Dear Steve,
happy new year! Hope you have fully recovered from leg injury.

Wondering if you have had a chance to start making those bones?

Best to you and all,
Mel



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< Hello to everyone and sorry for the lack of communication. A recent
< leg injury has kept me down a bit, but I'm healing well and getting
< back to business. Happy Thanksgiving and a warm welcome to all new
< members. Glad you have joined and please feel free to ask any bones
< related questions. We are always interested in your bones story, how
< you came to the bones, activities, old bones players you may know.
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< Speaking of old bones players, old friend and RBS member Yirdy Machar
< has just released his first cd, "Mac Bones and the B Band" which is
< now available in the US. Please feel free to contact me off list for
< all the particulars at bones@.... Yirdy is a fine bones
< player as well as an entertaining singer. He was originally from
< Scotland but has lived in Denmark for many years. I first met Yirdy
< at the Avoca Oldtime music Festival and Contests where he performed
< and competed in the bones contest, winning first place. I have shared
< a few pints with him (at least I was drinking) in Ireland in
< Abbeyfeale at the All Ireland Bones Playing Championship where he
< came in 3rd this year, and in Galway at the home of great box player
< Anders Trajberg, who is also one of the afore mentioned B Band.
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< Good luck to Kenny Wohlin, RBS member and principal percussionist
< with the Marine Corps Band currently touring the North west and
< California. Kenny writes he is having many bones experiences out
< there and visited with Jeff Lefert, great bones player and new
< friend, who is also an RBS member and on this list. Jeff has a great
< new web site for bones addicts like me, www.jefflef.com, highly
< recommend a visit and listen to his great sound samples.
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< Got my self in the shop a few weeks ago and began work on the "Steve
< Brown" model bones ( I soak them in Guiness and put them to bed, only
< kidding) and wonder how many others are making bones on the thinner
< side 1/4-18" thick? I have to say I like how they are comming out.
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< By the way for newer members, RBS is the Rhythm Bones Society, a non-
< profit organization dedicated to the preservation of playing the
< traditional rhythm bones. We have a web site, www.rhythmbones.com, a
< newsletter, and many folks here on the list are members. The next
< news letter will be out in January and we are always looking for
< articles and letters to the editor. Check it out!
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< Again thanks for being here and keep playing those bones!
< Steve Brown
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