[speaker001:] Ted you're from south here you'd have to be interested in music right
[speaker002:] uh yeah yeah I my interests have varied over the years but uh I've been uh  oh for the last uh seven it must be seven years now I've been volunteering at Seattle Opera
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] which has been real interesting been working there as a super numerary which is uh  a non singing actor
[speaker001:] oh wow
[speaker002:] so I'm in all these productions I'm in about three or four a year and it's uh it's really interesting it's really
[speaker001:] well that should be interesting
[speaker002:] yeah it's really fun
[speaker001:] well do you play an instrument yourself
[speaker002:] well I used to play guitar and sing and about um it's about nine years ago I just kind of stopped I'd done it all my life
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] it's nothing now
[speaker002:] yeah I listen to music and I'm uh I'm singing actually I just started taking voice lessons but uh I am not playing anymore
[speaker001:] uh-huh huh that's I play the recorder I'm not
[speaker002:] oh neat
[speaker001:] and I really love playing with the guitarist and I do it for I used to play the elbow and the recorder has about the same fingerings as the elbow so I just I had to have my elbow back in junior high so I just kept up with that
[speaker002:] hum
[speaker001:] but I really enjoy playing that and then the piano
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I'm trying to teach myself that just to keep myself entertained we just bought an old piano that we are trying to refinish
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] so that keeps us really busy
[speaker002:] hum
[speaker001:] so do you um practice much in the opera or do you have to go to many practices
[speaker002:] yeah I have to go to a lot of a lot of rehearsals um it's uh I just did three shows in a row I also work with do the same sort of work with Pacific Northwest Ballet
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh they uh  oh I'm in the Nutcracker every year with them at the Seattle Center Opera House
[speaker001:] now is that volunteer
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it is in that one I played the grandfather of the main character
[speaker001:] huh that's really interesting we never got to go we went to the the orchestra up there
[speaker002:] yeah oh the Seattle Symphony
[speaker001:] uh-huh the not the symphony what's the other one there's two groups I can't remember their names
[speaker002:] well the Seattle Symphony is kind of the main one right here there's some small community orchestras around town
[speaker001:] what's the one that plays with the U
[speaker002:] like there's Harmonic
[speaker001:] okay that's the one we went and saw
[speaker002:] oh I see
[speaker001:] so that was that was really interesting too  are you at work right now
[speaker002:] no I'm at home
[speaker001:] oh I heard a
[speaker002:] it that ringing you heard was a another another line here
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] yeah I'm also uh kind of interested in uh oh uh a lot of kind of ethnic music and foreign music and stuff uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] stuff that's marketed under the name of world music um there's this really great band I found uh that's from Britain called Three Mastabas Three who play this guys I first heard them when I I was visiting a friend in New York a few years ago and he played the tape of them and we couldn't figure out where they were from because they were playing this stuff like some of it sounded like Middle Eastern other sound like it was eastern European and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] anyway it uh uh it was really uh uh really interesting stuff so I came back here to Seattle and found a CD of theirs and was looking for more recordings of their stuff and uh uh ended up writing a writing them a a fan letter
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] yeah asking where I could find uh find more uh more of their uh more of their recordings
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh um they uh they wrote back and told me when they were coming to Seattle so I met them when they were here they were were really funny just a moment
[speaker001:] well that was interesting did you talk to them at all or
[speaker002:] yeah that was weird I just uh just put my that's weird I just put it on hold and I heard what sounded like a modem on the other line that was calling us up that's very strange
[speaker001:] is the group
[speaker002:] um anyway anyway yeah I met them it was it was kind of interesting I'd been wondering for a long time where these guys were from and thinking they might be from eastern Europe and what they confirmed was our suspicion which was they were basically a bunch of crazed British no musicologists ooh ah uh uh they were kind of playing a big joke on the world just a second  same thing okay I'm back yeah I never got any instructions with this thing on what you're supposed to do when you get another phone call how do they deal with call waiting you know
[speaker001:] uh you got you got another phone call from TI
[speaker002:] no no no no I mean somebody else calls you know so many people have call waiting these days actually we have a completely separate
[speaker001:] oh okay