The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20254   Message #210675
Posted By: SDShad
12-Apr-00 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: A little bit of Americana
Subject: RE: BS: A little bit of Americana
Our house:

2 guitars, 1 mandolin, 1 violin, 1 5-string fiddle, 1 bodhran, 1 double bass, 1 piano, 2 Sioux flutes, 1 practice chanter, multiple kazoos, 1 jaw harp, 2 rifles, 2 functional shotguns (one "semiautomatic," which really isn't as scary as it sounds), 1 muzzle-loader that might be functional if either of us knew how to load and operate it, 1 non-fuctional shotgun (a double-barrel Greener, my grandfather's childhood hunting gun from the Minnesota backwoods).

Oh, yeah. And one of those impossible-to-figure-out-without-a-manual novelty instruments from the early 20th century called a "Pianoette."

And, I almost forgot, 1 tenor ukelele.

All the guns, the violin, and the 5-string fiddle are all inherited; the instruments see much more use than the guns. So while our guns outnumber our guitars, our musical instruments as a whole win.

For whatever it's worth.

Chris