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11-06-2009, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Belgium | | in dutch, the word for ironing is the same as the word for playing arco...
so you can imagine that, being a girl, i get a lot of sexist remarks of guys who think they are funny.... sigh 
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11-08-2009, 12:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ubley, North Somerset | | | Reminds me of a video my friend had called 'Iron Shirt Qi Gong' - it took him ages to get why I thought that was funny. |
12-12-2009, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Belgium | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bud Rink  Somebody on the subway asked if my bass was a french horn! And this in the cultural capital of the world. | now now.... cultural capital of the world....
that MUST be Ghent, in Belgium  |
12-30-2009, 02:07 AM
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12-30-2009, 11:20 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Nope, that's an oboe, which looks a lot like a small English horn. French horns are the twirly brass jobs!  |
12-30-2009, 07:11 PM
|  | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton "Well, I certainly hope they ask you to play when you get there."  | Paul, you and I may be the only ones on this board old enough to remember the song that makes this a cool comment. 
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12-30-2009, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Oh no.
Not another quiz, Jack?
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"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself." Phil Urso, 1980. :atoz: |
12-30-2009, 08:08 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Here you go, w33nie: 
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12-31-2009, 03:52 AM
| | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | | No, no quiz . . .
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Not another quiz, Jack? | . . . But I suspect the woman was referring to a novelty song that was kinda popular for a while way back when. All I could remember for sure about it was the refrain:
"I took my horn to a party,
but nobody asked me to play."
I didn't remember for a certainty where I'd heard it, but I first guessed it was sung on TV by Buddy Hayes who played bass and tuba for Lawrence Welk from 1954 to 1966. He did occasional novelty numbers like that. Hayes and my dad (trumpet) played together in an Army band at Camp Callan, La Jolla, during WWII. (We watched a lot of Welk at our house when I was a kid.)
BUT, then I actually found the thing on youtube. Turns out it was sung on the Welk show, not by Hayes but by trumpeter Rocky Rockwell. I remember his face now after seeing it.
I need to get a life, don't I.
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12-31-2009, 09:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Ewww.....
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Originally Posted by nimbleswitch I need to get a life, don't I. | Yeah, and it will be a short one if you do get it, if you post any more "Larry" links around here...... 
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Oh, no.....have we gone OT yet again?
"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself." Phil Urso, 1980. :atoz: |
12-31-2009, 02:39 PM
| | crosswind downwind bass | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tacoma WA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by drurb | Wow, now that brings back memories.
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12-31-2009, 04:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Yeah, and it will be a short one if you do get it, if you post any more "Larry" links around here...... | Hey, Paul-cut Larry some slack-he demonstrated to several generations of aspiring jazz musicians how it shouldn't sound. Pat Boone provided the same service for another musical genre as well. |
12-31-2009, 05:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by salcott Hey, Paul-cut Larry some slack-he demonstrated to several generations of aspiring jazz musicians how it shouldn't sound. Pat Boone provided the same service for another musical genre as well. | Tell me about it. Still have contractors asking me to wear white pants and shoes.
No, I don't. |
01-01-2010, 09:23 PM
| | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Yeah, and it will be a short one if you do get it, if you post any more "Larry" links around here...... | Actually, I thought I was pretty safe bringing up L.W. on "Off-Topic" since the heading up there says it's for stuff that is "totally non-music-related." However, it's not a problem. He was no hero of mine. Fixed it already. 
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01-04-2010, 02:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Westminster, Maryland | | | Bookend
I play OT - bluegrass, and don't own a bow. A couple years ago my wife bought me a bookend for my birthday, a metal wire-frame figure of a classic cello player sitting with the instrument between his knees, with a bow.
It is on the shelf. I never told her different. Would you? 
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01-04-2010, 03:12 PM
| | | Well, I think the sooner you tell her and both have a laugh about it, the better. "The instrument between his knees".......... |
01-04-2010, 04:20 PM
| | Best Upright Guitarrón (UG) player in my house. | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Idyllwild, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gbaker I play OT - bluegrass, and don't own a bow. A couple years ago my wife bought me a bookend for my birthday, a metal wire-frame figure of a classic cello player sitting with the instrument between his knees, with a bow.
It is on the shelf. I never told her different. Would you? | Indicative of a man of experience. Well done, indeed.
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01-04-2010, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by nimbleswitch Indicative of a man of experience. Well done, indeed. | Nice work if you can get it. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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