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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 7:01 am |
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Last night I was playing elec. guitar on a theatre show. I was warming up in the orchestra pit before the show started and an older woman was walking to her seat on the front row and she leaned over and saw me playing. I looked up and she asked "and what instrument is that??". I did not even flinch--"it's a viola" I said. "Oh, that's nice" she replied.
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 7:12 am
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Multitasking multiprocessing variable frequency cheese slicer...
Set a sheet of plywood across two of 'em and you got a place to prepare wallpaper...
A stringed sawhorse... |
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Henry Nagle
From:
Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 7:28 am
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| Sounds like an honest question to me. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 7:50 am
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| Well now she can tell her grandkids that Jimi Hendrix played the viola. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 8:52 am
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| Evidently she doesn't watch MTV all that much.. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 9:10 am
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Apparently not even Lawrence Welk!
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 2:43 pm
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What a question!....and what a great answer!
Kind Regards, Walter
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John Rosett
From:
Missoula, MT
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 3:20 pm
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"What do ou call that nice little instrument?"
"I call it Bruce." - Jethro Burns |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 8:02 pm
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I was doing a bluegrass gig in chinatown NYC,
A chinese building my landlords company had just opened
and was having a party for the new tenents.
Mostly all aged chinese grannies.
The chinese janitors assistant aged around 18 and italian,
not chinese, looked at my '54 Kay upright bass
and in all seriousness asked it if was a TROMBONE....
I was pretty close to speachless.
We were mandolin, bass, guitar, banjo and fiddle.
And it paid extremely well. $800 for a one hour show.
Yet this was after a VERY strange gig,
no one clapped or anything for 45+ minutes.
We finish a song and they would look on politely
and waited for the next part. We thought it was
a cultural impasse of gigantic proportions.
Well it seems the announcement prior to playing was
"This is classic American music."
It was heard by all as 'American Classical Music...
And everyone knows it is impolite to applaud
between movements of a Symphony...
At the end when they were told we were done.
They went nuts, clapped for 15 minutes straight,
every single person came and gave us EACH deep bows,
and many smiles.
We thought we had bombed, and they thought we were
masters of the craft, and didn't want to be rude
by interrupting our symphonic performance...
Go figure.
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many!
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 21 Mar 2007 8:25 pm
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| Great story, DD. Further adventures in cultural misunderstandings... |
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Bill Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2007 3:28 pm
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Bill H,
What kind of guitar were you playing???
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Atlanta, GA |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2007 8:54 pm
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| Ibanez Artcore electric. |
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Mar 2007 5:16 am
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| I recently had a guy that worked in the club stare at the steel for a while, then he asked what the steel bar was for. I told him it was for drunks, he was satisfied. |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 23 Mar 2007 3:09 pm
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| Bill Hatcher wrote: |
| Ibanez Artcore electric. |
a distant cousin of the viola..... |
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P Gleespen
From:
Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2007 4:42 pm
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| Bill Hatcher wrote: |
| Ibanez Artcore electric. |
Ha! I just looked up the Artcore to see what it looked like, and I can't imagine any guitar that screams "I'm a guitar!" more than that style.
I didn't expect it to look like a BC Rich or anything, but man, that is one guitar lookin' guitar.
It makes that already hilarious story even funnier!
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 23 Mar 2007 5:03 pm
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Or at least a distant cousin of
the viola de gamba.
A distant cousin of the giant shrimp,
on it's mothers side!
Giant shrimp; almost an oxymoron!
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DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many! |
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