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***What Are You Smoking, January 2021?***
C&D Old Joe Krantz in a Boswell on an empty stomach -- we'll see how this goes. Slowly, slowly.- jbbaldwin
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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I’ll Tell You What...
CB Gold burns the daylights out of me, but my wife adores the aroma. I can get away with mixing a little in with a ho-hum blend for her sake but I can't take it straight.- jbbaldwin
- Post #31
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Morning Smoke
I really like a bowl of Nightcap in the morning. (Seems that The Old Cajun suggested that in the forums years ago, and it stuck with me.)- jbbaldwin
- Post #75
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, May 2020?***
Penzance (opened today after about five years' aging) in a Boswell bent brandy.- jbbaldwin
- Post #740
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Anyone Ever Smoke a Cigar in a Pipe?
I read somewhere that the novelist William Faulkner was given an expensive cigar by his father. He broke off the end and put it in his pipe. It was the last cigar his father ever gave him, as the story goes.- jbbaldwin
- Post #77
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What Musical Instruments Do You Play?
Students start on a practice chanter with a plastic reed - it's quiet enough to play just about anywhere. Most people don't "graduate" to the full set of pipes for a year or more, and even then, you have the option of parlor pipes, shuttle pipes, or other indoor-appropriate instruments. (And...- jbbaldwin
- Post #58
- Forum: General Discussion
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It Is Official... Rad Davis Has Retired
Like the rest of you, I'm happy for him but sad for the rest of us. I consider myself fortunate to have one of his pipes and think he's a great fellow and carver. -
What Musical Instruments Do You Play?
To qualify for a music education degree, we had to be able to play all of the standard band and orchestra instruments to a level of competency roughly equivalent to that of the average early high-school student in addition to playing our major instrument at an advanced level. Since then, I have...- jbbaldwin
- Post #47
- Forum: General Discussion
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Favorite Pipe Smoking Musician
In honor of his birthday, here is Samuel Barber. Here is his best-known piece, the Adagio for Strings, used almost continuously in the film Platoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfC9CCeU-eE Here is one more, the Summer Music for wind quintet - a little more obscure, but among the best of its...- jbbaldwin
- Post #102
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Star of the East Flakes vs. Bulk
I think the flavors are more pleasing in the non-flake form, but I can't explain how -- it just tastes better to me. (This is counter to every other blend I've ever had. I will choose the flake over the ribbon in every other case.) It does seem to burn a whole lot faster than the flake...- jbbaldwin
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Orlik's Dark Strong Kentucky Is Finally Here Again!
Yay! I enjoy PH but Me, too. I also look forward to the lesser licorice -- sounds intriguing.- jbbaldwin
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Sound Off, Lurkers!
I mostly lurk but always read, if you think 580 posts in 2 1/2 years qualifies as lurking...- jbbaldwin
- Post #65
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Little Something For Christmas Eve - USAF Band Flash Mob
That's last year's excellent recording. This year, they added some choreography (and a passel of drums): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniBBT7nRJg This is one fine group of musicians.- jbbaldwin
- Post #2
- Forum: General Discussion
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Favorite Pipe Smoking Musician
In the leisure time afforded by the season, I've run across a reason for thread resurrection: Sir William Walton, best known for the coronation marches Orb and Sceptre and Crown Imperial as well as for the incredible cantata Belshazzar's Feast. He looks a little like Copland in the first photo...- jbbaldwin
- Post #98
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Old Time Radio ....
Bob and Ray are my favorites. (My signature line was their sign-off for many years.) Second the WAMU Big Broadcast - good programming for several hours every Sunday.- jbbaldwin
- Post #23
- Forum: General Discussion