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BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?

15 Aug 05 - 04:40 PM (#1542466)
Subject: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Skipy

At WHFF this year I laid out a pitch (similar to that which would be used for hammer throwing) ready for us to hurl a banjo, sadly the weather got in the way so we have postpopned until 2006 (19th Aug.)
But is it a sport or is it an artform, could it become Olympic or purhaps a Turner prize?
I look fwd. to reading your imput when we return from Spain.
Over to you guys.
Skipy.


15 Aug 05 - 05:27 PM (#1542504)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Bizibod

Neither.

It's a public service.


15 Aug 05 - 05:42 PM (#1542517)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Crane Driver

I see it as a form of catharsis.

It should be available on the NHS

[definition]
Perfect Pitch
Getting the banjo back into the skip from 20 yards

Andrew


15 Aug 05 - 05:49 PM (#1542523)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Liz the Squeak

Can we expand it to include melodeons and accordions please?

LTS


15 Aug 05 - 05:55 PM (#1542529)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: mumblin len

Not at all sure. I think it depends on whether or not the banjo player follows the same trajectory as the banjo.


15 Aug 05 - 06:15 PM (#1542548)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Ebbie

"sadly the weather got in the way so we have postpopned until 2006 " Skipy Whassa matta you? Rain don't hurt the banjo.


15 Aug 05 - 06:35 PM (#1542562)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Crane Driver

Who cares about the banjo?


15 Aug 05 - 06:54 PM (#1542572)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Morticia

You can only hurl a banjo if you have had the bad taste to eat one first


15 Aug 05 - 07:12 PM (#1542592)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Bunnahabhain

So long as it's competitive, and well practiced, I don't care if it's a sport or art-form....


15 Aug 05 - 07:23 PM (#1542602)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Leadfingers

Geoff Higginbottom made the suggestion (looking in MY direction) that
the banjo and the player should be hurled simultaneously -BUT in opposite directions !!


15 Aug 05 - 07:29 PM (#1542606)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Cluin

Don't f^@# with the banjo player!


15 Aug 05 - 08:12 PM (#1542658)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: gnu

May I suggest that rain delays could be avoided if the pitch was concrete.


15 Aug 05 - 08:20 PM (#1542670)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: The Fooles Troupe

Depends if it's technicolor...


15 Aug 05 - 10:09 PM (#1542755)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Rustic Rebel

With an RC Victor color T.V............
Most definitely an art form....
the pose...
the muscle in the jaw...
the retractitory(word?) swing....
the gruntal throat as it gets un-retractitoried (word?)...
The beauty of the sailing in the wind banjo....
Still sailing...
Can't see it hardly anymore......


15 Aug 05 - 10:27 PM (#1542771)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: NH Dave

Comic Relief?


16 Aug 05 - 01:16 AM (#1542861)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Little Hawk

Both.


16 Aug 05 - 02:42 AM (#1542880)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Dave Hanson

The definition of perfect pitch is..........hitting the skip with the banjo first time at twenty yards and smashing a bodhran and an accordion when it lands.

eric


16 Aug 05 - 04:03 AM (#1542900)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Gurney

Banjos are good, good.



You can hear them through the door, so you don't pay to get in....


Banjo hurling is actually a complicated form of suicide in certain parts of America.


16 Aug 05 - 07:31 AM (#1543002)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Bizibod

Oh I've come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee,
And when they saw what I had brought they threw me in the sea....


16 Aug 05 - 07:32 AM (#1543003)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: BanjoRay

Jokes about banjos are neither a sport or an artform - they're just mind-numbing rubbish.

eg:-
Heard at Sidmouth - What's the difference between a banjo and a vacuum cleaner? It's easier to get the dirtbag off the vacuum cleaner.


16 Aug 05 - 08:53 AM (#1543005)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: MudGuard

It's a Waste Removal Service ;-)


16 Aug 05 - 09:06 AM (#1543012)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Rapparee

Oh, hurling. I thought you said "curling."


16 Aug 05 - 11:03 AM (#1543107)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,noddy

Who cares if is a sport or an art form. Lets have it as a mass partipation activity!


16 Aug 05 - 11:06 AM (#1543109)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,noddy

Oh well at least it is a start.


16 Aug 05 - 11:08 AM (#1543112)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Tam the man

it's a pity that you can't throw a banjo player with their banjo together isn't it, along with Accordion players and Borran players (I'm one) and I've a accordion and I'm looking for a banjo as well, glutton for punshment I think.

Tam


16 Aug 05 - 12:13 PM (#1543169)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: GUEST,Bizibod

"I U-le-lused to ple-le-lay my ol-lelold banjololo and re-le-lest it ol-le-lon my knee-le-le-le-le-le -lee,
But na-la-low my stri-li-lings are bro-le -loken dow-le-lown it's no-le-lo more u-le-luse to me-le-le-le-le-le-lee...."

Apart from as a tennis racquet, obviously.


16 Aug 05 - 01:01 PM (#1543229)
Subject: RE: BS: Banjo hurling is it sport or artform?
From: Stilly River Sage

I recommend using a trebuchet in this endeavor.

Perhaps a tabletop variety for some of the smaller instruments, lobbed solo, or the larger castle size for instruments and their operators.

Since the piano is my instrument and this instrument has been assaulted for years by those who wish to test their weapons and have decided not to lob cows, I can safely say that just about anything else (with the possible exception of an Aeolian pipe organ) could easily go the distance.

Just a suggestion.

SRS