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31 Oct 12 - 07:50 AM (#3428788) Subject: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Phil Edwards I play a bunch of different instruments - most of them not particularly well - and it's just struck me that there's only one I talk to. I'm not talking about holding conversations with an inanimate object, you understand; just little things, like saying hello when I get it out, and saying goodnight when it goes away for the night. I started doing this more or less as soon as I got it, even though I'd never done it with any other instrument. I must be in love. Anyone else - people with multiple instruments in particular - do you do this? If you've got several different guitars, say, do you say hello to all of them, or just the one[s] you're particularly fond of? Are there any types of instrument you're particularly likely to talk to? |
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31 Oct 12 - 08:00 AM (#3428793) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST No, no and no |
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31 Oct 12 - 08:07 AM (#3428796) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: alex s No, no, no |
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31 Oct 12 - 08:15 AM (#3428799) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Will Fly It's OK, Phil - you can tell us. We're all friends here. |
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31 Oct 12 - 08:16 AM (#3428800) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST I swear at them occasionally. |
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31 Oct 12 - 09:56 AM (#3428830) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,999 Stella is a Martin D-28 I bought 50 years ago now. Yeah, I talk to her. I'll be in touch when she starts answering. |
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31 Oct 12 - 10:24 AM (#3428843) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Phil Edwards Glad it's not just me. (As for the rest of you, I bet you do really.) |
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31 Oct 12 - 11:14 AM (#3428867) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: alex s Putting on my white coat - I'll be round soon. |
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31 Oct 12 - 11:19 AM (#3428873) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Bill D Man said to his Martin,"Fie box, fie!" Man said to his Martin,"Who's the tool now?" Man said to his Martin,"Get thee in tune, and stop your fartin'!" "Thou hast well angered me...who's the tool now?" |
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31 Oct 12 - 11:24 AM (#3428876) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,Blandiver I talk to some of them - not all, only the ones I've given names to, and those that have been with me for a while - like my harp & crwths (getting on for 30 years) and my pocket trumpet & violin, both of which require much TLC. I used to have a hurdy-gurdy that I had running rows with. We parted company with much acrimony, and, despite the briefest of re-unions several years ago (I was asked for a solo album by a label in Belgium - I did a sequence of wonky folk songs (including Leg of a Mallard and Cob-a-Coaling which I've never sung before or since) on hurdy-gurdy & called it Naked Season & it came out in a beautiful limited edition of 100 numbered cassettes) I don't miss it in the slightest. My D citera (circa 1850 or so I'm told) is an old lady I respect for her wisdom; in such cases it pays to listen rather than talk. As you might find inlayed on many an old fiddle: Tacui in vita et in morte canam. |
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31 Oct 12 - 11:29 AM (#3428879) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,Blandiver PS - The Latin makes no sense (so much for Goodgle translate). Here's some more that do: http://www.bigduck.com/mottos7.html |
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31 Oct 12 - 11:41 AM (#3428889) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Tattie Bogle Don't particularly talk to them but gave my button accordion a name, after we were playing in Spain: our 2 cellists used hired instruments, which became Pablo and Alfonso, and my accordion became Carlos. And a friend who has a mandolin and Mandola calls them Little Mandy and Big Mandy. |
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31 Oct 12 - 12:45 PM (#3428924) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: McGrath of Harlow "Get into tune you little bugger!" |
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31 Oct 12 - 12:55 PM (#3428930) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Don Firth N-n-n-no, can't say that I do. . . . Don Firth |
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31 Oct 12 - 01:03 PM (#3428940) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker .... and does your instrument talk back ???? |
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31 Oct 12 - 02:05 PM (#3428987) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Bee-dubya-ell Anything I've ever said to an instrument is inappropriate for mixed company. |
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31 Oct 12 - 02:16 PM (#3428993) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: katlaughing yes, my lap dilcimer, "Peaches" so named after Spaw's character in one of the story threads, and also my fiddles. while they don't audibly answer, i do *feel* a good vibe from them. |
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31 Oct 12 - 08:56 PM (#3429117) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Tattie Bogle My accordion likes playing Muneiras since he was named Carlos. And he even inspired me to write a tune! |
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31 Oct 12 - 10:49 PM (#3429157) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Stanron Talk to or swear at? |
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31 Oct 12 - 11:00 PM (#3429160) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Uncle Phil No. Nor have I ever named one. I have cursed at many instruments over the years, but none of them ever seem to notice. - Phil |
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01 Nov 12 - 12:20 AM (#3429178) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,DrWord hmmm . . . I have a varied assortment of things with strings, but one in particular evokes . . . je ne sais quoi. I was just singing into the soundhole--does that count? With a hundredth birthday coming up my Neapolitan ten-string [triple trebles] mandolin, yeah I guess I sing to it. Smiles. I don't converse in the same way with the rest, but my Washburn is affectionately named Amanda-Lynne, tooled on "her" case keep on pickin' dennis |
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01 Nov 12 - 12:42 AM (#3429180) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Little Hawk Yeah, sure I talk to my instruments...now and then. I don't do it regularly, but there are occasions when I'll talk to anything at all...a door, a wrench, a car, something I'm picking up off the floor, the squirrel outside the door, the computer, whatever. And why not? After all, I do have some degree of involvement (relationship) with all those other things that are around me...I interact with them in some way. So why not talk to them at certain moments if the impulse to do so spontaneously arises? For instance, the car might be having a little trouble getting going on a cold, wet morning, and I might sympathetically say, "Still feeling a bit sleepy, are you?" And when the Martin turns out to be perfectly in tune after having driven 50 miles, I say things like, "You are one GREAT guitar!" I don't mind at all that they don't talk back. ;-) |
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01 Nov 12 - 01:24 AM (#3429186) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity NO!..You're job is to make the instrument talk..and tell them what's inside of the both of you!!! GfS |
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01 Nov 12 - 02:36 AM (#3429198) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Little Hawk Oh, well, yes, most certainly. ;-D |
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01 Nov 12 - 03:08 AM (#3429201) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Ernest I sing to it ;0) |
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01 Nov 12 - 09:02 AM (#3429298) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Kele Mostly I apologise for ignoring them too much... |
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01 Nov 12 - 02:19 PM (#3429458) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Stanron I have been known to mention November the fifth on the rare occasion it plays a wrong note. |
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01 Nov 12 - 02:43 PM (#3429466) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Phil Edwards there are occasions when I'll talk to anything at all...a door, a wrench, a car This is more or less what I was talking about to start with - "out you come", "oops, sorry" and so on (although I will admit to saying goodnight when I put it away, which probably pings some people's Crazy-Person-O-Meter). I only do it with one instrument, though, and it is my favourite. |
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01 Nov 12 - 02:44 PM (#3429467) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: VirginiaTam Does silently swearing at myself when my voice just stops, count? |
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01 Nov 12 - 03:09 PM (#3429481) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Don Firth I can't say that I talk to my guitar, but I do mutter a few stern words to my fingers from time to time. Don Firth |
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01 Nov 12 - 04:05 PM (#3429516) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: The Sandman I consider it dumbing down. |
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01 Nov 12 - 06:15 PM (#3429580) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity Little hawk only needs a small adjusting reminder sometimes and he is quick to adjust....Bravo! that is a quality we all could catch a flash to! Don Firth: "..I do mutter a few stern words to my fingers from time to time." Well that's a start! GfS |
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01 Nov 12 - 06:24 PM (#3429583) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,999 The old broad is 50 now. I'm 65. Every now and then when my ideas get lost and I have to get them back, we talk. Sooner or later, she tells me what to write. The day she stops doing that I'll quit writing. MY OLD GUITAR AND I I heard her whisper she'd be leaving soon The sun is shining bright; it could easily be midnight There is no light here in this room I heard an ocean wave sailing with the tide Heavens have a stormy face; nothing stays in just one place Not all sailors race on the leeward side CHO: My old guitar and I drift from song to song Take a lonesome melody Write a rhyme and hope that she Finds the time to call me when she's gone BRIDGE: I look with envy at the birds up in the sky I see your face in every cloud that passes by I hear an angel's voice + feel an angel's sigh Your memory wakes me when I try to close my eyes I heard her speak so clear on rivers, roads + rails She'll never be too far away; maybe she'll come back some day Keep her in my heart if all else fails I heard a whippoorwill singing in the breeze I really need to get some rest; ease the aching in my chest Can't see the forest for the trees CHO: My old guitar and I drift from song to song Take a lonesome melody Write a rhyme and hope that she Finds the time to call me when she's gone (Has a neat melody. I intend to record it before I croak.) |
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02 Nov 12 - 03:31 PM (#3430037) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Little Hawk Very nice stuff, 999. |
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02 Nov 12 - 03:37 PM (#3430040) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: open mike I look forward to hearing your song, 999! My Martin is named Martina...she sings to me! I occasionally give her a pat or two. |
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02 Nov 12 - 07:09 PM (#3430120) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: Tootler I just say "Oh s**t" when I make a cock up of something. Though that's as likely to be to my video camera when trying to make a You Tube video and have just ballsed up the umpteenth take. |
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03 Nov 12 - 12:51 AM (#3430256) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity open mike...mine is named 'Martha'. It had that name before he gave it to me. GfS |
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03 Nov 12 - 02:14 AM (#3430270) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: reggie miles I talk to the trees, but they never listen to me... |
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03 Nov 12 - 02:15 AM (#3430272) Subject: RE: Do you talk to your instrument? From: reggie miles I don't think they like the fact that somebody sliced 'em up to turn 'em into guitars |