Politically Correct...................

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 26 Jan 2006 10:06 pm

DITTO

George Keoki Lake · Post by **George Keoki Lake** » 26 Jan 2006 10:27 pm

Henry Ford figured there could be no improvement to the Model T ... (I think he was probably correct). Let's leave the THREAD the way it is ... If Henry were running this Forum, he'd leave it "as-is".

I'm with b0b.

Jeff Au Hoy · Post by **Jeff Au Hoy** » 26 Jan 2006 11:08 pm

Wait a minute, the Model T was riddled with problems...

John Bushouse · Post by **John Bushouse** » 27 Jan 2006 4:41 am

How about "if it ain't got no pedals, it's here. Well, maybe one pedal is OK, Howard."

George Keoki Lake · Post by **George Keoki Lake** » 27 Jan 2006 6:41 am

"Wait a minute, the Model T was riddled with problems..."

Yah, but it also had 3 pedals !

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 27 Jan 2006 1:00 pm

YES! And you could get it in any color of your choice as long as it was BLACK.

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 27 Jan 2006 2:06 pm

Didn't the black ones run better?

Post by **Joey Ace** » 27 Jan 2006 4:21 pm

I like it as it is.

No one has mentioned that the name "No Peddlers" is inspired by a magazine column from years back.

I don't recall which mag, possibly Tom Bradshaw's (?)

There's an excellent drummer in my area named Jack Peddler. I guess he's not welcome here. It's a musician's forum.

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 27 Jan 2006 8:37 pm

When I was based in Europe during the war in Korea, I was in a country band, which had some Opry guys in it. Some one said they were getting a drummer, and I told them he could have my spot (steel), and I quit.

Loni Specter · Post by **Loni Specter** » 27 Jan 2006 9:30 pm

Bill,
I don't get it.

Al Terhune · Post by **Al Terhune** » 27 Jan 2006 11:21 pm

I always looked at the name "no peddlers" as a compliment -- more of a challenge. Try riding a bike with no pedals!

Al

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 27 Jan 2006 11:54 pm

If you are playing a "regular" guitar, no one comes up to you and asks: "Gee, what brand of SPANISH guitar is that?" which is sort of the official name for the thing.

We all know that the instrument in question here originated in Hawaii, but if you are playing something as unsusual looking as a Harmos, I wouldn't expect someone to ask "what kind of Hawaiian steel guitar is that?"

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Mark

Dan Sawyer · Post by **Dan Sawyer** » 28 Jan 2006 1:02 am

Ray, plectrum guitars have 4 strings and are tuned exactly like plectrum banjos. Maybe you are remembering "plectrum style" which meant playing with a pick (plectrum) and usually on steel strings.

The term Spanish guitar was referring to the tuning we now call standard guitar tuning, i.e. E-A-D-G-B-E. Thus, Gibson used the prefix ES meaning electric spanish on many of their electric guitars and used the prefix EH (electric Hawaiian) on their steels.

Dan Peterson · Post by **Dan Peterson** » 28 Jan 2006 1:09 pm

Ahem, guys & gals, here's a slightly different 'perspective' no one seems to have mentioned (or thought of?) during this marathon thread. When I first joined last year, and looked at topics 'No Peddlers' intrigued me, but to be honest, my 'first thought' was ...hmm..'Peddler' is a salesman, hawker, door to door guy/gal (IMHO), but I'll take a look anyway. Much to my delight, I found quickly it's where I belonged.

Webster says: A peddler (also known as a canvasser or solicitor) is a travelling vendor of goods. Historically, peddlers usually travelled by foot, carrying their wares, or by means of an animal-drawn wagon. Modern peddlers may use motorized vehicles to transport themselves and their commodities. Typically, they operate door-to-door or at organized events such as fairs.

In many economies this work was often left to nomadic minorities, such as gypsies, offering a varied assortment of goods, both evergreens and (notoriously suspicious) novelties. Peddlers sometimes doubled as performers, supposed healers, or fortune-tellers.

While peddlers had a significant role in supplying isolated populations even with fairly basic goods, their market share has in modern times been drastically reduced as increasing density of population and buying power encouraged sedentary, even specialized sales points, while modern transport, mail order, refrigeration and other technology allow even rural clients alternative channels of purchase. Does he/she also play lap steel? dunno?

All that said and done, (Inserting tongue firmly in cheek) I think b0b's 'No Peddlers' is a delightful play on words, fun and works for me! How about You? CASE CLOSED?

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Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 28 Jan 2006 3:43 pm

Case closed. Thanks for playing. Pay the man on your way out...