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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: amandalynne Date: 20 Jul 09 - 12:27 AM When they remember to sign in that is.... |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST Date: 20 Jul 09 - 12:25 AM The two are inseparable ! |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,Ceravene Date: 16 Jul 09 - 03:52 AM My flute's most definitely female and moody to boot. She's a stroppy little madam who sulks if I stop playing for too long and gets upset by the slightest change in temperature. Musicians are a funny lot - ever think that anthropomorphisation can go too far? :) |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 15 Jul 09 - 02:55 PM I've known a number of gentlemen over the years who insisted on naming their instruments, often with comical (or pathetic) result. In every case but one, a masculine-sounding name was used. The odd man out was the musician..... |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: InOBU Date: 14 Jul 09 - 05:40 PM The above guest about the pipes and harp, is of course, me, but lost me cookie... lor |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:14 PM Sorcha, me Uillean pipes are a wee girl, but she likes girls and is one of the guys,she's me shem not me bior, but Frith, ah Frith, gra mo cre, me 200 year old John Egan harp, is definitly a wee girl, with a young heart in her long lasting frame... young sweet and a singer |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Susan A-R Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:07 PM it's a girl!! |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Stringsinger Date: 13 Jul 09 - 02:37 PM Ambi-sexual. Although my wife and I own two Martin Guitars of the same type, 0021. Hers is Marty and mine is Rose. Frank |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,Dusty Turtle Date: 13 Jul 09 - 12:45 PM All acoustic guitars are hemaphroditic, since they are shaped with curves reminiscent of the female body but the neck is also a phallic symbol. My hourglass-shaped dulcimer can also play mixed doubles by itself. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 12 Jul 09 - 09:14 PM Every animate...inanimate utility within our household was named and sexed.
Automobiles
Sincerely,
The naming of things did not stop with Adam in the Garden of Eden ... it was a lively tradition in our family....who through Mormon connections has perhaps now linked to the Garden connect itself. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 12 Jul 09 - 09:05 PM My Instruments:
My piano - female - I tickle her ivory and she sings quite well
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Rowan Date: 12 Jul 09 - 07:23 PM Despite Peter Bellamy's famous genderisation of guitars as female (general shape and actions required for playing) and Anglo concertinas as male (he did a demonstration of huffing and puffing and watching its behaviour with his left hand removed and a slow leak though the air button), my Anglo has always been "the leather ferret", with no gender implied. Unimaginative perhaps, but when I worked as a botanist with Canberra's Botanic Gardens, I had access to a Hillman Minx with NSW registration plates (and thus yellow in colour) "CUP 300"; it was variously known as Buttercup and Ranunculus. Later on I acquired a 1954 Morris Minor panel van that had previously been used as a delivery van by a bakery. The last vehicle made that could be taken apart and reassembled with a bicycle spanner, it revelled for some years under the name "Breadbin". Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Tootler Date: 12 Jul 09 - 04:08 PM My contrabass recorder is simply "The big beastie". I have never thought what gender it is. Geoff |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: olddude Date: 12 Jul 09 - 11:29 AM My old Martin sings like and angel so she is female My Alvarez is a male he has a big deep bass voice My banjo however is more of an It. It pings and sputters and squeaks like an old carr that needs oil ... because mostly of the guy running it |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: SharonA Date: 12 Jul 09 - 11:06 AM 'Wayyyy back in January, Genie asked, " 'Mama Guitar Beats A Woman Every Time' Who sang that? A guy (obviously), but I can't remember who." Just looked it up -- it was sung by Don Cornell, a Big Band vocalist who went on to have a successful solo czreer. "Mama Guitar" was released May 1957, from the film "A Face in the Crowd", on the B side of a 45rpm record (the film's title tune was on the A side). Info from Amazon.com Listen to "Mama Guitar" on YouTube |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: SharonA Date: 12 Jul 09 - 10:52 AM Most are gender-neutral, but a couple of my earliest guitars are "male". My banjo is also male; his name is Theo. Get it? "...Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, strummin' on Theo Banjo..." |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: VirginiaTam Date: 12 Jul 09 - 09:44 AM I never did say what I named my new Sigma DM4M. Her name is Odetta, because she is big and curvy (dreadnaught), dark (mahoghany finish), and man she can sing (loud and deep). |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,mad Jock Date: 21 Feb 09 - 04:19 PM My instrument is an organ! |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Don Firth Date: 20 Feb 09 - 07:41 PM That reminds me. In a concert in Seattle some years ago, Gordon Bok mentioned that his 12-string guitar bore the name "Big John." He described how he was in Nick Apollonio's shop one day when he was having some work done on the guitar. The neck was removed and a couple of other parts were laying around here and there, when Ed Trickett walked in. He looked at the miscellaneous parts of Gordon's disassemble guitar laying there and gasped, "Johnny, I hardly knew ye!" Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Dan Schatz Date: 20 Feb 09 - 07:05 PM Nick Apollonio didn't name my 12 string, but when I finished it he sent me an e-mail with the subject line "It's a boy." And it was. He's building me a laud now; I'll be interested to see whether he associates a gender with that one. Dan |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Don Firth Date: 20 Feb 09 - 06:30 PM When my younger sister, Pat, bought her first car, she got it used. Nice little Chevvy two-door sedan. She thought of it as a "she" and after having it for awhile, she named it "Shasta." As in, "Shasta have a tune-up," "Shasta have an oil change," "Shasta have new tires," "Shasta have a front-end alignment. . . ." You get the idea. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Jayto Date: 20 Feb 09 - 06:23 PM My main guitar is a he. Everyone calls it Patch because of a repair job where the patch of wood used to replace the missing wood was a slightly different color. Patch is a tough old bird that has been through hell and is still singing and playing sweeter than ever. That guitar is a male. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: CupOfTea Date: 20 Feb 09 - 06:17 PM Egad! Just because you think of an instrument (or car, or other inanimate, yet interactive object) as having a name and gender, doesn't mean you want to have sex with it. Can someone be so devoid of imagination that they think that the only reason for mentioning gender is because of sex? Whatever to make of languages where gender of objects is integral to the language, oh my! or...er... pardonez-moi! Guitarists though... especially rock guitarists... some of them DO look as though they're getting more than a good bass line from how they bash that thing... just sayin.' Joanne In Cleveland who does not boff her concertina |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: wyrdolafr Date: 01 Feb 09 - 03:20 PM Perhaps I'm just too much of a 'new man' or something, but I can't really think of musical instruments as being gender-focused. They are either 'friends' or 'tools' depending on how well I'm getting on with them at the time. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Feb 09 - 03:10 PM these people that genderise their musical instuments must have sex with them I ain't had sex (yet), but I do get some good endorphins when I molest the guitar. She is definitely a she (must be the curve, and the voice response to my touch) to my mind. Does that mean I am projecting latent lesbian tendencies? Here all this time I thought I was only attracted to men. Well if my honey gets jealous of the time I spend with the guitar, I will tell to think of as two women making love. He should change his tune pretty quick, I should think. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Gedi Date: 01 Feb 09 - 01:57 PM My melodeon is definately female - I just love to give her a good squeeze. And she's so responsive....... Name of Milly btw. Cheers Ged |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 01 Feb 09 - 11:24 AM all very well, but when you've had a drink or two and there is seductive lighting and you start fondling and she doesn't object.... as my headmaster used to say .... just how far would a nice boy go? |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: goatfell Date: 01 Feb 09 - 11:13 AM these people that genderise their musical instuments must have sex with them I just play my instruments I don't consider them as male or female a male or female are HUMAN and not intruments |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Genie Date: 31 Jan 09 - 12:40 PM "Mama Guitar Beats A Woman Every Time" Who sang that? A guy (obviously), but I can't remember who. Genie |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Stringsinger Date: 31 Jan 09 - 12:22 PM We have a matching pair of 0021's named "Marty and Rose". Frank |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Canberra Chris Date: 31 Jan 09 - 09:40 AM Bells - Great Tom is cast? When I recently bought my little harp there was no maker or model label on it, and the only clue was the single word on a sticker on the spare strings packet - Pixie. So 'Pixie' it is, as it suits, being cute, small and Celtic in design (though made in Pakistan by the Celtistanis - this one very nicely as it happens). But Pixies are genderless? Or is that for another thread? I'm still up because it is far too hot to go to bed - all doors and windows open hoping for a breeze, just thought UK Cats would like to know. Chris |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 30 Jan 09 - 10:15 PM I just realised. They've never done a Springer show about someone who humps his guitar. Is there a statute about sex with guitar, and anyway what would you say if the wife walked in on you when you were in the middle of having a session with a hot little Martin number? 'She meant nothing....I mean, she even looks like you in a certain light, honestly. Darling, really - it was you I was thinking every second of the time - but you've been so unresponsive lately.......' |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Don Firth Date: 30 Jan 09 - 07:21 PM ". . . flagrantly heterosexual. . . ." Hmm. . . . Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: CupOfTea Date: 30 Jan 09 - 06:54 PM I've been known to name cars. I even named my new (big black breathy sounding) refrigerator "Darth Vader." Instruments in my life had seemed to forgo the specifics of names, though my Goose Acres built autoharp has always been a "GooseAharp," to twit Pete Smackula as much as any other reason. yet.. yet.. when I got my concertina, my Stagi baby, I fell so deeply passionately in love with this instrument that I've been calling it "My Main Squeeze" to all and sundry. I'm flagrantly heterosexual, therefore by default, my main squeeze is a he. Joanne in Cleveland |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,Nikkiwi Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:51 PM My Octave Mandolin is female, and called (appropriately) Octavia |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Don Firth Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:24 PM I don't believe I have ever thought of my guitars in gender terms. My classic was made in Japan. It has a red cedar soundboard and Brazilian rosewood back and sides. The label says it is a "Guitarra Artisana," but pasted right by it is another label stating that it was imported, inspected, and approved for sale under his name by José Oribé, a luthier in San Diego who makes concert quality classic guitars. The Guitarra Artisana is not as expensive as the ones Oribé makes, but it was fairly expensive. Like a lot of guitars made at the time (mid-1970s), it looks exactly like the José Ramirez 1a that Segovia played after he retired his Hauser. I played it once before the Seattle Classic Guitar Society (where some of the folks have some really expensive guitars, including a Ramirez or two), and because of its full, rich sound and its appearance, they assumed that it was a Ramirez. It wasn't anywhere near as expensive as a concert Ramirez, but it's one helluva guitar! I usually refer to it as "the Oribé," although it wasn't actually made by José Oribé. I have a genuine flamenco guitar that I ordered from Arcangel Fernandez in Madrid (unlike the one in the photo, mine has clear golpeador—tap-plates). I got it in 1961. Absolutely outrageous guitar! Spruce soundboard and cypress back and sides. I learned a couple of years later that Fernandez's flamencos were regarded as the best, and guys like Carlos Montoya, Mario Escudero, and Sabicas were playing them. I paid less than $200 for it, and I'm told that "Arcangels" from the early 1960s in good condition are worth as much as $20,000!! I refer to mine as "The Arcangel." Not for sale! I also have two small travel guitars, one nylon-string and one steel-string, made by Sam Radding of San Diego. They are Go-guitars, and they look more like canoe paddles than guitars, but for small instruments, they sound amazingly like full-size guitars. I used the nylon-string "Go" in a concert recently, and some folks thought it was a period instrument of some kind. Gender? No. "The Oribé," "the Arcangel," and the two "Go" guitars. "Go?" Perhaps they have a bladder problem? Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: squeezebox-kc Date: 30 Jan 09 - 04:56 PM my melodeon must be female because when i am out playing music my wife when asked "where's Ken" says he's of with his mistress again. explain how church bells are she? treble going treble gone- no she there tenor lies behind, make places, = no dodge,single, BOB now here we could be Roberta but probably not. Grandsire would be male. Great George, Big Ben, and most of the big tenor bells are male names Enjoy your ringing and if you have not tried give it a go it is certainly a folksy pursuit and involves drinking beer afterwards as a rule. Ken |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Catherine Jayne Date: 30 Jan 09 - 09:53 AM My good fiddle is called fritz and is male. My dutch fiddle is female but doesn't really have a name. My octave fiddle is called velcro and is male. Got a couple of mandolins but they're not named or generised. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Mooh Date: 30 Jan 09 - 09:29 AM The instrument I was born with is male, the others female, except the basses which kinda bray like donkeys. Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Bryn Pugh Date: 30 Jan 09 - 08:19 AM I never thought about the gender of instruments until I got my first "big boy's" guitar, a smaller-bodied Harmony Sovereign. This guitar was a pig to play, or, as I thought about it then (40 years ago) a bitch. All guitars since have been female : currently, my Tanglewood is Betsan (although, come to think about it, every guitar since the Sovereign has been Betsan). My Gretsch is Gertie, much to Mummy's disgust. No prizes for guessing what Mummy's given name is. 'Tina' speaks for itself, I think (herself ? ) . I haven't yet decided on the gender of my pipes and tabor. I shall, of course, keep you informed . . . |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Musket Date: 30 Jan 09 - 07:01 AM She... For every stereotypical chauvinist reason when strings break, won't tune or I need a scape goat for my slowing down of digit dexterity. Also female for when it comes right, it can, (to me at any rate) sound rather beautiful. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 30 Jan 09 - 05:19 AM Naming harmonicas is a step too far. I have too many of the damn things to remember a different name for each. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: VirginiaTam Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:42 AM guess I should have related the namesof past and current instruments. 1st guitar cheap classical bought at PX in Fort Lee Virginia later given to my Mother - Claire 2nd guitar yamaha acoustic 6 string (only had few months before sold to brother for money to fix our car - (had not time to name her or if I did I have forgotten) 3rd guitar a used battered 6 string acoustic sunburst I can't remember it's make (quickly commandeered by my left handed daughter) named Sunny because of the bright bright sound. The beast would not stay in tune though. Appalachain Dulcimer - Somerset (I know it is a place name, but I still think of as a her) loaner Mandolin - no name (mustn't get attached) foster guitar a Martin Sigma DM4M from Abdul the Bul Bul to be named something appropriately feminine upon finalisation of adoption. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Genie Date: 30 Jan 09 - 02:30 AM My oldest and best guitar is a Martin. You might think that's a boy's name, but it's her LAST name. The reason I know she's a girl is that her first name is a girl's name. And I know that because the guy who gave her to me called her that. Plus, she's been more faithful and treated me better than just about any guy I've been involved with. Genie |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Peace Date: 30 Jan 09 - 12:33 AM "What gender is your instrument?" No comment! |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Tangledwood Date: 30 Jan 09 - 12:25 AM My instruments are all female. All demand commitment and all come with strings attached. |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Jan 09 - 08:17 PM My harmonica is six and a half inches long and it spends most of the evening in my mouth. Moving swiftly on... |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: GUEST,Frug Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:55 PM Personally most of my instruments appear female. I remember someone way back saying, I got 2 guitars a 6 string and a 12 string. The 6 string she's my wife, solid and reliable and gets the job done. The 12 string she's my lover.........she makes a much bigger noise, she's exotic, allows more variation............but hell she can be temperamental !! Frank |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Tootler Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:46 PM My contrabass recorder is "The Beastie" but I have never thought about its gender. I suspect it is neuter though it does have a deep voice ;-0 |
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Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument? From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Jan 09 - 04:59 PM I used to think of some of my guitars as female...while with others I did not. My present favorite guitar seems to transcend the concept of gender altogether. It just is what it is. |
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