Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?

Subject: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: 53
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:31 PM

My favorite stringed instrument is the guitar, but I also love the Banjo, and the Mandolin. What are your thoughts on your favorite?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:33 PM

Favorite to play, or favorite to listen to?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: 53
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:41 PM

I'm sorry, I meant to play.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 08:13 PM

Only 1 then--my fiddle. Not anybody elses' fiddle. Mine is a '20-'30's Lyon and Healy machine model with geared tuning pegs, but I love her.

I sort of fool around with lap dulcimer but I'm not good with it.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 08:17 PM

i like the lap dulcimer myself...easy to strangle out a few tunes with it....(and I mean strangle)

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 08:21 PM

Uhm, since I can't actually play any stringed instruments, I'll say that my favourite to listen to is the dombra. (2-stringed Kazakh lute) :)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 08:45 PM

THe guitar is my 1st love. Though I can play about a dozen different instruments with varying degrees of proficiency, I wanted to play the guitar since I was around 7 or 8. I think I've finally succeeded. Though these days if I pick up an instrument for my amusement it's usually the fiddle. After 30 or so years I have finally started to get somewhere on that most difficult of instruments. Come to think of it though, none of them are really easy.

MArk Ross

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Anahootz
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 08:47 PM

The Photon-Ajuitar, as played by Hotblack Desiato of the Plutonium Rock Band "Disaster Area".

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Giac
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 08:50 PM

To play, guitar; to hear played, piano.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 09:19 PM

To play, the guitar. To listen to, just about anything well-played, but once again, the guitar--from classic to some real funky finger-pickin' on a steel-string.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: DancingMom
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 09:44 PM

I studied cello some in college. That was fun. So was hammered dulcimer. But now that I have the kids band instruments all paid off, I went and bought myself a new guitar! At last!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 11:16 PM

Hammered Dulcimer. I love guitar for all that it can do what you can do with it, even if you're lousy, but Hammered is an old instrument, elegant in it's design with a certain symmetry that appeals to me. It's not a difficult instrument and yet to be played well involves a lot of touch. It works well in it's simplest form on a variety of music types and though it's the forerunner to the far more complex piano, it has a sound, related to it's size, that is distinctive and all it's own. People with no interest in folk or even in music are prone to ask, "What instrument is that?" when they hear it on a recording. Hearing one live, people often ask a lot of questions and and make a lot of comments on what a pretty sound they have.

Also, I used to feel that autoharps were the world's biggest dummy instrument, but that was strictly due to my own stupidity about the nuances of the instrument and what you can do with it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Gypsy
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 11:24 PM

Hammered dulcimer, specially mine own. I love to hear me or anyone else play one. And hurdy gurdy, played by Patrick Bouffard.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: GUEST,Extra Stout
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 02:04 AM

The harder I play my Hummingbird, the more music it gives me. Apparently, there is an endless supply of the stuff in there somewhere. I've been pounding on it since 1970, and I don't bother to look at new guitars anymore. I've also found 5-string banjo to be a rewarding instrument. With standard G tuning, you get a free chord!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From:
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 04:21 AM

the ecclesiastical trumpet was a double bass sized single string fiddle used in services in church and latterly used in fogs on board ships to warn others of your presence before radar. This was my favourite stringed instrument before I got a life.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 05:18 AM

I've always wanted to own, and learn to play, a charango.

I have a Martin 000-X1, which I love and can sort of play OK, a broken 12-string that I hope to get fixed sometime, a pretty mountain dulcimer which I'm trying to find the time to learn, a 5-string banjo that I never got the hang of....and a little 48-bass accordion that I'll just throw in there for laughs, in case CarolC is listening.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 05:26 AM

The Lute - but never had the money to buy one. So I played Renaissance lute pieces on my old Spanish guitar with wood pegs and catgut strings.
The guitar was my first favourite instrument; it has a wider range, but is more difficult to play. Now I'm old and my finger joints are aching. No strings no more, alas!

Wilfried

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 05:34 AM

I have got a mandolin and a guitar, but I think my guitar is the favourite.It is almost new and still really shiny.john

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 09:10 AM

Only one mention of the piano? To me the sound is the most "alive" and emotional there is. There are so many nuances in the sound, and it is so responsive to various levels of talent. A violin played well (and also a cello) has a lot of emotion, but I've always liked the sound of a piano more.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: 53
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:03 PM

Favorite song is the new version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, man that song in that version is just awesome.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Genie
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:54 PM

How 'bout a kite?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Mooh
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 08:21 PM

Guitar to play and for listening. Also mandolin, bass, and several other instruments, but guitar is what turns my crank.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 09:10 PM

what's a charango?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: GUEST,CBJames
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 09:40 PM

I sort of like Oscar Peterson on the Piano.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: GUEST,CBJames
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 09:43 PM

Then again - there was Jimmi Hendrix

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 09:52 PM

HARP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 10:43 PM

A charango is a 10 or 12 string Latin American instrument,the back is usually(the ones I've seen) an armadillo shell.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: 53
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 11:28 PM

Has anybody ever played a Gango, I reckon that's spelled right.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: GUEST,Helen (on hubby's computer)
Date: 06 Apr 02 - 07:04 AM

Harp - I'm with Bonnie on that one. But I love cello & violin to listen to - can't play either.

Helen

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 06 Apr 02 - 10:44 PM

Some info on the charango on this site, as well as some info about armadillos. The charango is what makes that bright high-pitched strumming sound in Andean music. And every charango player I've ever seen (well, both of them) has always had a big grin on his face while he was playing, which is one reason I want to learn to play it! Not all charangos are made from armadillo shells. It's said, though, that an armadillo has to go to a conservatory for five years to study to become a charango.

Aloha,
Mark