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hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:00:45
How would you fill your time? How would it affect your life?
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:05:32
This is a tough one...
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
Texasbanjo - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:12:51
Well, as one who may be looking at that problem as a reality..... I'd decided there will be life after banjo. Maybe not as I know it now, but there will be life and music. Perhaps I'll get into old time music where you don't have to take individual breaks. Maybe I'll take up harmonica (I doubt that), maybe I'll just take my guitar and strum and sing at jams and festivals (singers are usually welcomed, even if they can't take breaks). Maybe I'll see if I can still play the piano (with a bum thumb). Maybe I'll take up painting again. Maybe I'll start sewing again. Don't know exactly what I'll do if I have to have the thumb operated on, but life will go on and I'll still be here on the BHO answering questions and giving advice when asked.
Let''s Pick!
Texas Banjo
BanjoDiva - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:22:03
In the short time I'm guessing I would see a drastic rise in both my self esteem and the amount of free time I have available! 
In the long run though, I would sadly probably give up listening to bluegrass altogether as it would be too painful to know that I couldn't participate (unless I could play something other than banjo).
Sooner or later I would find another hobby that would make me just has happy.
Diva
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axsis - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:27:51
Sherry, you could also give advice all day long and I would sit and listen! :-)
Cheers!
Don
steve davis - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:28:22
I'm very resilient and would fill my time with shooting pool,boat building,story telling,working my
land and things I haven't thought of,yet.
Pool
1four5 - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:35:17
I would quadruple the time I spend on my Telecaster. But then if it was because of physical reasons, then I'd have to get my golf clubs back out. If I couldn't do that, I'd probably just smoke and drink until the lights go out. OK, not really, but I would sure want to
Dean
Edited by - 1four5 on 06/19/2009 12:39:07
fretlessinfortwayne - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:39:25
If I could never play banjo again, how would I spend my time? Maybe I would become an outlaw biker ... or a public accountant.
Dean
"Each one's got to have his own style. It's all creamed potatoes, just fixed a little different." -- Benton Flippen
Edited by - fretlessinfortwayne on 06/19/2009 12:40:15
hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:40:55
Same thing.
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
steve davis - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:44:03
Yes...take what you get and be happy with it.
Pool
trapdoor2 - Posted - 06/19/2009: 12:50:04
Filling time is easy. I gots lots of hobbies.
Assuming a physical issue, I simply would look to Bill Rickard for a damned fine example.
===Marc
"If banjos needed tone rings, S.S. Stewart would have made them that way."
banjotef - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:12:34
It depends on why I couldn't play anymore. If I lost a few fingers, might take up fiddle. I would have to do SOMETHING musical! Necessity (coupled with desire) is the mother of invention!
Go down pickin''
Bill Rogers - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:15:28
Read; take photos; sell my banjos and buy cameras with the small fortune I'd have.
Bill
johnboyrox - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:18:45
I'd sit in a rocking chair on my front porch, then....after about six months...I might start to rock.
fretlessinfortwayne - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:19:01
If I could never play banjo again, what would I do? Hmmmm.
Perhaps I would become a man of science, testing assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a "scientific method". Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance!...Naaaaaahhh!
Stolen and modified from Steve Martin, who continues to play the banjo.
Dean
"Each one''s got to have his own style. It''s all creamed potatoes, just fixed a little different." -- Benton Flippen
pernicketylad - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:31:34
Try to get my head around sound engineering or build banjos.
There are three types of people in the world.....those who can count and those who can''t!
mike gregory - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:42:17
There are electronic keyboards available that have a setting where one may play an entire chord with ONE FINGER.
If I had one finger that still worked, I'd plug in one of those little baskers, and keep right on cranking out tunes.
No fingers? Check for workable toes.
No fingers, no toes?
Invent a Q-tip spinner for cleaning my nose.
Nosferatu - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:45:52
I'd do more tabbing and arr. for the banjo.
Thank you,
Hugh
hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:46:03
I knew this would be tough!
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
granada40 - Posted - 06/19/2009: 13:57:32
If I couldn't play banjo anymore, I would be doing my other main hobby, ventriloquism.
Gold Star GF-100 Conversion
jdog - Posted - 06/19/2009: 14:06:45
I'd sell my crappy banjos and finally play some guitar that people would recognize.
stumpkicker - Posted - 06/19/2009: 14:09:07
My fiddle playin would take a turn for the better. And I would start studying classical guitar!
Raise Your Action & Listen to Earl
pastorharry - Posted - 06/19/2009: 14:31:21
Bagpipes???? 
Isaiah 38:20
eagleisland - Posted - 06/19/2009: 14:50:44
A good bass player is welcome just about anywhere.
eagleisland
"I was halfway to Old Kentucky when the drugs began to kick in." - Hunter S. Monroe
cannibal4 - Posted - 06/19/2009: 15:02:21
If I never could play banjo again what would I do? Heck, I can't play banjo now. I attempt to but if I could never attempt to play banjo again....i'd take up the kazoo or harmonica!
To be Old and Wise you must first be Young n Dumb!
Galante_K4 - Posted - 06/19/2009: 15:30:43
I would become a gentleman.
Charley wild - Posted - 06/19/2009: 15:34:58
quote:
Originally posted by eagleisland
A good bass player is welcome just about anywhere.
eagleisland
"I was halfway to Old Kentucky when the drugs began to kick in." - Hunter S. Monroe
Any bass player is never welcome anywhere! Just kidding, just kidding!
I have medical problems and have had so I have experienced not being able to play....much. I'd just concentrate on lap steel.
"Marriage is sometimes a temporary thing but a good divorce can last forever"
Oscar Wilde
Kevin B - Posted - 06/19/2009: 16:18:34
Life would go on. I would remain a student of roots music in general. I would still love old classic acoustic instruments. I would look for a good candidate to give my banjos to. One is definately going to my grandson. He is my namesake.
Kevin ( )==''=~
''Possum, It''s what''s for dinner . . ."
Brian T - Posted - 06/19/2009: 16:31:10
I could walk away from it with a satisfied mind. The past 2(?) years have solved the basic puzzle of Scruggs-style that's been stuck in the back of my mind for 40+ years.
I'll never be nearly as good at as I hope but: I know enough now to appreciate the skills of really good banjo pickers.
We do not know where we are going.
Nor do most of us care.
For us, it is enough that we are on our way.
Le Matelot
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 06/19/2009: 16:50:27
quote:
Originally posted by pastorharry
Bagpipes????
Isaiah 38:20
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Much harder than banjo and you need at least four fingers on each hand:
thumb, 123 on the left, 1234 on the right. I'm sure if I had to give up banjo, my piping days would be over as well. ( I do my professional gigging on bagpipes, BTW). If I had a problem with my hands which precluded picking and piping, I'd concentrate on singing, arranging and composing. If it were just my left hand, I'd go back to playing tuba, euphonium and cornet.
I''ll never play like Earl Scruggs or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, but I''ll pick better than Luciano and sing tenor better than Earl
deligo ergo renideo,
Bob Cameron
Edited by - Klondike Waldo on 06/19/2009 16:51:24
CoE15NJV - Posted - 06/19/2009: 18:17:12
I would contemplate and study on becoming a REAL pain in the a#*! 
Steven
hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 18:42:29
Mission accomplished!!!
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
jbalch - Posted - 06/19/2009: 19:25:11
I never had the courage to ask Bobby Thompson this question. I always wondered what it must have been like for him to feel his once magnificent abilities diminish and then go away totally.
As painful as it must have been...he never showed it. He just continued loving life, music and most of all his family and friends.
www.johnbalchmusic.com
www.myspace.com/johnbalch
hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 19:55:11
If we have a vision of a promised future, where no pain or aging exists....it would be a dream away, and the loss of these powers a mere thought. I am sure Bobby had a strong vision, and a great hope to carry him through. I hope to have that kind of strength, when mine is gone.
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
HarleyQ - Posted - 06/19/2009: 20:19:58
quote:
Originally posted by granada40
If I couldn't play banjo anymore, I would be doing my other main hobby, ventriloquism.
Gold Star GF-100 Conversion
I would be granada 40's DUMMY
Hoyt
hawksbill - Posted - 06/19/2009: 20:22:58
That's why I asked the question John...if we do what we can with all our might now, while we are able...we will have no regrets. We all face the eventuality of that "big tone-ring in the sky" one day, so it might be a good thing to ponder on "what if's?"
HAWKSBILL Nothing really good, is easy.
Badger - Posted - 06/21/2009: 06:13:00
I suppose that it would depend on _what_ kept me from playing the banjo again. If I was still able to play the guitar as I do for Sunday School, I suppose I would concentrate on that.
If whatever it was kept me from playing the guitar also, I would have to assume that God wanted my to take my service to Him in another direction, and I would spend some time praying and reading the bible waiting for His direction in what He wanted me to do next.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. II Timothy 2:14
banjodad1 - Posted - 06/21/2009: 06:43:41
Probably start working on the 25 years of projects that have piled up but never seem to move off the dime.
lazlo191 - Posted - 06/21/2009: 14:39:16
Get an accordian and play in a Zydeco band. I love that stuff.
argus1 - Posted - 06/21/2009: 15:18:34
I would be very very sad 
Although my family would probably be very very happy 
Ouch!
Donna
flake - Posted - 06/23/2009: 06:43:35
This topic assumes, of course, that what I do with a banjo could be classified as "playing" in the first place.
mike
Look at it this way-----red lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70.
Edited by - flake on 06/23/2009 06:44:21
Mopick - Posted - 06/23/2009: 07:32:03
I would have a lot less frustration in my life, and a lot less joy. At times, I swear I want to just walk away from the banjo, then I realize, I can't.
I live in the mountains.....
The mountainous region of Central Florida.
Sugarloaf Mountain; 312 feet above sea level.
Randy
cottontop - Posted - 06/23/2009: 08:01:17
What do you mean? I can't play one now. I will (would) just keep on trying.
cottontop
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