Pathetic wood lust moment...

Fri, Feb 11, 2005, 12:02am (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert=A0Bonomi) says: an 8-year-old's "drum set".

Damn straight. Disassemble it, along with the person who gave it.

JOAT Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- David Fasold

Fri, Feb 11, 2005, 10:31am snipped-for-privacy@users.sourceforge.net (Silvan) laments: If I could afford them, I'd *own* a set of bagpipes.

Afford? I posted plans long ago. Make your own. I intend to, whenever I finish my banjo. Ah, bluegrass bagpipes.

JOAT Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- David Fasold

Fri, Feb 11, 2005, 3:58pm (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net (Dave=A0Hinz) says: I mean, really, do you ever hear someone say "Wow, could you please play that banjo even louder", or "come closer with those bagpipes please"?

I happen to like both good bagpipe, and banjo, music. I did say "good". You have to put it in the proper perspective. You can always walk away from the bagpipe or banjo. But, consider the times you've been in traffic, windows up, and one of those ricer boys has his "sound system" turned up and that's all you can hear. Or, who parks, and walks away, with his noise maker still on.

JOAT Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- David Fasold

Got this from a banjo player-- When can you tell when a banjo has perfect pitch?

When it doesn't hit the sides of the dumpster

More banjo jokes anyone?

Well that depends on the 8 year old. My kid has been wailing out amazing rhythms since about that age. He's 12 now.

an 8-year-old's "drum set".

Damn straight. Disassemble it, along with the person who gave it.

JOAT Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- David Fasold

Virginia.

And here I though you and I were in the same state ...

... the state of confusion!

my mistake.

Rick

A "stomach Steinway" ??

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:53:18 -0800, the inscrutable "wch" spake:

No, give it back to the person who gave it as a gift, but leave it in one piece. Remember to stick it "where the sun don't shine." They WON'T do that again.

-- Vidi, Vici, Veni ---

I happen to like both good bagpipe, and banjo, music. I did say "good". You have to put it in the proper perspective. You can always walk away from the bagpipe or banjo. But, consider the times you've been in traffic, windows up, and one of those ricer boys has his "sound system" turned up and that's all you can hear. Or, who parks, and walks away, with his noise maker still on.

JOAT Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- David Fasold

True musical instruments! :-)

I *think* it was Elton John who compared the sound of a banjo to that of a pair of tin cans and a string rolling down a flight of stairs.

I've looked at making a set, but it's very fiddly.

Heh. Actually, I've been doing folk music for a couple of decades. Never did the accordian thing, but I'm guilty of most of the others.

Dave Hinz