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31 Aug 10 - 10:01 PM (#2977176) Subject: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Bobert Well, this is going to be very interesting for me... Hey, everyone I know that has been playin' a long time has accumulated quite a few musical instruments in every shape and form but... ... there's that #1 instrument that if you wre to be stranded on a dessert that you'd wnat to take with you... BTW, this isn't a "wish list" thread... I'm talkin' abou the one instrument that you now own that would be on that isalnd with you... And thank you for anyone willing to step to the plate here... B~ |
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31 Aug 10 - 10:09 PM (#2977180) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Desert Dancer 1928 Wheatstone English tenor-treble concertina ~ Becky in Tucson |
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31 Aug 10 - 10:10 PM (#2977181) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: olddude My D-28, is first, My old Alvarez second. My old Classical guitar third. If I was allowed a fourth it would be the 5 string banjo but only if I was allowed. |
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31 Aug 10 - 10:21 PM (#2977185) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Ebbie My D35 SlotHead, first and foremost. My deceased brother's mandolin. My fiddle- maybe if I were stranded on a desert (NOT dessert, Beaubear!), my bowing arm would learn what it must do. And now, of course, I see that you said no #2s or #3s...it's olddude's fault, obviously. |
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31 Aug 10 - 10:55 PM (#2977198) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Bee-dubya-ell At this time, it would be my Dusty Strings D-10 hammered dulcimer. But that's mainly because I recently started back playing it after a rather lengthy hiatus and I've been having way too much fun with it. Ask me again in a few months and you might get a totally different answer. |
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01 Sep 10 - 02:53 AM (#2977240) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Dave Hanson A satellite location device. Dave H |
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01 Sep 10 - 02:58 AM (#2977242) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: SteveMansfield I was asked this very question recently ... and it would have to be my Overton (Goldie) low D whistle. A desert-island-friendly combination of endless playing pleasure allied to a robust construction able to survive the worst conditions a desert island could throw at it! |
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01 Sep 10 - 03:53 AM (#2977273) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: mandotim Rainsong WS1000 carbon fibre guitar. It's not my best sounding guitar, but it would stand up to anything the sea and the tropics could throw at it. |
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01 Sep 10 - 04:06 AM (#2977277) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: MGM·Lion I agree with BWL ~~ matter of mood. Some days I will reach out for my banjo to practice, others my beloved Petersen concert guitar [just the name ~~ I don't play 'concert' guitar music, just folk], others either one of my two Lachenal wooden-ended anglo concertinas: 1905 C/G, 1912 D/A. Occasionally even the 6-bar autoharp I picked up at auction for £4.10.0, back before decimal currency came in 1971. Please let me take them all. Oh, go on; please; please·please·please·pretty·please. Yah ~~ meanie! ~Michael~ |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:08 AM (#2977293) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Jack Campin Getting strings on a desert island might be a problem. Otherwise I'd take my ud (which I'm not very good on, but it's a terrific thing for noodling to yourself with). An Overton whistle makes a great fish spear. |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:38 AM (#2977303) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: GUEST,Ed Yawn... Bobert's question may be genuine enough, but it inevitably turns into 'let me boast about the great instruments I own' which is really tedious... |
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01 Sep 10 - 06:04 AM (#2977315) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Leadfingers My No 1 HAS to be any of my Dixon Whistles , with my Docherty Mandolin as No 2 . Then its a hard choice for No 3 ! Is it the D35 , or the Maya 5 String , 0r even the Banjola ? |
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01 Sep 10 - 06:40 AM (#2977334) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: The Fooles Troupe While the best thing what with all the sand and salt air to take would be my Howard Low C, I would prefer to take Blondie. Blondie is my 32 Bass Settimo Soprani Piano Accordion. It can play very softly, but also far louder than you would think. Why Blondie? Well, she's a real screamer... |
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01 Sep 10 - 06:51 AM (#2977340) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: alex s If I were stranded on a dessert I'd like a spoon........ |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:25 AM (#2977361) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: kendall My Apollo 12 string My Taylor My 5 string banjo. Being stranded on an island would be cause to be depressed, but it's impossible to be depressed while playing the banjo.Of course, it is possible to make others depressed. As my old boss used to say, "I don't get ulcers, I give them." |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:34 AM (#2977368) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Wesley S First - My 1967 Martin D-18. I've owned it since 1969. Second - My Hans Brentrup A style mandolin. |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:40 AM (#2977372) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Mavis Enderby Well, Ed, I suppose this is an anti-boast. I'd take my shabby old Savana banjo which, although old, was probably a POS when new and it is now too. But it's my 'throw in the van' instrument, I love playing it, and as I heard somewhere, "nothing wastes time like a 5 string banjo" Incidentally I'm in a very similar place to Jack Campin regarding the ud so I'll make that my No. 2. Looks like it might float nicely too... Pete. |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:42 AM (#2977375) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Midchuck I'm with Mandotim - Rainsong (or other carbon-fiber guitars) eliminate all worry about heat and humidity, and most worry about impact damage; and the difference in sound is only noticeable to an experienced ear in excellent listening conditions. Mine is the OM-1000, and when I play anywhere out of the house, 99 per cent of the time, it's the one I grab. IF the desert island had an air-conditioned house on it, though, I'd probably opt for the Huss & Dalton CM I picked up a couple of months ago. They make incredible instruments. Peter |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:55 AM (#2977387) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: The Sandman my voice |
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01 Sep 10 - 11:28 AM (#2977537) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Mooh Likely a 6 string Beneteau guitar that's been following me around for 15 years or so, I just keep coming back to it. Perhaps more practical from a "stranded on a desert island" perspective would be a small body 6 string guitar made by Josh House, though I'm not as sentimentally attached to it as the first choice. If not a guitar, my Moon flattop mandolin. If the desert island had a house on it, a piano would be nice. Peace, Mooh. |
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01 Sep 10 - 12:25 PM (#2977591) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Bill D Since I play mostly autoharp......I think I'd take my Keith Young dulcimer with the Chestnut top....maybe I'd finally learn to play it decently! (it has fine tuners on the tailstock) |
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01 Sep 10 - 12:33 PM (#2977599) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: John P 1. Piano and piano tuning equipment 2. Guitar 3. Either cittern, which I'm pretty good at, or oud, which I want to get better at. |
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01 Sep 10 - 01:20 PM (#2977648) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Taconicus My 1934 Gibson L-00. |
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01 Sep 10 - 01:30 PM (#2977656) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: kendall OOOOO, a 1934 Gibson, covet, covet! |
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01 Sep 10 - 01:55 PM (#2977676) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Will Fly Damn your eyes, Bobert - no-one should have to make these choices. And I can't! |
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01 Sep 10 - 02:54 PM (#2977732) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Bobert Well, folks... Too many are throwing #2s and #3s into the mix... That ***AIN'T*** the question... Only #1!!! So far, some intersting responses... B~ |
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01 Sep 10 - 03:08 PM (#2977754) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: VirginiaTam bugger... I don't like this game. If I was stranded that would man I'd have the leisure to play and learn and improve on all of them and there you go limiting me to 3. Harumph. |
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01 Sep 10 - 03:22 PM (#2977771) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Joe Offer My #1 instrument? - my "D" harmonica. It's a Hohner Special 20, and I really love it. Can't say I'm much of a harmonica player, but somehow it always sounds good when I play along with people who are playing in "D." I just play chords that seem to fit and I noodle around a bit, and people seem to like it. I got forced into a solo on a break on a song the other day - and hey, it worked very well! My #2? - a Suzuki Folk Master in "G," also a very nice harmonica. #3? - well, I learned in fifth grade in the St. Rita School harmonica band on a Hohner Marine Band in "C," but it got gummed up and I never got it put back together after trying to clean it. I replaced it with a Hohner cheapie "American Ace" (made in China), but it was never the same. I don't have much use for "C" harmonicas, so I haven't bothered. Besides, I have a very nice Hohner chromatic harmonica in "C" that I haven't learned to play. I recently bought a Suzuki Folk Master in "A," but I rarely have found reason to use it. Folkies seem to sing mostly in "D". -Joe- |
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01 Sep 10 - 03:24 PM (#2977776) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Crowhugger Poor Bobert, how positively profane of us to hijack your original question by adding other instruments we'd hate to part with...tsk, tsk! #1 guitar. #2 banjo or cello. #3 cello or banjo. I'd have an awful time choosing a 2nd instrument to smuggle onto the island while Bobert isn't looking. I'd be fine if I could take 1 or 3. Does this hypothetical island have a string store? |
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01 Sep 10 - 04:23 PM (#2977819) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: terrier All my instruments could wait for me to get back home. It would be a lot more fun and time consuming to create something out of the raw materials on the island to get a tune out of. If there was no one else on the island to complain about the noise, it could sound as good as you want it to :) |
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01 Sep 10 - 04:34 PM (#2977828) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s... From: Bobert Come on, ya'll... JUST ONE!!! Not #2 and not #3... JUST ONE!!! B~ |
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01 Sep 10 - 04:46 PM (#2977835) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: kendall OK! relax! my friggin' `12 string, ok? |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:20 PM (#2977861) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Mavis Enderby Has this thread title changed? In a similar vain to kendall, just my friggin' crappy banjo then! Pete. |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:50 PM (#2977892) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Midchuck Kendall, if you let ME take the 12 to the desert island, then you could take the Taylor.... P. |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:58 PM (#2977904) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Bobert No, the thread title hasn't changed... Jus' lotta either poor readers or folks who think 1 = 3... lol... B~ |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:58 PM (#2977906) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: VirginiaTam my big old sigma... that's what I'd bring...specially if the Bobert give me blues lessons |
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01 Sep 10 - 06:14 PM (#2977922) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: The Fooles Troupe Bobert, that's Modern maths for ya! |
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01 Sep 10 - 06:31 PM (#2977933) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Joe Offer Yeath, the thread title HAS changed, and my message explaining the change didn't "take." The title was Your #1 Instrument... No #2 or #3s..., which confused some of us who are waxing myopic. I changed it to Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s.... Nonetheless, in brash disobedience and defiance of Bobert, allow me to say that my #3 favorite is still my Hohner Marine Band "C" harmonica, now deceased. May it rest in peace....er, pieces. It is a sentimental favorite, no longer a functional one. -Joe- |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:05 PM (#2977987) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Tootler My wooden flute. It has a lovely tone and I might just get proficient enough to play it at dance speed, though it is better suited to slow airs IMO. A set of plastic recorders would be more practical though. |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:15 PM (#2977996) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Susan A-R Well if I only got one, I'd have to take the voice. Couldn't well leave it behind, but if I get to bring a detachable instrument, the fiddle would have to be it, unless it was a choice between instrument and pet. Although I'd hesitate to bring the cat with all of those folks looking for strings. Sorry, the short answer is "fiddle" |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:16 PM (#2978000) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Ebbie terrier, I think you're going to have ALL of us there with you. |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:35 PM (#2978024) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Bobert See, folks... Even Joe has cahnged the thread so her can bring an arch's worth of instruments with him??? I mean, sheet fire, ya'll... What kinda nilistic world do we live in, anyway??? 1 = 1 here in Pine Grove Holler... BTW, in spite of my long lost love, the little S. Yairi parlor geetar, I'm takin'... ...ahhhhhhh???? Hmmmmmmmmm???? I'll have to get back to ya'll... B;~) |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:42 PM (#2978034) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: maeve LOL, Bobert. m |
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01 Sep 10 - 08:00 PM (#2978052) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Commander Crabbe My Suzuki 3S CC |
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01 Sep 10 - 08:08 PM (#2978067) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Leadfingers OK ! IF its just one , I'll take the banjola and work on Melody picking ! I will say (Modestly) that I am already a bit good on Whistle ! |
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01 Sep 10 - 08:15 PM (#2978076) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Joe Offer Hmmm. 1 may equal 1 in Pine Grove Holler, but what does No #2 equal?
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01 Sep 10 - 08:31 PM (#2978084) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: The Fooles Troupe Commander Crabbe "My Suzuki" Well, it will help you get around, but where you gonna get the petrol? |
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01 Sep 10 - 08:32 PM (#2978087) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: The Fooles Troupe Well you can tune a Suzuki ... :-P |
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01 Sep 10 - 08:44 PM (#2978094) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Bobert Well, joe... Here in Pine Grove Holler #2 is as it is everywhere else... BTW, watch yer step... B;~) |
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02 Sep 10 - 12:16 AM (#2978175) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Padre Martin 0015S - Slot head, 12-fret to the body and great tone |
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02 Sep 10 - 01:08 AM (#2978196) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Ebbie Padre, we're going to have to compare quality. My D35 slot head, 12-fret also has a great tone. |
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02 Sep 10 - 03:55 AM (#2978241) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: The Barden of England My Fylde Oberon - nuff said. John Barden |
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02 Sep 10 - 04:03 AM (#2978250) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: I don't know My Taylor guitar. |
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02 Sep 10 - 04:03 PM (#2978733) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: dwditty My Collings 000-2H. |
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02 Sep 10 - 06:14 PM (#2978839) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Commander Crabbe Foolestroupe http://nagoyasuzukiacoustic.blogspot.com/2008/01/f120-front.html and yes it is tuneable! but it only needs fossil fuel to get to the gig/session. CC |
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02 Sep 10 - 07:38 PM (#2978887) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Bobert Okay, seein' as I started this thread, I reckon it's time to step to the plate with my own decission... The envelope, please... Ahhhhh, I should have guessed it... The winner is..... my Washburn ES10 resonator geetar!!! B~ |
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02 Sep 10 - 07:50 PM (#2978894) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: kendall Midchuck, if we get the same island that would work well. |
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02 Sep 10 - 08:46 PM (#2978930) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Bobert Oh, so now we have deserted island "deals"??? Hmmmmm???? |
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03 Sep 10 - 11:58 AM (#2979305) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: GUEST,Songbob My choice would be the pre-1867 Martin 2-27 a good friend has lent me on long-term loan. The reasoning is that the search party would have more incentive than just looking for me! Seriously, I'd probably take my Meisterklasse Hohner "C" harmonica, on the chance that strings would be hard to get for most any instrument, and the only non-string instrument I play is the harmonica. The choice of the Meisterklasse over any of my 'normal' harps is because the aluminum comb (frame) is harder to damage than the plastic or wood ones of the Marine Bands / Special 20s / Lee Oskar harps that make up my "stock." And I might sneak a Dan Moi* into my luggage, since jews' harps aren't necessarily 'musical instruments,' and dan mois are almost unrecognizable as jews' harps anyway. The inspectors would never notice it. Bob Clayton Dan Moi * Vietnamese jews' harp made of brass, and the tongue slot is cut with a laser. Nifty, wonderful sound, and very portable. Played on the lips, not the teeth, as well. |
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03 Sep 10 - 12:32 PM (#2979324) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Rapparee I'm kinda partial to toilet paper over a comb.... |
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03 Sep 10 - 12:33 PM (#2979325) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Rapparee ...unused toilet paper. It sounds really shitty otherwise and can leave a bad taste in your mouth. |
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03 Sep 10 - 05:00 PM (#2979503) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: GUEST,999 My main machine is a D-28 guitar and a smaller sweet-sounding Larravee comes in No. 2. My third is the fenorten. (Accent is on the second syllable.) |
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03 Sep 10 - 05:39 PM (#2979517) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: mkebenn My '70 D-35, I bought her new. |
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03 Sep 10 - 06:01 PM (#2979531) Subject: RE: Your #1 Instrument... NOT #2 or #3s... From: Zen Either of my two good mandolins. |
