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Subject: keeping a breast (out of the way) From: Margo Date: 02 May 00 - 11:20 PM A discussion came up in a private message, and I conceeded to post. I'm short, and have short arms. My chest is er, ah, well, it's big. So when I don my banjo, my right breast rests on top of the banjo. Same thing with the guitar. I have always felt conspicuous about it, but what can I do? Do others secretly think it's funny? Margo |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Kelida Date: 02 May 00 - 11:23 PM I sort of have the same problem, and I'm not even that big. I always feel a bit silly, especially when I'm sitting down while trying to play guitar. . . I guess it's just something we women have to deal with. . . Peace--Keli |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Crowhugger Date: 02 May 00 - 11:28 PM I was recently talking about that with Rick Fielding. Does someone know where to place the bridge on an OVAL banjo?? If it means a funky-shaped bridge to get the sound out properly, so be it. Necessity is the mother of invention. In other words, yes, I too have noticed this, more discomfort than appearance...invisibility has its rewards. *BG* CH. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Metchosin Date: 02 May 00 - 11:39 PM Don't know Margo, but my daughter shares the same "problem", however, when she "lets er rip", suddenly the audiences attention is riveted to her music and not her breast.
It really bothered her, at first, but she finally adopted the following attitude: |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Rick Fielding Date: 02 May 00 - 11:42 PM Both Catspaw and I have the same problem.(But of course his are silicone) Actually it's a VERY legit issue. If I can be delicate about this, here are a few thoughts. If you are a "person of substance" DON'T PLAY AN OVATION! Seems logical, doesn't it but the gut and the guitar just don't fit. If you have an impressive superstructure, play a small guitar with a longer strap. My toughest assignment (and this is no joke) was a potential student who came to me wanting to play Lap dulcimer. She was definitely a "hefty gal" with ABSOLUTELY NO LAP. Tricky. Anybody care to speculate how I (sort of) dealt with it? Rick |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Margo Date: 02 May 00 - 11:43 PM Drool? |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Amos Date: 02 May 00 - 11:44 PM If I may venture to speak at all in such hollowed company, I would mention that the first folksinger I fell in love with, back in the Pleistocene, was a lovely gracious highschool senior who played the banjo. Although of middling endowment, she graced her instrument in similar style while playing, usually wearing a black turtleneck which was fashionable among the earthy rich kids of the time. She looked like a figure of grace playing the banjo that way, as though she and it had become one with each other's flows. No-one I know of ever mentioned it -- in fact because of the inner glow, it was unnoticeable unless you happened to be fixated on that sort of thing. To tell the whole truth, I never even noticed this aspect of her playing because she played with great verve and sang well, and had, as I say, a certain inner glow. I remember it now looking back at my mental recordings of the period. Sad to say, our mutual fulfillment was not to be and she later ran off with John Hammond Jr. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Margo Date: 02 May 00 - 11:45 PM I bet you had her use a footstool, right? |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Margo Date: 02 May 00 - 11:47 PM Or, Rick, you had her play it on a table? |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Sandy Paton Date: 02 May 00 - 11:49 PM I recall the question put to me by Charlotte Daniels when I gave her the first of a few guitar lessons back in 1954. She sat down, took the guitar onto her lap, arranged her ample bosom somewhat uncomfortably in the instrument's curve, and asked "Don't they make these in a 'D' cup?" Sandy (my God, that's 46 years ago, and I never forgot the line!) |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Metchosin Date: 02 May 00 - 11:49 PM Yeah drool...I don't know if it is a genetic defect or not, but both my husband and one my daughters, drool while playing. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Margo Date: 02 May 00 - 11:54 PM Metcho: Interesting! Drool is OK by me. Sandy: LOL!!! I was born in 1954! (BTW, I'm listening to David's "Music from the Mountain" as I type) Margo :o) |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 May 00 - 12:03 AM The "TABLE" wins a kewpie doll! What the hell else could I do. 'Course it had to be the RIGHT SIZE table which was tricky. I did tell her that "quite a few" dulcimer players had tables made for them...which wasn't exactly true. Rick (a great fan of breasts) |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Mbo Date: 03 May 00 - 12:18 AM Excuse me for being unknowledgable in this area but, does it still happen even if you play with the guitar neck out perpendicular to your body? Oh BTW footstools rule! Every Classical guitarist has one (or more than one!) --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Sorcha Date: 03 May 00 - 12:21 AM Hey, table was my first guess too---and just because I'm late, I don't get a Kewpie doll! I am not amply endowed at all, (and don't play one of those "D" things anyway, so I have never had a problem, but the only way I can play a lap dulcimer is sitting on the floor with my left foot tucked under my right knee and right leg out straight. I guess you ladies could be like the Ancient Amazon boyers, and remove the offender? And Sandy, I thought Martin did make a "D" size? LOL And Rick, Mark Tindle, Walnut Valley (multiple) Dulcimer Champion, does play his on a table. Other folks I know with no laps use dulcimer "Seat Belts", or hold them up like guitars, using the same seat belt. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: ddw Date: 03 May 00 - 12:32 AM Guess I wouldn't be in line for a Kewpie doll, because I would have suggested using a chair with arms on it — the bane of most instrument players — for the dulcimer. At least that would have eliminated the necessity of the extra piece of furniture. And Margo, I'm amazed you play Banjo — given your description of yourself. I though it was an absolute must that banjo players have long left arms and concave chests.... :-)) david |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: wysiwyg Date: 03 May 00 - 12:37 AM Huh, why do you think I play autoharp as I do? I searched for three years before finding the right surface to play on! Keeping both, thank you very much. NO, sillies, not those! I'd give THEM up in a NY minute!!! The autoharp and the tilted playing stand!!! Some people, I swear! And Amos, are ye sure the glow wasn't in yer eyes as ye beheld what ye describe SO CLEARLY? My son called it Having a Serious Case of the Love-Dazzle, or Love-Dazz fer short. *BG* ~Susan~ |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Margo Date: 03 May 00 - 12:51 AM Dave, it looks like I'm going to have to try to get a picture of myself with my banjo to post at bbc's mudcat resources. I have a photo there (under my old psydonym "Margarita" but the area of discussion isn't apparent.... Margo |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 01:35 AM Long straps on the guitar, a sportsbra you can swear by, or just learn to play the fiddle *bg* ~Elle |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: katlaughing Date: 03 May 00 - 02:11 AM Jen, my daughter calls sportsbras you can swear by "uni-boobs". |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Sorcha Date: 03 May 00 - 02:14 AM UNI-BOOBS-- I love it!! (Unfortunately, I don't even need Uni-boobs, so I just do without, and play the fiddle!) LOL |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 02:20 AM Okay, Uni-boobs it is! Can't she just shift the uni over to the left a little then? I'm sure THAT would stop folks from looking! LOL You know....from OO to oO.... I still advocate the fiddle...but if I went 'without' I'm liable to kill someone! |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: katlaughing Date: 03 May 00 - 02:26 AM Naw, if ya go without, ya just get droopy, take it from a free and natural womon, honey, I know! Yep, she was always teasing me about my uni-boobs, whenever I squashed m'self into one of those spandex tubes. Hell, I've thought about learning the fine art of binding ala what they must've done under the kimonos in ancient times in Japan and elsewhere! LOL, kat |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Sorcha Date: 03 May 00 - 02:30 AM OOOHHH WWOOO, UNI BOOBS, UNITE!! (so what's a little droop, among friends?) I mean, we talkin' not quite fried egss, here.......I better give up and go to bed now. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 02:40 AM Not so much the droop...just keeping a tight rein on the wild horses at this point in life...but if it avoids my ever having to refer to the 'gals' as fried eggs, I'll do it!! LOLOLOL |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 02:44 AM Gawd...I can't believe I refered to them as the 'gals'.... |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: wysiwyg Date: 03 May 00 - 02:46 AM Louie and Ralph. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 02:48 AM So if you are wearing the sports bra, it's just aNNETTe ?????? |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: wysiwyg Date: 03 May 00 - 03:11 AM Lmao and Rotf. Or, as kat describes, and Elle illustrates, lmAOROtf !!!! ~S~
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 03:15 AM LMAO is right. Y'know, the only thing that stopped me from getting a tattoo is the thought that one day I'd have to roll down my socks to show it to my grandkids.... |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: wysiwyg Date: 03 May 00 - 03:22 AM Oh you are the nasty one! Finally had enough of that Mandolan stuff huh??? Gotta make time for girl time or something goes pop! Pop! Oh, too late.... Oh wait! What did Louis and Rafe sya when they met at the sports bar (I mean bra?) wait for it.... wait....
wait....
SQUEEZED TO MEETCHA!!!
LOLOLOLOllllllllllll!
Shhh!! wake up mah HUHS-ban'...... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: JenEllen Date: 03 May 00 - 03:27 AM Louis and Ralph? Dontcha mean L'mao and Rotf??? And yeah, the goofy girl crap wins out everytime.....:) |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: katlaughing Date: 03 May 00 - 03:37 AM OH, MY GAWD, I almost peed my pants! You two should be on stage! LMAOWROTFTSDMF!!! Reining in wild horses?!! MY daughter can relate to that! Louie and Ralph!LOL!!! Actually, when my were of the younger horse stage, I got a tattoo...nobody noticed the kid-bearing strecth marks, 'cause the colour of the rose always grabbed their attention! NOW, I ahve this terrible image of me rolling my sock down, oh, gawd, womon, I can't...tttyyy...pp..eee, laughing too hard! Ta bed! Ta sleep! Perchance to dream of wild horse days, pre-uni-boob daze! |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: wysiwyg Date: 03 May 00 - 03:41 AM Priunebube? Maori? |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: alison Date: 03 May 00 - 03:53 AM Just be thankful you don't play the accordion... hahaha slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Metchosin Date: 03 May 00 - 03:56 AM I remember a spoof calendar, years ago, called Maidens, where one of the monthly pinups was a gal trying to play guitar with her sagging boob caught between the strings. I laughed then, can't now, its too close to the truth. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: catspaw49 Date: 03 May 00 - 07:44 AM Between this and the "Singin' in the Loo" thread, I have learned a great deal about some of the women of Mudcat. It was perhaps more than I needed to know, but uh.......... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Bat Goddess Date: 03 May 00 - 07:52 AM I thought I just couldn't play guitar anymore because my arms have gotten shorter. Bat Goddess (who's tired of wearing a bra that looks like a swimming cap for Siamese twins!) |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: GUEST Date: 03 May 00 - 08:01 AM Thread drift alert...(although I enjoyed the light banter among the masters of mammaries)... Alison's post reminded me of a comment the Dillard's (bluegrass band that used to, among other things, be on the old Andy Griffith show) made the other night on a TV special. Being from Missouri, their definition of a "gentleman" is, "someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't." NOI. Neil Lowe |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 03 May 00 - 08:17 AM I'm too old too be excited by this thread, but thanks for the mammaries. RtS (no joke too old, no singing too flat..) |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Spider Tom Date: 03 May 00 - 08:44 AM What can I say in just a few lines, I hasten to comment, In just a few rhymes. THE LAST LAUGH. I read a ladys question, It had some people vexed, Of playing on a banjo, Adorned, by solo breast. Well! Do you try to hide it? I hear, that there's no way, Just keep in mind, a resting breast, Can make some peoples day. Does it wobble as you're plucking, Do you have to tell it "stay", Or else you find the juggling, Puts you off your play. Do you see some men, a'perving, As they're peeping through their hair, And grin, because you know, You're hideing, half a perfect pair.
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Mbo Date: 03 May 00 - 10:21 AM TOM you da man! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Art Thieme Date: 03 May 00 - 10:46 AM This thread has provoked numerous titters here for sure. Udderly amazing. I'm equally certain that some would say it sucks and is in bad taste. Well, we've milked the topic for all we can get. I guess I'm just an old leche(r). Heiffer joke is better than none. Remember, to err is human, to forgive bovine. No bull. I've been pretty cowherdly lately. Calf assed too. Then there was the hobo bovine. (A bum steer.) And the cow that got into the ink supply. (She "Mooed Indigo".) Think I'll go take a nip even though it's before noon ! Art |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: catspaw49 Date: 03 May 00 - 10:51 AM Lately, I've been a bit worried about you Art. Now I can say, nay-nay, my worry was unfounded.......Sorry for acting like a complete boob. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Amos Date: 03 May 00 - 10:53 AM Art, you've obviously been busted. Call for support. Either that or you're spending too much time in your cups. Go figure. A |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Mbo Date: 03 May 00 - 10:57 AM Nah, he's just been wired for the last 18 hours...he needs a trip to Bali to let it all hang down. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: wysiwyg Date: 03 May 00 - 10:57 AM Men, D-D-D-lightful! You are hereby admitted to the Goofy Girl Gentlemen's Auxiliary! Galpals, what do they get with their membership? ~Susan~ |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: kendall Date: 03 May 00 - 10:58 AM that was quite a cud you brought up Art.. personally, I believe that the human female mammaries are the most beautiful form in all of nature, and, not to be scoffed at. Scoffed UP maybe, but, not scoffed AT. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: Amos Date: 03 May 00 - 11:01 AM I'd like to suggest, gentlemen, that we try to be a little more feeling on this subject. |
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Subject: RE: keeping a breast From: GUEST,Steve Latimer Date: 03 May 00 - 11:02 AM Rick, Wow, we have something else in common. |
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