BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?

Subject: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:20 PM

This is a serious question arising out of a heated discussion on the Mudchat started by noting that since Sting played the Hurdy Gurdy, now everyone wants to play one. Which new and unheard of musical instrument craze shall we start now?

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:24 PM

Actually I must reveal at the start of this discussion that I am already spoken for - I am definitely a left handed floggle-wopper convert.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:27 PM

As the breeder of banded waddletoots, I must come down on their side, although I actually prefer the spotted variety, but they do wriggle more than the banded.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: momnopp
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:44 PM

I refuse to play any but the left-handed floggle-wopper!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

momnopp

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:48 PM

But what about the much neglected right-handed woggle flopper?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:48 PM

I, being a pervert, play a right-handed floggle-toot.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:59 PM

I must confess that I am fond of the noseflute. It is simple, with no moving parts whatsoever and requires no knowledge of fingering techniques or, for that matter, music. I will admit that playing a noseflute when one has a bad cold can be rather messy.......

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Peace
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 09:02 PM

I think it was Homer and Jethro who did a skit about a fenortan. It was a mucical instrument with two ends, both of which had to be blown into at the same time. The fenortan players had a harpist in the trio. One evening, one of the fenortan players took ill. The other fellow had to run from end to end, blowing into them simultaneously. He tripped and fell through the harp. Everyone went to visit him in the hospital, rooms 17 through 83.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Mar 04 - 09:29 PM

Well, since the Hurdy Gurdy is not new and unheard of but old and just relatively obscure, I think I'll be different and stick with another old and obscure one. CLICK HERE

I'm not usually a fan of wind instruments, but I'd tackle that one just 'cause it looks so friggin' weird.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: JennieG
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 01:29 AM

I prefer a nice flugletoot meself. In the right hands it can be a never-to-be-forgotten experience.
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 03:57 AM

Ah yes, the flugletoot - close relative of the waddletoot, but the fingering is different.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Micca
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 06:35 AM

and what about the much neglected Dwyleflonk? many a happy summers evening in a pub Garden watching the wellie tossing and listening to the mellifluous tones of the Dwyleflonker

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:45 AM

In reply to those who have asked me for information about the design of my floggle-wopper --

Design? We don't need no stinkin' DESIGN!!!

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 08:52 AM

I used to know a fellow who played the B# whelkhorn, who even installed a pickup for the amp under the bridge, but strings on the valves cut his fingers up so badly that he gave it up. Last I knew, Knuckles (as we called him) was drumming for the Bodhran Bastards, a heavy metal Christian death-rock band out of Dingle, Idaho.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Mar 04 - 06:27 PM

Surely that should be a heavy metal Christian afterlife rock band?

Dwyleflonking does not involve wellies - that's wellie wanging.

Dwyleflonking does involve quantities of cider which is probably what has erased your memory.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 08:05 AM

I did enjoy some success with the Northumbrian strunch for a while in the 70's but then the TCCB pronounced it illegal

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:29 PM

And quite rightly too - those keys are far too close to the business end of a body.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: JennieG
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:57 AM

But the dingle-oingle.....!

Words fail me. Suffice it to say that one has not lived, has one, until a dangling dingle-oingle is part of one's life. No cider is necessary to appreciate its melodious qualities.   However after some dark chocolate the tone takes on a certain - shall we say - darkness?

Cheers
JennieG.....dangling away

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:59 AM

I've never heard anyone play a wrangle-tosser like my dear old dad, along with my uncle on the floozee-popper. Talk about cuttin' up a rug!

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 07:17 AM

My mother sang in the scree-weeeler style while my dad accompanied her on the orgie-thumper. It was quite deafening.

When I needed some peace and quiet, I usually escaped to my little hidely hoe in the backyard to play quietly on my flolodler.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 08:55 AM

LtS, in Dingle, Idaho it's considered lucky to die. Even the Christians there are atheists. It's not that the town is boring, which it is, but that it's also not very exciting in its boredom. Knuckles is drumming for the most exciting bit of boredom in the town, playing the interior parts on the alto snare crescentscent -- the A-flat one, the one with two exterior and one interior drummers. I'm certain you've seen it, it's the one that they roll around on stage? the one that's always green and fuscia, with four seats and a rack for beaters, luggage, and so on.

Anyway, Knuckles is the "inside man" on it, and he has been having fun working the knee pumps.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: mooman
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 10:49 AM

I think I would prefer to try the

Tooka

courtesy of those wonderful folks at the University of British Columbia.

Anybody like to help me with the blowing?

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Doktor Doktor
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 11:49 AM

We'll volunteer, mooman.

Our blower, Arthur Brain, has a "Durwood Pickle" Belarusian zhaleika. Pre-loaded with crisps & peanuts at the fipple end this provides a daunting riposte to all hecklers. He usually uses it to accompany the Beerfordbury horse-drawn combat serpent (justly feared throughout Bohemia and the evirons of Trunkey Creek). He'll bring it along.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 06:41 PM

Hmmm, would The Pushka-Pullka be played by the Pushme-Pullyou?

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: JennieG
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 01:58 AM

News Flash:

Reported today - a sighting of the Lesser Wangdoodle! Not to be confused with its larger cousin, the Greater Whangdoudle. (Note the change in spelling between the two species. This is usual)
The correct method for Doodling on a Wang is pluckment with one's best plucker.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 26 Mar 04 - 03:38 PM

My sister used to be plum crazy for a band called the Whos.
Their lineup included pampoolers, patookas and drums.

Unfortunately they had a run in with a nasty fellow who thought it was all noise.

Check the sixth wave down.

The End of the Whos

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Mar 04 - 03:18 AM

I can't believe no-one has yet mentioned the Cordwangler as made famous by Rambling Sid Rumpo.

Actually, I think I know WHY no one has mentioned etc., etc..

LTS

Subject: The cigarbox guitar nutters
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:49 AM

I have found the newest craze for unusual instruments. Further more I find it somewhat bemusing that "folk" insruments that are from the "poor folk" who didn't have resources to buy, but had to make their own, are now being promoted as a great craze.

The cigarbox guitar guys are real nutters. They don't consider using the address from their yahoo group for unrequested unwanted spam to be wrong, and they are too stupid and selfish to see that having to go to a web site a couple of hundred times a day to get rid of unwanted unrequested spam is a problem - they only send a couple a week... and it is just the same info that they already send to the yahoo group where they got my email address from. "But you joined the yahoo cigarboxguitars group"....

My email address from this group was used to send me unwanted unasked for advertising - in clear breach of the TOS of the Yahoo group. I asked within that group for it to please stop. I received several messages withn that group containing personal abuse for daring to speak out, and threats to have me removed from the group, just for complaining about the breach of TOS.

So now drummers take heart! We have found another generic group of musos to make jokes about!


What do you call a cigarbox guitar player with an agent and a pager?

Deluded!

Robin

P.S. Pity - I always used to love all types of "primitive folk instruments'...

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: akenaton
Date: 29 May 04 - 04:31 PM

During my apprenticeship,the old journeyman builder spoke very highly of the "Katina."
This was a gut string stretched over a cats arse. The instrument was apparently played with the tounge....Ake

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 29 May 04 - 05:20 PM

It is such a pleasure to read threwads like this one as they so fire the imagination.....I have imagined you all in a session...all playing with your individual "instruments"....perhaps some of you would be better playing with them in private. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 May 04 - 04:35 PM

Ye Gods, what a session that would be!!!

Mind you, I think it may well be illegal to have a Cordwangler and a floggle-wopper in the same room.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: RU a floggle-wopper or a waddletoot fan?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 May 04 - 08:27 PM

Depends whether they are left-handed or right-handed.