FluteCake.com or The Crumpley East Coast Update

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updated 10/18/03

Our little house, here by Wyoming Mill Pond in Delaware, is filled with music everyday. Kelly on his mandolin, banjo, fiddle, Irish flute and/or Jan on her Suttner concertina, Copeland whistle, silver flutes and, now, ukeleles. We are happy Irish musicians with day jobs.

As Bill Black (Zouki) said to us (reprinted with permission),

"Sometimes one hears of places
Beset with such overwhelming innocence
That sandcastles or fleas or carrots
Or porcupines
Are news

Perhaps

You dwellers in such places
Should consider yourselves lucky"

So true, so here, so us. Thanks, Zouki!

You may have noticed that we have a domain name of our own now. FluteCake.com, kinda crazy sounding, huh? Well, do you know how fun it is to write out the web address for people over and over? Now I can just say, "Sure, just go to FluteCake.com"- why, you might not even need a pen! No more ~, dots and //. I did not squander a lot of money on this. All thanks to Yahoo! Wicked clever.

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. Jan and Kelly Crumpley picture is here

Here we are! Jan and Kelly
Musical Links My baby!

Suttner Concertinas - Jan's NEW concertina is HERE!!!
Copeland Whistles - my primary whistle, it's a nickle/silver D. Thanks for the visit, Michael!!
L. E. McCullough tin whistle, whose book, tapes and videos we share with our students, the BEST and thanks for the visit and the kind words, L.E.!!
Gilles LeHart flutes - Kelly has this flute from this maker in France, fabulous!
Bryan Hurley Flute page
RTE Live Audio from Ireland
Concertina.net Hosted by Paul Schwartz
Rob Greenway Flute Pages
Elderly Instruments - great prices on some whistles and strings

Resources for making music yourself!
Yahoo set of links for Celtic music loads of links here!
Ceolas - Celtic Music Archive
Ceolas, just for Irish Folk Songs
Then there's the DigiTrad Lyric search engine at Mudcat Café
JC's Tune Finder, this is one of my favorite trad music (for the dots- gif, abc's & midis) to recommend to the beginner. A great resource, no wiggly fancy stuff, just good solid perl search and files.
Kitchen Musician Guide Pages (has a nice collection of GIF sheet music)
Henrik Norbeck's ABC tunes - go here, learn new tunes this way!!

Other Links
Tacky Post Card archive, try this out and see for yourself.
Girl Geeks page - if you are you will know, it's not easy
Mac Fixit- okay, sometimes it is necessary, a great way to learn
Newszap - my (employer) newspaper's web page, it is what it is, I don't do the web design at work, I just maintain databases, servers and fix stuff - Jan

the CURSE- damn those Yankees, again.

PT Cruiser - our car, a 2001, first model year, whose birthday is July 20th, 2000
ours is green

Kelly is looking at another PT on the left, ours is the GREEN one on the right.

Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges. More about your phobias here...http://phobialist.com/

Folks that are native to the Delmarva peninsula seem to suffer from this quite often, they really don't get over those bridges very often. Delmarva is only connected to the mainland by bridges, we have the lovely C & D canal cutting us off.

The little town of Wyoming is just south of Dover. Yes, I did hand draw this map- for DelFolk.org, directions for Dover, DE from any point in world.

Kelly is on the board of Delaware Friends of Folk

Jan is webmistress for this organization, never a dull moment.

Thanks for stopping by! We are within two hours travel time to Washington D.C., Baltimore or Philadelphia, so if you are passing through and would like to join our small session the second Saturday each month at W.T. Smithers Restaurant at 1:00pm in downtown Dover or want to draw us out write to us here:

Go to my next page

Jan & Kel's mail box jan@flutecake.com

Like to see more of these animated gifs that I have found?
Go to my next page

Take this, Bill Gates!!