BS: What is the first tune you play?

Subject: RE: BS: What is the first tune you play?
From: Wesley S
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:16 PM

"My Creole Belle" by Mississippi John Hurt. This year I ordered a new Martin direct from the factory and it was the first thing I played on it. Call me crazy but I think a musical instrement picks up a personality from the player and the music played on it. I have a friend with a D-35 Martin that sounds like crap. But I think it's because he rarely restrings it, he doesn't know how to keep it in tune, and he plays Jimi Hendrix and metal riffs on it { poorly }. Thats just my viewpoint - I could be wrong. I try to baby my instruments and treat them like tools at the same time.

And the next tune I usually play is "Lay me a pallet on your floor"

Time to step down off of my soapbox

Subject: RE: BS: What is the first tune you play?
From: Bert
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:15 PM

Spanish Ladies (The major key version)

Subject: RE: BS: What is the first tune you play?
From: sophocleese
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 02:05 PM

Gypsy Rover for a while was the one I always played.

Subject: RE: BS: What is the first tune you play?
From: Paul S
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:40 PM

While it doesn't quite measure up to Greensleeves, the first tune I always play when I pick up an instrument is The Frying Pan by John Prine.

Paul

Subject: RE: BS: What is the first tune you play?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:29 PM

A lot depends on the instrument with me. On the tenor banjo or mandolin family instruments, one of my first sets I am likely to try is a hornpipe whose name I don't know together with O Neills Favourite. With a guitar, I will often fingerpick Freight Train when I first try one, possibly play Greensleves and then try some flat picking. On a whistle, it would be Harvest Home (one of the few I can play), a melodeon is likely to get treated to Hola Hi....

Jon

Subject: What is the first tune you play?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Dec 99 - 01:00 PM

I've just been given an early Christmas present, of a beautiful pearwood Dolmetsch descant recorder, an item I have coveted for several years now, since playing a hand turned rosewood garkline (spelling? - the smallest one, second cousin to a dog whistle), that was made by Herr Dolmetsch himself. As I warmed it and gave it its first voice, I played the same tune I always play on a new instument, Greensleeves. Does anyone else have a particular tune they always play first?

And Micca, I've already heard the bassoon and British Grenadiers story.....

LTS