ft lovely van but too big to lug about on our twisty roads, a MH
will be better for you if you had to rely on someone else to hitch it up. Jump in the MH an off ye go when
you get tired just pull in & put the kettle on, easier to find somewhere to park.
Looking forward to seeing the MH.
BUT, don't know what it's like in Scotty land, but there are loads of places in the UK and abroad, where MHs simply cannot park up. Which is why so many of them have either bikes, or motorbikes or even a towed car on an A frame behind them.
We see a shed load of them going up and down the mountain road between Mazamet, our nearest town and Carcassonne, and there is a lake nearby which does have parking for MHs. but so often we see places where there is a barrier designed to stop MHs entering. We have thought about getting one, but this has put us off. However we still can physically hitch up a caravan should we need to.
Our son comes to visit us most summers in his MH and so far we have managed to always find somewhere to pull over. Guess you just have to plan your routes.
