Instruments that 'irk' you?

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Mon May 10, 2004 8:02 pm

"Neither stop nor start a tradition."

-- Ben Franklin

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Tue May 11, 2004 3:45 pm

djm, if this was the session.org the argument would have gone on forever.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue May 11, 2004 5:24 pm

Hey, if a person who plays harp is a harper, a person who plays whistle is a whistler, and a person who plays pipes is a piper, then a person who plays bones is:

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Tue May 11, 2004 5:33 pm

That is so funny

I almost pissed my pants.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:14 pm

Whoa, Nano. That is brilliant. That is a cut above. You should get an award for that one. Maybe stick a little star on your forehead for a day. Maybe someone should send you a box of Enzyte or something.

djm

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:56 am

Nanohedron wrote:then a person who plays bones is:

That's what they used to be called, all right. Back in, say, the gay nineties.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:03 pm

What's Enzyte? A type of disposable whistle?

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:25 pm

Dunno. Something bone players are supposedly using to enhance their performance. http://www.enzyte.com/

djm

Baglady · Post by **Baglady** » Wed May 12, 2004 10:55 pm

Hey try this one

http://www.carlowtrad.com/Audio/bagman.rm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:32 pm

Update on the clueless harper coming to sessions hereabouts:

During a break from the pain last evening I asked him, "So, how many tunes have you got by now?" (keeping in mind my past urging him to at least get a tunebook), and he hemmed and hawed, saying that he was just improvising; he hadn't got around to finding any sources yet. Well, he'd had about 3 months to try, but sure couldn't (which I translated as "didn't bother to") find anything on the 'Net. Right. I firmly assured him that it's out there, no nonsense about it, and he absolutely needed to be able to play tunes or at least know them well if he was to accompany them properly. I was very constructive and matter-of-fact if unbending about it. Boy, did he quiet down his noodling after that; nary a pointless glissando but for one or two, and far more discreet by comparison.

I went off for a smoke, and a couple of other players stopped by and thanked me for speaking up. The precious part: one was a bodhránaí who was sitting next to the harper, and she said, "He was making it hard for me to think, and I'm a drummer. I don't think." Ohhhhh, did I stick the knife in and give it a twwwwwwwist.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:03 pm

djm

IvanP · Post by **IvanP** » Sat May 15, 2004 6:25 am

Yes, it's true, the difference between ITM and Ce...Celt....Cel...Celti...(I can't say it!) is synthesizers, but I'm really a proponent of the keyboard only in the context of piano-esque voices. Everything else is cheating. But if you're using a perfectly legitimate instrument in a non-cliche way, I think it's justified.

P.S. Please don't slaughter me.