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04 Apr 02 - 07:31 PM (#683261) Subject: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: 53 My favorite stringed instrument is the guitar, but I also love the Banjo, and the Mandolin. What are your thoughts on your favorite? |
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04 Apr 02 - 07:33 PM (#683265) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Sorcha Favorite to play, or favorite to listen to? |
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04 Apr 02 - 07:41 PM (#683275) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: 53 I'm sorry, I meant to play. |
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04 Apr 02 - 08:13 PM (#683300) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Sorcha 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. |
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04 Apr 02 - 08:17 PM (#683304) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Amergin i like the lap dulcimer myself...easy to strangle out a few tunes with it....(and I mean strangle) |
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04 Apr 02 - 08:21 PM (#683307) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Lepus Rex 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 |
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04 Apr 02 - 08:45 PM (#683320) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Mark Ross 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 |
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04 Apr 02 - 08:47 PM (#683323) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Anahootz The Photon-Ajuitar, as played by Hotblack Desiato of the Plutonium Rock Band "Disaster Area". |
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04 Apr 02 - 08:50 PM (#683326) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Giac To play, guitar; to hear played, piano. |
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04 Apr 02 - 09:19 PM (#683341) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Don Firth 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 |
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04 Apr 02 - 09:44 PM (#683351) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: DancingMom 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! |
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04 Apr 02 - 11:16 PM (#683359) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: catspaw49 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 |
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04 Apr 02 - 11:24 PM (#683365) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Gypsy Hammered dulcimer, specially mine own. I love to hear me or anyone else play one. And hurdy gurdy, played by Patrick Bouffard. |
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05 Apr 02 - 02:04 AM (#683452) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: GUEST,Extra Stout 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! |
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05 Apr 02 - 04:21 AM (#683483) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: GUEST,kevinhowcroft@hotmail.com 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. |
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05 Apr 02 - 05:18 AM (#683517) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Mark Cohen 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 |
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05 Apr 02 - 05:26 AM (#683524) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Wilfried Schaum 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 |
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05 Apr 02 - 05:34 AM (#683531) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull 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 |
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05 Apr 02 - 09:10 AM (#683640) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Mary in Kentucky 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.
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05 Apr 02 - 07:03 PM (#684075) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: 53 Favorite song is the new version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, man that song in that version is just awesome. |
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05 Apr 02 - 07:54 PM (#684124) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Genie How 'bout a kite? |
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05 Apr 02 - 08:21 PM (#684153) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Mooh Guitar to play and for listening. Also mandolin, bass, and several other instruments, but guitar is what turns my crank. Peace, Mooh. |
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05 Apr 02 - 09:10 PM (#684191) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull what's a charango? |
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05 Apr 02 - 09:40 PM (#684206) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: GUEST,CBJames I sort of like Oscar Peterson on the Piano. |
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05 Apr 02 - 09:43 PM (#684208) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: GUEST,CBJames Then again - there was Jimmi Hendrix |
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05 Apr 02 - 09:52 PM (#684216) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Bonnie Shaljean HARP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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05 Apr 02 - 10:43 PM (#684240) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Mark Ross 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 |
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05 Apr 02 - 11:28 PM (#684276) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: 53 Has anybody ever played a Gango, I reckon that's spelled right. |
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06 Apr 02 - 07:04 AM (#684407) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: GUEST,Helen (on hubby's computer) Harp - I'm with Bonnie on that one. But I love cello & violin to listen to - can't play either. Helen |
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06 Apr 02 - 10:44 PM (#684780) Subject: RE: Your Favorite Stringed Instrument? From: Mark Cohen 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 |