AlBrown’s seven thousand, six hundred and three comments

I have a Saltarelle Irish Bouebe from the Button Box, and have been happy with it for years. more…

It's not how many instruments you play that is important, it is how many you play well. more…

I answer honestly, "I don't know. A while." You can get away with that when your hair turns grey. more…

I had a moustache for years, because that is all the service would allow me, and have had a beard since I retired. The beard has grown from goatee to full beard now that I have retired from my civilian job as well. It helps compensate for the lack of hair... more…

If it helps, Martin Hayes doesn't play things in a session the way he plays them in The Gloaming. People in groups take liberties with tunes that they wouldn't when blending in with everyone else in the pub. more…

Your brain may forget them, but your fingers will always remember! more…

Store it in your head! ;-) more…

I have outgrown resolutions. I am what I am, and that's all what I am. more…

La Bottine Souriante succeeds the same way Blood, Sweat and Tears did; they have grafted a jazz brass section to another musical style. In the case of BS&T it was rock and roll; with La Bottine, it is Quebecois trad. With the exception of the sax, you do ... more…

One trick, if you are buying a D diatonic harmonica, is to buy a Low D one. That takes you out of the octave of tin whistles, and puts you into the octave inhabited by flutes, fiddles, concertinas and accordions. Hohner used to make a Low D version of t... more…