A-SHORT-AFFAIR Tom Fahy audio stag-records 'Tom Fahy' was an assemblage of musicians headed by multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and County Galway native Tom Fahy, born Quinn McCarthy (1971-19 June 2008). Core members included Jiang Dan, Rachael Eisley, Zhang Li and Liu Kaige, while other players were drafted for the requirements of particular pieces. Their 50+ album catalogue was the fruit of a 9-year collaboration initiated while the core members were in residence in Honolulu, Hawai'i. To each album, the members brought a myriad of musical competencies. 2004-01-02 2004 Jazz; Experimental; Instrumental; Blues http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 2009-01-16 17:30:49 2009-01-16 17:29:41 thomas_fahy@hotmail.com Tom Fahy Tom Fahy 2009-01-16 17:32:02 2009-01-19 18:27:43 38.7 Minutes <a href="http://www.tomfahy.org">Official Website</a> <h2 class="style1">Meeting At Night</h2> The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed in the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning">Robert Browning</a> <h2 class="style1">Contrabass Saxophone</h2> The contrabass saxophone is one of the lowest-pitched members of the saxophone family. It is extremely large (twice the length of tubing of the baritone saxophone, with a bore twice as wide, standing 1.9 meters tall, or 6 feet four inches) and heavy (approximately 20 kilograms, or 45 pounds), and is pitched in the key of E♭, one octave below the baritone. Approximately 25 examples of this instrument exist in the world today including recently made instruments and a handful of surviving examples from the saxophone craze of the 1920s by Evette-Schaeffer and Kohlert. The worldwide number of existing contrabass saxophones is currently growing by 4 or 5 instruments each year. Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_saxophone">Wikipedia</a> 2009-01-19 18:39:52 Tom Fahy