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Any other strings to your bow?
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:21 pm
by ozover50
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:38 pm
by jsm610
Banjo!
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:13 pm
by ozover50
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!!
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:33 pm
by ozover50
Er... just discovered it's a 6000 Bantar. Is it yours, John?
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:12 am
by wormdiet
I played a viola da gamba once in a folk group. It's basically a cello with frets, tuned like a guitar. Neat instrument.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:28 am
by iamthebassman
Mandolin, mando-guitar, theremin.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:55 pm
by dougp
Violin (4-string, electrified). Also piano & Clavinet if you count hammered string instruments. How many strings on your Theremin, Ronn? (sorry...) ;^)
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:50 pm
by rictified
mouth harp, comb with paper, tweezers. cardboard box with string and pencil. flutophone.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:55 pm
by rictified
oh strings, geetar and bull fiddle. I play my bull fiddle with them there bantars, sometimes with cuzin John.
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:04 pm
by jsm610
"Haven't got any more shots you can post, have you? "
Yup. Yeehaw. Bob plays a mean bull fiddle...
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:55 pm
by ozover50
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
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:29 am
by rob
Howard, was the first song you tried "Dueling Banjos?" I love that movie, Deliverence.
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:01 am
by wayang
Strings...bow..."Deliverance"...I get it.
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:12 pm
by ozover50
'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.....'
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:06 pm
by wayang
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...)