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01 May 00 - 11:38 AM (#220791) Subject: Passion From: black walnut We all love to listen to tunes that are played on the instruments we ourselves play, but I have a passion for an instrument I do not play. When I hear a DOBRO (or reasonable facsimile) it draws me like a magnet. It moves me, it inspires me, it sends tingles everywhere......I melt! Do any of you share my kind of passion for an instrument you do not play yourself? ~black walnut
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01 May 00 - 11:41 AM (#220794) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Wesley S Clarinet and cello |
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01 May 00 - 11:46 AM (#220797) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: SDShad Uillean pipes, bombarde, hurdy-gurdy. Chris
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01 May 00 - 11:54 AM (#220802) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU OH the CELLO most definately! I'll greedily listen to ANYTHING that has a cello in it, from Dvorak to ELO to Maddy Prior to Tom Paxton to Andrew Lloyd Webber to John Macklis. And of course the pipes! Whenever I hear 'em I come runnin'! Yeeha!! --Mbo |
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01 May 00 - 11:55 AM (#220803) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Allan C. Yes, BW, most of them! My understanding is that you will miss David, Bill and me when we visit in Toronto. It is a shame, because David is an excellent dobro player. It often lends a haunting feel to some of the songs we play. Nearly any instrument, from a lone bagpipe to a mouth harp, can trip the "tingles" button for me depending largely upon the skill of the artist and the selection played. |
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01 May 00 - 12:10 PM (#220816) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Bert Fiddle does it for me. That sound goes right through to the bones. |
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01 May 00 - 12:11 PM (#220817) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut allan, you've ripped me into a thousand shreds....i'd passionately love to hear david! ~black walnut
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01 May 00 - 12:35 PM (#220828) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: GUEST,Steve Latimer Allan, When are you coming to Toronto? Steve Latimer |
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01 May 00 - 12:41 PM (#220831) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mooh Dobro like Jerry Douglas. Piano like Glen Gould. Mandolin like Simon Mayor. Drums like Keith Moon. Especially Simon Mayor. You know that fab guitar player Don Ross? For a guy that doesn't sing much he sure has an incredible voice. The only time I heard him sing several people exclaimed out loud how good a voice he has and I was dumbfounded. Peace, Mooh. |
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01 May 00 - 12:42 PM (#220833) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: BlueJay The Dobro is also high on my list of wannaplays. But the number one is, believe it or not, the Pedal Steel Guitar, you know, that thing that looks like an electric cheese slicer. It's funny though, because I'm NOT a fan of Country/ Western music, (at least not in the modern, commercial sense). But some of the stuff Jerry Garcia and Sneaky Pete did on various Byrds, New Riders, Gram Parsons, not to mention Brewer and Shipley's "Oh Mommy" just just send the old shivers down my osteoarthritic spine. A guy showed me a few basics at Guitar City in Denver a long time ago, and I left with two thoughts: The pedal steel is very expensive, and very difficult to learn to play. |
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01 May 00 - 12:44 PM (#220834) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Tony Burns The gang will be in Toronto on June 18th. I'll start another thread about that. |
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01 May 00 - 12:54 PM (#220837) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Tony Burns Here is the Mudders in Toronto thread I promised. |
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01 May 00 - 12:54 PM (#220838) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: GUEST,Steve Latimer Thanks Tony. |
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01 May 00 - 12:57 PM (#220843) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut Mooh, i ADORE Don Ross! I have every CD. I've spoken with him. I've hugged him. I've campfired with him. I've played piano with him. (Remind me to tell you about 'the incident' sometime.) I've even (with his permission) rooted through his gig bag. (okay, laugh at me....but just imagine being able to do that with one of YOUR folk heros' gig bags!). Don does a bit of slide. He's a master fingerpicker. And a wonderful guy to boot. But, I digress. It's the INSTRUMENT ITSELF. Whether it's played by Jerry Douglas or Don Ross or Bruce Cockburn (i feel faint just thinking about it) or by somebody at our song circle, it's the SOUND of the dobro that grabs me. Just one slide sans fret and I'm climbing comets. ~walnut
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01 May 00 - 01:10 PM (#220853) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mooh black walnut, Cool eh! Check out Don's baritone guitar. I got one just like it (except it's maple) but I sure do wish I could play it like Don! He played alot of lap style dobro when I saw him just before last Christmas and the tone was stupendous. He has greater control over his live sound than most players. Folk hero, right on. Peace, Mooh. |
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01 May 00 - 01:11 PM (#220857) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: katlaughing bagpipes (it's a past-life thing!) and uillean pipes; hurdy-gurdy; then, dobro can't wait to hear it, Allan! |
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01 May 00 - 01:24 PM (#220868) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Little Neophyte Nope, I have a monogamous, passionate, devoted relationship with my banjo. To have ears for another instrument would feel like infidelity. I once borrowed a guitar for one week to see if I wanted to learn how to play it. It felt like being on a very long, bad blind date. Little Neo (who hopes you realize she is kidding around)
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01 May 00 - 01:28 PM (#220872) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut (more i forgot to say about don ross.... yes, mooh, he has a fabulous voice, and he's an asoblutely amazing piano player, and he knows his music theory inside out and backwards better than any theory teacher i ever had, and, i've seen him in a bathing suit.) ~'nut who really is nutty today (blame it on the rain?)
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01 May 00 - 01:32 PM (#220875) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Marion Black Walnut, and others who have named instruments: If you love the dobro (insert your instrument here) so much, why don't you play one? I don't mean this to be a snarky question. I just think that your love for a certain instrument strongly suggests that it's one that your muse wants you to play. I like bagpipes...other people's bagpipes, that is. But if they spoke to me as deeply as the fiddle or guitar did, I would find a way to learn them. Marion |
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01 May 00 - 01:43 PM (#220885) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut sounds logical, marion, but it's not how it works for me. i am very very much attached to harp, piano, dulcimer (i have played slide dulcimer!), whistles..... i know i will never play dobro. that's perfect with me. i just revel in the listening. neo, methinks you're still honeymooning!!! ~black walnut
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01 May 00 - 03:07 PM (#220936) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mooh Marion, I don't play dobro because I can't afford one yet. I keep playing and buying non-resonator guitars, but I hope to get a National or the like soon. So many guitars, so little time. Peace, Mooh. |
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01 May 00 - 03:52 PM (#220966) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: kendall The Dobro, in the right hands, is my kind of soul music. Remember Cousin Oswald who used to play with Roy Acuff? He never "took over" with a lot of fancy licks that so many Dobro players try to do his playing was always tasteful and done just right. I happen to have a friend who could pass for Cousin Oswald. His name is Jim Warren and he lives in Ludlow Vermont. You wont hear a better Dobro player than Jim. |
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01 May 00 - 04:37 PM (#220998) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Amergin I love the bagpipes and the uillean pipes. They can either make me want to skip down the street or make my heart wring out it's tears. Amergin |
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01 May 00 - 04:47 PM (#221010) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Lady McMoo Love the oud! Am I odd? Peace mcmoo |
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01 May 00 - 04:56 PM (#221018) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mbo Did I forget the diatonic accordion? --Mbo |
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01 May 00 - 05:23 PM (#221040) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Rick Fielding Yup. Dulceola. The instrument that the amazing Washington Phillips played. Other than my friend Andy Cohen (who is very much alive) the only other recordings of it that I know of are the sessions Paul Mason Howard did in Los Angeles with Leadbelly. Love the sound of that instrument! Rick |
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01 May 00 - 07:38 PM (#221100) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Caitrin A nicely played fiddle just reaches straight to the bottom of my heart. I wish I could play it, but it's just a bit beyond my reach. And (ducking to avoid flying objects) a truly well played synthesizer. When Keith Emerson fires up that Moog on Karn Evil 9, I just love it. |
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01 May 00 - 09:09 PM (#221154) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Ely I'm still kicking myself that I never followed up on the violin lessons I took for a year when I was 4. I'm dying to learn a better melody instrument (Heaven help me, I love the lap dulcimer but it's a pain in the neck to play in a group, outdoors, in a noisy room, when amplified, etc. etc.). And hammered dulcimers aren't portable enough--I hate tuning all the time and they have SO many strings. I'd love to be able to play the guitar well, too. And, yeah, the dobro. And banjo. But mostly, I dream of fiddles. |
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01 May 00 - 09:47 PM (#221179) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Kelida I love bagpipes, but I manage to live vicariously through my friend Seth who plays them. However, there are dozens of instruments that I love that I intend to someday learn to play. . .
Multiple Pipes/Pan Pipes And anything else I can get my hands on. . . Peace--Keli |
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01 May 00 - 09:50 PM (#221182) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: GUEST, Threadie Passion: A rainy day in Ballymena. |
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01 May 00 - 10:27 PM (#221200) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Lonesome EJ When Coltrane plays the saxophone, he translates his soul into sound. Yeah, the sax. |
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02 May 00 - 12:50 PM (#221516) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: GUEST,James The Northumbrian small pipes. the flute and the cello....I play the cello and am envious of those who have a gift for it...These are all instruments that are often played badly....so they often get a bad rap...but when played well....heaven. |
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02 May 00 - 01:54 PM (#221552) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: TerriM I know this may attract flak but for me there are few things more exciting than a well played bodrhan and I love hammer dulcimer ( am struggling to learn to play one and can't afford the other). But I think some of the enjoyment comes from the fact that I can't reproduce those sounds myself... it's a bit like learning a new song which obsesses you until learned.Once you have it down pat it loses some of it's magic....or is that just me? |
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02 May 00 - 02:42 PM (#221582) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut No, Terri, it's not just you. Sometimes I love the mystery of things I don't understand or don't know well. I don't see why you'd attract flak for your choices. Passion is a very personal thing. Caitrin, that goes for you too! mcmoo, could you describe an oud for me? Does it rhyme with loud? And Rick, what is a dulceola? Is it related to a dulcimore? I suppose I should know these things, but I was raised with flutes, clarinets and tubas..... ~black walnut
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02 May 00 - 03:09 PM (#221595) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler As a non-musician, most instruments well played, even banjos and bodrhans, have this effect on me: guitars including dobros, yes, also trumpets, baritone and soprano sax, clarinet, piano, hammond organ,in the right hands (Jimmy Smith,Alan Price)etc. RtS |
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02 May 00 - 05:11 PM (#221653) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Caitrin That's true, Roger. Most anything played really well and with true passion will strike a chord in me. Black walnut...:) I always say I'm going to duck to avoid flying objects when I reveal myself as a rock fan. |
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02 May 00 - 06:26 PM (#221720) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut Caitrin: (Then I'd better duck if I tell anyone here I like Meatloaf!) Other instruments I really love, but do not play, are the hurdy-gurdy (drones stretch the heartstrings), the bodrhan (how can such a simple looking instrument have so many voices?), and the cello. A long time ago, I had the chance to take cello lessons for several months, but found that I couldn't for the life of me make a tune on it. It was wonderful, nonetheless, to draw the bow and feel the hugged instrument vibrate in my arms. I am content to love them all from afar for now...it is difficult enough to find time for the many instruments I already own or borrow. ~black walnut
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02 May 00 - 07:04 PM (#221735) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Jon Freeman I love every musical instrument so that must leave a lot of room for that passion! My biggest musical regret is that I don't play the fiddle and trying to play one causes me a lot of pain - shame because my left hand already knows where the notes are and it really is one of my favourite instruments. Jon |
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02 May 00 - 07:16 PM (#221740) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: NancyZ I'm a fiddle player who lusts after banjos in a big way:) It's such a great instrument, I'd love to learn to play and have even begun a tenative search for a tenor banjo. However, I have lightyears to go on the fiddle so I wonder if I'm just kidding myself.....still the thought of plinking and plonking with a banjo on my knee does make my heart go pitter patter:) |
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02 May 00 - 07:21 PM (#221744) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Jon Freeman Nancy, do yourself a favour and get that tenor. You will enjoy it!!! Jon |
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03 May 00 - 05:02 AM (#222071) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Magpie Bagpipes and uilleann pipes. My ex was a great piper, and that's what I miss about him. The music. He tried to teach me, though, but I lost patience. Damn it! Magpie |
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03 May 00 - 05:43 AM (#222078) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: alison Hahaha threadie.. even when its not raining there's nothing much to do in Ballymena but get passionate..... bagpipes!! does it every time.... goosebumps and tears... uilleanns too.... bodhrans, lambeg drums, or any sort of drums.. there's something about someone beating the crap out of a drum that is very stirring, and nice saxophone (like Grover Washington Jnr........) slainte alison |
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03 May 00 - 05:47 AM (#222079) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: dwditty My friend Ken is a second generation saw player. If you've never heard a saw played well, you are missing a treat. Sometimes we play together - mostly what we call Churchgrass. One Christams eve he played part of the Messiah accompanied by organ, cello, and two violins. It was awesome. DW |
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03 May 00 - 11:11 AM (#222226) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mooh Pipe organ, played well. I've had the privilege of being exposed to a Casavant (sp?) two pipe chamber organ for many years and in the right hands it can sound unbelievable. There was a fellow, Joe Herdman (now sadly passed away) who used to play it very late at night and much of the neighbourhood could hear it. Incredible purity of tone! A very emotional instrument in the right hands. Peace, Mooh. |
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03 May 00 - 04:37 PM (#222444) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Caitrin Very true, DW! Rick Ramseur plays the saw beautifully with the Bluefields. It's absolutely haunting! |
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04 May 00 - 09:49 AM (#222855) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: black walnut Mooh, I actually spent a little bit of time studying pipe organ! Once you can get those luscious foot pedals working, it's a real treat. I especially enjoyed just playing in a big empty church all alone, with no one else listening, and enjoyed listening to the music, which seemed to be coming from somewhere quite other than my fingers and feet. It's got to be the instrument that puts the player the farthest from its sound source! I stopped playing pipe organ when I realized that I couldn't keep up the lessons with a new baby (who is now 15). (I couldn't fit a pipe organ into my house, not to mention my schedule). ~black walnut
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04 May 00 - 10:17 AM (#222866) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mooh black walnut, Right on! Once in a while I could play said organ myself, though poorly, but what thunder! I once had the opportunity to jam with an electric guitarist, and he required 200 watts to compete with the organ. I wish there'd been tape running at the time. If I ever win the big lottery, maybe I'll buy a pipe organ. Portable no, powerful yes. Thanks for the memories. Peace, Mooh. |
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05 May 00 - 09:29 AM (#223464) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Albatross There is a Norwegian tradional instrument called the Langeleik. It is a bit like a dulcilmer and it has a special haunting, sweet, emotional and mystical sound. There should be more played at sessions! |
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05 May 00 - 12:12 PM (#223531) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Llanfair It's brass bands and male voice choirs that do it to me. I think it's something to do with a number of talented people working together to produce something brilliant. A bit like Mudcat, really. Hwyl, Bron. |
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05 May 00 - 12:41 PM (#223542) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Mbo Well, no one has mentioned it yet....even thought I had forgot it myself! The most beautiful sounding instrument in the world is the Chinese erhu. You'd have to hear it to believe it...just one draw of the bow across it's strings will make your heart soar...I kid you not! It ever works well outside traditional CHinese folk music. I saw a folk band once than consisted of drums, electric bass, flute, classical guitar, and erhu....absolutely the most soul-riveting performance I have ever seen...pure Heaven on Earth... --Mbo |
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06 May 00 - 04:33 AM (#223959) Subject: RE: BS: Passion From: Joe Offer An oboe or a French horn - like a woman with a rich, deep voice. Yes!Yes!!Yes!!!Be still, my heart! -Joe Offer- |