Author Topic: Readers' Instruments  (Read 164246 times)

PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #175 on: 06 January, 2018, 10:20:02 am »
My new (to me) Paul Hathway mandolin.

IMG_2464 by paulfulford, on Flickr

Just need to improve my playing so I don't let it down

T42

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #176 on: 06 January, 2018, 03:34:07 pm »
:thumbsup: Pretty!
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PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #177 on: 06 January, 2018, 03:45:42 pm »
Thanks!

Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #178 on: 07 January, 2018, 02:13:14 pm »
Some inspiration for you PaulF

https://youtu.be/7ptRHuewL44
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #179 on: 07 January, 2018, 03:09:44 pm »
Some inspiration for you PaulF

https://youtu.be/7ptRHuewL44

Thanks! Wish I could be on hundedth as good as Chris Thile!

T42

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #180 on: 08 January, 2018, 08:26:57 am »
That's rather splendid. Ta!
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PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #181 on: 08 January, 2018, 09:00:47 am »
Now have my filthy mitts on my Deering Sierra, will have to take some photos and share. Its so lovely...

Well?

We can't wait forever you know!

menthel

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #182 on: 08 January, 2018, 11:56:22 am »
Now have my filthy mitts on my Deering Sierra, will have to take some photos and share. Its so lovely...

Well?

We can't wait forever you know!

I thought of this just yesterday as I played it. I will take a picture tonight. ;)

Steph

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #183 on: 08 January, 2018, 04:18:41 pm »
Some inspiration for you PaulF

https://youtu.be/7ptRHuewL44

Thanks! Wish I could be on hundedth as good as Chris Thile!

This is more my sort of aspirational playing. So utterly joyous, and the grace notes and ornamentation are stunning. Pete will be at Shrewsbury this year, with Gigspanner, along with Steeleye themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-mix36SjZY
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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #184 on: 11 January, 2018, 08:47:05 am »
Machine heads now fixed, I might even pick it up from time to time (more than I've done for the last 20 years)


menthel

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #185 on: 28 January, 2018, 10:51:14 am »
Banjo! Deering Sierra. by Jim Swales, on Flickr

Finally the banjo.

PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #186 on: 28 January, 2018, 11:18:49 am »
Very nice! Is that another one on the left?

menthel

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #187 on: 28 January, 2018, 11:28:33 am »
Yep, my bog standard cheapo Pilgrim openback. It is difficult to go back to! I also have a travel size Gold tone too. Not that I can play any of them decently!

Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #188 on: 13 February, 2018, 09:54:10 am »
Yep, my bog standard cheapo Pilgrim openback. It is difficult to go back to! I also have a travel size Gold tone too. Not that I can play any of them decently!

I bet a travel banjo makes you a really popular neighbour when staying in a hotel :)
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #189 on: 13 February, 2018, 10:14:06 am »
Know the feeling when you go back to a “starter instrument. I felt the same when I tuned up the mandolin I learnt on and compared it to my current one. Almost felt guilty selling it but hopefully it will start someone else on a musical path

menthel

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #190 on: 14 February, 2018, 10:11:05 am »
I only take the travel banjo to places where I know I won't torture people. Or at least only torture my family. The Broads cruiser and the hippyish campsite were the two that stood out.

And yes, I have retuned the beginner banjo but it still sits there. I would rather retune the Deering and play that when necessary! ;)

PaulF

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #191 on: 14 February, 2018, 10:45:02 am »
I only take the travel banjo to places where I know I won't torture people.

You've played the banjo on the moon? ;D

menthel

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #192 on: 14 February, 2018, 11:08:53 am »
I only take the travel banjo to places where I know I won't torture people.

You've played the banjo on the moon? ;D

How very dare you! ;)

Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #193 on: 14 February, 2018, 11:43:52 am »


A Kala u-bass which is quiet enough acoustically to play at home yet surprisingly full-sounding when amplified (check out the sound in this video). I quit the band I was playing bass in so I haven't had the opportunity to try it out for real yet.

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #194 on: 14 February, 2018, 12:33:07 pm »
Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes used to play an acoustic-stylee mariachi bass; this Unit can confirm it was plenty loud enough ;D
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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #195 on: 14 February, 2018, 03:21:03 pm »
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andytheflyer

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #196 on: 19 February, 2018, 08:14:55 pm »
Yamaha 280.  Started learning the sax 2 years ago. Grade 1 this summer!  (Well, I'm "over 60" and have not picked up an instrument for 50 years, so what do you expect?)

https://flic.kr/p/GneG4d

nicknack

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #197 on: 19 February, 2018, 11:32:49 pm »
Yamaha 280.  Started learning the sax 2 years ago. Grade 1 this summer!  (Well, I'm "over 60" and have not picked up an instrument for 50 years, so what do you expect?)

https://flic.kr/p/GneG4d
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andytheflyer

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #198 on: 20 February, 2018, 08:28:19 am »
Thx road-runner and nicknack.

My son (who's now 38!) played alto sax in his school jazz band, and they were quite good, and famous locally.  He went off to Uni, leaving behind the sax, and never came home (funny that, I seem to recall doing the same  many years previously). 

I retired in 2016 and knew I needed a mental challenge, and some daily structure, having worked in environmental and civil engineering for 40 years as an engineering geologist.  I'd always liked jazz and the sound of the sax in particular, so I had his sax serviced (a Buescher) and found a teacher, who also plays in a Big Band.

I absolutely love it, but I did treat myself to that new Yamaha a few months in.  I love practice and I can see myself gradually improving, and I like the cause and effect you get from learning new skills, driven by a brilliant teacher.  She says I'm a bit 'mechanical' rather than 'musical', but I'm working on that too - maybe to be expected of an engineering education and career!.

I get a real kick out of playing a duet with her in lessons and hopefully in a few years I'll be good enough to get into a local band.  Been working on some Glenn Miller classics, and can do a passable American Patrol, and getting to grips with In the Mood atm. 

My only regret is that I didn't start this years ago, as you never know how much time you have left.  But I suppose loads of UK and international travel for work, and long periods overseas in hotel rooms would have made practice impossible, and lessons out of the question.  So, maybe, it's just that my time has come, and I'm giving it a thorough go.

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Re: Reader's Instruments
« Reply #199 on: 20 February, 2018, 11:44:48 pm »
Probably enough for a YACF jazz band (to drown out the mandolin and banjo players)
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