Hobby Thread - November 23, 2024 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.

We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it landed on a theme of making music for this week. Apparently the Wheel is interested in hearing about the musical talents of the Horde. This is NOT a music thread. Repeat. This is NOT a music thread where we debate the voice of Geddy Lee, the wardrobe of Elton John, or the drums of John Bonham. There is a place elsewhere for that.

This is a thread about music made BY THE HORDE. What do you play? What did you play as a child? Can you play multiple instruments? Do you still play? If not, do you wish you could rekindle the magic? Did you grow up hating piano lessons but now glad you can punch out chopsticks on the piano in your living room? Do you play an unusual instrument? Is there an instrument you would love to learn to play? Are you wise in the ways of the French horn? Someone here has to know how to play the accordion, right?

Did you parents encourage you to practice as a child but cringe when you played drums in the living room?

Are you a singer? Do you sing in the church choir? Have you ever played in a band? Were you in high school or college band? Do you have hidden opera talent? Have you sung the national anthem before an event? What stories do you have of playing live in front of a crowd? Have you written music or are you a songwriter?

Are you an awful musician but love playing music anyway?

As the good book says, Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands (Psalm 100, King James version). Pretty sure that counts as divine direction to dial it up to eleven.

TRex was not blessed with musical abilities. These short arms make it difficult to do much other than bang sticks together and nobody wants to hear a dinosaur sing. TRex is impressed with anything TRex is unable to do. After all, if I can do it, how hard can it be?

Content below to get the conversation started, but looking for participation from our gray box friends. If meaningful to you, it will be meaningful to the Horde. Do not be shy!

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As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to making music. Politics and current events can reside in threads elsewhere. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. As usual, wearing pants is optional for thread participation.

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Random musical trivia:

Saxophones can be traced back to one inventor: Adolphe Sax. Most musical instruments have existed in many variations for centuries making it hard to pin down their original creators. Born in Belgium in 1814, Adolphe played many instruments, but sought to invent something that functioned like a woodwind, and sounded like a brass horn. Enter: the Saxophone, patented in 1846 in Paris, France. 5 Facts About Saxophones

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Has any of the Horde made your own tubulum?

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Not music, but travel related and travel qualifies as a hobby:

Obituary: Arthur Frommer, guidebook and travel-media giant

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Not music but hobby adjacent?

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week with a theme of strategy games? The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Notable comments from last week:

Notable mention:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If making music is not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Stuart the Minion says pants and earplugs are both optional. No refunds if the Hobby Thread breaks your computer speakers.

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 05:31 PM (fwDg9)

2 Clarinet and I don't want to talk about it.

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 05:32 PM (fwDg9)

3 Does no one play the rectangle?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 23, 2024 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

4 I sing. Well, I call it singing - my relatives yell "STOP!!!!!!!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 23, 2024 05:35 PM (VNX3d)

5 Actually, there is no debate about the drums of John Bonham - they were magic in his hands!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 05:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

6 Does it count if you have critters that do the thing? My hens love to tell the world about it after they have laid an egg.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 23, 2024 05:37 PM (KcwUg)

7 I'm very lucky to live alone with 5 cats who do not complain about my singing abilities. Or lack thereof.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 23, 2024 05:37 PM (BpYfr)

8 As a boy I thought I had a good singing voice and would sing along with records and the radio. In tenth grade I found out I can't carry a tune even if has handles on it; my vocal music teacher resolutely refused to give me any featured parts and hid me away in the back of the class choir. When my drama club did Guys and Dolls the next year, my teacher/director wisely cast me as Nathan Detroit. He has only one solo song and that a talk/"sing" number.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 23, 2024 05:38 PM (omVj0)

9 It's a very sore subject and want to forget about the childhood episode

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 05:39 PM (fwDg9)

10 Does no one play the rectangle?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 23, 2024 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

Wasn't there a rectangle soloist in Pentangle?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 05:40 PM (g/dXn)

11 As for other hobbies: JTB, I received the HH Old Dark Fired tobacco in ready-rubbed form. It's muscular stuff. I have smoked it by itself in a couple of five-minute sessions with food between, and this morning mixed with Luxury Twist Flake for a longer session. Quite good.

The STG closure of the facility in Denmark probably means we will lose some of the blends Sutliff and Mac Baren put out as they cut back. I'm glad I've stockpiled some leaf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 23, 2024 05:41 PM (omVj0)

12 I am a consummate professional at playing the radio. Just an innate talent, I guess.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 23, 2024 05:41 PM (hKoQL)

13 I had piano lessons as a little one, but since we had no piano I had to practice at the teacher's home down the street. Once she had her first child that ended.
I did take up the French Horn once I switched to public school in the seventh grade. Needless to say I was the last chair that year, but by the next year I was first chair and held that thru high school graduation.
Yes, that daily practicing the summer between seventh and eighth grade must have driven the neighbors crazy...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 05:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

14 Not a musician, but I do love good music. Funny, the saxophone article mentions only jazz musicians as examples of sax players. Many blues and rock bands were noted for having prominent roles for sax players. Even country. Boots Randolph, anyone?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 05:43 PM (g/dXn)

15 Had piano lessons as a kid, probably a poor investment on my parents part. As an adult I struggled to learn to play the mountain dulcimer (not the hammered version) and ended up being able to play 3 songs: The Wabash Cannonball, Comin' Thru the Rye, and Greensleeves, which doubles as What Child Is This? at Christmas time.

Posted by: MammaB at November 23, 2024 05:43 PM (kxK8l)

16 Actually, I *am* a bit of an unknown, yet very accomplished, musical prodigy.

I play the AM, FM, CD, Cassette, Turntable, Reel to Reel and occasionally have dabbled in 8-Track.

*buffs nails on shirt*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 23, 2024 05:44 PM (Xo+UM)

17 Anyone interested in playing Advanced Squad Leader using vassal and skype, send a mail to cbd and ask him to send it along.

Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Today is not that day. Dangerous Radical at November 23, 2024 05:48 PM (89Sog)

18 I played trumpet in Jr High and HS. Marching and Concert band. I started out as a drummer but there were 21 other drummers so I decided to switch. Probably because of Herb Alpert.

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 05:53 PM (vFG9F)

19 I never was really good, passable I guess. I hated marching band except for the riding on the bus with the drill team part. I didn't take my trumpet out of the case for 20 years before I tried it again and I could still play, maybe even better.

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 05:53 PM (vFG9F)

20 Mrs fd is very talented and can play the piano. We found an old Hammond organ a while back and I got it working again for her. Those things are a trip. There is not a digital bit in it but it can make all kinds of sounds with little spinning "tone wheels".

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

21 As an adult I struggled to learn to play the mountain dulcimer (not the hammered version) and ended up being able to play 3 songs
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I'm impressed... my mother, for some unknown reason, purchased an autoharp and handed it to me and instructed me to learn it. Have to say, I played with it a little, but it wasn't my thing - or my idea. Have no idea what happened to it.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 05:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

22 I would like to get a piano once we settle in TN and get back to it. I did enjoy it...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 06:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

23 Actually, there is no debate about the drums of John Bonham - they were magic in his hands!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 05:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

Pfft.

Posted by: Karen Carpenter at November 23, 2024 06:01 PM (0eaVi)

24 When I was young, I played sax and clarinet, and I could make some okay noises on a flute. I also could play one-handed piano, but getting the two hands to do separate things at the same time was beyond me.

These days, my hands shake too much to control an instrument, so I get my musical itch scratched doing the odd little bit of composition in MuseScore. It's surprisingly good for free software, and the musical playback is pretty good too.

It's nice to be able to get the tunes rattling around in my head out where they can rattle around in other people's heads.

Posted by: Ask Mr. Lizard at November 23, 2024 06:02 PM (/jGDQ)

25 Mrs fd is very talented and can play the piano. We found an old Hammond organ a while back and I got it working again for her. Those things are a trip. There is not a digital bit in it but it can make all kinds of sounds with little spinning "tone wheels".
Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

Does it have the Leslie speaker? That is what makes a Hammond sound like a Hammond.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 23, 2024 06:02 PM (g/dXn)

26 Speaking of rock and saxophone, Eddie Money played it quite well on his songs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 23, 2024 06:02 PM (VNX3d)

27 I'm expert on the skinflute. I've been practicing for decades.

Posted by: Kamala at November 23, 2024 06:02 PM (WXNFJ)

28 Bass guitar is my instrument. I'm keeping it on the down low.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 23, 2024 06:03 PM (FWAED)

29 A couple of examples of my concertina playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6dVpDuStvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNHYm5b87I

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 23, 2024 06:03 PM (z0QHk)

30 What do I play?
Beans, the musical fruit.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 23, 2024 06:03 PM (rll/6)

31 Thanks for a cool topic, TRex. I still play guitar but not nearly as much as I used to. Taught myself to play many years ago. Still have a couple of Strats and a Les Paul, plus some Marshall gear. My biggest regret ever was not learning to read music properly. That and learning to play the piano. Sigh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:05 PM (mH6SG)

32 I have the smartest t1ts in congress. Just ask Sarah McBrides vagina!

Posted by: AOC at November 23, 2024 06:06 PM (0V2Q7)

33 Are you wise in the ways of the French horn?

I am actually wise in the ways of the French horn. I chose it as a child because I thought it would be easy to play. Only three little valves, thought I.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:07 PM (SfhV1)

34 I make experimental music, mostly using synthesizes but also taking ordinary recordings and mutating them until they are unrecognizable.

https://tinyurl.com/58v5yt6b

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 23, 2024 06:07 PM (CHHv1)

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Is this a thread about how to be a cyclops?

I see your appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 23, 2024 06:08 PM (eDfFs)

36 "Playing the triangle" level: Expert.

https://youtu.be/qjHoedoSUXY

Posted by: mikeski at November 23, 2024 06:09 PM (DgGvY)

37 I grew up singing in church choir and my parents bought piano lessons for me in elementary school; played flute in high school band and joined a rock band as singer and keyboardist in my 20s -- but gave up music for 25 years to get a degree, marry a loser and work-work-work.
After losing 180 pounds of ugly fat (I got a divorce, hee-hee!) 15 years ago, I took guitar lessons and met a Texas musician at an open mic and we fell in love and have been playing and writing music ever since -- with the exception of covid interruptus.
We now enjoy retired life on a small farm and play music every day. We do have some songs and a few videos posted online, but we no longer play gigs. Life filled with music is sweet. ;-D

Posted by: Just Got Here at November 23, 2024 06:09 PM (pu3mF)

38 Rev's parents made him take up the clarinet, but he really wanted to play the trumpet, so he taught himself. He plays both beautifully, and often did so in church.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:10 PM (SfhV1)

39 I had piano lessons for a while when I was shorter than I am today, but they didn't take. Years later I got tired of being a musical illiterate, bought an old upright grand, and took lessons. I was eventually able to play some Scott Joplin. Later I saw a man playing a hammered dulcimer. I thought that might work for the celtic and renaissance dance tunes I liked, so I made my own and figured out how to play it. For many years I was a regular at the local renaissance faire. Nowadays I make annoying noises with virtual instruments on my computer.

Posted by: Don at November 23, 2024 06:10 PM (W5AfR)

40 I've always wished I knew, or had learned, to play the piano. A glamorous image of myself in a tuxedo, a la Tyrone Power as Eddie Duchin, remains with me. Something tells me I'd have hated going to the lessons as a kid, though.

My brother took up the clarinet for a time in school, and his tootling away on that cured me of wanting to try an instrument of my own.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 23, 2024 06:11 PM (omVj0)

41 I am actually wise in the ways of the French horn. I chose it as a child because I thought it would be easy to play. Only three little valves, thought I.
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Ha, GW. The first horn my school loaned me was a single banged up and bruised french horn. After I showed them I was serious, they upgraded me to a shiny fairly new double horn. Then the fun began....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

42 I made my daughter learn to play the oboe. She is resentful.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:12 PM (SfhV1)

43 I sing in my church’s choir. At first I sat with the tenors, since my speaking voice is fairly high. After listening to me for a while, our choir director told to try singing with the basses. To my amazement, I could not only sing with the basses, but could hit lower notes than the rest of the guys. I could also sing louder than everyone else, but that introduced problems: I have been instructed when the passage goes fortissimo to only sing forte so I don’t drown out the other guys in the bass section. Also I tend to go sharp when I go forte, but I’ve been working on it with a tuner app and by listening to the other basses to stay in tune with them. Playing the note I’m going for on the piano (at the start of a forte passage, for example) and syncing my voice to it seems to help. If I start on the right note, I can generally handle the rest of the passage relative to it. Anybody else sing in choir?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 23, 2024 06:12 PM (2FwlN)

44 37 We now enjoy retired life on a small farm and play music every day. We do have some songs and a few videos posted online, but we no longer play gigs. Life filled with music is sweet. ;-D

Posted by: Just Got Here at November 23, 2024 06:09 PM
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Very nice! Checked your website too. You qualify as a real musician! Thanks for posting.

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

45 I was born to ROCK!!
Unfortunately I have an issue with practice and dedication and ability.
I was a founding member of the most famous band to never exist.
Fatal Existence. So fatal was our existence that every practice turned into underage drinking fiascos. Chicks dug us. Our hair was awesome.
Some of us even lived to adulthood.
Much to the wife's chagrin I still play drums a bit but never really was very good. She say's I just plain suck.

I am pleased to make mention from last week. Thank you.

One arguement among my former band mates is what constitutes success. I have one friend with 2 self produced albums (Siegewerks, Unmastered Bastard and an album done in an outhouse of a cabin in Bonner Ferry ID) out who rarely plays live and one who plays live every chance he gets yet has created nothing.
They can't talk music as it always turns into an arguement.
Hundreds of hours of practice on someone elses stuff vs hundreds of hours of tormented creativity.
I side with my creative friend. I only wanted to ever do original stuff too.

Posted by: Reforger at November 23, 2024 06:13 PM (xcIvR)

46 After I showed them I was serious, they upgraded me to a shiny fairly new double horn. Then the fun began....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

Despite all the spit, it is a beautiful instrument.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:13 PM (SfhV1)

47 39 I thought that might work for the celtic and renaissance dance tunes I liked, so I made my own and figured out how to play it.

Posted by: Don at November 23, 2024 06:10 PM (W5AfR)
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DIY instrument. Very impressive.

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

48 A really nice Hobby Thread
Thank you

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 23, 2024 06:15 PM (QXQ4l)

49 OT, but Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is on Svengoolie (MeTV) tonight. Still funny in places, and you get to see Lon Chaney Jr. in his last appearance as Larry Talbot the Wolf Man, and Bela Lugosi in his second and last turn as Count Dracula. (He played exotic East European vampires in other movies, but they were not named "Dracula.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 23, 2024 06:16 PM (omVj0)

50 Tried playing a guitar a few times while in USAF as thete were a few around. Never could hold strings tight. Being a music fan watch guitarists play with a bit or awe

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 06:16 PM (fwDg9)

51 Classical guitar. Just finishing Segovia's Sor studies and can't wait to learn more Barrios. Played viola as a yute, then piano, then bass in a variety of bands.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 23, 2024 06:17 PM (DsA2n)

52 I made my daughter learn to play the oboe. She is resentful.

Too bad, grammie. In the right hands, it's such a magnificent instrument.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:18 PM (mH6SG)

53 I played the flute. I still own them- I wonder if I remember how to play.

Posted by: Piper at November 23, 2024 06:18 PM (p4NUW)

54 What do you play?

The radio and that is a struggle in itself.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 23, 2024 06:19 PM (F3SmE)

55 Love the pic up top - watched the minions movies because my grandson liked them. Even when you’re not enthused, it’s fun to watch a movie with someone innocent who loves it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 06:20 PM (TAHLa)

56 Hey there Piper! I bet you remember more than you think

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 06:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

57 "Does it have the Leslie speaker? That is what makes a Hammond sound like a Hammond.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

No, no Leslie. I know what it is though. It still fills the house with that great Hammond sound.

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

58 Wanted a guitar the day after seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Years later, my parents asked me out of the blue if I wanted to take lessons. Thankfully, I had the good sense to say yes. Still have my first electric, an El Degas solid body knock off Telecaster.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 06:20 PM (Cbio9)

59 42 I've heard someone play John Coltrane's Giant Steps on an oboe back in college, complete with a fiery monster of an improvised solo.

Posted by: Ask Mr. Lizard at November 23, 2024 06:21 PM (/jGDQ)

60 I have always loved to sing, but I'm an alto. I was in choir through 9th grade and then quit because I wanted, at least once, to sing the melody and that was never going to happen. Every song someone else got to sing the melody and I got to sing the boring alto part. Ever listen to the Carol of the Bells? Altos hate that song. Ding dong ding dong and then a whole bunch of singing one note over and over or standing around waiting for the next ding dong. Ugh.

Then, my dad started teaching me to play guitar starting with Okie from Muskogee because it only has two chords. I've been playing for 55 years and I get to sing the melody whenever I want and singing harmony isn't always boring.

Posted by: huerfano at November 23, 2024 06:21 PM (DKIGo)

61 The young value justice, because they know they are innocent.

The old value mercy, because they know they are not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 06:21 PM (TAHLa)

62 I love music, but my own musical abilities are non-existent.

I played drums through high school. That way I didn't have to be in tune.

And when I sing in the shower, the shampoo curdles, so taking my instruments away doesn't help.

And marching with cymbals is torture..... walking while holding a few pounds of brass at half-arms' length doesn't sound hard, but a couple miles of it isn't fun. The bass drums and tom-tom sets were easier, because they had big harnesses to distribute the weight across your shoulders and hips, like a good backpack.

Posted by: mikeski at November 23, 2024 06:22 PM (DgGvY)

63 Too bad, grammie. In the right hands, it's such a magnificent instrument.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:18 PM (mH6SG)

I know. It's lovely.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:22 PM (SfhV1)

64 11 Hi Wolfus,

Yeah, the Dark Fired has some oomph. I like it but in smaller bowls and smoked slowly. Haven't tried the ready rubbed but I've read that in flake form it isn't as intense. I wonder if some cavendish mixed in would soften it a bit without overwhelming the Kentucky parts.

Not thrilled about STG closing the facility. The Mac Baren HH series is popular so I'm hoping they won't screw with that. Haven't heard anything speculation about the Sutliff Match blends. Some of them are superb.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 06:22 PM (yTvNw)

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I have, or so I've been told, a very good voice. Sang in church choir, etc. I'm a little sad I never took lessons on how to develop it.

One fine day, I allowed myself (Satan himself must have been involved) to be persuaded to sing the National Anthem before a dog show. Unfortunately, my voice took exactly that opportunity to dry up. I sounded appalling. It was among the most humiliating experiences of my life, particularly since it was so public.

I've never sung again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 23, 2024 06:22 PM (dxSpM)

66 53 I played the flute. I still own them- I wonder if I remember how to play.

Posted by: Piper at November 23, 2024 06:18 PM
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Given your nic, I was thinking you might play the bagpipes. But flute is pretty close for a piper.

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

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The guitar: too simple for beginners, too complicated for experts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 23, 2024 06:24 PM (dxSpM)

68 Ever listen to the Carol of the Bells? Altos hate that song. Ding dong ding dong and then a whole bunch of singing one note over and over or standing around waiting for the next ding dong. Ugh.
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I'm a bass. Welcome to my world. In the Moon Chorus of Nicolai's "Merry Wives of Windsor", the basses sing e flat until they bleed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 23, 2024 06:24 PM (z0QHk)

69 I was always resigned to background vocals in the bands I played in back in the day. Just didn't have the chops to sing lead. Still, I really enjoyed it. I love it when a good harmony comes together.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:26 PM (mH6SG)

70 No, no Leslie. I know what it is though. It still fills the house with that great Hammond sound.
Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

I used a Hammond speaker to replace the speaker in my Gibson Falcon guitar amp. The original was kicked in and the Hammond was as close as I could get to original. Bought the whole organ for the driver.
Amazing sound. Fun to play with the tubes in that amp too.

Posted by: Reforger at November 23, 2024 06:27 PM (xcIvR)

71 I taught myself to play “Ben” on piano. Attended MS in TX. Competitive choir. My song at State was “Long, long ago.” Much drama wow, with MS choir director and HS choir. MS was “dating” HS choirs hubby. No one from MS qualified for HS choir. I had the Disney stickers on my keyboard. I would play Christmas music. Hubby sold my keyboard at a garage sale.

Posted by: Oso loco at November 23, 2024 06:27 PM (ILafk)

72 Huerfano, I’ve always loved choral music as well. My wife, who is quite an accomplished mezzo soprano, says it is very unfair, because I’m a tenor and choral directors always fall all over themselves for accomplished tenors. I’ve sung the choral of the bells, I must say the tenor part is very enjoyable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 06:27 PM (TAHLa)

73 I'm a bass. Welcome to my world. In the Moon Chorus of Nicolai's "Merry Wives of Windsor", the basses sing e flat until they bleed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 23, 2024 06:24 PM

They're jealous. It's the only thing that makes sense.

Posted by: huerfano at November 23, 2024 06:28 PM (DKIGo)

74 Oh, you said oboe. Not hobo.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 23, 2024 06:28 PM (XMwZJ)

75 I was fairly decent on the kazoo.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 23, 2024 06:29 PM (3Rpkk)

76 My parents promised me a piano for Christmas when I was a kid. Instead they gave me a baby brother and I've never forgiven them for it. A couple years later, I was able to scrape up enough money to buy my first guitar. I learned to read the treble staff and play chords from a book. I also learned to buy flat wound Gretsch strings instead of ripping my fingertips up with cheap strings.

In high school and college I played trumpet and French horn. I was fortunate in my instructors; both believed in exposing us students to the widest possible spectrum of music.

Posted by: Livia Drusilla at November 23, 2024 06:30 PM (lAAta)

77 65
I have, or so I've been told, a very good voice. Sang in church choir, etc. I'm a little sad I never took lessons on how to develop it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 23, 2024 06:22 PM
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That's a rough story. On an unrelated note, the X Tex MoMe needs a national anthem singer to get things started next year. Once underway, the crowd will join.

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

78 Learned to sing in grade school, the nuns actually were good at it.
Played the Soprano and Alto Recorders for years.
After moving here I sang tenor in a small church choir.
Now I'm a barely-tone and sing from the pews.
The Betterhalf has a great soprano voice, she sings from the pews as well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 23, 2024 06:33 PM (ms/Yf)

79 In my younger days I played a decent rhythm guitar, folk (traditional and what they called folk/rock) and jazz. Haven't played recently but I still remember the basic chords and chord structures. Our group in high school even played in the last of the Beatnik coffee houses.

The highpoint, such as it was, was playing an amateur session at the Newport Folk Festival in front of several thousand people.

I did learn the popular bass riffs from the 60s like 25 or 6 to 4, Day Tripper, and similar.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 06:33 PM (yTvNw)

80 Does it count if you have critters that do the thing? My hens love to tell the world about it after they have laid an egg.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

https://youtu.be/TfqAsenF-Io

Posted by: mikeski at November 23, 2024 06:33 PM (DgGvY)

81 I had a hilarious musical experience today - I stopped at a local tacqueria for lunch, not very busy, three Hispanic girls there, one guy cooking. The guy at the grill had a steel guitar soundtrack playing and was singing bluegrass music at the top of his lungs - in Spanish! And he was pretty good, too! Only in Texas!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 06:33 PM (TAHLa)

82 That's a rough story. On an unrelated note, the X Tex MoMe needs a national anthem singer to get things started next year. Once underway, the crowd will join.
Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

We need to have a 4 part chorus, not a solo. I’d be in for one of the four.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 06:35 PM (TAHLa)

83 Yeah, the Dark Fired has some oomph. I like it but in smaller bowls and smoked slowly. Haven't tried the ready rubbed but I've read that in flake form it isn't as intense. I wonder if some cavendish mixed in would soften it a bit without overwhelming the Kentucky parts.

Not thrilled about STG closing the facility. The Mac Baren HH series is popular so I'm hoping they won't screw with that. Haven't heard anything speculation about the Sutliff Match blends. Some of them are superb.
Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024

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The LTF in with the Old Dark Fired made for a good smoke this morning, in my 1980s Peterson 307, which has a good-sized bowl.

I also picked up four oz. of Match Carter Hall. Still trying to decide if I want to have some of that tomorrow morning, or something else. It's peculiar: Our *access* to pipe blends is more limited now -- we can't simply stroll down to the drugstore or the neighborhood tobacconist and pick up a pouch -- but we have an enormous range of blend choices online.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 23, 2024 06:35 PM (omVj0)

84 Grandkids are playing their instruments while tending a Salvation Army kettle today. Nothing makes people feel more guilty than a little kid playing the trombone next to a bell-ringer. Cha-ching

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:38 PM (SfhV1)

85 That and learning to play the piano. Sigh.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:05 PM (mH6SG)

We had a piano in the house. My late sister took lessons and was getting quite good. Still remember her practicing "Yesterday" from the sheet music. After she moved out, the piano sat idle for a few decades, then the folks eventually sold it.

A few years later, I took piano in my senior year at college. Since I already could read music from my guitar lessons, I took to it like a duck to water. The piano in the house was already gone, so I could only practice on campus. To this day, I'm haunted by what might have been...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 06:39 PM (Cbio9)

86 I wanted to be a drummer since I was a young lad, but had neither the money to get a kit nor the discipline to practice even if I had. Never learned to read music, though I did take a keyboard class at one time, since I had a bunch of tunes flowing through my brain that I wanted to get out. Eventually, I did buy a keyboard and a friend gave me a copy of Reason (a DAW program.) Here are some of the results of that over the decades:

Morena: http://tiny.cc/2bywzz
Crockett On A Real Train: http://tiny.cc/3bywzz
South Beach: http://tiny.cc/xbywzz

Feel free to check out the rest of the tracks there, if you'd like.

Posted by: goozer at November 23, 2024 06:41 PM (aWAkn)

87 On an unrelated note, the X Tex MoMe needs a national anthem singer to get things started next year. Once underway, the crowd will join.
Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

We need to have a 4 part chorus, not a solo. I’d be in for one of the four.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2024 06:35 PM (TAHLa)

If I make it next year, I'll do it. I get to pick the key, right?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 06:43 PM (Cbio9)

88 Speaking of the oboe and other assorted instruments, I just discovered this on the Y-Tubes. A Whiter Shade of Pale by the Singapore Symphony. Beautiful.

https://tinyurl.com/54a7m8kd

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:45 PM (mH6SG)

89 I was mostly a singer. As a kid I was a boy soprano singing in church and at home for fun. But when the voice changed it went from that to basso profundo in a couple of years. There were school choirs (we toured Iceland) and then opera in college. My voice coach in college wanted me to try to go professional but there are so damned few basso profundo roles. It's very limiting. (Most 'bass' roles are actually 'bass baritone' which had upper notes I couldn't reach.) Now it would take a few months of exercises to get above middle C without falsetto. It came in handy when I got to play Caiaphas in a college production of JC Superstar. That was fun.

I sing for myself these days where no one hears me, but it is just for fun. I can do a good string bass and tuba impression. And I sing along with popular tenor roles like Phantom of the Opera but a couple of octaves lower. (Where they should have been in the first place.)

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 06:48 PM (yTvNw)

90 Fun topic, TRex! Mom: had a helluva singing voice and decent piano skills. She sang at church, parties, and receptions. Dad was a savant trumpet player. He jammed with many cool dudes/events. He played seven instruments well and tuned by ear. I played trombone (poorly) through 9th grade. Tried guitar, learned maybe 7 songs. Iron Man, Smoke on the Water, Breaking The Law, and the like. Scampywife likes my singing which proves love is both blind and deaf.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 06:48 PM (41CYW)

91 Howdy everyone! First time (commenter), long time (lurker) here.

Reformed band geek that started out playing the flute in elementary school (the few, the proud, dudes who play flute), learned to play every band/orchestra wind instrument in junior high school (as part of earning grades), switched my primary instruments in high school to French horn (marching band, concert band, pit orchestra) and trumpet (jazz band, with an occasional flute solo thrown in). Absolutely loved, lived, and breathed all things music in high school, pep band conductor my junior and senior year and playing in county jazz band and regional Lions Club band senior year.

I've missed that part of my life that disappeared and recently got a new trumpet in an effort to relearn it and rekindle the fire. Also got a cheap keyboard recently in an effort to actually get passably competent at it; I was always kind of an anomaly amongst all my musical peers in my school days, having never learned piano and never having had any formal musical training.

Anywho, thanks for the listen if you've made it this far. I'll try to not to be such a stranger here.

Posted by: Max Headroom at November 23, 2024 06:52 PM (iqx+3)

92 Huerfano, as an Alto did you ever sing the rum pa rum pums in Little Drummer Boy?

Posted by: Oso loco at November 23, 2024 06:52 PM (ILafk)

93 QB injured so Muh Horns switched to good old fashioned smash mouth football, and drove down all the way for what should be the guaranteeing TD.

Hook'em Horns!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 23, 2024 06:53 PM (eDfFs)

94 91 Howdy everyone! First time (commenter), long time (lurker) here.

Posted by: Max Headroom at November 23, 2024 06:52 PM
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Welcome! Great post for your first one!

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

95 Anywho, thanks for the listen if you've made it this far. I'll try to not to be such a stranger here.

Posted by: Max Headroom at November 23, 2024 06:52 PM (iqx+3)

Thanks for commenting! Glad to have you here.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:53 PM (SfhV1)

96 I'm a contralto.
I play the tin whistle
and the accordion when my kids let me.

Shut up all y'all!

Posted by: IrishEi at November 23, 2024 06:54 PM (3ImbR)

97 Posted by: Max Headroom at November 23, 2024 06:52 PM

Please come back more often!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 06:55 PM (mH6SG)

98 Awesome post, Max Headroom.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 06:56 PM (41CYW)

99 You all do know that one of the MoMe regulars sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 06:56 PM (gGMRM)

100 96 I play the tin whistle and the accordion when my kids let me.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 23, 2024 06:54 PM (3ImbR)
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Finally! A Horde accordion player!

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 06:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

101 For the singers in the horde, I hope you got, or get, a chance to vocalize in a cathedral. Besides being visually awe inspiring, they were usually designed to enhance the voice, like an echo to the glory of God. There is something majestic and magical when hitting a note, even from a single voice, that seems to make the stonework vibrate and come alive.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 06:57 PM (yTvNw)

102 I did write a country song while in a deerstand last year. Have not done anything with it yet.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 06:58 PM (41CYW)

103 ...You all do know that one of the MoMe regulars sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 06:56 PM (gGMRM)

And a good Half Dozen of 'em sing in the Moron Gathernacle Choir, too!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 23, 2024 06:58 PM (Xo+UM)

104 You all do know that one of the MoMe regulars sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Yes, and even though he sat with us at the MoMe, I forget his name. I blame Pillage Idiot!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

105 Jim, well done good Sir.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 06:59 PM (gGMRM)

106 Grateful, that Pillage Idiot sure stirs up some trouble, but he is always forgiven.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 07:03 PM (gGMRM)

107 In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for the Hobby Thread. As I've shared previously, you all have inspired me to get back into scale modeling and it's been a blast. I'm finishing up a 1/35 Willys MB and I'll be mounting it on a base and giving it to my dad for Christmas. He's a 24th Infantry Division veteran of the Korean War and I can't wait to see his reaction.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 23, 2024 07:03 PM (QyT5w)

108 >>>And a good Half Dozen of 'em sing in the Moron Gathernacle Choir, too!
~~~~~

Hah! Good one.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 23, 2024 07:04 PM (3ImbR)

109 Mrs. JTB used to play the piano accordion as a kid. (That's what a Wisconsin childhood can do to you.) We still have it and it looks so fancy. I can't figure out how she carried it and played since the damn thing must have outweighed her. I wouldn't have minded learning but the straps can't be adjusted big enough to fit my bulk.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:04 PM (yTvNw)

110
Have you ever played in a band?

1st bassoon, in JFK sr. HS. during the years when Walter Harris was the band director, and Winton Marsalis* left Juliard to play 1st trumpet in his concert band.

*That fake a$$ MF's accent is worse than Cumala's. He sounds like whitey McWhiteBread naturally, and always has.

Bassoon is a lovely woodwind. It often keeps and maintains the beat and underlying melody for the entire Orchestra. Lurve me some bassoon. 3 octaves for the average player, 4 for those with limited skil Walter Harris was passed when I joined the Army without letting him negotiate my entry I to the Army band. (He played trumpet in the Army band during the 60s)

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 23, 2024 07:05 PM (MsrgL)

111 107 I'm finishing up a 1/35 Willys MB and I'll be mounting it on a base and giving it to my dad for Christmas. He's a 24th Infantry Division veteran of the Korean War and I can't wait to see his reaction.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 23, 2024 07:03 PM
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Outstanding. Take a good photo and send it my way. I'll post on a future thread.

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 07:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

112 I am actually wise in the ways of the French horn. I chose it as a child because I thought it would be easy to play. Only three little valves, thought I.
Posted by: grammie winger
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Cool! Daughter played the French horn. She still plays piano. Her piano warm up song is/was Don't Stop Believin, by Journey. I loved the music in the house but I kinda stopped believing eventually.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 07:07 PM (41CYW)

113 I took piano lessons for a little while. One day I'm one finger plinking along and my dad sits down next to me and plays all the keys together and I knew right then I had no talent, Thanks dad you saved me alot of useless hours.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 07:09 PM (gGMRM)

114 I play the theremin but I haven't touched one in years.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 23, 2024 07:09 PM (muwun)

115 Thank you for the Minion pic - love those scamps

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 23, 2024 07:09 PM (OTdqV)

116 Life got in the way of music after college. Then in 2007, my friend mentioned that he was teaching himself guitar. Got himself a Martin acoustic and a Gibson Les Paul. Also a Paul McCartney Hofner bass. I won't mention the Mesa amp...

Anyway, he didn't know my background in music. Never came up in the 8-9 years we worked and hung out together. Hadn't touched an instrument in about thirty years, but I dusted off my El Degas and my Aspen acoustic (that was a really nice guitar!) and we started jamming every week. A mutual friend's birthday party for his kids turned into a regular annual gig, one of the final years featuring a stage, a drummer, Hazer lights and a visit from the local police. Great times!!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:10 PM (Cbio9)

117 A mutual friend's birthday party for his kids turned into a regular annual gig, one of the final years featuring a stage, a drummer, Hazer lights and a visit from the local police. Great times!!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:10 PM (Cbio9)

You should invite the officers to join in!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 23, 2024 07:11 PM (VNX3d)

118 I played the piano, but my hands and wrist ache when I play now. So it's not much of a hobby and I need to find it a new home.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 23, 2024 07:13 PM (IzT+7)

119 42 I made my daughter learn to play the oboe. She is resentful.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 23, 2024 06:12 PM (SfhV1)

Oboe?

One more thing we need to add to Project 2025.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 23, 2024 07:13 PM (muwun)

120 Thanks y'all! (Tip of the hat)

Posted by: Max Headroom at November 23, 2024 07:14 PM (iqx+3)

121 Joe Kidd, I really hope you can make TX next year.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 07:15 PM (gGMRM)

122 You should invite the officers to join in!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 23, 2024 07:11 PM (VNX3d)

They were cool. The complaint came in during our closer, Helter Skelter. I had broken a string by then, and it was time for cigars anyway..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:17 PM (Cbio9)

123 One advantage of YT is it can be an outlet for singers that aren't on CDs. There are some low bass singers that are extraordinary. They can hit a note or two below my lowest. Tim Foust and Geoff Castellucci lead the way. Castellucci is not only an incredible singer but an outstanding arranger. Look up his YT video doing "Over the Misty Mountains" from the Hobbit movie. It is captivating.

I mention this because listening to some of these videos has whetted my interest in more formal singing. (Yes, I always sing along on "You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch" when it comes on TV.)

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:17 PM (yTvNw)

124 123 One advantage of YT is it can be an outlet for singers that aren't on CDs.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:17 PM (yTvNw)
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This is true about many things. The barriers to entry are lower with the interweb. Don't need a record deal, a slot on a television channel or radio station, backing from a movie studio, etc.

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 07:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

125 51 Classical guitar. Just finishing Segovia's Sor studies and can't wait to learn more Barrios.

If a genie granted me three wishes, the ability to play classical guitar might be one of them. Segovia did a book based on teaching a couple of young -- like 5 year old -- kids. I thought "I should be able to do that." Nope. Washed out on page 3.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 23, 2024 07:19 PM (/y8xj)

126 Looking forward to it, Ben. Gulf Coast Casa Sin Problemas should be well established by then and I should be up for a road trip. I'll keep you posted..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:21 PM (Cbio9)

127 Rather than spell out again what I've said in the past, here's a webpage on my site copying two of my comments.

https://bit.ly/webworkshop-playlist

One comment was about the piano I grew up with and ultimately inherited from my Mom. The other is my unprofessional musical "career," and the "Mindful Webworkshop" recordings I did a few years back.

Yeah, you have to leave A♠ to go read it, but that's how I know you care.

Or don't. That's all right, too 😁

Posted by: mindful webworker - C Flat Maynah at November 23, 2024 07:21 PM (ANezS)

128 If a genie granted me three wishes, the ability to play classical guitar might be one of them. Segovia did a book based on teaching a couple of young -- like 5 year old -- kids. I thought "I should be able to do that." Nope. Washed out on page 3.

Whenever I see some of the masters I think to myself "No way, BFD. Absolutely no way".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 07:24 PM (mH6SG)

129 Stuart and the Minions are telling me that it is time to say goodnight before the next act takes the AoS stage. As always, thanks much for participating. If you're lurking, glad to have you too - consider joining in. We don't bite. Mostly. Thank you!

Posted by: TRex at November 23, 2024 07:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

130 I played the sax from 7th to 9th grade but gave it up for high school sports.

Bought a sax in 2020 with intention of taking lessons but COVID interrupted those plans. Just started playing what I knew. Shocked that I had no problem reading music again . I sound no better than I did when I was in the 9th grade but it’s fun.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:26 PM (D6PGr)

131 I'm surprised nobody mentioned the harmonica. Even I can play simple tunes on one if I have the tabs. It is such a relatively simple, and affordable, device but capable of so much from screaming rock and jazz to wistful, haunting folk melodies.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:27 PM (yTvNw)

132 TRex and Grateful, Thank you both so very much.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 23, 2024 07:28 PM (gGMRM)

133 131 I'm surprised nobody mentioned the harmonica. Even I can play simple tunes on one if I have the tabs. It is such a relatively simple, and affordable, device but capable of so much from screaming rock and jazz to wistful, haunting folk melodies.
Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:27 PM (yTvNw

I love me some Blues Travelers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 23, 2024 07:31 PM (D6PGr)

134 "I'm surprised nobody mentioned the harmonica."

I have a few and will sometimes play while driving around. By myself, of course.

After a while you get to where you can pick out the classics. Oh My Darling, Camptown Races, Dixie, etc. I can even play the Star Spangled Banner.

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

135 Wow! What a talented bunch o' Morons!

I came from a musical family: Mom & Dad both sang in church choir.

Grandmothers played piano/organ, one also could "fiddle"; Mom played piano; Dad played clarinet, sax, trombone; one bro plays violin & other bro play drums, sis plays flute and trumpet...

I tried desperately to learn piano from Mom. Kinda was okay but wasn't allowed to play what I wanted, (except when the babysitter would teach me some of the duets she normally played with her twin sister.) I mean, come on! These were the days of Elton John on the radio every day and I loved his tunes!

So, failing piano... I *HAD* to learn an instrument.

Cello was chosen for me. Ugh. I sucked. And was the laughing stock of my grade school class.

Posted by: JQ at November 23, 2024 07:32 PM (njWTi)

136 Thanks TRex. Great idea and fun reading.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 07:32 PM (41CYW)

137 We are rd almost outta here, but told before my grandmother took many a piano lessons from the time I was a little kid to when she was very old. She could play a music song but very slowly.
But I know she played a lot, and wasn't very good, or fast enough for t he song. But she loved to play and you know that was the most important thing to her.

Posted by: Skip at November 23, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9)

138 It's easy to fudge on a harmonica. Playing individual notes is harder.

Posted by: fd at November 23, 2024 07:34 PM (vFG9F)

139 Ben Had, I only comment (which is one of my hobbies)! TRex does all the work....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 23, 2024 07:34 PM (IQ6Gq)

140 127 Rather than spell out again what I've said in the past, here's a webpage on my site copying two of my comments.
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Fun! And you play well.

Posted by: scampydog at November 23, 2024 07:34 PM (41CYW)

141 131 I'm surprised nobody mentioned the harmonica. Even I can play simple tunes on one if I have the tabs. It is such a relatively simple, and affordable, device but capable of so much from screaming rock and jazz to wistful, haunting folk melodies.
Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:27 PM (yTvNw)

Got a C harp. Christmas gift to myself one year. We're at a party and my friend and I are playing. He and his daughter worked up a duet ( I think it was "Lava" from a Disney movie). It was just supposed to be the two of them, but toward the end I bust out some high notes on the harp that blended perfectly with his daughter's voice. I later found out that was the only time my friend's wife complimented my playing...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:34 PM (Cbio9)

142 Huerfano, as an Alto did you ever sing the rum pa rum pums in Little Drummer Boy?

Posted by: Oso loco at November 23, 2024 06:52 PM

Probably. I'm so old, I was in a school choir when we were allowed to sing Christmas songs about Jesus.

Posted by: huerfano at November 23, 2024 07:36 PM (DKIGo)

143 TRex,
Thanks for this topic. It's been interesting and fun and nostalgic.

My dad had a good voice, sort of a low tenor. We would sing along with the radio on car trips. His voice with my bass made for some nice harmonies.

Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 07:37 PM (yTvNw)

144 And Piano Man. C harp is perfect for Piano Man!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:40 PM (Cbio9)

145 Bugs and Yosemite Sam at the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIeSdzeXeg

Posted by: Braenyard at November 23, 2024 07:41 PM (yZqjq)

146 youtube.com/watch?v=JgJRM_8GWHg

Posted by: JQ at November 23, 2024 07:43 PM (njWTi)

147 Thanks for the topic, TRex! Needed a break from what has been a very surreal, bad day. Manhattan time now...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 23, 2024 07:46 PM (Cbio9)

148 Posted by: mindful webworker - C Flat Maynah at November 23, 2024 07:21 PM

That was a lot of fun, MWW. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 07:48 PM (mH6SG)

149 This was a really fun thread! I stepped away to make dinner, but caught up. Just me and the kidlette until Tuesday.

Posted by: Piper at November 23, 2024 07:48 PM (pRpzT)

150 And thanks, TRex. You always deliver.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 23, 2024 07:49 PM (mH6SG)

151 For the singers in the horde, I hope you got, or get, a chance to vocalize in a cathedral. Besides being visually awe inspiring, they were usually designed to enhance the voice, like an echo to the glory of God. There is something majestic and magical when hitting a note, even from a single voice, that seems to make the stonework vibrate and come alive.
Posted by: JTB at November 23, 2024 06:57 PM (yTvNw)
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In 2019, the choral group I was in got to sing in The Grotto in Portland twice. Really great experience.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 23, 2024 08:00 PM (z0QHk)

152 Bass guitar, six string guitar, drums and a poor attempt on the cello. I started playing when I was 12 and I'm in my 73rd year, music has always been nothing but joy for me. Playing in a band for over 35 years has both brought a supplement to my income from my daytime job and the making of many lifelong friends. My advice to any parent, or grandparent who child wants to learn an instrument support them and they'll find their way ... as a great rocker once said " Moma let that boy play some Rock & Roll"

Posted by: Tymewatcher at November 23, 2024 08:11 PM (Ua1UE)

153 Seems like those pistons with short skirts would start to slap early in their life cycle.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 23, 2024 08:15 PM (yZqjq)

154 Didn't even watch all of the cosworth video and now the thread's over? - kicks dirt

Posted by: Braenyard at November 23, 2024 08:19 PM (yZqjq)

155 I learned violin at school in 4th to 6th grades. When 7th grade came around, the music got much harder and I gave it up. The violin was my cousin's - I had it for some years - loaned it to my sister for years - I have it back now, but it probably needs new strings and some TLC. I can still scratch out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on a tuned violin. I don't have a yen to re-learn to play, but I'm grateful I learned to read music.

I gave violin up in 7th grade, for a singing class. (I'd already been singing in my grade school's chorus.) We learned a bunch of folk music and some show tunes. I LOVE to sing! (Cathedral, no - shower, yes.) It would be a dream come true to sing the National Anthem at an event! I'm thinking about posting on the NextDoor site for my neighborhood - "does anyone want to be caroled this Christmas?" I can sing at least one song each in French, Spanish, German, and Latin. (I believe I'm an alto, with a good range.)

Posted by: Pat* at November 23, 2024 09:44 PM (JWJk8)

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