What gender is your instrument?

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Gedi
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 01:57 PM

My melodeon is definately female - I just love to give her a good squeeze. And she's so responsive.......

Name of Milly btw.

Cheers
Ged

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 03:10 PM

these people that genderise their musical instuments must have sex with them

I ain't had sex (yet), but I do get some good endorphins when I molest the guitar. She is definitely a she (must be the curve, and the voice response to my touch) to my mind. Does that mean I am projecting latent lesbian tendencies?

Here all this time I thought I was only attracted to men. Well if my honey gets jealous of the time I spend with the guitar, I will tell to think of as two women making love. He should change his tune pretty quick, I should think.

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: wyrdolafr
Date: 01 Feb 09 - 03:20 PM

Perhaps I'm just too much of a 'new man' or something, but I can't really think of musical instruments as being gender-focused.

They are either 'friends' or 'tools' depending on how well I'm getting on with them at the time.

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: CupOfTea
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 06:17 PM

Egad!

Just because you think of an instrument (or car, or other inanimate, yet interactive object) as having a name and gender, doesn't mean you want to have sex with it. Can someone be so devoid of imagination that they think that the only reason for mentioning gender is because of sex? Whatever to make of languages where gender of objects is integral to the language, oh my! or...er... pardonez-moi!

Guitarists though... especially rock guitarists... some of them DO look as though they're getting more than a good bass line from how they bash that thing... just sayin.'

Joanne In Cleveland who does not boff her concertina

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Jayto
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 06:23 PM

My main guitar is a he. Everyone calls it Patch because of a repair job where the patch of wood used to replace the missing wood was a slightly different color. Patch is a tough old bird that has been through hell and is still singing and playing sweeter than ever. That guitar is a male.

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 06:30 PM

When my younger sister, Pat, bought her first car, she got it used. Nice little Chevvy two-door sedan. She thought of it as a "she" and after having it for awhile, she named it "Shasta."

As in, "Shasta have a tune-up," "Shasta have an oil change," "Shasta have new tires," "Shasta have a front-end alignment. . . ."

You get the idea.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 07:05 PM

Nick Apollonio didn't name my 12 string, but when I finished it he sent me an e-mail with the subject line "It's a boy." And it was. He's building me a laud now; I'll be interested to see whether he associates a gender with that one.

Dan

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 07:41 PM

That reminds me.

In a concert in Seattle some years ago, Gordon Bok mentioned that his 12-string guitar bore the name "Big John." He described how he was in Nick Apollonio's shop one day when he was having some work done on the guitar. The neck was removed and a couple of other parts were laying around here and there, when Ed Trickett walked in. He looked at the miscellaneous parts of Gordon's disassemble guitar laying there and gasped, "Johnny, I hardly knew ye!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST,mad Jock
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 04:19 PM

My instrument is an organ!

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 09:44 AM

I never did say what I named my new Sigma DM4M. Her name is Odetta, because she is big and curvy (dreadnaught), dark (mahoghany finish), and man she can sing (loud and deep).

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: SharonA
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 10:52 AM

Most are gender-neutral, but a couple of my earliest guitars are "male". My banjo is also male; his name is Theo. Get it? "...Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, strummin' on Theo Banjo..."

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: SharonA
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 11:06 AM

'Wayyyy back in January, Genie asked, " 'Mama Guitar Beats A Woman Every Time' Who sang that? A guy (obviously), but I can't remember who."

Just looked it up -- it was sung by Don Cornell, a Big Band vocalist who went on to have a successful solo czreer. "Mama Guitar" was released May 1957, from the film "A Face in the Crowd", on the B side of a 45rpm record (the film's title tune was on the A side). Info from Amazon.com

Listen to "Mama Guitar" on YouTube

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 11:29 AM

My old Martin sings like and angel so she is female
My Alvarez is a male he has a big deep bass voice

My banjo however is more of an It. It pings and sputters and squeaks like an old carr that needs oil ... because mostly of the guy running it

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Tootler
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 04:08 PM

My contrabass recorder is simply "The big beastie". I have never thought what gender it is.

Geoff

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Rowan
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 07:23 PM

Despite Peter Bellamy's famous genderisation of guitars as female (general shape and actions required for playing) and Anglo concertinas as male (he did a demonstration of huffing and puffing and watching its behaviour with his left hand removed and a slow leak though the air button), my Anglo has always been "the leather ferret", with no gender implied.

Unimaginative perhaps, but when I worked as a botanist with Canberra's Botanic Gardens, I had access to a Hillman Minx with NSW registration plates (and thus yellow in colour) "CUP 300"; it was variously known as Buttercup and Ranunculus. Later on I acquired a 1954 Morris Minor panel van that had previously been used as a delivery van by a bakery. The last vehicle made that could be taken apart and reassembled with a bicycle spanner, it revelled for some years under the name "Breadbin".

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 09:05 PM

My Instruments:

My piano - female - I tickle her ivory and she sings quite well
My Organ - female - I pump her reeds and sometimes she will squeal.
My Accordian - female - We squeeze each other chest to chest...and oh..the vibrato!
My Banjo - female - the skin is tight and she is high strung too
My HurdyGerdy - hermaphrodous - when it is damp he sings low and when it is dry she sings high.
Harmonicas (14) - all male - like to get equally blown and sucked

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Jul 09 - 09:14 PM

Every animate...inanimate utility within our household was named and sexed.

Automobiles
Kitchen Mixers
Ovens
Kats
Vacumn Cleaners
Trees
Egg Beater
Blankets
Pressure Cooker

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

The naming of things did not stop with Adam in the Garden of Eden ... it was a lively tradition in our family....who through Mormon connections has perhaps now linked to the Garden connect itself.

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST,Dusty Turtle
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 12:45 PM

All acoustic guitars are hemaphroditic, since they are shaped with curves reminiscent of the female body but the neck is also a phallic symbol.

My hourglass-shaped dulcimer can also play mixed doubles by itself.

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 02:37 PM

Ambi-sexual. Although my wife and I own two Martin Guitars of the same type, 0021.
Hers is Marty and mine is Rose.

Frank

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:07 PM

it's a girl!!

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:14 PM

Sorcha, me Uillean pipes are a wee girl, but she likes girls and is one of the guys,she's me shem not me bior, but Frith, ah Frith, gra mo cre, me 200 year old John Egan harp, is definitly a wee girl, with a young heart in her long lasting frame... young sweet and a singer

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 05:40 PM

The above guest about the pipes and harp, is of course, me, but lost me cookie... lor

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 02:55 PM

I've known a number of gentlemen over the years who insisted on naming their instruments, often with comical (or pathetic) result. In every case but one, a masculine-sounding name was used. The odd man out was the musician.....

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST,Ceravene
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 03:52 AM

My flute's most definitely female and moody to boot. She's a stroppy little madam who sulks if I stop playing for too long and gets upset by the slightest change in temperature.

Musicians are a funny lot - ever think that anthropomorphisation can go too far? :)

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 12:25 AM

The two are inseparable !

Subject: RE: What gender is your instrument?
From: amandalynne
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 12:27 AM

When they remember to sign in that is....