A happy little post.

I read TC's post this morning and listened to a bit of the attached video. It seems that the 100-year-old fella might be moving to halt posts about windows, Catholicism and music practice.

"No more silly posts!"

I'm a bit worried about Rob playing his cello as a transposing instrument - 'a big violin'.

Well, I guess the world can survive a big violin. 

I glove you Rob. 

A Poneke glove.

Hey, except for clove, glove is the only proper noun you can make by adding one letter to the front of 'love'. Yes, yes, Peter will claim 'slove' to be a legitimate English word. I know he'll do this. Ah well, whatever keeps the old guy happy.

How's it going so far? Are you enjoying a bit of light relief?

Hey, and there is no truth to the rumour that Rob is looking to buy a capo for his cello.

If he did that, he might be tempted to sing folk songs. He'd have to keep The House of the Rising Sun in A minor. Actually, the open cello tuning could work pretty well for that.

Open strings: C  G  D  A

Chords: (in 6/8 time) || Am | C | D | Fmaj7 | Am | C | E7 | E7 | Am | C | D | Fmaj7 | Am | E7 | Am | (E7) ||

He could just play the root notes of the chords to get started. Then he could add 6ths and 5ths to make double stops:

|| A over C | G/C | F#/A | F/A  | A/C  | G /C | G#/B | G#/B | A/C | G/C | F#/A | F/A | A/C | G#/B | A/C | G#/B ||                                                                         

Well, there you go for today. Actually, Rising Sun might be easier in imagined violin tuning.

Ciao tutti.