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Dec 14, 2024 - 1:34:48 AM

JSB88

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680 posts since 3/9/2017

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Originally posted by fftrumpy

Only been playing for a few years and have found it so hurtful I want to switch to accordion.


Ha, I am actually considering a cheap (and I mean cheap) concertina in the new year, to see if I can get the hang of it. Then on to the bagpipes and I'll have the set ;)

Dec 14, 2024 - 3:26:21 AM
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656 posts since 4/27/2020

Slide whistle and kazoo both cost less, weigh less, and are easier to carry. The amount of ridicule or scorn may not decrease, but at least you'll be able to pack up faster.  wink

(I loves me some bagpipes)

Dec 15, 2024 - 10:56:05 PM

4169 posts since 5/12/2010

You just live in the wrong part of the country. The only time I have heard disrespect of banjo players it has been from folks from "up North".

I found that people in Philadelphia are afraid of a big Southern white man. About 40 years ago I got lost in that city and tried asking people for directions, most of them nearly ran away from me, none of them offered any help. I didn't get any directions until I bought a hot dog from a street vendor who told me how to get back to my hotel. Ran into similar stuff in Chicago and New York city. Glad I don't have to go back to any of those places again.

Dec 16, 2024 - 3:45:22 AM
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62857 posts since 12/14/2005

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Originally posted by reubenstump

Slide whistle and kazoo both cost less, weigh less, and are easier to carry. The amount of ridicule or scorn may not decrease, but at least you'll be able to pack up faster.  wink

(I loves me some bagpipes)


The story I tell is this:
There we were, the whole dang family, sitting on the curb in Kenosha, Wisconsin, waiting for the Fourth of July parade to start.

I was four years old.

Suddenly, around the corner, came a fat, bearded lady in a checkered skirt. She was carrying a live goose, and biting its head!

And the goose was screaming in pain!!

I leapt into my mother's arms, seeking protection from this horrible apparition, but Mom said

"Calm, my dear, calm. That's just a bagpiper, in a kilt,  tuning up for the parade."

Dec 16, 2024 - 8:27:12 AM

153 posts since 7/15/2008

This discussion sounds way to deep for a lowly banjo player like me.
On the subject of racism, I recently went to some an old dictionaries, Funk and Wagnels 1953 coligate version. Interesting to note the word racism does not appear in it, or the Websters 1828. One more observation, there is only one race, the human race. There are different shades, colors, cultures, religions, and so on, but one race, unless you're talking about horses races, car races,or mule races, etc.

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