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The Piping Centre - National and international centre of excellence for the bagpipe and its music.
Dave Ballard - Isle of Wight retailer, hirer and repairer, of new and used woodwind instruments.
North Staffs Accordion Club - News and forthcoming events.
Nigel Wilson - Highland bagpiper offers his services for Burns night, weddings and other special events.
The Ringwood Pipe Band - [Dorset] Diary, galleries, profile, repertoire, links and contact details.
Jessica Rance, Woodwind Instrument Repairs - Offers advice, repair, service, and overhaul of all woodwind instruments, with some for sale. Includes details of craftmanship, and history of workshop.
The British Flute Society - Membership information, samples of Pan Magazine, links, and an events calendar
The Flutewise Trust - Website for the magazine. Includes information, subscription details, articles, events listing, and chat area.
The British Double Reed Society - To encourage interest in the oboe and bassoon. Events listing, membership details, publications, contact information.
Hadden, Nancy - Profile of the flautist known for reviving the repertoire and playing techniques of the renaissance flute. Includes details of her recordings.
Beynon, Emily - Welsh-born flautist; includes her biography, discography, information on her repertoire, and reviews.
Carluke Primrose Flute Band - Provides band details, music, photographs, news and associated links.
Cherry, Ann - Biography of this flautist, with discography, reviews and list of her publications.
Galway, Sir James - Biography of the well-known flautist. Includes a discography, information on his tours and classes, and a photo gallery.
Oliver, David - Profile of this Scottish-born flautist. Includes discography, and information about his performances, repertoire, and teaching.
Stuff for Bassoonists - Practical advice and hints for bassoon players.
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Wind Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Wind Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Wind Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Wind Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Wind 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 Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Wind "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Wind "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Wind Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Wind "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Wind My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Wind He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Wind Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Wind "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Wind English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Wind "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Wind "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Wind Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Wind The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Wind "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wind There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Wind You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Wind
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