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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Date: 27 Nov 99 - 11:39 PM I'm paying 250 per once but it does not appear to be as good as yours. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:56 PM No Don its not, but it is not cheep to tweet and leaves you very flighty. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:56 PM Who the hell,what is Sally? Does she play the autoharp? What is funny about a deadly disease? |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: DonMeixner Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:52 PM Thank God its tweetable Seed, Is it a canarial disease? Don |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:49 PM The San Francisco Chronicle today had a story about West Nile encephalitis (what Sally is suspected of having) being carried by a variety of native birds--robins, bluejays, bald eagles, and especially crows. Be sure to ask any mosquito who is about to bite you about his previous contacts. In other word, practice safe sucks. (It's my thread, and I'll creep if I want to--even to the point of making dumb, grisly puns.) --seed |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: _gargoyle Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:44 PM It is a sad state of affairs, Mr. Joe Offer...
An "official" supervising the "officials of the official government"...is forced to drive around in a deminuative(sic) vehicle.... perhaps you should move to Mexico and buy an automobile with a little more heft .... |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: DonMeixner Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:30 PM And no one care who won the battle except the accordion players spying from the surrounding trees. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Bill D Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:10 PM Bryan Bowers used to tell a story of using one to defend hiself aginst a drunk with a broken beer bottle....'harp was fine...drunk was not... *visions of the 121st Armored Autoharp Brigade marching off to battle with the evil Bodhrans) |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:01 PM Well, my shiny red Honda Civic is now 6 months old, and it only has one dent on it - the one it got when my girlfriend bumped into it with her Autoharp. Them things are powerful instruments. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Nov 99 - 09:53 PM Not that anyone would particularly care-I don't for instance-but much has been written about the way we hear vs accurate pitch as calculated. Ask any piano tuner and you'll find the bass/sharp & treble/flat to be true. Its not quite such an issue in guitar or other lute type instruments as it is on zither types because of the additional static range. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: _gargoyle Date: 27 Nov 99 - 09:53 PM Jez, becuz, see tuk mie side agin yu is no rasun to pik on de kind lady. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Bill D Date: 27 Nov 99 - 06:44 PM yep, nightowl...we do...can't hear a blamed thing with all the guitar & banjo players noodling..*wink*...and since we almost have to use a Korg, the darn thing goes crazy trying to make sense out of all the noise! |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Night Owl Date: 27 Nov 99 - 06:42 PM ...BG.....;o) |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 27 Nov 99 - 06:40 PM There are some who say they ought to leave the room to play them, Night Owl (great big grin--I just made up my own autoharp joke!). --seed |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Night Owl Date: 27 Nov 99 - 06:20 PM At least Autoharp players LEAVE the room to tune their instrument.!! :o) |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Gary T Date: 27 Nov 99 - 05:37 PM That bit about tuning the bass end a little sharp and the treble end a little flat echoes the advice I read in a book on tuning a piano. It seemed like a fine system to make the instrument as harmonious as possible. (In a rare fit of sanity, I decided not to try tuning it myself.) |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Bill D Date: 27 Nov 99 - 04:11 PM well, I tune it when I hear something wrong, but my ears are not the best... Once, at Winfield Kansas, Li'l Roy Lewis, of the Lewis Family, saw me carrying my 'harp, and because he plays one, asked to try my (then new) 21 bar...he strummed a chord..wrinkled his brow and said "something's out....you got the 'krenk'?"..(crank..as in tuning wrench)*grin*...then he proceeded to fix it in a couple of deft twists! What I would give to HEAR like that!..He simply KNEW what note was wrong in a whole bunch. I use a Korg, and it makes life a lot easier....but Bryan Bowers once told me he could not use an electronic tuner, because he felt that 'perfect' tuning was not right...he claimed that not only do you need to tune string 'x' differently for different keys.., but the whole thing needs to be 'slightly' sharp at the lowed end and flat at the higher end!...So he tuned entirely by ear and used those mulitple 'harps to make every key sound balanced. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 27 Nov 99 - 03:26 PM Thanks, folks. Keep 'em coming. Even the recycled banjo jokes (and in my haste to start this thread this I omitted the only instrument that rivals the banjo in number of jokes: bodhran). --seed |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: wildlone Date: 27 Nov 99 - 03:14 PM Bill D,You mean to tell me you have to tune the things? Bugger it that will take ages. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Nov 99 - 02:58 PM Is it "or so" yet Bill? Your friends are in pain and want to know. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Bill D Date: 27 Nov 99 - 02:55 PM I have heard the 'harp called "The Mickey Mouse chord changer"......or the 'idiot zither'.... and I sometimes wear a t-shirt that says... "I tune my AUTOHARP every month or so----need it or not" |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Nov 99 - 02:52 PM Hey!!!(Why I don't do sessions or dulcimer fests anymore) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowanybetter Date: 27 Nov 99 - 02:44 PM I would think Autoharp Joke would be the epitome of redundancy, but I'm told they sound great if you turn them over and clog on them. Also (and this also works for hammer dulcimers) when an autoharp player comes to a session and tunes one string to everybody else, then walks away to tune the rest, it's cruel but justifiable for everybody to tune up or down a hair so that the harp player comes back and is still out of tune. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: sophocleese Date: 27 Nov 99 - 12:51 PM Geez, I thought an autoharp was Loreena McKennit on cruise control... |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Michael K. Date: 27 Nov 99 - 12:49 PM Definition of an optimist? An autoharp player with a pager. |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: harpgirl Date: 27 Nov 99 - 11:11 AM ...just the joke about calling my autoharps the world's largest cheese graters... |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Nov 99 - 11:05 AM Hey I like Don's!!!! It is odd that there aren't more Autoharp jokes. You realize that the thing ain't a harp don't you? Its a Zither. But as I've said before, who the hell would buy something called an "Autozither?" I dunno, maybe Bill D., but the word is too damn weird for the rest of us. Sounds like some kind of bizarro, self-gratification device that gets shipped to you in a plain, brown, wrapper. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: Abby Sale Date: 27 Nov 99 - 10:34 AM Interesting - potentially silly as the autoharp may be, you are right that it doesn't seem to appear in any of the standard music joke pages. Seems unfair and improper discrimination to me. Well, here's a bit of a story - at least something to say, if not actually funny. From the "Happy!" file: Nobody celebrates 9/4/1817 as the birth in Morgenroethe, Germany of Charles Zimmermann. In 1881 he patented, then promoted & mass-manufactured the then-called "Autoharp." He had nothing to with inventing it, however. Seems he stole the idea from a German guy yclept Karl A Gutter who'd patented the thing in England. In the fullness of those gentler, slower-paced days, Zimmermann was run over by a horse-drawn street car & died 10/20/1898.
You may wish to contact Mary Lou Orthey |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: DonMeixner Date: 27 Nov 99 - 08:46 AM And tell Sally I wish her well and a speedy recovery. Don |
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Subject: RE: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: DonMeixner Date: 27 Nov 99 - 08:45 AM Ho Charles, When I was in a band years ago that I played Autoharp in I was billed as the 36 year old perfect master of the wooden accordion. It was once announced from the stage thatdurning the breaks I'd be slicing cheese and coldcuts for sandwiches in the back. But jokes that aren't a rehash? Aren't all jokes a rehash? Don |
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Subject: Know any autoharpy jokes? From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 27 Nov 99 - 03:40 AM Since I've been coming here I've heard lots of jokes about various folk instrumentalists, primarily about banjo players, but also about accordion players, bagpipers, fiddlers, guitarists, even mandolinists, but never a joke about an autoharp player. If you know any (or can create any that aren't just rehashed banjo jokes), I'd greatly appreciate your posting them here--I think Sally could use a few good laughs about now. --seed |
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