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Q: What's the definition of perfect pitch?
A: It's when you toss the accordian into the dumpster and it lands
exactly on top of the banjo.
Al
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:35:08 -0600, Harvey Gerst
<harvey@ITRstudio.com> wrote:
>walkinay@thegrid.net (hank alrich) wrote:
>
>>Dave Martin wrote:
>>
>>> "hank alrich" wrote...
>>
>>> > Banjo music, silly. Apparently cheap banjo music.
>>
>>> I once asked the banjo player with the Nitty Gritty Dirt band why he had
>>> paid $10K for his latest Gibson banjo (He'd just bought a pre-war Master
>>> Tone, and had mentioned the price on a TV show). I said, "It's still gonna
>>> sound like a banjo, isn't it?"
>>
>>> The sort of behavior that's kept me where I am today...
>>
>>A friend of mine fairly recently bought a special Stelling that has some
>>fine woods that were recovered from a shipwreck in one of the the Great
>>Lakes. It's a wonderful instrument, but cost several pretty pennies, and
>>the guy's an early-intermediate player. I suggested fancy woods might
>>has less to do with banjo sound than might be the case with guitars or
>>violins. He said, "Tony Trischka disagrees with you". I resisted saying,
>>"You're not Tony Trischka".
>>
>>This all said, I have a confession to make. A few weeks ago I traded a
>>1934 Epiphone Triumph for a 1918 Gibson tenor banjo prototype. I have
>>never played nor previously wanted to play tenor banjo. But the first
>>time I laid eyes on this thing, several years ago, my sad excuse for a
>>mind went, "I want that thing; I wnt to play that thing". And it's
>>pretty damned cool sounding and looking. No tone ring, in the "modern"
>>sense, but the rim is a wood channel with the inner circle raised to
>>effectively make a wooden tone ring. So now we have a whole 'nother kind
>>of banjo sound around the secret mountain.
>>
>>(Please don't tell Harvey, because he'll just make fun of me.)
>
>Too late, I follow ALL banjo threads!! Actually, I miss my old long
>neck "Pete Seeger" style banjo (that was stolen in the 60's). It's just
>too damn hard to get people to make left-handed 5 string banjos or I'd
>still have one. And now, for those times when a string breaks:
>
>Q: How many banjo players does it take to cover "Dear Old Dixie"?
>A: Evidently all of them.
>
>A bluegrass band is playing a New Years's eve gig at a local club. The
>place is packed and everybody is absolutely loving the music. Shortly
>after midnight, the club owner comes up to them and says, "You guys
>sound great. Everybody loves you. I'd like to know if you can come back
>here next New Year's eve to play?" The band look at each other then to
>the club owner, and the banjo player says "Sure, we'd love to. Is it OK
>if we leave our stuff here?"
>
>Q: What do you call a beautiful woman on a banjo player's arm?
>A: A tattoo.
>
>Q: How many banjo players does it take to pave a driveway?
>A: Seven - if you lay them out correctly.
>
>Banjo Player: "Did you hear our last album?"
>Friend: "I certainly hope so."
>
>Q: What do you do if you see a bleeding banjo player running around in
>your back yard?
>A: Stop laughing and shoot again.
>
>Q: What do you do if you run over a banjo player?
>A: Back up.
>
>Q: How do you get a banjo player out of a tree?
>A: Cut the noose.
>
>
>Q: What's the difference between a female banjo player and a hockey
>player?
>A: A hockey player showers after three periods.
>
>Harvey Gerst
>Indian Trail Recording Studio
>http
/www.ITRstudio.com/
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