Dana Emery   Sat, 8 Jan 2000 08:16:32 -0500
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semiretired programmer (no degree...); JOAT.  Current day job is a
driver/shop helper in a medium sized sheet metal shop.  I have journeyman
skills as a cabinetmaker, piano technician, and general experience doing
mechanical, assembly, and electrical work.

Living on the eastern end of Long Island in a decidedly rural area which
has minimal early music activity.  Luckily the Society for Creative
Anachronism is active out here, so I get to play at monthly events.  I am a
member of an amateur loud band ensemble, in which I play tenor shawm, and
will be playing either sacbut or bass dulcian when I get one of those two
built.

I play lute, ren winds, and sing.  I practice at whim, sometimes not at
all, sometimes a couple of hours.  Mostly to absorb new repetoire, or
prepare myself for a voluntary dance band gig, rarely for technique; not
that I have a perfect technique mind you, I dont even come close. Mostly
when I practice it is to indulge some humor that I have gotten into, often 
a touch of melancholy.