[Rhodes22-list] Music Humor - I think: Another Mandolin Player...

[Jim White]

Thanks Slim...sometimes my grammatics get away from me...brain fart 
syndrome....mental pause....oldtimers disease. I have a good friend who's a 
BASS player (He's here right now....we just fought the forward plug in my 
big V twin.... took three of us 45 minutes...)...but enlighten me, is 
Robert Earl Keens' song "Five pound bass" really about a very light musical 
instrument??? ;-)
jw

At 05:22 PM 2/10/2005, you wrote:
>Glad you liked it Jim.
>
>As for the ukulele, first of all it's bass, not base.  (not being anal--just
>trying to help)  Next, I'm skeptical that what Rummy has is a bass uke.
> >From Mark's link on that, it would seem the bass uke is an extremely rare
>instrument.  I'll bet Rummy's got either a tenor or a baritone uke.  The one
>we're most familiar with--the Tiny Tim uke--is a soprano uke.
>
>But I've seen little short-scale basses before.  The strings are like big
>fat rubber bands and flop around very loosely under the fingers.  Not at all
>like the taught strings on everything else.  When played acoustically,
>they're almost silent, so they have pick-ups.
>
>For anything to be called a "bass" (bass guitar, bass violin, bass flute) it
>has to be able to play the really low notes.  Low notes and short strings
>are acoustically incompatible, so you have to jump through some special
>engineering and electronic hoops to get the thing to make any noise.
>
>Slim
>
>
>On 2/10/05 4:03 PM, "Jim White" <jdwhite at utpa.edu> wrote:
>
> > Made my afternoon with that one Slim. BTW was that a base ukulele I heard
> > in the background?
> > jw
> >
> > At 03:51 PM 2/10/2005, you wrote:
> >> With all these mandolin players, let's start with a little Led 
> Zep.  Here's
> >> a rare, live version of Going To California:
> >> http://home.mn.rr.com/almhome/California.mp3
> >>
> >> On 2/10/05 12:49 PM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I sense the possiblity of a new musical group within the list, "Slim
> >> and  the
> >>> Rhodies"
> >>>
> >>> Rummy.....this list has talent.
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