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Just wondering what type of musicians we have on here. I play the Bagpipe and thinking about taking up the Banjo. YOU?

Various low brass in HS, guitar in college, piano since 3rd grade... and in fact, I'm making something of a second career as a piano technician!! (no grief, please, I get enough, even though I only have THREE pianos at the moment...in various stages of disassembly... )

Piano is cool. The chicks dig them

used to play fiddle/ violin but like a old rusty car things just dont work the way there supposed to any more.

Dnderhead wrote:used to play fiddle/ violin but like a old rusty car things just dont work the way there supposed to any more.

Same here with the guitar.

I used to play a guitar and was into the folk singing thing back in the early sixties, but my fingers don't work the way they used to so I gave up the guitar. Some of the events in the late sixties (gunfire, explosions) have made me a little hard of hearing (high frequency loss) but the good news is that I don't need a really good stereo system.

Sax


NO, I said S A X you deaf prick


Cheers.

5- string picker ...

Dutchmancreek wrote: ... Some of the events in the late sixties (gunfire, explosions) have made me a little hard of hearing (high frequency loss) but the good news is that I don't need a really good stereo system.

Bugger DMC, Many people these days don't even remember the late sixties, or even care in fact.

blanik

I play the guitar electric and acoustic, do a bit of singing, play bass, goof around on drums. I had a blues/rock band for about seven years that played around the area. We gave it up around last christmas, but some of us just got together tuesday to do some playing. That felt really good. We'll see where that goes.

Been close to 35 years since I picked up a trumpet, base horn or tuba

I've been trying to give up guitar playing and singing for years. Whenever I got nothin' to do it seems to find me. My grown children won't let me forget it either. Every time they're home for a visit they've got requests. The buggers bought me a limited edition Guild when I retired this past June. They said they thought I'd get bored. Now I got no excuses so I've even started learnin' some new material. All that country twanggggggg stuff. Funny thing is when I listen to music it's generally jazz and blues but when I play it's usually country or early R&Roll.

My latest arrow in the quiver "Against the Grain" Garth Brooks

blanikdog wrote: Bugger DMC, Many people these days don't even remember the late sixties, or even care in fact.

blanik

Somebody said that if you remember the sixties, then you didn't do it right.

I had a friend tell me that if they did a movie of his Vietnam experience, it would be 30 minutes of boot camp and 1 1/2 hours of blank screen.

Me: guitar
Dooley: clawhammer banjo

Godstilla wrote:Piano is cool. The chicks dig them

Certain of them, it's true...and a girl that don't like Gershwin ain't worth the trouble, in my very humble and certainly not universal opinion...

(Flame-suit zipped to the chin...)

I sorta play drums. As long as it's punk rock, basically, so I can go fast enough to hide my brutal mistakes.
Never took any lessons or anything, just jammed with some friends for a while.

The Chemist wrote:

Godstilla wrote:Piano is cool. The chicks dig them

... a girl that don't like Gershwin ain't worth the trouble...

Most girls ain't worth the trouble! lol

I pick a bluegrass mandolin and strum the guitar. I'm on the lookout for an old fiddle.

I play the didgeridoo a little and took a Djambe class...Both are fun to play, but hard to find people to play with...

I've got 3 guitars, an Ashton classical, F65 Fender 1973 model (it's an exact copy of a D28 Martin) and a Washburn X10 electric, I don't play for audiences but I enjoy but I enjoy doing it for myself.

I play the didge, not well acording to the missus

5 String Banjo: Clawhammer and Bluegrass
Bit of harmoinca

Believe it or not I have a didgeridoo, that I try to play. I was browsing a used book store one day and came across a book on playing them and it intrigued me. I bought a CD to see what they sounded like, and I fell in love with the sound, so bought one. (I often listen to that CD while driving in heavy traffic, it has a great calming effect) Can't make it sound anything like the CD, sounds awful when I try. But I keep trying and hopefully someday......

I had this idea that it I would make banjo recording, then do an overlay with the didgeridoo as the bass accompaniment, and then bones as the percussion. My wife often suspects my sanity....I think she stays around just out of curiosity.

Butch50 wrote:5 String Banjo: Clawhammer and Bluegrass
Bit of harmoinca

Believe it or not I have a didgeridoo, that I try to play. I was browsing a used book store one day and came across a book on playing them and it intrigued me. I bought a CD to see what they sounded like, and I fell in love with the sound, so bought one. (I often listen to that CD while driving in heavy traffic, it has a great calming effect) Can't make it sound anything like the CD, sounds awful when I try. But I keep trying and hopefully someday......

I had this idea that it I would make banjo recording, then do an overlay with the didgeridoo as the bass accompaniment, and then bones as the percussion. My wife often suspects my sanity....I think she stays around just out of curiosity.

Blanik says you gotta suck and blow at the same time to play the didgeridoo. You mastered that talent yet?:lol:

Blanik says you gotta suck and blow at the same time to play the didgeridoo. You mastered that talent yet?:lol:

Suck and blow at the same time is called 'circular breathing', a common musician trick to allow for a continual sound with no breaks.
Get a big mouthful of air, close off the back of your throat and while continuing to blow through your lips, breathe in through your nose.
No joke. Try it, you can do it as long as you don't blow too quick.


Cheers.


just watching all you folk trying this right now. (even the drummers)

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I used to take my lessons from this guy. He has the circular breathing down cold. The guy is amazing!

That URL is bad. Should be:

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Got the circular breathing down, could be a little faster but I can play continually... The trick is to not think about it and just learn to play as long as you can on a single breath first, then circular breathing is way easier!

Suck and blow at the same time

couldn't help it.
my girl friend has that one down pat.