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From: rem@rockit.Eng.Sun.COM (Ralph E. Miller)
Newsgroups: ba.sports,rec.sport.hockey,sun.forsale,su.market
Subject: 11/14 Sharks Hockey Tickets for sale
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:58:32 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rockit



For sale, two great tickets to this Saturday night's 
game against Vancouver at the Cow Palace.

Great seats in the first row of the 29$ section (second level up, so
your're not watching through the glass.)

Nov 14, Section 8, Row A  Seats 1,2   7:30pm start time

Your cost = my cost, $58 for the pair.

OR better yet, trade for a future game (1993) in same price range.

Call or e-mail

Ralph Miller
415-336-2178
From: slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie)
Newsgroups: ba.sports
Subject: Re: Big Game Tickets Needed
Date: 11 Nov 1992 10:10:48 GMT
Organization: They Be SF Giants
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: monsoon.berkeley.edu

> heysse@leland.Stanford.EDU (Todd Michael Heysse) writes:
>I need two tickets for the Big Game this year.  If anyone has extras,
>please reply to this account.  I will pay a very fair price.  

Two small notes: If you find yourself desparate for tickets, you can 
always troll around Memorial Stadium on Big Game day and try to buy 
a ticket. Hell, you might even pick one up for less than cost.

OR if you're really brave (or just a Cal fan), you can watch the game
up on Tightwad Hill. See one of the best views of the SF Bay! Sit too
close the the cannon and get a faceful of flash-powder smoke! Watch
people openly drink alcohol and smoke DURING the game! Groan and cheer
in the cold, crisp air! Watch the game it is meant to be watched, from 
300 feet above, surrounded by trees, and for FREE!

All you need to do is climb up the hill. Piece of cake climb. I'm 40 
pounds overweight and I can do it like it was nothing.

I hereby invite any poor Cal fan to come on up to the hill. It'll be 
crowded and EXTREMELY boiterous, so be warned. I'll be the one with the
tequila bottle and smoking the cheezy cigars.

-Shelley "Fifth-Year Hill Watcher" Louie
From: jweigel@informix.com (Jeff Weigel)
Newsgroups: ba.sports
Subject: NEED WARRIORS/BLAZERS TICKETS
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:42:34 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: jweigel@infmx

I am looking for two tickets to the Warriors/Blazer game this
Saturday night at cost. 

Please call jeff at wk: (415) 926-6755 or hm: (415) 928-6702.

Thanks.
.
From: landis@straw.esd.sgi.com (Jason Landis)
Newsgroups: ba.sports
Subject: Sharks Tickets
Date: 13 Nov 92 23:46:55 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

My friend has tickets for the saturday nov 14th, sharks v. vancouver game at the palace.
the tickets are 22.00 each
You can reach him, Joe Balboa
home 408-996-8293
work 408-974-1890

jason 


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Jason Landis               ph. 415-390-5398     
Silicon Graphics, Inc.     fax 415-390-6159     
email landis@sgi.com
From: brownlow@informix.com (Keith Brownlow)
Newsgroups: ba.sports
Subject: contact volleyball league
Keywords: team volleyball league
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:45:05 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

I'm interested in joining a volleyball team in the San Francisco or Marin
area, but I am unable to find a source to contact regarding teams.  Does any
one know the number of the league organizers of these locations, or of any
teams ?


Thanks in advance,
Keith Brownlow 
Newsgroups: ba.music,alt.skinheads
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: Skankin' Pickle - Modesto(METROS)
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:39:04 GMT

I forgot to mention that I posted that article on Gerry's behalf...we
don't have Usenet at home.  However, we do have email at home, and you
can write to Gerry directly at "gerry@gakhaus.attmail.com".

have fun
gak

---
Richard Stueven       AHA# 22584 |----------| He has erected a multitude of new
Internet:            gak@wrs.com |----GO----| offices, and sent hither swarms
ATTMAIL: ...!attmail!gakhaus!gak |---SHARX--| of officers to harass our people,
Cow Palace:            107/H/3-4 |----------| and eat out their substance.
From: archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Archer Sully)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Re: Guitar work
Keywords: Gibson Dot335, Fret work
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:35:35 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov9.150510.17843@ampex.com> frankm@ampex.com (Frank Martyn) writes:

*I am looking for recommendations in the area of guitar repair/work in the
*South Bay.  My Gibson 335 needs the frets worked on.  I find they are too
*high for my taste.  It also requires a new neck pick-up that I would like 
*to have replaced at the same time the fret work is done.  
*
*I am looking for someone who is very good at this type of thing.  Any 
*suggestions will be appreciated.
*
*Thanks in advance.
*
*Freewheelin' Frank

Gryphon in Palo Alto is very good for almost any work you might want done.

-- archer
From: rjfleck@cmn2.Stanford.EDU (R. J. Fleck)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Kronos Quartet at Theater Artaud
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:59:57 GMT
Distribution: ba.music
Organization: CCRMA, Stanford University


Kronos Quartet currently playing at Theater Artaud through tomorrow
night is well worth seeing (if tix are still available; looked almost
sold out last night)...  wonderfully inventive, politically aware, and
full of life...

And there's a lot of set-your-soul-singing g'damm beautiful music
too...

First piece is by Mike Dougherty from Oberlin featuring samplings of
J. Edgar Hoover speeches...!  Beautiful works as well by Arvo Part and
Scott Johnson...  Work by Bob Ostertag features recordings made in the
Castro following the veto of AB101 last year along with anti-gay-bashing
whistles...

rj
From: fweckerl@novell.com (Frank Weckerle)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Re: Guitar work
Keywords: Gibson Dot335, Fret work
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:07:40 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia

In article <1992Nov9.150510.17843@ampex.com> frankm@ampex.com (Frank Martyn) writes:
>I am looking for recommendations in the area of guitar repair/work in the
>South Bay.  My Gibson 335 needs the frets worked on.  I find they are too
>high for my taste.  It also requires a new neck pick-up that I would like 
>to have replaced at the same time the fret work is done.  
>
>I am looking for someone who is very good at this type of thing.  Any 
>suggestions will be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Freewheelin' Frank

Hutchinson (or Hutchins) Guitar Repair 645 McGlincey Ln. in Campbell
408 377-1661. They refretted my Les Paul and did a set-up on my Telecaster
which I think they did an outstanding job on both. The only complaint
(which may be a good complaint) is the turnaround time due to the amount
of work they have in the shop. You can probably expedite if needed.
Good Luck!
From: kthompso@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: SF Opera Tickets for Sale: Sat 11/14, Don Carlo
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:41:58 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division


We have two tickets for sale that we can't use.  It's for San Francisco
Opera's Don Carlo, this Saturday, November 14.  Balcony Circle, center
section (E11&12), face value is $53, we're selling them for $45 OBO.  Call
415-964-1820 (home in Mountain View, preferred), or 415-604-4767, or send
mail to kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov.  These are pretty good seats,
excellent for the price IMHO :).

Kevin Thompson

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From: evans@pan.arc.nasa.gov (Dan Evans)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: WANTED: Directions to the Orpheum Theater
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:00:12 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA USA

Help!  I've got tickets to tonite's Erasure show at the 
Orpheum Theater in San Francisco and I'm not sure how to 
get there.  The address is 1192 Market.  Could someone 
email me directions coming from the south bay?

Cheers,

Dan
evans@pan.arc.nasa.gov
From: cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com (Doug Cook)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Re: Brecker Brothers
Date: 14 Nov 92 00:02:54 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <1992Nov13.121125@adaclabs.com>, farrar@adaclabs.com writes:
> They are playing in Santa Cruz on Monday night 11/16/92.  Does anyone know
> if they are playing anywhere slightly farther north?  Like the Bay Area?

Yoshi's on Tuesday, Club Jazz (SJ) on (I think) thursday.

	-Doug
Newsgroups: ba.music
From: farrar@adaclabs.com (Stephen Daedalus)
Subject: Re: Brecker Brothers
Organization: The Eye of the Pyramid, Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 01:07:19 GMT

Indeed!  Thanks to those who responded for the info.  They are playing at
what used to be called Yoshi's but is now called Keystone Korner Yoshi's in
Breckerley on the 17th and 18th at 8 and 10pm.  Tickets are $22, if you go
through B*SS you will pay more, I'm sure.  Mike Stern(!) on guitar, Dennis
Chambers(!) on drums, ??? on bass. keys???
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Newsgroups: ba.music
From: tnf@well.sf.ca.us (David Gans)
Subject: Elliott Carter featured on "Eyes of Chaos/Veil of Order"
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: ba
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:31:15 GMT


 
 EYES OF CHAOS/VEIL OF ORDER
 Monday, November 9, 9pm
 KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley
 
 
 Elliott Carter: Concerto for Orchestra (1969)
                 Violin Concerto (1990)
 
 New digital recordings
 (Partial funding for this recording was provided by the Rex Foundation)
 Virgin Classics VC 7 91503-2
 
 Hosts: Phil Lesh and Gary Lambert
 Produced by David Gans
 
 Here are some of Phil Lesh's comments on the two Carter works:
 
 "The Concerto for Orchestra epitomizes 1968, with all the ideas being
 thrown up in the air and being blown away.  There's a tremendous elegy
 in the third movement that brings to mind some of the leaders who were
 lost in that period of time.  The feeling of it has that tremendous
 vitality, an 'anything's possible' air about it."
        (Phil notes that the date of the work is 1969 - the year of its 
        first public performance - but that it was composed in 1968.)
 
 Re the Violin Concerto:  "When I first heard it, it struck me as being
 like an extremely brilliant but disturbed person (the violin soloist)
 being interviewed by a panel of well-meaning but incompetent
 psychiatrists (the orchestra)."
 
-- 

	David Gans	tnf@well.sf.ca.us
			{apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!tnf
From: oedipus@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Live U2 sound: horror!
Keywords: U2, sound, concert, sucks
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:28:22 PST
Reply-To: oedipus@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Distribution: ca


I was at the U2 'Zoo TV Outdoor Broadcast' at Oakland Stadium last Saturday,
and I'm seriously pissed-off!  I feel ripped off, cheated, and abused! 

Probably the worst live sound that I have heard at any show in years.
$35 tickets and the EQ was pathetic, and the echo off the back walls made 
word unintelligible.

It's not the space either, I saw Pink Floyd a few years back at Oakland
Stadium for the 'Delicate Sound of Thunder' tour, and the sound was perfectly
clear, no unplanned echos, vocals like a studio, some of the BEST live sound
I've heard in any location.  They used multiple speaker clusters to cancel
out sound reflections, had excellent EQ, and excellent sound people.

If U2 had spent a third of the money on sound that they spent on silly visual
props, then the show could have been great.  Set list was very nice, staging
concept was OK, video clips and interludes would have been very tasteful if
half of the audience could have understood a single word.

I even stood right next to the sound board,center field, and while the echo
was less, the mix was muddy and distorted.  Just plain lame.

There is just no excuse for this kind of incompetence.  I will not see U2 
live again, and will question other BGP productions.

GRRRRR!
-- 
Rev.Dr.OedipusP.Wienushausen	      #     Last one into the gene pool
oedipus@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us	      #     is a rotten egg.
                                      #       
Poised on the brink: Utopia/Oblivion  #  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>!
From: agr00@ccc.amdahl.com (Anthony G Rose)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: PC and MIDI Keyboard to trade for Laptop
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:53:59 GMT
Reply-To: agr00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (TONY ROSE)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


I need a laptop computer.  Preferrably a 386 that is not huge.
I have the following items that I am willing to work out a trade of some
kind if anyone is interested.  This a a good MIDI setup, with a Peavey
amp, and ROLAND D-5 Keyboard, and a 286 IBM comp. system.  Please let me
know if anyone is interested in this sort of an offer.

ROLAND D-5 MULTI-TIMBRAL KEYBOARD
-Great MIDI Instrument!

PEAVEY KB 60 KEYBOARD AMP
-50W High/Low Gain
-2 Channel Input
-Equalization
-And More!
-Used rarely and in excellent condition

IBM PC Compatible with:   42M Hard Disk Drive
                          80286 12MHz upross
                          3.5 1.44M HD Disk Drive
                          5.25 1.2M HD Disk Drive
                          VGA Monitor
                          1MB RAM
                          101 Key Keyboard
                          2400 External Modem
                          Panasonic Dot Matrix Printer
                          MPU-401 Roland MIDI Card
                          Mouse Systems Mouse
                          Parallel & Serial Card
                          Software & More!
Newsgroups: ba.music
From: dvanderr@oracle.com (Danny Vanderryn)
Subject: anyone tape EDLOS on KFOG 11/6?
Organization: Oracle Corporation.  Redwood City, CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:55:10 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

i can't believe that i was away from my desk when the EDLOS were on
KFOG this morning.  i called, but dave morey (sp?) - my fave, by the
way, said they can't honor requests for tapes of shows, etc.  did
anyone out there tape it?  i'd be willing to do anything reasonable to
get it.

thanks!
--
This opinion will self destruct in 5 seconds.
danny vanderryn--dvanderr@oracle.com   || Take my advice ---
{uunet,hplabs,apple}!oracle!dvanderr   || *I'm* certainly not using it.
(415) 506-3142                         ||
From: neil.black@uttsbbs.uucp (Neil Black)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: RE: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Date: 9 Nov 92 13:09:00 GMT
Reply-To: neil.black@uttsbbs.uucp (Neil Black)
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591

The Great American Music Hall is in S.F.  Check the Sunday Examiner's
Datebook section for dates/street address.
               
Newsgroups: ba.music
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
Subject: Shriekback / Meat Beat Manifesto?
Organization: Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Distribution: ba
X-Windows: More than enough rope.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 10:34:18 GMT

I've heard that Shriekback and Meat Beat Manifesto are coming to the bay
area some time soon (but not together.)  Does anyone know when and where?

	-- Jamie
From: kyle@Ingres.COM (Kyle Smith)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Re: Info wanted: 10,000 Maniacs in Bay Area
Keywords: 10,000 Maniacs
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:05:19 GMT
Reply-To: kyle@Ingres.COM (Kyle Smith)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <1992Nov9.213334.28602@leland.Stanford.EDU> malan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Malan) writes:
>I saw a reference on ba.market.misc to an appearance by the 10k Maniacs
>at the Berkeley Community Theatre on Dec 12.
>
>Does anyone know whether this is their only appearance in the Bay Area?
>If anyone has info on their appearance dates *please* let me know.
>Also, how does one get tickets for the Berkeley Community Theatre?

	Yeah I think this is their only BA appearance. I think BASS has
	tix but if you can buy them at the berkeley Community Theatre
	box office you will avoid the BASS rip-off surcharge.
--
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*****	Ingres Tech Support Server Dude  **************************************
*****	510.748.2431  *********************************************************
*****	kyle@ingres.com  ******************************************************
Xref: sparky ba.music:1950 rec.music.industrial:13104 alt.gothic:2167 alt.industrial:646 alt.rock-n-roll.metal:11808 alt.satanism:2611
From: shaun@octel.com (Attack of the Dayglo Howler Monkeys)
Newsgroups: ba.music,rec.music.industrial,alt.gothic,alt.industrial,alt.rock-n-roll.metal,alt.satanism
Subject: Re: Announcing House Of Usher - Bay Area Gothic/Industrial club
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:41:40 GMT
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.

In article <1992Nov5.105333.19554@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> oburroug@nyx.cs.du.edu (Oliver Burroughs) writes:
>So now there will be two copies of his CD in circulation.  He won't have to
>pay his mother to take copies and sell them at bake sales anymore.  Why I
>even read in one of the "reviews" (note the use of big quotes since the only
>positive review of Damned Awful (read Damned Souls) that I have seen have been
>penned by the unearthly one himself)

I'm a DJ.  I have a copy of Damned Souls, which I like.  I frequently play
songs from it on my radio show, and usually have requests for it, often by
song name.

I wrote and posted a favorable review of _Damned Souls_ on RMI (and in 
other places, like WWIVnet's C.A.T. sub -- ooh!) about nine months ago.  
I've since met him, and found him to be is friendly, knowledgeable about 
music, and technically capable.  I wouldn't really compare his music to 
skinny puppy's -- it's not as noisy -- but it is dark, forebording synth 
based stuff with angry vocals and nicely-used disturbing samples.  I like
it.  I'd say it falls somewhere in a continuum between King Diamond and 
Skinny Puppy, musically.  The dancing skeletons are pretty appropriate 
imagery, I think. 

>P.S.  I dare anyone who flames me back claiming they like XOR-cyst to
>prove one simple point: that they are not in fact XOR-cyst himself.

Sorry -- you're asking for a proof of a Usenet postulate: Not everone
is Xorcist.
	  
All this is IMHO, by the way, unlike yours, which is bound to become
Usenet gospel in no time.

@Man 

ps: What's wrong with cheap drinks?  
-- 
shaun@octel.com  ||  Principia Moronica!  Errors!  All hail dyslexia!

"This list isnt a personality development system..."  -- /kc numero eins
Newsgroups: ba.music
From: kyle@Ingres.COM (Kyle Smith)
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants -- when ?
Reply-To: kyle@Ingres.COM (Kyle Smith)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Distribution: ba
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:22:34 GMT

In article <68890@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>Does anybody know when they will put on a concert in the Bay Area again? I hear
>that  it's gonna be soon, but I havent heard any solid dates.

	They are playing the Great AMerican Music Hall in Dec some time
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*****	kyle@ingres.com  ******************************************************
From: malan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Malan)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Info wanted: 10,000 Maniacs in Bay Area
Keywords: 10,000 Maniacs
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:33:34 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: ME Dept., Stanford University, CA 94305, USA

I saw a reference on ba.market.misc to an appearance by the 10k Maniacs
at the Berkeley Community Theatre on Dec 12.

Does anyone know whether this is their only appearance in the Bay Area?
If anyone has info on their appearance dates *please* let me know.

Also, how does one get tickets for the Berkeley Community Theatre?

----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Malan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
malan@leland.stanford.edu
Xref: sparky ba.music:1931 rec.music.industrial:13011 alt.gothic:2152 alt.industrial:576
From: xorcist@cyberden.uucp
Newsgroups: ba.music,rec.music.industrial,alt.gothic,alt.industrial
Subject: Re: Announcing House Of Usher - Bay Area Gothic/Industrial club
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 03:39:32 PST
Organization: Indescribable Creations

oburroug@nyx.cs.du.edu (Oliver Burroughs) writes:

> This is where your clever ruse is flawed.  Just because I haven't posted
> before doesn't mean that I am XOR-cyst, and furthermore I am comfortable
> enough with my intelligence that I don't have to do dog-and-pony tricks to
> prove that I am intelligent.


Have you ever thought of switching to a decaffinated coffee?

<X>orcist - Still secretly in love with Rajat...

__________________________________________________________________________
   |       /         |\
   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N            [ xorcist@cyberden.uucp ]
From: mcg@island.COM (Matt McGlynn)
Subject: Re: learning to play the guitar
Followup-To: mcg@island.com
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:48:03 GMT

The best way to learn how to play guitar is to take lessons.
Although some general music classes will help, what will help
more is...  taking lessons.  Seriously -- you'll get the 
background from the guitar teacher, if s/he is any good.  I
think you'd benefit from general music classes, but they 
will postpone your goal:  learning how to play guitar.

The two crucial tasks are to find a guitar, and to find
a good teacher.  The teacher can help you find a suitable
guitar -- might even have some available; who knows?

I can recommend a teacher to you.  His name is Steve Sparks,
and he has a music degree from Notre Dame.  He's been a
professional teacher for years, and has a real cool policy
of offering the first lesson _free_ so both of you can
determine whether he is right for you.

I took lessons from him for a while and I think he's a
fantastic teacher.  Of course, I was a hell of a good
student. :)  

Give him a call.  H 415/285-6788  VM 415/267-0509

Enjoy and good luck.

--
matt mcglynn
mcg@island.com
From: jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro x2497)
Newsgroups: ba.music
Subject: Re: learning to play the guitar
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:10:50 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Wyse Technologies San Jose, Ca

>In article <lfgggtINN6q8@spim.mti.sgi.com> woodacre@mti.sgi.com (Michael Woodacre) writes:
>>I am planning on learning to play the guitar and wanted to
>>get some advice on the best way to go about this.
>>
>>I don't currently posses a guitar so need to either rent or
>>buy one. Any good shops to start looking at? Anyone have
>>a guitar looking for a good home?
>

One of the absolute best values in guitar lessons are the regular guitar classes
at San Jose City College.

Baram Behroozi, the teacher, is also a professor of music at San Jose State and
coaches everyone from beginners to public performers equally. I know
several local teachers who continue to take lessons from him. 

For around $10 per semester, you get tuition and the chance to go at your own
pace. You will share the class with other beginners, and also people who have played
for 25 years or more.


Jim Munro

PS: He teaches classical, which of course is a good grounding for any kind
of playing, and does require a rudimentary ability to read music.