Hallelujahal's BlogOk…it’s been a long time…have been very busy working etc. Thought it was about time I came back to this and tried to play catch up again. The melodeon playing is still going strong – though I had a few weeks of enforced absence from playing when we were sent away on a retreat and [...]
OK – so I splashed out with some Christmas gift money and was able to order myself a lovely new chromatic from Harmonicas-Direct. After much umming and aahing I went for the new Seydel Chromatic Deluxe with the new acrylic see-through comb. Today it arrived…and I’m simply blown away (pun!) by it’s beauty and quality. [...]
Today I led worship on my melodeon for our opening song ‘Love Divine’ using the tune ‘Blaenwern’. About halfway through the song I realised that the bass line that I was playing was, putting it mildly, pants! Boring, boring, boring! Let me know what you think guys/girls – give me some suggestions for how to [...]
Well, I have recently taken up playing the harmonica (moothie is my favourite adjective) and so I thought that I’d kick off this new year of 2010 by talking about my new found hobby. Actually it’s no more than an extension of my melodeon and accordion playing really as the principle is basically the same [...]
Hello – and as I write this on this cold and chilly Monday morning I am in expectation of a plumber arriving, hopefully, very soon. The reason being that our toilet flush in the quarters has broken. And although we are blessed with having another WC, it’s an outside toilet and as I said – [...]
Well, one of my favourite family pictures is this one at the moment. Won’t it just be great to have two fiddlers in the family? Well, I don’t for sure – but Stephanie has certainly taken to it very well indeed. While Jessica is learning the piano and also shows much more interest in my squeezeboxes! [...]
Well, as I said yesterday I’ve a lot of catching up to do on this blog site. Here’s some news, I’ve just started playing the ‘moothie’ or as it’s better known the mouth organ or harmonica. It’s strange how it came about but here’s the story. About 10 days ago I started suffering with extreme [...]
Very behind on this blog at the moment – a lot has happened recently, the primary thing being that my father-in-law Major Howard Heins was, as we say in The Salvation Army, ‘PROMOTED TO GLORY!’. I’ve been blessed with now having his Lachenal English Concertina to play. This old concertina is a remarkable instrument. A [...]
Hi, does anyone know anything about the tune ‘Hardy Norseman’. It’s a tune that’s very popular in The Salvation Army, and in fact I’m using it in my service this afternoon. But I’d like to find out if it really is of Norse origin etc? Here it is Hardy Norseman I’ve transposed it and arranged [...]
Worldlings prize their gems of beauty, Cling to gilded toys of dust; Boast of wealth, and fame, and pleasure; Only Jesus will I trust. So what do you want? No seriously, what do you want? If you live just about anywhere near me (UK) there is a surfeit – an absolute abundance of things. So you [...]
