From: Chuck Darling
Sunday, October 21, 2023
Re: Relativity... and Music...
My maternal great-grandfather
Zha Zha was Polish, from the region
called Poznan.
He was a Seventh Son.
The Poznan region is where Karol Wotyla and
Werner von Braun were from.
Zha Zha was "head guard" for
Kaiser Wilhelm I.
Zha Zha didn't like
Kaiser Wilhelm II,
so he moved his family
to America.
My grandfather,
Rev. Bernard Ronald,
(Ronowski)
was Zha Zha's Seventh Son.
Grampa Ronald was a healer.
My Dad was South Buffalo Irish,
Navy WWII USS Rigel,
brought the first Marines to Japan, after repairing the
remaining ships at Pearl Harbor.
My Dad , Charles Allen Darling, married Gloria Ronald in 1954.
That was the first year that
the Church allowed
Protestants to marry Catholics.
1954 was also the year that
my In-Laws came to America.
They too had a "mixed marriage",
Eugenio was Italian Catholic,
and Ruth was German Lutheran.
My children's mom was the
only member of her family
that was born in America...
When my Father-in-Law
Eugenio met His Maker,
his daughter Gina brought
back memories of a hymn
she heard in Pallegio, Italy;
the church where Eugenio
had served as an altar boy
until he was 17.
Gina asked me to
sing it at Eugenio's Funeral Mass.
I wrote down the words,
and wrote chords to the melody.
We had 20 years of family
dinners, Christmases and Easters at Eugenio's home.
Our kids met their cousins
while John & Gina lived
in Depew for two years,
after Reagan closed the
Civil Aeronautics Board...
Grace washed our clothes
in her Mom's washer/dryer,
even after I bought a washer
and a dryer......
Click the Lucchesi home
to hear me play:
Tu Sei la Mia Vita
- Sept 2 -cd
******************
(Aug 28)
A friend at Starbucks
is interested in guitar.
Telling people about
a YouTube link often
doesn't work.
It's too easy to forget,
or mis-spell...
I recommend a one page
folded notebook.
(This image links to a David Bromberg tune...)
Jot down important details,
then transfer them later to a
permanent notebook, or file.
A small notepad
is an effective way of
bridging the musical
generation gap !
Try it!
Chuck
*******
Repairs & Builds
https://tinyurl.com/Rosa1912Gibson
Rosa Neck Repair - Les Paul type
https://tinyurl.com/MandolinImprovement
https://tinyurl.com/30dollarGuitarBuild
https://tinyurl.com/JoniMitchell-dulcimer
https://tinyurl.com/buildingadulcimer
https://tinyurl.com/ViolinBuild
https://tinyurl.com/ViolinMaking-asitwas
Cigar box Guitar
https://tinyurl.com/Cigarbox-3vs4
https://tinyurl.com/Justin3Blues
Instrumentals
https://tinyurl.com/Balalaika3stringVirtuoso
https://tinyurl.com/ScottAinsle1stringCigarbox
https://tinyurl.com/OneStringSong
https://tinyurl.com/10MinDiddlyBow
Dean Parks (Studio Steely Dan)
What Keith Richard's Grampa taught him
The Secret of Life - James Taylor
https://tinyurl.com/HappyTraum1
https://tinyurl.com/HappyInterviewsTony
https://tinyurl.com/TonyRice-diedonChristmasDay
https://tinyurl.com/SteveAndJethro
When Steve died, I prayed for him. That week I could suddenly
play guitar up the neck...
From Steve's Hot Spot LP
https://tinyurl.com/AmericaSisterG
https://tinyurl.com/gordonlightfoot-songwriter
I taught myself guitar with
Gordon Lightfoot's Anthologies
https://tinyurl.com/LightfootBook
***
This was my Fender Uke.
Click it to hear my Mahalo Uke
A ukulele is like a 4 string guitar
pitched at Capo 5.
Everything you learn on a Uke
can be easily learned on guitar.
I've had four of them !
* The first was a black
Mahalo, that I found on
my birthday in DC...
I gave it to a Minister's son
after I re-strung it Low to High
* The second was a $45 Fender
that I also re-strung.
It was stolen one night in LA.
* The third was a nice cutaway
that my friend Ed Trotta gave
me. It was stolen after a couple
months.
* The fourth was a concert
model, a replacement from Ed.
That one disappeared...
* Ed asked me if I wanted
another one, and I declined
because they keep getting
stolen...
https://tinyurl.com/Lovefool-uke
https://tinyurl.com/UkuleleOnly
https://tinyurl.com/Amazon-Rockjam
Musician's Friend: Ukes
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/ukuleles?typeAheadRedirect=true
I played uke with a pick,
like a guitar or mandolin:
https://tinyurl.com/Accustomed-uke
A Mandolin is different.
It's tuned like a violin,
and actually pre-dated the violin.
Mozart used it for composing.
I taught myself Mandolin
with Jack Tottle's book
https://tinyurl.com/JackTottle-BluegrassMandolin
https://tinyurl.com/JackTottle1976
https://tinyurl.com/NewgrassRevival77
David Grisman ~1979
https://tinyurl.com/DGQ-DawgsRag-Live
https://tinyurl.com/GrismanMarshall
https://tinyurl.com/GrismanQuintet-Ricochet
My Dad's favorite album
https://tinyurl.com/Whippoorwills-1950s
Dad(1963) to a friend: "The wife bought me
these, they're alright... but I like it
when he really cuts loose..!
https://tinyurl.com/CentipedeBoogie-Atkins-Burns
Chet Atkins and Jethro Burns
married sisters. Jethro got no
credit on Chet's albums...
Back in 1980, in Buffalo
there was a great cover band
that played in restaurants.
JNJ
Joe Tumino
Nan Hoffman
Jim Palys
*****
PS. Below is a link to How-To
on my Pascal program 00Cedar.
00Cedar builds little note files that can be a blog, and *Also* a Text Adventure. 8/31/23 cd
https://tinyurl.com/HOW-TO-Aug2923p
https://tinyurl.com/AudioEd-Aug2923p
*** A little music from Chuck ***
https://tinyurl.com/ChristmasinJuly24
https://tinyurl.com/ElectricSheep23
https://tinyurl.com/ElonAndTheVortex
https://tinyurl.com/Ovaccine-2020poem-Chuck
https://tinyurl.com/BuildingRocketJets23
https://tinyurl.com/OrdinaryMan2004
https://tinyurl.com/BraveMountaineers-uke
https://tinyurl.com/GloryandPraise-uke
https://tinyurl.com/Psalm49-byChuck
https://tinyurl.com/Psalm50-byChuck
https://tinyurl.com/TheHarmonicaEdGaveMe
https://tinyurl.com/LastPayphone
8-29-23 cd
Artistic...too.
And Spiritual.
I am a born-again Catholic.
I photographed this cloud
on July 4th in DC, several years ago.
It's not a cloud.
The Lakota Sioux tribes have
a religious history of a female
spirit that first appears to them
as a cloud.
They call her The White Buffalo Calf Woman .
She taught the tribes how to
live in peace with each other.
Like a Guardian Angel.
Or Mother Nature.
Or a Saint.
https://tinyurl.com/Mission75notes-I-was-18
Imagine how different
the World would be...
If the Church had taught that
every week for 2000 years !
-Chuck
