Just wondering how many people of advanced years there are here. I'm only 27 years away from receiving my free bus pass (a singularly useless thing to own in Mid-Wales). I'm not very wise, but I'm balding and greying, and my joints creak a bit sometimes.
looking for sessions in the elderhostel catalog. don't forget the ibuprofen. they're all gan ainm. what? it's too loud, i can't hear you.what's yer name? what's my name?!
Well Done lomhair, I'm 29 Yes I Know I Know People Just Can
Not Believe It , But You Are As Young As You Feel And I Feel 29
Started Late And Made Lots Of New Friends,Enjoying Every Session, So Keep The Music Coming.
Mid 50s - playing since 5 - IMT from mid-teens.
I have put more tunes to the back of my mind than I currently play, but a reminder can bring a tune flooding back after 30 years.
As any busker will tell you - you measure tunes by the hour (without repeats) not by how many you know.
Who you calling old ?
Oh, yeah, that's a free bus pass in my pocket, so what ? I've worked hard for that - I survived.
As I always say, I am so old I saw the Beatles play live 1963, first national tour, I was a teenager.
I have instruments 2 to 3 times older than me, no-one looks down on them !
Hey celtic.
Just the other day you were 29.HA HA
Pity when you wake up tomorrow you wont be.
Think you and BoBhimself are much the same.But at least bob is honest.
PA for too many years. Button Box for just over a year. At 7 years to learn, 7 years to practice, and 7 years to play, that takes me through 76.
The I have threatened Herself that I would take up the pipes. So at 7 years to learn, 7 years to practice, and 7 years to play, that takes me through 97.
What? closet you bitch!!!!!
At least it wasnt a corset I was hiding in.
Get to bed now ya gummy auld fecker with your horlicks .29 last time you saw that man hadnt even been on the moon.
See you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll be 55 in May. Anyone other than me object to the term "older" when "old" is what is meant? As in "There's this older guy who plays really lousy flute, but he thinks he's cool."
Jayz ye are only teenie boppers! I can give away a decade but I am still picking up new instruments.
Fiddled for 30 years or more and quit TG,
Played TW since I was old enogh to chew out the wood block from the Clark - put it this way, I remember Irish Thatched Cottages, sidecars, old IRA men roaring at me and 2 shilling harmonicas bought for the Wrenday.
I used to add letters to 29 (29a, 29b, etc.) until my brother kindly reminded me that I had run out of letters. So now I'm 39s. Only feel old when the only names you recognize at the Grammies are the ones getting Lifetime Achievement Awards!
I took up the recorder, harmonica, pennywhistle and bodhran at about 58 yrs. and returned to saxophone (after 39 years) soon after. I'm now active playing Scots, Irish, English, Old Timey, "big band" and concert band music at 75 years.. .. and loving every minute of it! What (when) is old?
Another old one here! 63, playing fiddle from 54, so that's 9 years of struggle, practice practice practice and stretch stretch stretch but being able to join great sessions nowadays. Going to Canberra in april, anyone out there going too?
Oh, what I'd give for the stamina to be fit for a 29 year old Celtic! Yes, I'd love to feel a 29 year old again .................... sadly I've lost her phone number!
But enough of this, yes I'm 55 & proud to have made it this far! It's been a b£oody long walk!
This means I've been scratching away at a Fiddle longer than most folks here have actually been alive!!!!! ....... & you certainly wouldn't think it to hear me, but enough of my usual modesty - anymore of that & I'll start to sound like Bliss, milking for appreciation!
Sheeesh ... you know he even threatened to retire, next door! I reckon he only did that to see how many folks would come on here & plead with him to stay.
But you've got to ask yourself, how many World class Bodhran players can this forum really handle at any one time!
Anyway, the only shame is - I was born the same year as Comhaltas! Who, I hear you ask .......
How many old musicians are here?
How many old musicians are here?
Just wondering how many people of advanced years there are here. I'm only 27 years away from receiving my free bus pass (a singularly useless thing to own in Mid-Wales). I'm not very wise, but I'm balding and greying, and my joints creak a bit sometimes.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by ragaman
Re: How many young musicians are here?
Oops... uh... wrong room.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Phantom Button
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Keep the noise down there !!
Young Pups !
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by BegF
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I'm turning 51 this year and just started fiddling 3 years ago. Some days I feel old, and some days I don't.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by nofrets
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Fifty-three years young.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by pearse
Re: How many old musicians are here?
looking for sessions in the elderhostel catalog. don't forget the ibuprofen. they're all gan ainm. what? it's too loud, i can't hear you.what's yer name? what's my name?!
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Dont
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Just the other day, I was forty. This year I'll be sixty.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Bob himself
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Older than the people in the other thread, and generally younger than the people in this thread...
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Reverend
Re: How many old musicians are here?
At 50 I'm a lot younger than a lot of the tunes I try to play! <g>
...Kevin
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by atftb
Re: How many old musicians are here?
51. But inside I feel like 18. It was kinda spooky seeing the 5 and the 1 in close proximity to each other and to me.
Been playing whistle about 4 years, guitar for near 10 times that.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by feardearg
Re: How many old musicians are here?
53 and I've been playing long enough that I really should be a lot better at it than I am.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Murph
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Yeah -where is the thread for those in the middle???
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by bb
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I'm 69, been playing fiddle a little more than four years. It's still a bit of a struggle but I love it. Just need another 20 years to get good at it.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Iomhair
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Well Done lomhair, I'm 29 Yes I Know I Know People Just Can
Not Believe It , But You Are As Young As You Feel And I Feel 29
Started Late And Made Lots Of New Friends,Enjoying Every Session, So Keep The Music Coming.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by celtic strings
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I'm feeling fairly ageless today
What room do I go to?
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by nnicharra
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Mid 50s - playing since 5 - IMT from mid-teens.
I have put more tunes to the back of my mind than I currently play, but a reminder can bring a tune flooding back after 30 years.
As any busker will tell you - you measure tunes by the hour (without repeats) not by how many you know.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by geoffwright
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I'm only nineteen, though I've done that three times so far.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Lingpupa
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Who you calling old ?
Oh, yeah, that's a free bus pass in my pocket, so what ? I've worked hard for that - I survived.
As I always say, I am so old I saw the Beatles play live 1963, first national tour, I was a teenager.
I have instruments 2 to 3 times older than me, no-one looks down on them !
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Quote Murph
"53 and I've been playing long enough that I really should be a lot better at it than I am"
I was going to post exactly the same!!!
Mikk
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by mikk
Re: How many old musicians are here?
im 17 but often tlk like im 80 so my mother says
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by S.McMullen
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Hey celtic.
Just the other day you were 29.HA HA
Pity when you wake up tomorrow you wont be.
Think you and BoBhimself are much the same.But at least bob is honest.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Dphil
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Early 60s but, like my namesake above, should play a lot better than I do.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by murfbox
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Dphil Compare To You I'm Only a Child Its Time You Came Out Of The Closet. Ha Ha.................
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by celtic strings
Re: How many old musicians are here?
55 going on 39. Old is a mind set.
PA for too many years. Button Box for just over a year. At 7 years to learn, 7 years to practice, and 7 years to play, that takes me through 76.
The I have threatened Herself that I would take up the pipes. So at 7 years to learn, 7 years to practice, and 7 years to play, that takes me through 97.
Then I told Herself, I would teach her to golf.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by zippydw
Re: How many old musicians are here?
What? closet you bitch!!!!!
At least it wasnt a corset I was hiding in.
Get to bed now ya gummy auld fecker with your horlicks .29 last time you saw that man hadnt even been on the moon.
See you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Dphil
Re: How many old musicians are here?
42 is that old or young?
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by mehere
Re: How many old musicians are here?
What's age? Everyone, no matter how old they really are, feels 25 inside.
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by bowburner
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I'll be 55 in May. Anyone other than me object to the term "older" when "old" is what is meant? As in "There's this older guy who plays really lousy flute, but he thinks he's cool."
# Posted on February 13th 2007 by Ailin
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Actually I still feel 17 inside. But bits of me keep telling me that's a lie.
# Posted on February 14th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: How many old musicians are here?
"42 is that old or young?"
The meaning of life begins at 42.
At 33, do I qualify as a long player? (or do I have to wait another 1/3 of a year?)
# Posted on February 14th 2007 by ragaman
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Jayz ye are only teenie boppers! I can give away a decade but I am still picking up new instruments.
Fiddled for 30 years or more and quit TG,
Played TW since I was old enogh to chew out the wood block from the Clark - put it this way, I remember Irish Thatched Cottages, sidecars, old IRA men roaring at me and 2 shilling harmonicas bought for the Wrenday.
# Posted on February 14th 2007 by Schlongbow
54 playing fiddle since I was 38. Mostly Old TIme, some Irish.
# Posted on February 14th 2007 by dogmageek
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I Feel Like A 29 Year Old But I Can Never Find One, As For
Dphil His Real Name Is Rip Van Winkle. (Go Back To Sleep)
# Posted on February 14th 2007 by celtic strings
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I used to add letters to 29 (29a, 29b, etc.) until my brother kindly reminded me that I had run out of letters. So now I'm 39s. Only feel old when the only names you recognize at the Grammies are the ones getting Lifetime Achievement Awards!
# Posted on February 15th 2007 by mjct
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I took up the fiddle when I turned 60 and been playing now for 2 1/2 years.
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by DaveZ-MT
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I took up the recorder, harmonica, pennywhistle and bodhran at about 58 yrs. and returned to saxophone (after 39 years) soon after. I'm now active playing Scots, Irish, English, Old Timey, "big band" and concert band music at 75 years.. .. and loving every minute of it! What (when) is old?
# Posted on February 19th 2007 by whistlerhm
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Another old one here! 63, playing fiddle from 54, so that's 9 years of struggle, practice practice practice and stretch stretch stretch but being able to join great sessions nowadays. Going to Canberra in april, anyone out there going too?
# Posted on February 19th 2007 by paddy25
Re: How many old musicians are here?
I'm 68 started trying to play tenor banjo at 50. One day I'll get it right.
# Posted on February 20th 2007 by Stoneyjohn
Re: How many old musicians are here?
Oh, what I'd give for the stamina to be fit for a 29 year old Celtic! Yes, I'd love to feel a 29 year old again .................... sadly I've lost her phone number!
But enough of this, yes I'm 55 & proud to have made it this far! It's been a b£oody long walk!
This means I've been scratching away at a Fiddle longer than most folks here have actually been alive!!!!! ....... & you certainly wouldn't think it to hear me, but enough of my usual modesty - anymore of that & I'll start to sound like Bliss, milking for appreciation!
Sheeesh ... you know he even threatened to retire, next door! I reckon he only did that to see how many folks would come on here & plead with him to stay.
But you've got to ask yourself, how many World class Bodhran players can this forum really handle at any one time!
Anyway, the only shame is - I was born the same year as Comhaltas!
Who, I hear you ask .......
# Posted on February 20th 2007 by Ptarmigan