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Mini-Guinea San Diego, April 2010, days 1 & 2 by michi on Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:26 am
So, here is an update from Mamady's Mini-Guinea camp in San Diego. I'm jet-lagged as all hell, so this is going be quite brief...

Linda and I got on a plane Saturday evening, after teaching two drum classes and a dance class in the morning. Flight was uneventful. The most notable thing about it is that it takes about 20 hours door-to-door to finally get there :(

We arrived 5:30pm and got to our truly shabby and awful (but cheap) hotel near LAX by about 7:30pm. Looking for dinner, we ended up at a strip mall that appeared to be the only available option within walking distance; the kind of place with about six different food outlets, all of which have "cholesterol overdose" or "food poisoning to be expected" somewhere in the fine print. In the end, we settled on the least-dangerous looking place, a small Indian restaurant. We ended up getting one of the best Indian meals I've had in...

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New youtube playlist by ChristianAMR on Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:55 am
I just created a new Youtube playlist : " Parrandita "

Description :
" Sardina de Naiguatá , Retreta , Parrandón , Tambor Parranda .
( = Comparsas con tambores venezolanos y cariben~os ,...

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Red Tweneboa Djembe Review by michi on Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:53 am
Way back in March 2009, we had a discussion on Ghanaian djembes. This was...

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Where have all the notation web pages gone? by ladydjembe on Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:57 pm
When I started out playing Djembe, I remember scouring the web and finding many wonderful sites full of great notation. Where have most of them dissapearing to. Where are all the notation libraries gone...

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new skin by Bluecatmusic on Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:28 pm
i'm looking for someone in suffolk to re-skin my djembe??

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Bobobo breaks - by Prospa (Ghanian master drummer) by aghis on Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:24 am
B: Bass T:Tone S:Slap @ space

Call: B@TT @TT@ TT@T T@T@
variation BTSS @SS@ SS@S S@S@

1. T@BB @B@@ @B@B BB@B |T@BB @B@@ @@@@ @@@B Recurs 4x Back to Call Forward to 2
2. B@T@ @@B@ T@@@ B@T@ | B@@@...

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Re: Red Tweneboa Djembe Review by Kaitaro on Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:27 am
The recording sounded good. Nice review. Good looking djembe.

Re: Red Tweneboa Djembe Review by michi on Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:00 am
Thanks for the clarification Benjamin. So you are saying that red and yellow might come from one tree, and yellow and white from another, depending on age? I wasn't aware that the same tree doesn't produce...

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RE: Red Tweneboa Djembe Review by aiduenu on Thu Jan 03, 2013 11:06 am
michi wrote:
The Latin species name for Tweneboa is Cordia platythyrsa....


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Re: Where have all the notation web pages gone? by michi on Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:58 am
The best collection of notation I'm aware of are the WAP pages: http://www.paulnas.eu/wap/

There is quite a lot on that site,...

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Re: new skin by ladydjembe on Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:24 am
Have you found someone to reskin your drum yet?
I am in Milton Keynes and I know of someone who will do a good job in Margate.
You can always carrier your drum over for around £7 using interparcel.com

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