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Songs about musical Instruments
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Subject: Songs about Musical Instruments From: PHJim Date: 23 Aug 22 - 09:03 AM I am searching for some songs about musical instruments. I've found: -Mike Smith's "Hobo's Mandolin" [a.k.a. "This Here Mandolin"] -Jerry Faires' "D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin)" -Gary Fjellgaard's "Me & Martin" -Johnny Cash's "When Papa Played The Dobro" -Loudon Wainwright III's "The Ukulele Song" I'm sure there must be hundreds more.
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Backwoodsman Date: 23 Aug 22 - 09:17 AM Richard Shindell - 'Your Guitar' Written about Steve Bruton's guitar which Richard acquired after Steve's sudden death. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Susan of DT Date: 23 Aug 22 - 10:15 AM harp in Two Sisters banjo in Oh, Susannah and Working on the Railroad Old Orange Flute Charlie Green Slide Trombone Lochmaben Harper |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Acorn4 Date: 23 Aug 22 - 10:45 AM The Melodeons are Coming |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Aug 22 - 12:20 PM And this fine German song: I am a Fine Musician/Ich bin ein Musikante |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: RTim Date: 23 Aug 22 - 12:57 PM "I am a Music Man and come from down your way...and I can play.. What can you play..? I can play the [ ]" Fill in the Blanks yourself.. Tim Radford |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: The Sandman Date: 23 Aug 22 - 02:27 PM on my little concertina, written by j garrett |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 23 Aug 22 - 02:57 PM Nice French kiddies' song: "J'ai Perdu Le Do De Ma Clarinette" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Nigel Parsons Date: 23 Aug 22 - 03:25 PM "Ill Wind" (Mozart's horn concerto) Flanders & Swann |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: MudGuard Date: 23 Aug 22 - 04:19 PM The Bodhran Song |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,Nac Mac Feagle Date: 23 Aug 22 - 05:38 PM There are many about bodhrans - but you won't beat this: https://youtu.be/MCXNreU-W74 [WRAP IT UP (Four Men and a Dog)] |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: The Sandman Date: 24 Aug 22 - 03:57 AM I TOOK MY HARP TO A PARTY also mentions concertinas |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: The Sandman Date: 24 Aug 22 - 04:15 AM The Nightingale [a.k.a. THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG] mentions a fiddle |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 24 Aug 22 - 04:27 AM The Auld Triangle by Dominic Behan. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 24 Aug 22 - 04:30 AM The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls (by John McCormack, please!) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Ernest Date: 24 Aug 22 - 09:35 AM Bodhrans and Banjos by the McCalmans |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 24 Aug 22 - 09:43 AM Surely all these mentions of bodhrans are off-topic... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 24 Aug 22 - 12:02 PM You push the first valve down, and the music goes round and round. Sincerely, Gargoyle Generally associated with Louis Armstrong |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 24 Aug 22 - 12:19 PM Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Picking on the Old Banjo Mandolin Wind Guitar Boogie Guitar Rag The Guitar Man The Hurdy Gurdy Man Fiddler's Green Rosin the Beau Mamma’s Got a Squeeze Box |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,Richard Date: 24 Aug 22 - 01:40 PM The Female Drummer Papa Piccolino While My Guitar Gently Weeps Tubby the Tuba Sparky's Magic Piano |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Mrrzy Date: 24 Aug 22 - 02:20 PM I kissed her while the fiddles/guitars/bagpipes etc. played the Bonaparte's Retreat Ma guitarre et moi The river overflowed its banks, the town was full of water I cannot swim, cried Mrs Jones in anguish to her daughter Oh you get upon the bureau, Ma, I think that a good plan-O And I will accompany you upon the grand piano! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Nigel Parsons Date: 24 Aug 22 - 02:30 PM Under the Lilacs (he played his guitar) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: AKS Date: 24 Aug 22 - 02:57 PM Die Gitarre und das Meer – in the end the guitar (and the sea) is what's left for him (Jimmy Braun, I mean)... |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Felipa Date: 24 Aug 22 - 03:08 PM Joni Mitchell "Real Good for Free" Séamus Mac Giolla Domhnaigh "My Fiddle's Got the Flu" "Old Zip Coon" Meridith Wilson "76 Trombones" "By the Banks of the Roses" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 24 Aug 22 - 03:22 PM And we danced all night To the fiddle and the banjo Drifting tunes filled the air So long ago, but I still remember When we fell in love at the Roseville Fair |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Zhenya Date: 24 Aug 22 - 07:57 PM The Carved Wood Box - Cal Scott, recorded with the Trail Band - about a mandolin. Fiddler’s Hymn - Pete Sutherland, on a recording by Metamora The Fiddler of Dooney - from a Yeats poem, various recordings around. One nice one is by Sean Doyle (father of John Doyle) Blind Fiddler - Joe Hickerson Champion at driving ‘em crazy - Ian Robb - mentions several instruments used in Irish music Dulcimer - song by David Mallett The Touch of the Master’s Hand - Sally Rogers - about a violin |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 24 Aug 22 - 08:36 PM Play me a fiddle tune, sing me a song Banish misfortune, my time is not long Midnight on the water, so steady and slow. The lark in the morning, one more for the road. Midnight on the water, so steady and slow Pour me a last drink Set 'em up Joe. Well, I've done all my dancing down in those bar-rooms. Drinking and dancing, they go hand in glove. Buy a beer for the fiddler, and request that old song So I can dance closer to the one that I love (Raise a glass to the mighty Ron Kavana, who is not in the best of health these days...) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: BobL Date: 25 Aug 22 - 03:17 AM George Formby: "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Aug 22 - 05:16 AM Concertina Man · Ray Bradfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02QmwjY0gwk |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GeoffLawes Date: 25 Aug 22 - 05:20 AM The Concertina Man · Paul O' Reilly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4QthgQRRsk |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: David C. Carter Date: 25 Aug 22 - 05:27 AM "That Old Beat-Up Guitar". Jerry Jeff Walker. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Steve Shaw Date: 25 Aug 22 - 07:15 AM (Dance to my) Ten Guitars (Engelbert Humperdinck) :-) |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: rich-joy Date: 25 Aug 22 - 08:03 AM "This Old Guitar" (taught me to sing a love song) - John Denver |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Acorn4 Date: 26 Aug 22 - 04:39 AM The Old Fiddler [by Benny Hill - lyrics] |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: keberoxu Date: 26 Aug 22 - 05:01 AM "Fiddle in the Sky", by Seals & Crofts |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: gillymor Date: 26 Aug 22 - 05:42 AM Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar by the Delmore Bros. The D-18 Song by Norman Blake Me and My Guitar, I think James Taylor wrote it and Tony Rice did a great cover. Mandolin Wind by Rod Stewart, though I'm not sure it was about a musical instrument. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Aug 22 - 11:05 AM "Would You Like to Play the Guitar?" - Pat Donohue's parody of "Swinging on a Star" - not so much about guitars as about the hardships of being a musician. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,DrWord Date: 28 Aug 22 - 10:31 AM Dylan references many instruments in one tune, the title escapes me, but the refrain Is “Lay Down Your Weary Tune”. Yeah, that’s probably the name. Organ, banjo, cymbals, bugle, drums … Tennessee Flat-Top Box My green tambourine Keep pickin’ Dennis |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: Stringsinger Date: 28 Aug 22 - 03:20 PM Don't know if this was mentioned but Pat Donahue's parody on "Swinging on a Star" entitled, "Would You Like to Play the Guitar" is a fun spoof. And true. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST Date: 29 Aug 22 - 12:16 AM "Ukulele Lady" by Gus Kahn and Richard A. Whiting. "Something So Feminine About a Mandolin" by Jimmy Buffett |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: JennieG Date: 29 Aug 22 - 06:53 AM One that comes to mind: "I love a piano" by Irving Berlin. A couple of seasonal songs: "Santa never brings me a banjo" by David Myles, and "I want a ukulele for Christmas" by John Meola Lindhorst. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: David C. Carter Date: 29 Aug 22 - 09:16 AM "The Piano Has Been Drinking". Tom Waits |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: David C. Carter Date: 29 Aug 22 - 10:37 AM "Daniel And The Sacred Harp" The Band |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Aug 22 - 11:09 AM About piano playing,maybe not The Old German Musicianer · Harry Cox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stQXX_YGhPc |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,Nac Mac Feagle Date: 30 Aug 22 - 05:46 PM https://youtu.be/xml36QFS7i8 [A Guitar Is Like a Woman - Otis Lee Crenshaw (Rich Hall)] |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: gillymor Date: 30 Aug 22 - 07:10 PM Banjo Picking Girl by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard Guitars,Cadillacs by Dwight Yoakum Guitar Town by Steve Earle |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Aug 22 - 04:33 AM Concertina Consciousness by Dave Goulder My Old Gibson Guitar by Alex Campbell. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: gillymor Date: 31 Aug 22 - 05:02 AM A lot of folks have covered Mama Don't Allow. Pokey LaFarge |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,SqueezeMe Date: 31 Aug 22 - 07:56 AM He Played his Ukulele as the Ship Went Down The old accordion playing a sentimental tune Cruising down the river on a Sunday afternoon And just about every known instrument on Bonzo Dog's "Intro...Outro". |
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Subject: RE: Songs about Musical Instruments From: GUEST,SqueezeMe Date: 31 Aug 22 - 08:20 AM and a couple more.... John Kirkpatrick's "Here's Your Harp, Welcome to Heaven; Here's Your Accordion, Welcome to Hell" Pete Coe's "The Sound of Hohner" |
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