...and the next night you'd go and play the gig, and I'd say, 'Got it NOW! Hey, you wanna play that song?' And it was different again - Jerry Ricks, Port Townsend 97
I cant help grinning when I play it, even if the narrow neck does give me wrist cramp!
For UK Weenies, I can recommend the Hobgoblin chain of shops. Absolute Alladin's cave of weird and wonderful instruments (six string banjos included) and that laid back attitude which means you can just pick up and play with whatever takes your fancy.
Good for you, Slim, they really are fun instruments, and for a fair number of applications, they work as well or better than a guitar. I look forward to hearing what you come up with to play on it. All best, Johnm
Simon, "Ashbury" is Hobgoblin's own brand. I used to have an Ashbury tenor ukulele (you saw it last year in the New Forest). The name is a combination of the names of the two blokes who started Hobgoblin, Nigel Thornbury is one and the other escapes me - Ash-something-or-other.
As you can imagine, Phil and I can't wait to hear the newly acquired beast. Did you realise they sound better if played underwater?
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"I ain't good looking, teeth don't shine like pearls, So glad good looks don't take you through this world." Barbecue Bob
Bristol- near the hippodrome. They have some crazy weird stuff in there. Its bizarre stringed instrument heaven. Every shape and style of mando, uke, bouzouki, dulcimer etc etc. Whole rack of banjos. lots of guitars. Bhodrans(!)
You have to avoid the odd fellows in anoraks buying vintage melodians though.
Oh....by the kipperdrome, do you mean up the side alley (notice I resisted saying back passage) where the ladies of the night, the nawty shops with rubber goods and magazines all used to be in days of yore
A surprising moment at the end of an Otto Dix exhibition in Montreal. A photograph of Otto with his adult children all playing music together, Otto with a big grin playing six-string banjo. Apparently they liked playing old jazz.
Can you post a picture of it Andrew? I'd dearly love to see if its the same Swiss made Stambac as mine. I also admire Dix as an artist, hard to take though his paintings are.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)