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Playing Since: 1961

Experience Level: Purty Good

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: writer,composer,fiddler.clawhammer!

Gender: Female

Age: 57

My Instruments:
Now I have 3! a gen-u-wine chinee and An Anton Breton, which was someone's HS student violin - really comfortable! and a pawnshop surprise that @ 80$ turned out to be a highend cremona listed @ 965.00 - plays like butter!! Woo! - So now I have trapped 2 people into playing with me!(used to have 2 or three around) - I'll get there again - and two no name banjos I love, 1 deering goodtime (open back) a beater mandolin, and tons of flutes and whistles. I have gone nuts on clawhammer addiction, and picked up another fiddle at a pawn shop - no lable, but SWEET! Curly maple - think it might be a Scott Cao - - bought it cause I knew it was playable, but MAN! this thing sings and resonates major sweet!!! No lable - beaitifulworkmanship, boxwood fittings.

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Doc Watson,Incredible String Band,Robin Williamson and his Merry Band,Steeleye Span,Fairport Convention, Highwoods, Walt Koken,Chieftains, heck! anything Irish and Scottish or Old Timey - AND Old English /french German/ medi/renn dances and ballads!) just too many!

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Discuss/ BHO (Deering) Tunes IN the Wood!

Sunday, December 05, 2010 @3:32:29 PM

>>>Hi Guys - I have moved this all to the fiddle-related forum thread ~ Tunes IN the Wood - Haunted Fiddles ~- I have been getting a lot of stories! - you can read this all here, or just find the thread - I copied everything over - cause it is a great topic! Jen 12/6/10

Dec 5 2010 - interesting dicussion (deering) at BHO - but this came out of there bein' a wishing for tunes built into the instruments - - and you know? There IS! (I think!) Filddles ALL have tunes in 'em!)

Dec 5 2010 (Talking about banjos coming with tunes installed - ) LOL!

-I think it is all in the IMBUANCE! LOL! At least fiddle-wise - older fiddles are prized because they come along with every player's loves and chops and tunes in the wood - as well as being seasoned, since all those vibrations running through, and all the love - tends to tighten and align the wood grain - (yes, my theory, but HEY! It's all there !-

I find banjos and other wooden instruments (or parts of), seem to be the same - when you pick one up, the whole history is inherent - like an aura! LOL!

And with "new" instruments - it's almost all there too - it just hasn't been woken up -
Think of all the craft, the love, the attention to detail that has gone in it, and all the decades, centuries, etc, of every craftsman that is coming thru whoever is working on it to bring it into the world - and all the banjos, etc, that went through those jigs, and all the banjos those tools have touched - and all the musicians of whatever caliber that have left their essences, as it were, in the store or workshop - Puts a twinkle in your eye, to consider it -

And that is not even who has played it yet! -

It honestly makes you look at and connect in a different way with your instrument - the history IS inherent -

so the tunes are there, and the way to uncover them is to play it and touch it and hold it and cherish it, aside from banging on it - and a nod of thanks to all the those of the banjo lineage, each and every time -

I think they all have them built in - you just have to get in tune with banjo history ghosts and give them a nod -

fiddlers to a great degree, know this - (HAHA! - oops! didn't mean to poke yer in the eye with my bow - ) LOL!
But it makes a difference, I think - without trying to get all esoteric - that YOU might give a nod to the vibes YOU send thru your instrument - (and yes, I established The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Fiddles) We can have one for banjos, too -

And remember and add a thought for all those banjos that didn't have the best homes - they can be cuddled and brought back. Good Vibrations and imbuance will turn it to the finest wine - or beer - or white lightning - and I think it's pretty true - (but that's my universe!)

- Dang! I feel a moral folktale coming on!....

You'd be amazed - No one mean and ornery or cruel crafts musical instruments - they wouldn't be able to do it -
music-making conduits have a touch of the divine in all of them -(and I feel a crusade coming on too...LOL!
Yes, even the Divil had his touch - and he COULD play the fiddle...)

Jen!