Fellow JMDLers, Please forgive my preceding post. I was trying to reply with the quotes I wanted to reply to by using "reply" and deleting all the extraneous material, and trying to insert a space where it wouldn't go, and, suddenly, what was left was sent -- the majority of digest 9 of the current volume. Delete it. Below is, in substance, what I wanted to write, lacking either the quotes from the original posts, or the names of the members posting the remarks I respond to (3 of 4). In reply to a question about open tuning, one member -- Marion or Marian in Vienna, I believe -- said that the combination of six strings in standard guitar tuning, EAGDBE, isn't a chord, and another member said any combination of three or more notes is a chord, but we would have to be creative to give a name to that combination, and provided two examples. Well, a guitar-chord reference I have says that chord is A 11. Another member made a reference to "Acoustic Magazine" for a good article on Joni's tunings and how they're used. Could that have been "Acoustic Guitar" magazine? And, in any case, how about posting the issue date -- month and year -- and/or the volume and issue number? A fourth member said his/her mother always got Joni Mitchell's name wrong, referring to "Joni James." Well, there is, or was, a female vocalist named Joni James -- blonde, too, I think -- who apparently peaked in the 1950s. One of several catalogs I have of mail/phone/fax/Ineternet-order suppliers of recorded music -- probably Collector's Choice, in this instance -- has several Joni James albums, and the catalog is illustrated with pictures. All the best in 2002.
Tim Spong Dover, Del., U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
