I blame Anach

[ericcoleman]

He lent me his octave mandolin, now I need one.

I went to look at prices at Lark In The Morning. I, of course, got sidetracked

this is cool ... a Dulcigurdy.

Comments

[uberhill.livejournal.com]

Nobody needs an instrument with the suffix "-gurdy". Such things make the baby Muses cry.

[ericcoleman]

Hey, Hurdy Gurdys are COOL

[uberhill.livejournal.com]

The platypus of the musical kingdom. All someone needs to do is electrify the silly thing, add a whammy bar and the travesty would be complete.

[ericcoleman]

All of which I would do if I owned one ... at least electrify it ... I would want to use it onstage after all

[mike46.livejournal.com]

if it's good enough for Richie Blackmore, it's good enough for me ... and his is electric, tho no whammy if I remember correctly.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Damn straight, dude!

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

PS - also proud owner of an octave mandolin.

Musical Instruments Anonymous

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

"Hi, my name is Eric, and I am a musical-instrument-o-holic!"

"HI, ERIC!"

Re: Musical Instruments Anonymous

[ericcoleman]

There is nothing anonymous about my wanting more instruments

Re: Musical Instruments Anonymous

[anach.livejournal.com]

hey! I was good... I swiped one from you in turn... had to fight the low E and A strings to get them to stay in tune...

[herald-mari.livejournal.com]

Oh that does look very cool! I was watching a Loreena McKinitt DVD with Steve and I was explaining that I thought one of the instruments was a Hurdy-Gurdy. Then I looked up prices for them. Oy!

However I am playing my clarinet again. Alas I still sound like someone is squeezing a goose (was a A+ solist/all state band back in the day) otherwise I'd bring it to SACC. But with my hours (and other things), probably won't make it.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

I went to the site's home page. They were advertising "indoor bagpipes". I left.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

"Aye they're loovly. Buh we dinna let them in the HOOSE!"

[ericcoleman]

Go look at those again ... they're actually kinda cool, and you can get a full set there as well