What Musical Instruments do the C & V Folks Play?
08-09-18, 09:34 AM
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I decided to take violin lessons. I was tested when young & found to have musical aptitude. I was offered free after school violin lessons, but due to home circumstances I was not allowed to do this. It’s always been a goal of mine to learn an instrument. My sister now has Stage 4 cancer, and I think that I’ve been thinking of my own mortality. I don’t want to be one of those people who wonders, “I wonder what would have happened if I’d done .....?”
Anyway I don’t read music and never even touch a violin, until I bought one. I’m learning the Suzuki method where I attend lessons, and I’m as giddy as a kid!
We’ve posed all sorts of questions on this C & V forum, so I’d like to know what instruments you all play, or would like to play?
Anyway I don’t read music and never even touch a violin, until I bought one. I’m learning the Suzuki method where I attend lessons, and I’m as giddy as a kid!
We’ve posed all sorts of questions on this C & V forum, so I’d like to know what instruments you all play, or would like to play?
In late 60's, acoustic guitar, then..
Being able to guess what a guitar player's chord fingering is by looking is useful..
/..
08-09-18, 10:10 AM
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Well, I didn’t realize that we have such a musical bunch. It’s an inspiration for me to see that so many of you play!
@ButchA - I would LOVE to meet your grandmother! She’s probably forgotten (or not) more than I’ll ever know. What an exciting musical life!
@jimmuller - thanks for the warm thoughts. It’s been rough on her, of course. She’s my friend, as well as my only sister, and I am not taking this news well. I’m an emotional eater......so I’ve gained weight. It is what it is.....but when the day comes, I anticipate that it will suck the life out of me.
@ButchA - I would LOVE to meet your grandmother! She’s probably forgotten (or not) more than I’ll ever know. What an exciting musical life!
@jimmuller - thanks for the warm thoughts. It’s been rough on her, of course. She’s my friend, as well as my only sister, and I am not taking this news well. I’m an emotional eater......so I’ve gained weight. It is what it is.....but when the day comes, I anticipate that it will suck the life out of me.
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@ButchA - I would LOVE to meet your grandmother! She’s probably forgotten (or not) more than I’ll ever know. What an exciting musical life!
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@ TheGoldenBoy Do you do any of the open mike things in the area? Thinking small world, My sister is in west bend and does some.... I think Slinger House Pub and grill is one venue
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ButchA, well done!!
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08-09-18, 07:39 PM
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Thanks... I tried my hand at playing "Ashokan Farewell" from Ken Burns TV Documentary about the Civil War. I printed the sheet music and practiced it and practiced it little by little, and ended up memorizing it. The thing about the violin, is not the fingerings on the strings... It's the dang blasted bow! One false move, and the whole thing will screech and squawk like two cats fighting in someone's backyard! 
Never had a lesson on violin, aside from my grandmother showing me a few things back in the 70's when I was a teenager. I just picked it up on my own and learned to play it. I wish I could have heard my grandmother play it, but she was real elderly when she gave it to me, and arthritis crippled her hands and she could no longer play.
Never had a lesson on violin, aside from my grandmother showing me a few things back in the 70's when I was a teenager. I just picked it up on my own and learned to play it. I wish I could have heard my grandmother play it, but she was real elderly when she gave it to me, and arthritis crippled her hands and she could no longer play.
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I used to have a gig at Slinger House back in the day- effectively ‘dinner music’. I’ve never been told to turn down so much. The people liked having a band there, but the owner didn’t want a band there. I get it- if I’m eating with family/friends, I want to talk. But if I want to see a band- I’m there for the band. It just made for a weird gig.
The open jams I used to go to back in the day were at Bagg End (now it’s “Rally Time”), the golf course bar out by Newberg and the Mineshaft in Hartford. I used to see bands at Games in downtown WB- I vaguely remember playing there once and don’t remember an open jam there.
Only time I go up to the WB these days is to visit my folks.
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I love picking the blues out on this old “Victoria” branded Regal parlor. Chicago made with a spruce top, birch back and sides. Vintage is late teens to early 20’s. Once in a while I’ll throw a harp in a neck rack for a little self accompaniment if the tune or mood calls for it.
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Acoustic guitar, 6- and 12-string, mostly fingerstyle folk/folk rock music.
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Sorry to hear about your sister, VV.
I've been playing the drums for a bit over thirty years now, thought not nearly enough over the past few. I started playing on pots, pans, coffee cans, plastic gallon buckets, etc. when maybe four or so. I got a snare drum for a birthday a few years later, then the first drum set (a CB) for my tenth once my parents knew it wasn't a fleeting thing. Played in concert, jazz and marching bands through middle and high school then went to a two-year conservatory for jazz performance. After that was about a year in a jazz performance program at a university to get a full degree, but decided to switch to engineering...you know, the usual path. I taught lessons through that time for five to eighty year-olds. I also played sax for a bit in grade school when they had too many drummers at the time I joined, and learned to "play" the piano at the conservatory.
Up until maybe four years ago I had been in bands since middle school non-stop. It started with classic rock, then somewhere between rock and jazz (though not fusion). After that was a band that formed in the conservatory, we played originals mixing flavors of Elvis Costello, rhythm & blues, rock. We gigged mostly in Hartford/New Haven/New York. After that was another original rock band that played in the same general area. Then the next two bands were much closer to jazz again gigging in the same areas. Then everyone started getting married and having kids.
I need to get back to playing now that I'm no longer in an apartment. It'd be great to find a good bass player.
A couple pics of the kit, a Joe Montineri:
For vintage content, in high school I traded the CBs in and got a '70s Slingerland kit with 12/14/16/18 toms and a 24 kick. Boomy. I had a Slingerland Radio King snare for a bit that was in rough shape - I really wish I had held onto that, but it did fund the Montineris in large part, so that's for the best I suppose. I currently have a '50s 22" Zildjian Avedis ride and an 18" K Constantinople from maybe the '30s.
Have fun learning the new instrument, VV! It's a lot of fun and very rewarding.
I've been playing the drums for a bit over thirty years now, thought not nearly enough over the past few. I started playing on pots, pans, coffee cans, plastic gallon buckets, etc. when maybe four or so. I got a snare drum for a birthday a few years later, then the first drum set (a CB) for my tenth once my parents knew it wasn't a fleeting thing. Played in concert, jazz and marching bands through middle and high school then went to a two-year conservatory for jazz performance. After that was about a year in a jazz performance program at a university to get a full degree, but decided to switch to engineering...you know, the usual path. I taught lessons through that time for five to eighty year-olds. I also played sax for a bit in grade school when they had too many drummers at the time I joined, and learned to "play" the piano at the conservatory.
Up until maybe four years ago I had been in bands since middle school non-stop. It started with classic rock, then somewhere between rock and jazz (though not fusion). After that was a band that formed in the conservatory, we played originals mixing flavors of Elvis Costello, rhythm & blues, rock. We gigged mostly in Hartford/New Haven/New York. After that was another original rock band that played in the same general area. Then the next two bands were much closer to jazz again gigging in the same areas. Then everyone started getting married and having kids.
I need to get back to playing now that I'm no longer in an apartment. It'd be great to find a good bass player.A couple pics of the kit, a Joe Montineri:
For vintage content, in high school I traded the CBs in and got a '70s Slingerland kit with 12/14/16/18 toms and a 24 kick. Boomy. I had a Slingerland Radio King snare for a bit that was in rough shape - I really wish I had held onto that, but it did fund the Montineris in large part, so that's for the best I suppose. I currently have a '50s 22" Zildjian Avedis ride and an 18" K Constantinople from maybe the '30s.
Have fun learning the new instrument, VV! It's a lot of fun and very rewarding.
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A couple pics of the kit, a Joe Montineri:
For vintage content, in high school I traded the CBs in and got a '70s Slingerland kit with 12/14/16/18 toms and a 24 kick. Boomy. I had a Slingerland Radio King snare for a bit that was in rough shape - I really wish I had held onto that, but it did fund the Montineris in large part, so that's for the best I suppose.
This should make you feel good- around 25 years ago, a guy at work asked me to find someone to buy his drum kit. I found a guy that was interested- let them talk pricing. Tim walked away with a cool $200 and the other guy got a pretty much unused, complete 1965 Slingerland Gene Krupa 4 piece kit.
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Beautiful kit!
This should make you feel good- around 25 years ago, a guy at work asked me to find someone to buy his drum kit. I found a guy that was interested- let them talk pricing. Tim walked away with a cool $200 and the other guy got a pretty much unused, complete 1965 Slingerland Gene Krupa 4 piece kit.
This should make you feel good- around 25 years ago, a guy at work asked me to find someone to buy his drum kit. I found a guy that was interested- let them talk pricing. Tim walked away with a cool $200 and the other guy got a pretty much unused, complete 1965 Slingerland Gene Krupa 4 piece kit.
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My goodness! Gene Krupa was one of the first favorites. Very cool, and what a deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9WTxXH1fKQ
But....Purdie!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DsNo4KB6Y
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