> > > > Hey, here's an idea. Maybe you and I and Chris could be the official forum band or something. What instruments do you play, or do you just sing? Of course, this being a text-based format, we would just have to get together and post messages about what we're playing and how awesome we would sound if people could hear us.
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> > > Yay! The last forum band I was in never got off its feet, but I'm willing to try again.
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> > > I have to tell you, I have limited practice jamming. The only people I can find to do it with seem to stick to the same few songs. Very few songs. They played them ad nauseum until I gave up and figured them out and now I jam with them. Man, I could really use some new tunes, though. I'm getting tired of learning them all from *books.*
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> > > > Now please stop quoting from the Sound of Music. Next we'll have to teach you how to sing all the songs from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Hehehe.
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> > > > Brunnen-"a better musician than the great Dave Lister"G
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> > > Chr"er... yeah... good ol' Dave..."is
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> > :-) You sound just like me. About every six months I try to roust out a few good people to start a band with, and every single time I either end up having to give them free music lessons or getting completely bored with their favourite two or three pieces. Last year I found a girl who could supposedly play the flute and we were going to get a cellist and do trios from a book I had, and every time we practised it was just a free two-hour lesson from me on timing. I could play the flute better than her and I'm self taught. AND I can't play anything with a B in it because my flute cost $40 at a garage sale and is lacking certain essential features. Ack.
> > So maybe a virtual band is the way to go, all right.
> > Dave Lister was a character from Red Dwarf who liked to think he could play the electric guitar. The other characters only allowed him to play in a spacesuit out in the airlock.
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> Almost sounds like me.
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> Well, rest assured, my timing is fine. my violin is worse than your flute, I bet. About 70 years old, factory made in Checkloslovokia [sp]. Not too mollycoddled in its "prime," stored in a Californian attic for several years, no Dampit, of course, shipped up here and restored. The price fluctuates with how much rosin I have in the case.
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> And the fiddle is my main instrument.
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> Which is why I'll bite the bullet this summer and get a real job. *grimace*
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> > Brunnen-"obsessive musical instrument collector"G
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> Chr"just plain obsessive"is
Oh, being obsessive can be so much fun. At last count, this is my collection: one good classical guitar, one cheapo guitar (my original one), one unbelievably awful guitar which I found abandoned in the garage of a house I rented once, B-less flute as mentioned, four tin whistles, assorted recorders, bagpipe chanter, mandolin, home-made clarsach (wire-strung medieval harp) which you sort of have to see to believe (but it sounds great), Aoyama lever harp, the stick from a bodhran (the bodhran itself vanished I know not where, but I'd like to get it back again some day), an African finger piano, a bamboo pan pipe, a harmonica, and Egyptian zilds.

Brunnen-"and about eighty spare strings, two dozen cassettes of vocal exercises, and four hundred billion books of sheet music"G