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Bodhráness Catherine - Percussionist and Bodhránai, Bodhráness Catherine, from the New Forest.
Nonsuch Dulcimer Club - Club catering for players and makers of hammered dulcimers.
Britchops Drum Tuition - Online course offering the basics of percussion: ordering details, examples, contact details and links.
North Star Steel Orchestra - News and information about a Huddersfield-based steel band, their performances, recordings, and education programme. Contact details.
Pantonic All-Stars - Information about the steel band; includes their history, present play-list, details of gigs, with MP3s to download. Contact details.
Rachel Hayward - Personal web-site of UK Steel Pan player. Includes biography, galleries, and details of recordings.
Rhythm and Steel - Information about the band, their wedding and corporate entertainment activities, and workshops they run. Contact details.
Sounds of Steel - Information about Portsmouth community/school steel band, their performances and tours. Includes gig list, details of workshops, and audio samples.
Steelasophical - Gary Trotman is a steel pan solo performer, composer, and producer. Describes services offered, with contact details and photo gallery.
Handbell Ringers of Great Britain - Information about handbells in UK, with a schedule of events, contacts, background articles, and information on starting a team.
DSP Drum-kit Silencing Pads - Offers high rebound silencing pads for drum practice. Product and contact details.
Clarke, Toussaint - Steel pan player, teacher and pan-builder based in Bath, England. Includes a profile, and details of his services.
Drumstyle - Advice for the drum kit beginner from professional drum kit tutor Jim Ferris on choosing kit, cymbals and sticks; also offers a tuition video.
Classic Drums - Dedicated to vintage Ludwig drums, for collectors and players. Includes sales and information about their magazine.
Kiskadee Music Management UK - Information about the Kiskadee Steel Pan Duo, and their services for steel bands and pan players.
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Simone Jr.) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Percussion With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Percussion The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Percussion "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Percussion May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Percussion Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer Percussion "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Percussion I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Percussion "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Percussion The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Percussion "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Percussion Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Percussion The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Percussion You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Percussion Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Percussion Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Percussion You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Percussion A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Percussion I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Percussion Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Percussion "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Percussion
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