JOHN.... I really did not think that you had forgotten our exchange agreement... Hopefully your life will slow down enough for awhile so that you can get a floppy and your snail mail address off to me soooooon?????

My bro, 14 months my senior, plays bagpipes, guitar, and I do not know what else....his hands are really crippled with arthritis...mine not so much... Bro still plays golf! I never could do that well enough to even justify lugging my clubs to the courses!

Others I know have also given up their music for various old age related reasons. My hands only hurt when I am NOT playing!

Yes, I certainly agree that we play differently for different circumstances...A solo guitarist who plays at high-end dinner places, mostly soft BB music, stops by once in awhile to visit and do music with me. I remove the guitars from my music and of course must play in his key and with very little beyond a soft drum, piano & sax... It is fun for me to have the challenge of playing with him... He has not been here for about a year so maybe it was not so great for him!

A delicious young man from Scotland has been here to visit and play music with me a couple of times... Mike, like my daughter is multi-talented and a real joy to play music with! His wife is a beginning banjo player. We have a great time together. I would love for them to live here or at least have our park as their home park. They live on the Isle of Wight (sp?) and winter here in the states in their RV that is parked in MO some-where....

Maybe you can talk Bob into buying the MotorHome you have for sale, or drive it out here to NM for a KB jam with me? There is very little/no humidity in our bright sunshiny days!

I like this thread very much. Thanks for starting it John...

Elizabeth