I was just going to get my copy of O'Niels to look for any humourous suggestions for tunes that could be construed as having ties to the Midlands in response to the post by Highly strung, and can't find it! I am not messy, (although my wife and friends will disagree vehemently), so must have forgotten where I left it.
I blame it on being 'creative'.
What's the most unbelievable thing you ever mislaid and where did you eventualy find it...?(lets keep it musical)
B
I collected my banjo a few weeks ago. I drove 3 hours to the house of the maker and on to Dublin. I stayed overnight in Dublin, and on getting the key to the hotel room, i could'nt get the banjo out of the case fast enough. On opening the case i searched in vain for the plectrum i had put between the strings on leaving the makers house. It was all in vain, i must have lost it. So i spent the next couple of hours trying to play the banjo with the corner of my credit card. Deeply frustrated i returned home the next day to play with a plectrum. So i did, but on reopening the case the next day, this plectrum was also missing. I then realised something must be wrong, and eventually found the plectrum(s) inside the back, both having falling in through the hole in the resonator. I spent half the night in Dublin trying to play with the corner of the credit card, not knowing that i had a plectrum about an inch away. What a fecking eejit.
I won't reveal the story of me mislaying my house phone(potable one) and eventually finding it, while paying for a meal in a restaurant- in my coat pocket. Imagine the embarrassment if it actually rang!
I can honestly say i was not very creative with the banjo and credit card- but i'm getting there. Does Dunlop make credit cards?
I left my fiddle in the overhead bin on the RyanAir plane when we got to Shannon Airport. In my defense, it was very crowded and we were in the first row and everyone was eager to get a moveon. I realized as soon as I got to the gate, of course, and ran back immediately. One of the maintenance crew ran into the plane to get it for me, they thought a Chinese woman bringing a fiddle into Ireland was hysterical.
I mislaid my guitar once after having a jam with a couple of friends. A bouzouki friend of mine had a similar case, only slightly smaller. On returning home, I discovered that my guitar had shrunk slightly, inherited 2 extra strings and sounded suspiciously like a big mandolin. The moral of this story is: Don't put 2 similar looking cases in the boot of the same car.
Have left both blackwood and boehm flutes behind after sessions. Drink had been creatively taken. The blackwood in my local sesh, but the boehm in a pub in Willesden, after playing with some deadly talented young Donegal players. That required well over an hour to trek across London to retrieve it, but the governor recognised me straight away. 3 cheers to the Irish landlords of London for looking after the musicians.
Have never left the box behind. A few years ago we were burgled, but I don't rate the burglar's IQ as above double figures, ie 99 the very max, if he's very lucky, as we had been away the weekend camping. He entered by the kitchen window at the back, rifled through a cupboard in the kitchen & got a few quid (about £5!) then went upstairs, got my passport, then got out. His journey would have taken him past a Castagnari box, and a silver and a wooden flute, all out of their cases! Needless to say I have increased security - they say an Englishman's home is his castle - so is this Scotsman's nowadays! More like the Scotsman's little castle is also his home.
Well, yesterday our little band played a glamourous gig... the Grand Opening of a Navajo auto mechanic garage, ha! While we were having a hot dog & chips before playing, our bodhran player joins us & informs us that her husband, while taking their 2 year old home, had inadvertently driven off with her tipper. So she found this crazy looking little random car part, & it performed amazingly well. Pretty creative.
Some friends of mine once lost all their instruments and sound gear in one go, thanks to some mind-bending chemicals of the smokable, rather than drinkable, kind. They simply got in the car and drove off, leaving it all standing there on the pavement. They soon looked at the back seat and realised what they’d done, but when they got back to the place, not a thing was left. This was in New Orleans. A sorry, sorry tale… I’m sure everyone here will wince physically on reading it.
We can boast putting the band music pad on top of the van and driving off - leaving a paper chase around the village. (Just in case we needed to retrace our path).
We managed to recover it all.
A pianist friend played at a gig in a tent. He heavily imbibed and couldn't be bothered to put his gear away so asked the organiser could he leave it overnight.
He came back next morning to find an empty field save a electric piano and pa - the tent had gone.
I left my minidisc recorder in the back of a cab after recording one of the best sessions I've ever heard. The recorder was brand new but the recording was irreplaceable. And yes, drink was involved.
How creative are you...?
How creative are you...?
I was just going to get my copy of O'Niels to look for any humourous suggestions for tunes that could be construed as having ties to the Midlands in response to the post by Highly strung, and can't find it! I am not messy, (although my wife and friends will disagree vehemently), so must have forgotten where I left it.
I blame it on being 'creative'.
What's the most unbelievable thing you ever mislaid and where did you eventualy find it...?(lets keep it musical)
B
# Posted on June 28th 2003 by bacchus
Re: How creative are you...?
I collected my banjo a few weeks ago. I drove 3 hours to the house of the maker and on to Dublin. I stayed overnight in Dublin, and on getting the key to the hotel room, i could'nt get the banjo out of the case fast enough. On opening the case i searched in vain for the plectrum i had put between the strings on leaving the makers house. It was all in vain, i must have lost it. So i spent the next couple of hours trying to play the banjo with the corner of my credit card. Deeply frustrated i returned home the next day to play with a plectrum. So i did, but on reopening the case the next day, this plectrum was also missing. I then realised something must be wrong, and eventually found the plectrum(s) inside the back, both having falling in through the hole in the resonator. I spent half the night in Dublin trying to play with the corner of the credit card, not knowing that i had a plectrum about an inch away. What a fecking eejit.
I won't reveal the story of me mislaying my house phone(potable one) and eventually finding it, while paying for a meal in a restaurant- in my coat pocket. Imagine the embarrassment if it actually rang!
I can honestly say i was not very creative with the banjo and credit card- but i'm getting there. Does Dunlop make credit cards?
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Celtic1234
Re: How creative are you...?
I left my fiddle in the overhead bin on the RyanAir plane when we got to Shannon Airport. In my defense, it was very crowded and we were in the first row and everyone was eager to get a moveon. I realized as soon as I got to the gate, of course, and ran back immediately. One of the maintenance crew ran into the plane to get it for me, they thought a Chinese woman bringing a fiddle into Ireland was hysterical.
zls
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Zina Lee
Re: How creative are you...?
I mislaid my guitar once after having a jam with a couple of friends. A bouzouki friend of mine had a similar case, only slightly smaller. On returning home, I discovered that my guitar had shrunk slightly, inherited 2 extra strings and sounded suspiciously like a big mandolin. The moral of this story is: Don't put 2 similar looking cases in the boot of the same car.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Highly Strung!!
Smile
Just noticed your use of this spelling of the popular phrase.
My little duet group (fiddle/flute) has a similar name:
He calls himself "F. Hook"
I call myself "E. Jitts"
Together we are: "F. Hook and E. Jitts."
Tell me how unoriginal this is
--Eliot
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Eliot
Re: How creative are you...?
Have left both blackwood and boehm flutes behind after sessions. Drink had been creatively taken. The blackwood in my local sesh, but the boehm in a pub in Willesden, after playing with some deadly talented young Donegal players. That required well over an hour to trek across London to retrieve it, but the governor recognised me straight away. 3 cheers to the Irish landlords of London for looking after the musicians.
Have never left the box behind. A few years ago we were burgled, but I don't rate the burglar's IQ as above double figures, ie 99 the very max, if he's very lucky, as we had been away the weekend camping. He entered by the kitchen window at the back, rifled through a cupboard in the kitchen & got a few quid (about £5!) then went upstairs, got my passport, then got out. His journey would have taken him past a Castagnari box, and a silver and a wooden flute, all out of their cases! Needless to say I have increased security - they say an Englishman's home is his castle - so is this Scotsman's nowadays! More like the Scotsman's little castle is also his home.
Danny.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Alf Tupper
Re: How creative are you...?
Well, yesterday our little band played a glamourous gig... the Grand Opening of a Navajo auto mechanic garage, ha! While we were having a hot dog & chips before playing, our bodhran player joins us & informs us that her husband, while taking their 2 year old home, had inadvertently driven off with her tipper. So she found this crazy looking little random car part, & it performed amazingly well. Pretty creative.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by emily_bmore
Re: How creative are you...?
I'm forever getting to the pub, sitting down, getting out my fiddle, putting the case away, then having to get the case out again for my bow.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by llig leahcim
Re: How creative are you...?
I constantly forget getting to the pub. I sit at home playing far too often.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Pontus Adefjord
Re: How creative are you...?
Some friends of mine once lost all their instruments and sound gear in one go, thanks to some mind-bending chemicals of the smokable, rather than drinkable, kind. They simply got in the car and drove off, leaving it all standing there on the pavement. They soon looked at the back seat and realised what they’d done, but when they got back to the place, not a thing was left. This was in New Orleans. A sorry, sorry tale… I’m sure everyone here will wince physically on reading it.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by Nell
Re: How creative are you...?
We can boast putting the band music pad on top of the van and driving off - leaving a paper chase around the village. (Just in case we needed to retrace our path).
We managed to recover it all.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by geoffwright
Lonely piano
A pianist friend played at a gig in a tent. He heavily imbibed and couldn't be bothered to put his gear away so asked the organiser could he leave it overnight.
He came back next morning to find an empty field save a electric piano and pa - the tent had gone.
# Posted on June 29th 2003 by geoffwright
Re: How creative are you...?
I once misplaced a whistle in the bell of my sax . . . I also did this with a banana*, I don't really know/can't remember how this really happened
*which was eventually eaten
# Posted on July 1st 2003 by micelfife
Re: How creative are you...?
I left my minidisc recorder in the back of a cab after recording one of the best sessions I've ever heard. The recorder was brand new but the recording was irreplaceable. And yes, drink was involved.
# Posted on July 1st 2003 by Robby B.
Re: How creative are you...?
I lost my mind, but no big deal--I rarely used it anyway.
# Posted on July 3rd 2003 by woman of the house