Category Archives: Random Topics

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Introducing: “Sixstr – The sixstr stories Theme”

Posted on October 18, 2014 by sixstrstories

Can a blog have a theme? Most blogs, I would guess, have a Theme: “a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation.” (The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, New Edition, 2005) Movies, television shows and radio programs have Themes: “Instrumental music, … Continue reading →

Posted in EFS Music, Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged B.J. Leiderman, Dog On Fire, Eugene J. Barrack, James Bond Theme, John Williams, Monty Norman, Morning Edition, Movie Themes, Paris Texas, Ry Cooder, Star Wars, Televison Show Themes, The Daily Show, Thirtysomething, W.G. Snuffy Walden | 3 Comments

Baseball

Posted on September 28, 2014 by sixstrstories

Today was the last day of the 2014 baseball season for my beloved Boston Red Sox. This year’s team suffered from the same kind of inconsistent pitching and lackluster hitting that continually cursed the Red Sox teams that I grew … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Video, Random Topics | Tagged Baseball, Baseball Songs, Boston Red Sox, Chuck Brodsky, Sam Baker, Steve Goodman, The Baseball Ballads | 1 Comment

As Summer Turns To Fall

Posted on September 21, 2014 by sixstrstories

Here in New Hampshire, Summer lingers.

Posted in Random Topics | Tagged Black-Eyed Susans, Flower Photographs | Leave a comment

Finding Christine Miller, Part 3

Posted on September 7, 2014 by sixstrstories

Most recently, I found Christine Miller again, this time hanging on a wall. On Sunday, August 24, 2014, my very good friend and cousin Jack and I spent a thoroughly enjoyable and, yes, enlightening day at the Thomas Edison National … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Topics | Tagged Christine Miller, Daniel M. Clemson, Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs, First Recording Studio, Thomas Edison National Historical Park | 2 Comments

Finding Christine Miller, Part 2

Posted on September 6, 2014 by sixstrstories

The next place that I found Christine Miller was in a box. Not long after reading Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner, I embarked on a little musical recordings shopping trip through an area known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Annie Laurie, Antique Alley, Christine Miller, Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, Eagle Antiques, Edison Blue Amberol Concert Records, Edison cylinders, Fern Eldridge & Friends Antiques, Perfecting Sound Forever | Leave a comment

Finding Christine Miller, A Three Part Story

Posted on September 5, 2014 by sixstrstories

Part 1. The first place I found Christine Miller was in a book. The book was Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music written by Greg Milner, published in 2009. Mr. Milner introduces Miss Miller on page 4, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Topics | Tagged Christine Miller, Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs, Edison Diamond Disc Records, Edison Records, Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever, Thomas Alva Edison, Tone Tests | Leave a comment

Opa’s Banjo: a fourstr story

Posted on July 27, 2014 by sixstrstories

John H. Daum was my wife’s maternal grandfather. To Andrea and her brothers and sisters he was their Opa. One of the earliest memories that Andrea has of her Opa comes from when she was a very little girl and … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Topics | Tagged 4-string banjo, John H. Daum, Wurlitzer tenor banjo | 4 Comments

Remaining Seas

Posted on July 2, 2014 by sixstrstories

There are some songwriters who come up with a title first, then write the song to go with it. This song is the only song I ever wrote that way. The title was a typo. Back in the Fall of 2003, … Continue reading →

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A Children’s Song

Posted on June 15, 2014 by sixstrstories

In the summer of 1970, I bought my first guitar – a chocolate-brown Harmony steel-string acoustic – and a songbook: Ramblin’ Boy and other songs by Tom Paxton. The only song in that slender 1964 Oak Publications publication that … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Video, Random Topics | Tagged Ken-L-Ration, My Dog's Bigger Than Your Dog, Ramblin' Boy and other songs by Tom Paxton, Tom Paxton | 3 Comments

Finally

Posted on May 3, 2014 by sixstrstories

The backyard that once looked like this… … now looks like this! “To everything…” (Photographs by yours truly.)

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