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View Poll Results: Do you play an instrument or sing?

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  • Advanced/Professional

    7 12.07%
  • Intermediate/Amateur

    23 39.66%
  • Learned when younger - don't play now

    16 27.59%
  • Not at all

    12 20.69%
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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wongo
    No that was the other one. Want to hear it?

    "Ain't no sunshine when I am gone....... I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know"

    Wongo (the next Hong Kong idol)
    Wongo Withers?

    Doesn't have much of a ring to it.

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    Do the Spoons count???

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    I've got a gig coming up in a couple of weeks and I have to learn some new songs for it. Try these for golden oldies:

    Because I Love You (Master's Apprentices)
    Gonna See My Baby Tonight (La De Das)
    Golden Miles (Healing Force)
    Don't Bogart Me (Fraternity of Man) - "Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me"
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Quote Originally Posted by underused
    Do the Spoons count???
    If you can really play them like those old time guys then absolutely!!
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    I also have a kalimba. I saw a guy playing a hurdy gurdy at the Cygnet Folk Fstival a few weeks ago. Awesome sound. I'm gonna have a go oneday.

    Midge what's you're address I'll be there for a jam in a minute...I wish

    I also play the Jaw (Jews) Harp and the kazoo....San Francisco Bay Blues by Eric Clapton calls for a kazoo so I had to have some lessons
    If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!


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    Hah, we do a song with a kazoo solo in it. Can't remember the name of it. One of those 60's pop songs from the Mellow Yellow era... Wet myself laughing every time...
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Silent, play this one for me

    But don't tell my heart,
    my achy breaky heart,
    I just don't think he'll understand.


    and that song in Titanic from Celine Dion will be nice.

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    I have been playing Berimbau for the past 10 years. I still do not know whether it is considered a musical instrument.

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    According to Wikipedia it is "a single-string percussion instrument". So there you go, at least one source says it is - good enough for me
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shedhand
    I also have a kalimba. I saw a guy playing a hurdy gurdy at the
    Get some plans and make one.

    Al

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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    Wongo Withers?

    Doesn't have much of a ring to it.
    Wongo and the Wackers...

    Al

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    Get some plans and make one.

    Al
    Dennis Havlena's website has plans for a very simple Hurdy Gurdy that works a treat, and also a couple of others that are a bit more complex... fabulous things.

    P (Dabbling with the thought of using one of the Puddleducks as a soundbox for a bass........)

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    My Mum - who, at 94, still plays piano every day - was a professional musician when she was younger. She tried really hard to teach all three of her kids to play piano. Being her youngest, I was her last chance. She finally bowed to the inevitable when I was about 14 and let me give it up. I love music - always have, always will - but I don't have the gift - to my regret.

    It skips generations: my son is a pretty good guitarist and a couple of his cousins are accomplished musicians.
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    ...Willie Wongo? (you have too much time on your hands. Make a hoojeemaflungit)

    Played acoustic on/off for 20yrs, had a Strat for a while but wifey hated it, and I thought it should be played rather than stored - bloke who bought it was a collector . Have visions of going to the local Blues Festival with my harp and guitar and thrashing out a few Neil Young covers, but I never quite make the auditions.......maybe one day. Guitar recently escaped falling off the trailer at 120km/h on the Midladns highway - 2 small scratches and gravel rash on the case. A sign?

    It'd be great to sit and jam with some like minded friends, but I have yet to find some. My current ones are very good at the tennis racket and air guitar.
    The only way to get rid of a [Domino] temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

    .....so go4it people!

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    I've always had a musical bent, but have never really persisted or dedicated my time to learning the following, I've tried...guitar, keyboard, harmonica, tin whistle ( the last three I own!) Dad could sing and was in a few choirs.

    But I have accomplished playing the.......
















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