ubendum’s twenty-five comments

Called in to look on Wednesday 18th July 2007 No one in by 21.50 so went to Cumberland. Beer is a lot cheaper in the Queens mind! more…

You have to learn the sailors hornpipe too! more…

If you play any kind of box then you just have to be able to play it. It is the equivalent of having a guitar, and not learning the opening bars to stairway to heaven. more…

Damned to mediocrity! Hells teeth! mediocrity is what I aspire to. more…

I find writing ABC is much easier than standard notation, but as for reading it I have a computer to do that for me. more…

As a newcomer to this site I can add one thing, htese abc files are magic, just choose a tune you want to learn and set it to play on loop. If it going too fast for you then slow it down, underneath the more…

In Northumberland this tune is usually called My Lodgings, or My Lodgings in the cold field. more…

Thank you for that, I did not know the 1815 origin, I had always thought that it had started as the 1880’s protest song “The cotton lords of Preston” and become a dance later. more…

I have always used this tune as the opener for a waltz set, going on to “the south wind”, and finishing with “fanny power”. more…

Amaretto and mead sounds like that Brown ale and benelin thing we did when we were 17! more…