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Post by Randy on Jan 27, 2009 1:06:15 GMT -5
Listen to this beautiful Fair Organ play It's a Brand New Day. If I had the money I would have one of these!
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Post by renaldo on Jan 27, 2009 9:09:48 GMT -5
A magnificent beauty. Ever watch anyone play a large pipe organ? Hands and feet just move from keyboard to keyboard, plus grab the adjustment knobs quickly inbetween notes.
A far cry from what my fingers and feet could do.
I took piano lessons when I was in high school. Although well into brass instruments, I just could not master the piano. And my lack of coordination is retained to this day.
I used to fake my lessons...I had to remember the right and left hands individually...then play, pretending I was reading the music. I got away with it for a few weeks, and then my teacher said...you are doing very well...so sight read this for me, putting up something I had never played before. Hah...of course I could not and my secret was out in the open.
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Post by Randy on Jan 27, 2009 12:00:09 GMT -5
I played clarinet and saxaphone, but it's been so many years since I picked one up I've forgotten how.
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Post by renaldo on Jan 28, 2009 16:10:02 GMT -5
I lost my ability to play the trumpet and trombone years ago. But hey...I bet their are others in the group who played or play musical instruments. Let's hear from you!
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Post by casualcollector on Jan 28, 2009 17:02:23 GMT -5
Over the course of my lifetime, Piano lessons, Cello and Trombone. I had a real talent for playing records and have been a radio DJ off and on since my early twenties.
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Post by PeterW on Jan 28, 2009 17:59:09 GMT -5
When I was in my twenties I used to play trumpet: New Orleans jazz, and later solos from big band stuff like Skyliner, Miller's version of In The Mood, sort of powerhouse stuff ... till I lost my front teeth!  I then switched to guitar and now have a Fender Stratocaster. I like to play solos by Clapton, Brian May etc but growing arthritis in my left hand is rather cramping my fingerboard speed. I don't think I ever will master the long guitar solos in Hotel California. I used to have a gizmo box on which I could record four separate parts and then mix them, but that gave up the ghost about a year ago. There is a program with which I could do the same thing on the computer, but it's out of my price range. Never mind, I still enjoy playing even if the listeners don't . It sounds OK to me ;D. PeterW |
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Post by GeneW on Jan 28, 2009 18:10:15 GMT -5
I grew up playing trombone and was in marching bands during high school and first-year university.
Later I got into folk music and learned a little basic pattern picking -- nothing like Peter's solos. I still play a 6-string and 12-string, and I have an acoustic bass guitar and 5-string banjo I occasionally make noise with.
I don't have much of a voice but I like singing and playing folk music and I've found some similarly-minded people. Every six weeks or so we get together on a Friday night for a song circle. Got one coming up this Friday.
Gene
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Post by John Parry on Jan 29, 2009 3:31:26 GMT -5
An advertisement for Yamaha...!  Regards - John |
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Post by GeneW on Jan 29, 2009 10:48:28 GMT -5
Great pic, John! I think I'd fit right in with this jam! Looks like fun.
Gene
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Post by renaldo on Jan 29, 2009 14:57:32 GMT -5
I love to go to informal jam sessions. Now...I know the pic was taken in England...but that guy on the right looks mighty familiar!?
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Post by herron on Jan 30, 2009 21:06:53 GMT -5
Ages ago I took piano lessons (you don't want to hear me). I also played the trumpet, both in an orchestra and a marching band. But it's been decades since I took it out of the case ... and I'm pretty sure you don't want me to play that now, either! My musician son is trying to teach his old man the guitar. I can plink two chords, so far. Sort of.  |
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Post by John Parry on Jan 31, 2009 11:34:23 GMT -5
My brother's 50th birthday. He's the cack-handed one (Lennon & McCartney? LOL). Four people turned up with guitars, and three of them were Yamahas. That's unusual, because although they are some of the best guitars made, most buyers are put off by the heavy handed action. A pity, but with a little stressing of the truss rod, and a little needle file work on the neck bridge, the action can be made as light as you like.
Ron
Practise "On the Bayou" by Hank Williams - there are only two chords!
A work colleague of mine complained he was going to have to pay for a violin for his young granddaughter to play. I brought down a quarter-size and a half size from the loft - no charge, as long as he made sure she played them!
Regards - John
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Post by Randy on Jan 31, 2009 12:25:49 GMT -5
I've always said, we not only have a very talented group of friends here, we have a good looking bunch also! I wish we could all meet and have a coffee together at Gene-bucks.
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