Hanging instruments on the wall?

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 09:52 PM

Any songs about well hung musicians?

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: number 6
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 10:36 PM

HeHe ... good one Q !

I still don't know why one would hang a $2k guitar up on a wall exposed to dust, humidity in summer, dryness in winter. ... speaking of Canada here ... anyway, I'm still leaving mine in their protective cases ... after all that's what the manufacturer's suggest.

OK ... if you want the look, I guess you can hang one of those garage sale intruments up on a wall.

sIx

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 11:04 PM

The Casino in Brisbane has lots of instruments hanging on the wall near the back (think it is a little cafe place - haven't beenin there for years) - many look like old instruments, some might have even been valuable before being stuck up there in the smoke, etc.

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: GUEST,wld
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 11:32 PM

I don't really like the idea.

If someone asks to have a go, a refusal often offends.

They would NEVER put them back without damaging them.

They would remind you of how you should be practising.

Burglars would be attracted by tales of a yamaha stradivarius collection.

Next time you wanted to buy another guitar, your wife would say whats wrong with all these?

The ones that don't get played very much would feel hurt and rejected.

You would forget where you put all the cases.

Every time you get one down, someone would say, I can see its a while since you decorated in here.

Take my word, it could affect many aspects of your life adversely - its what in modern parlance we call a crap idea.

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 04:17 AM

I have my father's 3/4 size fiddle hanging on my wall - neither I nor anyone else in the family plays fiddle but it looks nice. It's the only thing I have of my father's. My good guitars are in their coffins (sorry, cases) for safety as we have cats, but I have a cheapie that I might hang on the wall after I replace the broken pegs.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 02:45 PM

I use "slatwall" comes in 4ft x 8ft sheets , i cit into 1 ft x 8ft , get slatwall hooks for guitars and have 8 in a row no problem. am in need of something for my saxaphone if anyone knows of anything.

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: GUEST,bOAB
Date: 25 Oct 05 - 10:47 PM

Stefan Sobel has a fiddle hanging on his wall [stringless!]. Brian McNeil wrote a song about it!

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: GUEST,cushty
Date: 26 Oct 05 - 01:35 PM

99 piano accordians hung on a wall
99 hung on a wall
take one down,pass it around
98 piano accrdians hung on a wall

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Oct 05 - 11:11 PM

999999999999999999999999 piano accordion players hanging on the wall
999999999999999999999999 hanging on the wall
take one down, pass him around
there's still more piano accordion players to hang on the wall

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: Bard Judith
Date: 26 Oct 05 - 11:32 PM

As I have a collection of musical instruments from the various countries (mostly South-East Asia) that I've travelled in, all artistically attractive and none over about twenty dollars Canadian, I have no compunctions about displaying them.

There are Malaysian and Thai bamboo flutes, a Chinese ar-hu (Asian violin), a Korean hand drum, a Taiwanese drum rattle, and a couple of other oddments... all lined up along the basement stairway wall (insulated and drywalled), with a Korean poster showing a Chinese orchestra in calligraphic style at the centre of the collection. Very artsy, and very inspiring - as indeed it reminds me to take them down off the wall and practise often!

And not only me - my 21-month old daughter, an aspiring musician, will ask me almost daily, "Mama, p'ay biolin, p'ease? P'ay Mama's biolin?" Or possibly 'dwum' or 'weecorder', but the violin is the favorite.

"Be ca'full," she reminds me solemnly as I take it off the wall, parroting my oft-repeated warning. "Kaf'rine be ca'full!"

Yes, she needs help to keep the bow from sagging, and her little fingers repositioned, and it makes a sound like a cat being forced to do aerobics, but it's worth it to see the delight she takes in 'making music like Mama' - and in getting a sound out of the recorder and remembering to put her small thumb over the bottom hole - in finding 'Middle C' on the electronic keyboard correctly - in trying to repeat a rhythm I've tapped out on the drum for her - in naming a melody I've just played on the flute.   

So maybe an outside basement wall isn't the best place for a two-thousand dollar guitar... but I don't think I'd care, if keeping it hermetically sealed deprived the world of another music-lover and potential musician....   :)

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:05 AM

"stringed instruments love to be in amongst the music, and sing quietly to themselves all the time." Gurney


Beautiful, Gurney.

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: leftydee
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 05:03 PM

97 piano accordions hung on the wall ...... take one down set it on fire, 96 piano accordions hung on the wall...etc (now we're getting somewhere!) Sorry accordion enthusiasts, I play in a band called "Death By Accordion" and I'm honor bound to dis accordions at every available turn. Keep Squeezin'

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:40 PM

Thank you, Ebbie.

Guest wld at 11.32, we'll take that as a no, then?

Subject: RE: Hanging instruments on the wall?
From: GUEST,cushty
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 03:16 PM

99 piano accordian players hung on the wall
99 hung on the wall
take one down
push them around
98 piano accordian players hung on the wall