Recent content by flylot

Please educate a newbie here. Since Erinmore has a topping, I assume it is considered an aromatic. Is this a correct assumption?

I have tried Erinmore flake and find it very good indeed. It does not bite my tongue and therefor is in my rotation of tobaccos. The taste and room note are most acceptable!

My first introduction to pipe smoking was with a cob. It was obviously a positive experience. I haven't smoked in it since the purchase of my briar pipes, though I keep thinking I would like to revisit the cob in the near future. At this point I don't have enough experience to give a honest...

Thank you for posting this video. It was most informative!

That's just plain ol' good music their makin'!

Thanks Skip, I'm going to put that on my list and give it a try. LOL, at times I feel like I'm in a Monty Python movie when it comes to this quest. ......now if I could just find some coconut halves to make the sound of horse hooves...... <grin>

Very nice indeed! Notice that even the bow hold is quite different. The modern day bow is held over the frog (that's the little ebony block underneath the heel end of the bow that the horsehair is attached to) where as the Baroque period bow, which has no camber and is shorter is held farther...

I started smoking pipes originally because my wife hated cigar smoke. Who would have known I would take to it like a duck to water. Regardless, I was on a quest to find tobacco that would please both me and my "carbon based spousal unit". The quest was on! To date, I discovered many things...

MisterE, Actually the Baroque violin is quite different than the modern violin though from a casual observer, it can easily be overlooked. The neck of the violin is attached to the body at much less of an angle, straight in fact, and the fingerboard is somewhat shorter. Inside, the bass bar...

Oh yes! Wonderful! That first movement of the Partita #2 is probably the first one I would attempt. Itzak certainly has a fine rendition of it with his modern style violin. I would love to hear a Baroque violin master such as Andrew Manze's recording of it, or better, live. It suspect that...

Right now I am destroying Mozart's Violin Sonata K304 with my fiddle. The second movement is much harder to play than the first (sigh). I tend to gravitate to Baroque and of course the Sonatas & Partitas by Bach are the ultimate achievement for any violinist, amateur or pro, but I'm not there...

Oh how true! I've been searching for aromatics to please my wife and it's been a challenge! She (sort of) sniffed her approval with Autumn Evening. When I was trying Lane's RLP-6, though earlier, having two different women fawn over the room note, later at home, my wife had a very negative...

Just got my estate Dunnie from a BoB member and finished the last of the Nightcap I had piffed to me. Oh, Gawd it was nice. The sky was partly cloudy and 70 F with a light breeze. Sitting on my back porch thinking life is good!

Welcome from a fellow Texan!

Greetings folks! I am a cigar smoker who has recently turned to pipes. After some help from admin (spam filter sometimes can work against you!), I finally got to log in! I started with a MM and a few different bowl full samples from Serious Cigars here in Houston a few weeks ago. I've...