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Topic: Hawaiian Guitar ? |
George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 6:34 am |
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That looks like the instrument that Jack White makes onscreen at the beginning of the movie "It Might Get Loud".
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Wayne D. Clark
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Montello Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 7:35 am
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| Some times you have to work with what you got. A bottle, a board & a string. And a few odd's and ends from the kitchen drawer. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 7:36 am
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| That kind of reminds me of that video recently posted of the little girl in Viet Nam. |
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 9:42 am
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It does, doesn't it, except she had the cool bogus bar. And she was good.
He's using a plug socket just like I used to! Wonder if it's a Craftsman. What kind of bottle? |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 9:53 am
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For country music you use Jack Daniels.  |
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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 9:55 am
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| Brad Bechtel wrote: |
| That looks like the instrument that Jack White makes onscreen at the beginning of the movie "It Might Get Loud". |
That's exactly what it is - commonly called a Diddley Bow.
I wonder if there is any connection between that instrument and the stage name taken by Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley). |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 11:25 am
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| The Diddley Bow, is that any relation to the swineaphone? |
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David Gertschen
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Phoenix, Arizona
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 5:22 pm
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| Jeff Mead wrote: |
| Brad Bechtel wrote: |
| That looks like the instrument that Jack White makes onscreen at the beginning of the movie "It Might Get Loud". |
That's exactly what it is - commonly called a Diddley Bow.
I wonder if there is any connection between that instrument and the stage name taken by Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley). |
According to Wikipedia:
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult.[16] He also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.[17]
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument played mainly by farm workers in the South. It probably has influences from the West African coast.[18] In the American slang term bo diddly, bo is an intensifier[19] and diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing" |
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