guitar pickers in nashville ,and here, too! (banjo, fiddle, etc., also)

Tom · July 28, 2005, 12:16:38 AM

I have a Takamine too. A flat-top with a pickup inside. It's brand spanking new. I bought it from a friend of mine who is a piano tuner and managed a music store in Okeechobee back in 1981 or so.

SwampDonkey · July 28, 2005, 06:23:30 AM

:D I don't think I could play a whistle correctly. ;D

I had a guitar I used to make noise from, but my younger brother got his hands on it and over tightened the strings, so it folded. :-\ I also had a harmonica, but again just some kinda noise came from it. Never really did lessons just fooled around. ;)

Father used to play the fiddle, but I haven't seen him with it for 30 years.

Chris J · July 28, 2005, 01:47:00 PM

Sounds like Teri, Swamp Donkey, & I should form a band

. Maybe folks would pay us not to play ;D. Craziest thing is I can't take music lessons from my wife; we end up getting really short-tempered with each other. I think it's one those husband-wife things.

So who here can carry a tune? I certainly can't.

Fla._Deadheader · July 28, 2005, 02:47:39 PM

Reading music has nothing to do with playing a stringed instrument. If you can harmonize you can strum.

When my 5 year old daughter was learning, she had NO idea what reading was. She had NO idea about how a song sounded.

Her teacher used Tablature sp ?? to mark in a music pamphlet, where to place the fingers and what finger to pick that string with.

When I started teaching her to play the Fiddle, I would try to do a short set, and then show her where to place the fingers, while using the Bow.

I can NOT play any instrument. I have the ear (Yousta did) to hear the correct sounds. Lynda learned what she was shown, and played it.

She could NOT walk up to a group and join in the Jam. The group would ask HER to play, then they would back her.

Y'all gotta remember, she quit at age 7. Now, she wishes she could play, or at least, play a little. IF she would just let me work with her a little bit, she would pick it right back up, but, NOOOoooooooo. :

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SwampDonkey · July 28, 2005, 03:07:52 PM

Fla_D, Some kids eh? ;D :D I know for me, it would be a confidence thing more than anything. Well, ambition would be right up there too. ;D And thirdly, a person would have to socialize with other instrumental folks. They are scarce in these parts. :D

Fla._Deadheader · July 28, 2005, 03:56:33 PM

Si Senor. ;) ;D

UNCLEBUCK · July 29, 2005, 12:25:57 AM

If anyone would like to learn any instrument from beginning through advanced I have had good luck with a place in Woodstock,NY. called Homespun tapes and videos that is owned by Happy and Arty Traum . Their tapes can have anyone playing along within days . I played accordian from age 8-12 , bass guitar , banjo,fiddle,dobro,non-pedal steel guitar, guitar from age about 16 through now and really concentrate on banjo and guitar anymore, the rest I have gotten tired of . I play by ear and threw the books away from day one . This Homespun tapes and videos would have saved me many years of practice if I would have only known about it because you can pop a tape in sitting in your longjohns and get trained by a professional picker and I hope everyone who wants to brush up or just learn seriously trys this way of learning . Some of the best pickers in Nashville cant read a note . Paschale now he has to read music because he plays the finest music ever written unlike me my favorite group is the "Darlings" from the Andy Griffith show ;D

Buzz-sawyer · July 29, 2005, 12:36:15 AM

uncle
"Salty Dog" was thier hit!

UNCLEBUCK · July 29, 2005, 12:52:51 AM

Yep thats good listening music Buzz ! Whenever the Darlings are on andy I have a blast laughing and listening to that hot band . They were on rfd tv last month playin and telling how they got hired for the show. Some DanG good music on that rfd tv latley .

Coon · July 29, 2005, 05:41:48 PM

Well, Let's see...... Finally the art of all arts.

The art of Luthier is right up my ally. Being from a musical family I had the opportunity to learn to play nearly all stringed instruments. With a country and bluegrass background throughout my childhood and teenage years with the instruments around the house how could you not pick up one and start learning. Bonus having a stepfather that rebuilt many old stringed instruments in his time aside from playing with various bands.

I have always had a passion for country and bluegrass music. Owning my own collection of instruments led me to play with a few different bands. But that still wasn't enough to settle the my urge and I carried my passion even further. I went into the "Art of Luthier" program to learn how to build acoustic guitars. From there I was on my own way. Researching various instruments like the mandolin, 5 string and tenor banjos, and dobro interested me enough to design and build my own.

Currently I am taking custom orders and build in the winter months when the sawing season is slow. When I do get the time and once I learn how to run our digital cam and load the pictures on the computer I will show them off. You people will be swamped with pics..... I love to take pics..... Just remember you'll never know what the next picture will be of!!!!!!!!

Patty · July 29, 2005, 06:04:13 PM

Hey UB, we really enjoy the Darling's music too. I bought all the CD's of theirs that I could find on Amazon. I have been playing them at work; it makes the day so much more fun! 8)

CHARLIE · July 30, 2005, 12:46:27 AM

Coon, I'm impressed and I'd love to see pics of your work. I've always wanted to build a guitar but just never did it. I even considered buying a kit one time, but never did that either. I sure do enjoy seeing guitars that were custom built though.

Coon · July 31, 2005, 02:47:55 PM

Chalie. Thanks for the compliments. The acoustic guitars that i build are derived from the many different brands and models of acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars. Of my favorites and my topselling guitars that I build are similar to the Martin D-38 and the Gibson J200.

I have been building a special guitar that nobody has seen yet to this day, nor have I yet seen a manufacturer build any acoustic guitar even remotely close to mine. The project has already taken me two winters work in the spare time and is at the beginning of the finishing stages. (approximately 40hrs of work left)

It may be a while before I have time to learn the digital cam and how to install pictures due to work and hunting season coming up the end of Aug.

Chris J · August 01, 2005, 01:55:58 PM

Coon, I'd like to ditto that request for some photos. Fellow on another site posted some photos of his handmade hammered dulcimers, and it was a real treat and pleasure to see them.

Unclebuck, I might just have give those tapes and videos a try. While I certainly admire and respect my wife's classical training, it is hard to get her to understand that I'm not trying to be the next Segovia.

The only instrument I remember us having when I was growing up was a pathetic rinkydink tabletop organ, and I don't recall anyone ever playing it. I recently asked my mother about it, but she couldn't recall why we even had it.

I did watch a lot country and western music programs with my dad; I can't remember if they came on Friday or Saturday night. Porter Wagner & the Wagonmasters (loved those outfits!), Buck Owens, Marty Robbins, Johhny Cash, and others that I've forgotten. Also went to quite a few concerts as a little kid; Charlie Pride was one my dad's favorites.