haza Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 a while back before covid we would go too middlewhich boat and music fest ,most evenings mr and a few other boaters would get together. sit on the towpath playing there given instruments well into the evening and a great time would be had by every one will those times ever come back ..it got me thinking how many boaters out there play a musical instrument and if so what ? mr plays guitar banjo .and dobro . regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 Just now, haza said: a while back before covid we would go too middlewhich boat and music fest ,most evenings mr and a few other boaters would get together. sit on the towpath playing there given instruments well into the evening and a great time would be had by every one will those times ever come back ..it got me thinking how many boaters out there play a musical instrument and if so what ? mr plays guitar banjo .and dobro . regards Certainly they will I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haza Posted January 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 nice to think so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Harold Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 What's a dobro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 18 minutes ago, Mad Harold said: What's a dobro? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie patrick Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 I have two guitars (both full size classical) an octave mandola and a ukulele - can't claim any great competence on them. Might trade one guitar in for a three-quarter or even half size one. Just been offered a keyboard with weighted keys, but it won't be going on the boat! If I could find a lonely mooring the trumpet could come out of retirement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBiscuits Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 1 minute ago, magpie patrick said: If I could find a lonely mooring the trumpet could come out of retirement Breast up to @Arthur Marshall ... Handier for Marple too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haza Posted January 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 resophonic guitar played on the lap with picks and a solid steel bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 1 hour ago, magpie patrick said: If I could find a lonely mooring the trumpet could come out of retirement I used to play trumpet as well, I hadn't played it for some time so gave it to a very talented teenager. Still got the Bugle though so anyone for reveille on the towpath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Harold Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 10 hours ago, buccaneer66 said: I used to play trumpet as well, I hadn't played it for some time so gave it to a very talented teenager. Still got the Bugle though so anyone for reveille on the towpath. As a lifelong Trombonist,I find if I hav'nt blown it for a few weeks,face muscles relax and for a short time the sound resembles wet flatulance! The brass instruments need constant practice to maintain a tolerable standard. A friend plays Trombone and Double Bass,and only plays the Bass once a year with the local Gilbert and Sullivan society. He tells me the Bass is no problem playing it once a year,but wouldn't dare play the Trombone in public after a year off! 😰 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 11 hours ago, magpie patrick said: If I could find a lonely mooring the trumpet could come out of retirement Might I suggest Sparrow cove, I think there is a space where the SS Great Britain was. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 Guitar (badly), mandolin (hopeless), fair to sh*te blues harmonica written few songs with canal theme. Arthur Marshall late of this parish on the other hand is rather good and has written some very nice stuff, http://www.arthurmarshall.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRT Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 8 guitars of various types but only keep an acoustic on the boat. Can play a bit but I wouldn't want to in public! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Brooks Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 3 hours ago, Mad Harold said: As a lifelong Trombonist,I find if I hav'nt blown it for a few weeks,face muscles relax and for a short time the sound resembles wet flatulance! The brass instruments need constant practice to maintain a tolerable standard. A friend plays Trombone and Double Bass,and only plays the Bass once a year with the local Gilbert and Sullivan society. He tells me the Bass is no problem playing it once a year,but wouldn't dare play the Trombone in public after a year off! 😰 That is why my son used to always take his trombone on the boat so he could keep his face in shape. He liked paying it in tunnels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroudwater1 Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 Used to regularly pass a very loud sounding but melodic bagpipe player on the W&B near Tardebigge some years ago , he wasnt allowed to play in the house, which I could understand. It always used to make me chuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max's son Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 Back in the 60's NB Chertsey had an upright piano, they attended the opening of the Stratford Canal back in 64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Harold Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 5 hours ago, max's son said: Back in the 60's NB Chertsey had an upright piano, they attended the opening of the Stratford Canal back in 64 Bet it had a bit of a Liszt.😃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1st ade Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 59 minutes ago, Mad Harold said: Bet it had a bit of a Liszt.😃 Towards the front or the Bach? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinnorth Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 I have a Roland FR-4x virtual piano accordion so I can play pretty much any instrument I want (badly)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machpoint005 Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 Recorders. Any size, but preferably alto in F. 20 minutes ago, 1st ade said: Towards the front or the Bach? I see your Bach and raise you a Telemann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted January 10, 2022 Report Share Posted January 10, 2022 I play (electric) guitar to a poor standard. I find it entertaining but I doubt anyone else would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Brummie Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 Being the windbag I'm accused of, I have a selection of harmonicas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudds Lad Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 21 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said: Used to regularly pass a very loud sounding but melodic bagpipe player on the W&B near Tardebigge some years ago , he wasnt allowed to play in the house, which I could understand. It always used to make me chuckle. In the village where i grew up, a Scottish family had moved into one of the houses and the man of the house fancied himself a bagpipe player. Every Sunday he’d stand in one of the fields up the hill and treat us all to a rendition of some tune or other (all indistinguishable) until the local farmer showed him the error of his ways I can play about 7 chords, don’t ask me to name them, on a uke. I can usually pick out a tune on one string of a guitar. In my youth i had a Bert Wheedon’s Play In A Day book, but after several weeks found it wasn’t quite that easy on a HMD acoustic with only four strings left and no clue on how to tune. My Mum always said the only thing i could play well was silly buggers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow and Steady Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) I play the electric guitar though not as well as when I was younger. With the "restrictions" I use a computer and a DAW to jam with people around the world. Not really jam as in all play at the same time, we just start or download started tracks add our thang then upload for anyone else to contribute so it's like writing something new every time but bouncing ideas with other people. You might start with a guitar track and then 10 bass players all do their thing and each of those might get other things added so it grows like a tree. It's nice when you're done and for example the drummer is in Germany, bass player in Italy, guitarist in the USA, sax player in Mexico and the singer in England. There are a lot of groovy cats in France, Germany and Italy I've noticed. All styles from classical to metal to soul to blues to folk to funk to jazz - anything and everything. I'm in my 60's - never too old to rock and roll. Edited January 11, 2022 by Slow and Steady 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haza Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 well it seems there are a few that play some thing or other and most add ,but not very good .my other half as always said its not about playing well its about enjoying it .its not perfection its performance ,he also suffers from arhuritus and carpel tunnel in is hands and as done for a while now .but i dont think there is a day that dont go by he dont play even if its just for half hour .in the day and when younger it was 24/7 .going back to the middlewhich fest and the tow path jams .some guy was passing and asked if he could listen of course pull a chair up .after about 20 mins the guy said .he dabbles on the uke . hubby said hang on i got one here .were upon he started playing .i kid you not .it was a susan boyle moment ..to this day hubby says he as never heard one play as good as he did, by that fella .in conversation he said he was a boater .from yorkshire way i think , be nice to bump into him again and the others some day .regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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