Quote Originally Posted by DMK
...what's a sackbut and a psaltery? Shoot, I had to look at the latter carefully before I was even sure I spelled it correctly!

Is Uncle Joe's flatulence at least in tune or on cadence?
Actually, I don't know! I saw them mentioned on the back cover of John Mayall's "The Blues Alone" LP

Yes, Uncle Joe is in perfect harmony. We wouldn't want any creativity.

I'm working on my hierarchy of instruments and carefully ranking them from "Best" to "Worst". Being an objectivist can be cumbersome but it's very predictable. So far, I've ranked the first 50 instruments. Skeptic will be upset to learn that his beloved violin placed no better than 27th, between the trombone and the contrabass clarinet. The guitar, of course, is the "best" instrument by a long shot, a full 26 places ahead of the violin and 19 ahead of the cello. For simplicity, I placed the classical guitar in the same bracket as the electric even though it doesn't have the expressive quality and is not as "good" an instrument. But I didn't want to get into splitting electric from acoustic instruments. I'm trying to decide if I can place all percussion instruments together or if I have to break them down by snare drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, etc. Once I have all the instruments placed, I'll give the list one last careful recheck and then I'll proclaim it gospel and anyone who disagrees with me just doesn't know anything about music.