BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?

Subject: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Skipy
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 04:40 PM

At WHFF this year I laid out a pitch (similar to that which would be used for hammer throwing) ready for us to hurl a banjo, sadly the weather got in the way so we have postpopned until 2006 (19th Aug.)
But is it a sport or is it an artform, could it become Olympic or purhaps a Turner prize?
I look fwd. to reading your imput when we return from Spain.
Over to you guys.
Skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 05:27 PM

Neither.

It's a public service.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Crane Driver
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 05:42 PM

I see it as a form of catharsis.

It should be available on the NHS

[definition]
Perfect Pitch
Getting the banjo back into the skip from 20 yards

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 05:49 PM

Can we expand it to include melodeons and accordions please?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: mumblin len
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 05:55 PM

Not at all sure. I think it depends on whether or not the banjo player follows the same trajectory as the banjo.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 06:15 PM

"sadly the weather got in the way so we have postpopned until 2006 " Skipy Whassa matta you? Rain don't hurt the banjo.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Crane Driver
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 06:35 PM

Who cares about the banjo?

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Morticia
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 06:54 PM

You can only hurl a banjo if you have had the bad taste to eat one first

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 07:12 PM

So long as it's competitive, and well practiced, I don't care if it's a sport or art-form....

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 07:23 PM

Geoff Higginbottom made the suggestion (looking in MY direction) that
the banjo and the player should be hurled simultaneously -BUT in opposite directions !!

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 07:29 PM

Don't f^@# with the banjo player!

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 08:12 PM

May I suggest that rain delays could be avoided if the pitch was concrete.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 08:20 PM

Depends if it's technicolor...

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:09 PM

With an RC Victor color T.V............
Most definitely an art form....
the pose...
the muscle in the jaw...
the retractitory(word?) swing....
the gruntal throat as it gets un-retractitoried (word?)...
The beauty of the sailing in the wind banjo....
Still sailing...
Can't see it hardly anymore......

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: NH Dave
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:27 PM

Comic Relief?

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 01:16 AM

Both.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:42 AM

The definition of perfect pitch is..........hitting the skip with the banjo first time at twenty yards and smashing a bodhran and an accordion when it lands.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 04:03 AM

Banjos are good, good.



You can hear them through the door, so you don't pay to get in....


Banjo hurling is actually a complicated form of suicide in certain parts of America.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 07:31 AM

Oh I've come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee,
And when they saw what I had brought they threw me in the sea....

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 07:32 AM

Jokes about banjos are neither a sport or an artform - they're just mind-numbing rubbish.

eg:-
Heard at Sidmouth - What's the difference between a banjo and a vacuum cleaner? It's easier to get the dirtbag off the vacuum cleaner.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: MudGuard
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 08:53 AM

It's a Waste Removal Service ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 09:06 AM

Oh, hurling. I thought you said "curling."

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:03 AM

Who cares if is a sport or an art form. Lets have it as a mass partipation activity!

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:06 AM

Oh well at least it is a start.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Tam the man
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:08 AM

it's a pity that you can't throw a banjo player with their banjo together isn't it, along with Accordion players and Borran players (I'm one) and I've a accordion and I'm looking for a banjo as well, glutton for punshment I think.

Tam

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:13 PM

"I U-le-lused to ple-le-lay my ol-lelold banjololo and re-le-lest it ol-le-lon my knee-le-le-le-le-le -lee,
But na-la-low my stri-li-lings are bro-le -loken dow-le-lown it's no-le-lo more u-le-luse to me-le-le-le-le-le-lee...."

Apart from as a tennis racquet, obviously.

Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 01:01 PM

I recommend using a trebuchet in this endeavor.

Perhaps a tabletop variety for some of the smaller instruments, lobbed solo, or the larger castle size for instruments and their operators.

Since the piano is my instrument and this instrument has been assaulted for years by those who wish to test their weapons and have decided not to lob cows, I can safely say that just about anything else (with the possible exception of an Aeolian pipe organ) could easily go the distance.

Just a suggestion.

SRS