Aha! Gerry Cambridge (west coast poet (that's Scotland's west coast)) took
up the harmonica a few years ago, and is now really good!
P
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> Behalf Of Roger Day
> Sent: 26 August 2005 17:28
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> Subject: Re: each to their own
>
> I've started to ro learn to play the harmonica.
>
> On 8/26/05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > As a frustrated
> > musician - one of my early choices was which creative
> strand to follow
> > - I often pour my ear into poetry. I'll have to get
> Mayakovsky's book.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > Yes, yes, do. It's a little Cape Edition - well, my edition is.
> > Probably published elsewhere, of course.
> >
> > Funny you should emtnion your 'frustrated musician' story.
> Same here.
> > I was a drummer as a youth for a very short while. I have
> found that
> > the majority of Australian poets have at least tried playing music
> > sometime in their life ... interestingly enough, not Les
> Murray (but his wife's a huge opera fan).
> > Tom Shapcott, Geoff Page, Fay Zwicky, Dorothy Hewett ... on and on.
> > Interesting.
> >
> > Any other frustrated, or even unfrustrated, musos who have become
> > poets out there?
> >
> > Andrew the Little Drummer Boy
> >
>
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