Just Imagine

Subject: Just Imagine
From: GUEST,John from Kemsing
Date: 23 May 08 - 12:27 PM

Just imagine the super Lonnie Donegan had become the popular skiffler, as he did, but instead of playing the guitar he accompanied himself on the piano. There are so many amongst us who admit to being influenced and introduced to performing by him but I bet at the time there were also many who had never seen a guitar let alone handle one. If Lonnie had popularised his music with the piano would we now be a nation of pianists of all genres and ability as we are with the guitar? Just imagine, if the demand for the guitar had been only a fraction of what it was, would there be more forests, if the demand for the piano had been as great as the guitar would the cast iron industry(certain piano frames)be in better shape?, and how would we have ever got to so many clubs to do our thing humpimg a piano with us? Steinway and Yamahah could be the names on our lips when speaking or our instruments. The mind boggles!

Subject: RE: Just Imagine
From: Melissa
Date: 23 May 08 - 10:13 PM

My friend used to have a Far Side cartoon on her refrigerator--cowboys sitting around a fire, one of them had a piano in his pocket and another said something like "hey, pull that thing out and give us a tune"