"Carrie, I understand that Chris has been unable to locate a supplier who can provide strings to his specifications and so has withdrawn from the market.  Some time ago I took a micrometer gauge to Chris Sands' strings with the following…"

"Peter LaBau plays an excellent interpretation of Warren Dean's Tubaphone Rag on the Titanic String Band's CD 'Tip of the Iceberg'.  Although the sleeve notes state that Dean dedicated this piece to Vega, the manufacturers of…"

"Carrie, QOTB has been in my repertoire since forever and I went back to see how I got over the problem you mention.  It seems I subscribe to Jody's suggestion of thumb on G, second on F, first on E, then slide the first over to C. …"

"Ian, What a coincidence!  The same thing happened to me a while back, when I was just your age: my fingers were uncontrollable bunches of fat little bananas (so different from the spider's legs at the ends of Rob MacKillop's hands…"