{"id":173,"date":"2004-12-25T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2006-01-29T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T07:40:18","slug":"a-fun-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"A fun Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an electric fiddle and a bodhran (Irish frame drum) as gifts what else must one do other than pass a little time on Christmas Day recording some tunes, with my daughter Eve on mandolin for her Will-o&#8217;-the-Wisp fire show that she is taking to Queensland tomorrow for the Woodford folk Festival! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on the manufacturer of the electric violin &#8211; I believe it was made in Guangzhiao in China but there is no maker&#8217;s label. It sure sounds great though! The closest visual seemed to be the Zeta violin, but I&#8217;d love to know more about it.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/electricfiddle.jpg' alt='Electric violin' \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the bodhran<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/bodhran.jpg' alt='Bodhran - Irish frame drum' \/><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all laying down tracks and burning CDs, Eve managed to test her modified stilts to her satisfaction &#8211; the modification worked! You see, when I made the stilts, it seems that I had over-estimated her foot size so the straps were too loose. But a little re-routing appears to have solved the problem, so now we have a very serviceable pair of strap-on stilts (see my previous posts on this subject).<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/evestilts.jpg' alt='Eve on stilts' \/><\/p>\n<p>Sharon was most impressed with her new silks and beads \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that it was a pretty quiet day &#8211; a good chat with the folks, an excellent Christmas dinner last night with a few friends, and a bit of a play with the new toys &#8211; a good time had by all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas everyone!<\/p>\n<p>cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an electric fiddle and a bodhran (Irish frame drum) as gifts what else must one do other than pass a little time on Christmas Day recording some tunes, with my daughter Eve on mandolin for her Will-o&#8217;-the-Wisp fire show that she is taking to Queensland tomorrow for the Woodford folk Festival! I&#8217;d appreciate it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}