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Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:43 am
by Eadwine Rose
Gordon Cooper wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:05 pm
I played the bagpipes for several years, was in a band, but my job involved 7 day a week shiftwork so pulled out and gave up the pipes when I was in my early 20's..
Later was leader of a Hawaiian guitar group, built 3 electric steel guitars, first a basic 6 string carved out of a piece of 4 x 3. the later two were double neck 16 stringers with different tuning on each set of 8 strings and one neck two inches longer than standard. Was an interesting task calculating the fret spacing in the years before calculators.
Made a didgeridoo years ago, but could never get my breathing right for sustained blowing.
Those double neck guitars.. just WOW!!!
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:46 am
by Eadwine Rose
Gordon Cooper wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:42 am
I forgot. The Hawaiian group included a very good fiddler and we all could play rhythm guitar. So we were called upon to perform at local concerts, a regular Saturday
evening pastime in New Zealand's far south. Driving home in a Southland winter, four of us in a 1937 Austin 7 was something to be remembered. The Austin's windscreen
opened outwards so the loading was. Gordon Mills and me in the back seat with a guitar and violin on our knees, the 3/4 size double bass bottom end resting on our shoulders. Front seats, Graham with a guitar on his knee, Bob driving, both of them supporting the double bass front end on their shoulders, with the neck and finger board of the bass projecting out the open windscreen. It took several hours and a couple of drams to warm up when we arrived home !
Oh wow.. haha I can just see it!!
Back at the time it was suffering.. now it's just the coolest story to tell hahaha.. so neat, thanks for sharing :)
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:00 am
by jj1j1
I used to play the juice harp until I broke a tooth
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Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:25 am
by Leo
I used to play a pretty fair bass guitar. Haven't been able to play a lick since brain surgery...
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:32 am
by JayM
Leo wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:25 am
I used to play a pretty fair bass guitar. Haven't been able to play a lick since brain surgery...
You may have to start all over and relearn if so inclined. Just like people that have to kearn how to walks again after an injury. That would probably be a good exercise of your brain and help your recovery too.
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:28 am
by mxer
Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 2:33 pm
mxer: interesting, got pics of it?
This is what I started with, mine is about 3" deep now, (cost me £10 when I bought it), I cut off the feet, making it easier to hold, & then just taped the two drum sticks together, to make my beater, seems to work OK for what I wanted.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q ... 1738064432
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:24 pm
by Eadwine Rose
Nifty :)
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:36 pm
by PhantomTramp
Hey,
Played the guitar since high school. In and out of various bands, until I got tired of traveling. Now I pick it up just to sooth my nerves which is a better way to go for me.
I got the bug to start playing guitar while watching a Piedmont bluesman named John Jackson (Rappahannock County, VA) at a folk festival in the early 70s. I later got to see Sonny Terry at a college concert and was hooked on "three chords and the truth" ever since.
The Tramp
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 1:29 pm
by oops
PhantomTramp wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:36 pm
Hey,
Played the guitar since high school....
Hi,
I played mostly rhythmic with a classical guitar, and mostly when I was young ... and sometime now too but rarely.
PS: I took the same picture of your avatar, at the same point of view, of the 3 pyramids ;-)
Re: Do you play a musical instrument, if so: which?
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:41 pm
by KBD
jj1j1 wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:00 am
I used to play the juice harp until I broke a tooth
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It hurt just reading that :)