Any other strings to your bow?

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:21 pm

Had a heap of fun playing around with a banjo yesterday. It was a beaten up old Washburn with a neck that was so bowed it could see around corners!!

The 5th string was a bit confusing.

No prizes for guessing the first tune I tried!!

I enjoyed it so much I'm gonna start looking around for a reasonable used one.

This led me to wonder how many of the forum members have other stringed instruments they play.

jsm610 · Post by **jsm610** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:38 pm

Banjo!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:13 pm

All right, smartypants!! Just because yours is a Rickenbacker....... Banjolin, am I right, John?

Haven't got any more shots you can post, have you?

That's neat!!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:33 pm

Er... just discovered it's a 6000 Bantar. Is it yours, John?

wormdiet · Post by **wormdiet** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:12 am

I played a viola da gamba once in a folk group. It's basically a cello with frets, tuned like a guitar. Neat instrument.

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:28 am

Mandolin, mando-guitar, theremin.

dougp · Post by **dougp** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:55 pm

Violin (4-string, electrified). Also piano & Clavinet if you count hammered string instruments. How many strings on your Theremin, Ronn? (sorry...) ;^)

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:50 pm

mouth harp, comb with paper, tweezers. cardboard box with string and pencil. flutophone.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:55 pm

oh strings, geetar and bull fiddle. I play my bull fiddle with them there bantars, sometimes with cuzin John.

jsm610 · Post by **jsm610** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:04 pm

"Haven't got any more shots you can post, have you? "

Yup. Yeehaw. Bob plays a mean bull fiddle...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:55 pm

Crikey!! I understood there were not many of these made and you've got two!!

How much for the one you don't want?

Tee-hee

rob · Post by **rob** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:29 am

Howard, was the first song you tried "Dueling Banjos?" I love that movie, Deliverence.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:01 am

Strings...bow..."Deliverance"...I get it.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:12 pm

'Now, squeal like a pig.........'

The movie frightened the **** out of me because of an incident earlier in my life (not as bad as that one!!).

You got it, Robert. Then I tried Kermit's Rainbow Connection........ 'Rainbows are visions and only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.....'

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:06 pm

A friend of mine from NZ was hitch-hiking in Oz years ago...got a ride from a rather weird trucker. At some point, the guy suggested they pull off the road for a swim at a small lake he knew of. After they had parked and hit the lake, the trucker announced that he always 'cracked a fat' upon diving into cold water. My friend was made very uncomfortable by this, but nothing transpired as a result and he eventually reached his destination and parted ways with the fat cracker...

Not a lot of point to the story...I just wanted to run that phrase past you, Howard...

(...cue the banjo music...)