<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Tongue and check? That sounds like a new piano part!  You mean tongue-in-cheek, I think; the humorous facial gesture of pushing out the side of the cheek with the point of the tongue to denote ironical intent in a statement one has just made. And "now a days" should be all one word; nowadays, methinks. Nitpickingly yours, David. MPT (Meretricious Piano Technololologist) </body> </html>