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• Jangle_Jamie Scottish HighlandsNew De Rijk, some Gitanes and quite a few others

  December 2025 Posts: 446

  Thanks Buco! Happy New Year to you too.

  I hope 2026 is going to be ok.

  I have to sell some guitars, so that's a plan. I'm also giving dry january a go, which I think I'll find really hard at times.

  Cheers, Jamie

  
• Willie HamburgNew

  12:34AM edited 2:42AM Posts: 927

  Yes, happy new year to everyone!

  Plan is to retire completely from work at school this summer. No wind band classes, no puppet playing any more. Sob. And to sell a lot of instruments (double sob), keeping only one archtop, one lap steel, the euphonium, two recorders and one pocket clarinet. And, of course, the clavichord! So there will be enough stuff left to keep me busy, especially with Ancient Music like this little piece written by Daniel Speer, a very versatile and interesting musician and author of the baroque era:

  Clavichord-Speer-Aria.mp3

  Another plan is to put together a little program for solo busking, vocal/guitar and recorders alternating, singing and playing blues, jazzy tunes and folk.

  Edit: and, of course, the trio with french horn, euphonium and tuba will be continued!

  
• billyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E

  6:49AM Posts: 1,734

  By the looks of the sidebar, it's also happy birthday to a lot of folks here (😂). True or not, happy new year to you all and clever resolution pun, Buco. ;-)

  
• adrian AmsterdamVirtuoso

  11:39AM Posts: 583

  Happy new year! My main goal is to record a new album this year, as I've got a backlog of tunes built up.

  Adrian

  

  Give my albums a listen: Melodic Guitar Music and Layer Cake
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  12:41PM Posts: 5,770

  @Jangle_Jamie I haven't done a dry month in several years now. Somehow there's never a good month to choose from.

  @Willie I've been wanting to get back to busking myself. I'm warming up to the idea of using the looper pedal to build my own backing track, instead of playing the stuff from YT through the amp. Yay for the wind/brass trio. I've been following your progress on clavichord, you're starting to sound really good.

  @billyshakes a friend who's real b-day is today called us all out in this group chat we have, "thanks for bday wishes, jerks". His got buried among 15 others that popped up on my phone today. What is with these generic dates?

  @adrian I'll be happy with another recorded song myself. My backlog would probably fit a triple LP at least.

  

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• billyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E

  3:12PM Posts: 1,734

  a friend who's real b-day is today called us all out in this group chat we have, "thanks for bday wishes, jerks". His got buried among 15 others that popped up on my phone today. What is with these generic dates?

  My guess is people use Jan 1 as a random, memorable date when forced to give a birthday on various sign-up forms. Sort of like you might pity the poor person whose number really was 867-5309. 😂