Musically Talented or Mentally Unbalanced
- Elmore
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Musically Talented or Mentally Unbalanced
Hey it's fast approaching Christmas with it's vast array of musical opportunities. Wherever I go I bring my Feadog Pro/White Cap combo and I enjoy playing it anytime...anywhere. City streets, stores you name it. I especially enjoy playing it for children. They seem to love it. Overall most ages of people seem to enjoy my playing. My family hates it. They seem to think that I am retarded...mentally challenged. I just enjoy the heck out of it...making beautiful music and creating instant smiles. Besides that it's easier than carrying a tenor sax around. What do you think?
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Re: Musically Talented or Mentally Unbalanced
It's hard to disagree with that.Elmore wrote:Besides that it's easier than carrying a tenor sax around. What do you think?
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I'm with you Elmore-- bringing live, spontaneous music to places where it's least expected is a real joy. People really do love it, as long as you don't do it in places where it would be obtrusive (eg in a movie theatre )
The only thing for you to do is teach your family to play so they can see what it's all about.
The only thing for you to do is teach your family to play so they can see what it's all about.
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the cashiers at my local grocery store have come to expect a harmonica song during my checkout or while i am waiting for my neighbor to finish his shopping. i've not played the whistle inside the grocery store but i have played it with the salvation army bell ringers outside the store.
i also can't help but think that we're helping folks.
no, you are not mentally unbalanced, i do the same thing and i'm sane. nevermind all those medications i'm prescribed that stabilize things.
i also can't help but think that we're helping folks.
no, you are not mentally unbalanced, i do the same thing and i'm sane. nevermind all those medications i'm prescribed that stabilize things.
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Truer words have never been written, Kevin. There was a wonderful article in the Washington Post last weekend on Brian Wilson. What a tortured genius. He was mostly washed up at the age of 23 due to a mixture of drug abuse and mental illness. He's finally gotten his sh*t together in the last 5-10 years. His story brings two things to mind:kkrell wrote:"Musically Talented or Mentally Unbalanced" - not mutually exclusive.
It sucks when someone touches so many lives but can't enjoy it.
You gotta wonder what the world would have been like had Brian been able to keep it together. It might have been the Beach Boys who were "more popular than God."
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I owe the folks down at the JACK'S hamburger restaurant a tune or two on my tenor sax. No I didn't trade food for music but that sounds like a good idea. Maybe the sushi bars are up to that. At Jack's they go wild and start dancing when I play the whistle. I serenaded Mack Hoover with my sax, flute and whistle tonight but I don't think he cooks. Maybe he'll cook me up a White Cap to fit my "C" whistle bodies.
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You might have your white cap on backwards...mine looks well and plays great!Strom wrote:...I have the same set up, a Hoover White Cap on a nickel Feadog body, it looks great and plays well...
Do you cook? Send sandwiches and I'll call. heh heh
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"Imagination without education is like a bird without feet"
"Feet entangle birds, words...men"
"Feet entangle birds, words...men"
That's what I love about whistles. You can stow one hidden somewhere and whip it out any time. We had our office December birthday lunch the other day. I whipped out my Bb and played Happy Birthday. I hate singing it.
You aren't mentally unbalanced. Either that, or we all are. I'm not even any good at this and I play in the park or at the beach all the time. I even gave some consideration to creating a whistle quiver for my scooter (I ride a Vespa to work each day) so I can play at long traffic signals. Then I remembered I wear gloves when I ride so that won't work. Too bad.
You aren't mentally unbalanced. Either that, or we all are. I'm not even any good at this and I play in the park or at the beach all the time. I even gave some consideration to creating a whistle quiver for my scooter (I ride a Vespa to work each day) so I can play at long traffic signals. Then I remembered I wear gloves when I ride so that won't work. Too bad.
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Flutes: Tipple D and E flutes and a Casey Burns Boxwood Rudall D flute
Whistles: Jerry Freeman Tweaked D Blackbird
Flutes: Tipple D and E flutes and a Casey Burns Boxwood Rudall D flute
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