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Twitter is one of those web apps where it's kind of hard to find some meaning and usefulness. I always feel a little vain when I Tweet. But I recently found a good use for it especially if you don't mind sifting through some stuff.

Put in Coltrane or Milt or Hindemith (like I did) in the search box and search through this gigantic database of 140 character tweets (as they say). I found out some websites, some great cds and a few facts about Hindemith.

I'm starting to think that it's a really great tool for getting info.

So the M-48 has a big flaw. Those rails you take off bend down. then the notes don't dampen evenly or even well.

So Nico is making me a new keybed for the M-48. Then I'll have a great instrument. The keybed will fit on top of my M-48 legs. Is that cool?? Only Nico could do this!

Then my next step is to save more money and get him to make me a set of bars that will replace my Musser bars!

I also have an old M-55 and the legs are bent. So he's making me replacement legs for the M-55 which will make it sturdy again.

All about the Mallet Kat from Alternate Mode

*I just noticed that you could submit performances for members, so I wanted to put this out there again.*

This is a video I recently made of my band, Nós Novo, playing one of my favorite Bjork tunes. Though the band was founded with a view to playing and playing with Celtic musics from our perspective as jazz musicians, we also do the occasional song that I just really enjoy playing and feel suits the group... to my ears there's a lot of connection to Irish music in this performance, but if it doesn't strike you that way, I hope you enjoy it for what it is. Our members be:

Thanks to Carlos Maldonado for finding more of this!

Thought I'd ad this to Gary's post about Duke!

Check out Duke holding the music for Johnny Hodges!

ME AND THE DUKE