I've only been knocking around this site for a couple of months but have noticed that bodhran players seem to cop a disproportionate amount of abuse. They may have earned it, but it got me wondering if there are trad personality types that can be associated with particular instruments. In rock, for example, bass players are generally pigeon-holed as introverted and tend to be the hairiest band members, even in all-girl groups like the Bangles; drummers are often characterised as operating on less than full intellectual power. In your experience, do certain trad instruments tend to attract certain types of players?
newbie personality type...too lazy to search for previous discussions on similar topics. cheers John J and Ptarmigan (again)... promise to look around before asking any more questions...now back to bashing bodhran players....
I've been told, by various people, about other mandolin players that look like me and have a similar personality. In fact, as I write, I am in the house of a mandolin player in Portugal, who was born on the same day as me.
Hey bosco, not my point at all. I just meant that yourself & any other folks interested in this topic, could check the older one & lift ideas from it to fuel this one.
After all, I'm sure there are lots of new org-ers on the page since this was 'discussed' previously.
So ask away, that's what this space is all about - & to hell with the begrudgers!
Oh yeah & just another thought bosco. I don't know about personalities, but thank goodness we don't have the poster's photo by his post on this board, like on some other boards - cause there are some very strange looking people inhabiting this 'virtual reality time space continuum' here! - & I'm talking r e a l l y weird!
So goodness only knows what their personalities are like!
Ditto, Bosco. I just gave the link for your info. There might be something which we would have missed this time and, as Ptarmigan says, there's always room for a fresh perspective on any subject except bodhrans, of course.
Apparently those people who combine piano accordion and bodhrán playing are the nicest, most interesting and virile (let's not deny it) people on the planet.
You would say that Conán.
I love your self-deprecating style !
As for Fluters...
Apparently we are a sarcastic group of individuals, who are weird and mysterious not to mention EXTREMELY knowledgable on all matters traditional.
What do you reckon Conán?
I think fiddlers can come across as acting a bit superior, but then again I meet a lot of people who say "I've always wanted to play the violin" but when asked "why don't you" the only reason is they never tried.
u lot have put me off learning t bodhran..not that i ever wanted to in the first place..but i sure as hell aint gonna pick one up now..in fear of havin t p*ss taken by u lot..
any chance u wanna tell me wot tin whistle players are like..?
me boss has made me take it up..so go easy..lol
Yer man wanted to know what we thought of whistle players. I hear you packed in the whistle for the flute; so the hypnotherapy and the pencil placebos worked then?
thats a bit harsh..scum of tha earth n all that..lol..
serves me right for asking i spose..
at the end of tha day..at least i dont play tha melodeon..
we all know wot their like..
After several years studying this phenomenon I have found, through scientific methods, controlled conditions etc. that flute players do slabber a great deal; it is the build-up of gack in the bore of the tube which creates a certain blockage, causing the fluite-juice (copyright Flisstle 2006) to drip.
In fact, excessive slabbering combined with a woeful lack of flute maintenance may explain the recent spate of deaths due to fluters choking on (and in many cases, drowning in) their own sputum.
What personality type would you ascribe to a multi-instrumentalist then ? ( Apart from over-optimism ? )
Martin Carthy told me many years ago that I was too cheerful to be a real bass-player ( but then he had been playing with Ashley Hutchings, which might have skewed his views ). I've just remembered that I am hairy, so I fit the stereotype a bit.
Are fretted-stringed musos all one type, or are there sub-groups, depending on number of strings and length of finger-board ( phallic symbolska, anyone ? ).
What if you digress into free reeds and goatskin-thumping for a bit of diversion ?
We need to be told.
And does one type tend to gravitate towards another for purposes of partnering and procuration ? Like if you're a Gemini and you ought to look for a Pisces ? ( Sorry, strayed over from another thread ) .
"Hmm I thought flute players were people who had a tendency to slabber.... "
And full of wind and themselves Conan in my experience. Now box players and banjoists are a jovial , happy-go-luck lot. Pipers are definitely a cranky auld bunch. Fiddlers think they're the bee's knees and bodhran players, don't take offence guys, are a wee bit light-headed. That's been my experience to date....oh yeah, and guitarists are usually Whackey but good craic. I think it's all in the fags they smoke
Trad Personality Types...
Trad Personality Types...
I've only been knocking around this site for a couple of months but have noticed that bodhran players seem to cop a disproportionate amount of abuse. They may have earned it, but it got me wondering if there are trad personality types that can be associated with particular instruments. In rock, for example, bass players are generally pigeon-holed as introverted and tend to be the hairiest band members, even in all-girl groups like the Bangles; drummers are often characterised as operating on less than full intellectual power. In your experience, do certain trad instruments tend to attract certain types of players?
# Posted on March 6th 2006 by bosco
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Now you know why I play the bodhran and not the drums.
# Posted on March 6th 2006 by bodhran bliss
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How about this old thread bosco?
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/2722/comments#comment53138
# Posted on March 6th 2006 by Ptarmigan
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Yep, Pipers are usually considered weird and immature. Whistlers are eccentric. Those are a couple.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Why Bother?
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I refer you to one one of my old discussions.
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/2919/comments
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Johnny Jay
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newbie personality type...too lazy to search for previous discussions on similar topics.
cheers John J and Ptarmigan (again)... promise to look around before asking any more questions...now back to bashing bodhran players....
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by bosco
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I've been told, by various people, about other mandolin players that look like me and have a similar personality. In fact, as I write, I am in the house of a mandolin player in Portugal, who was born on the same day as me.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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"Pipers are usually considered weird and immature..."
I'm excited. I actually fit a stereotype. Brilliant.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by DrSilverSpear
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Of course we guitarists are people of low self-esteem according to Mr Duffy (O'Duffaigh)
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Donough
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then there are those without personality.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by showaddydadito
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Hey bosco, not my point at all. I just meant that yourself & any other folks interested in this topic, could check the older one & lift ideas from it to fuel this one.
After all, I'm sure there are lots of new org-ers on the page since this was 'discussed' previously.
So ask away, that's what this space is all about - & to hell with the begrudgers!
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Ptarmigan
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Oh yeah & just another thought bosco. I don't know about personalities, but thank goodness we don't have the poster's photo by his post on this board, like on some other boards - cause there are some very strange looking people inhabiting this 'virtual reality time space continuum' here! - & I'm talking r e a l l y weird!
So goodness only knows what their personalities are like!
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Ptarmigan
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Ditto, Bosco. I just gave the link for your info. There might be something which we would have missed this time and, as Ptarmigan says, there's always room for a fresh perspective on any subject except bodhrans, of course.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Johnny Jay
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Apparently those people who combine piano accordion and bodhrán playing are the nicest, most interesting and virile (let's not deny it) people on the planet.
So I'm told, anyway.
C
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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You would say that Conán.
I love your self-deprecating style !
As for Fluters...
Apparently we are a sarcastic group of individuals, who are weird and mysterious not to mention EXTREMELY knowledgable on all matters traditional.
What do you reckon Conán?
Mx
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by blas
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I think fiddlers can come across as acting a bit superior, but then again I meet a lot of people who say "I've always wanted to play the violin" but when asked "why don't you" the only reason is they never tried.
Box players are very friendly and welcoming.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Martin Milner
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Hmm I thought flute players were people who had a tendency to slabber....
;)
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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u lot have put me off learning t bodhran..not that i ever wanted to in the first place..but i sure as hell aint gonna pick one up now..in fear of havin t p*ss taken by u lot..
any chance u wanna tell me wot tin whistle players are like..?
me boss has made me take it up..so go easy..lol
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Crimson Eye
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I would say that guitarists are stout-hearted folks, who can be relied on in a pinch.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by AlBrown
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Banjolin players might be indecisive, or then again they might not be.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by showaddydadito
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What does that tell you about mandocello players?
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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Whistle players are scum of the earth.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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Ha Ha Ha, nice one Conán, what ever made you say that?
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by blas
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Yer man wanted to know what we thought of whistle players. I hear you packed in the whistle for the flute; so the hypnotherapy and the pencil placebos worked then?
;)
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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No a short stint in a retreat soon sorted me out, the doctor says you can barely notice my nervous tic now...
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by blas
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Lefties are the court-jesters of trad.
Or something more clever than that.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by wormdiet
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now conan - flute players have a "tendency to slabber". i prefer to call it 'flute juice'. will make sure i am sat to your left after easter : P
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by flisstle
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Thanks Flissy! Usually you sit as far from me as possible. I didn't know you cared.
Blás, what about your imaginary friend called Marjorie the Meerkat? All sorted yet?
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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thats a bit harsh..scum of tha earth n all that..lol..
serves me right for asking i spose..
at the end of tha day..at least i dont play tha melodeon..
we all know wot their like..
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Crimson Eye
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Spawn of the Devil, those Melodeon players.
Wouldn't trust them to sit the right way on the toilet.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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Marge says Hi !
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by blas
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Tell Marge Hello from Robert the Ring-Tailed Lemur!
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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I thought he emmigrated to La La Land.
That Marge, always getting it wrong!
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by blas
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Conan, I think that flute players rather than slabbering just sort of drip slowly.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Leftheris
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After several years studying this phenomenon I have found, through scientific methods, controlled conditions etc. that flute players do slabber a great deal; it is the build-up of gack in the bore of the tube which creates a certain blockage, causing the fluite-juice (copyright Flisstle 2006) to drip.
In fact, excessive slabbering combined with a woeful lack of flute maintenance may explain the recent spate of deaths due to fluters choking on (and in many cases, drowning in) their own sputum.
Conán P. McDonnell, BSc, MSc, CSA, NUT, Pg Dipso
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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The bore of the tube? What's that??
Hmm must lay off the sauce for a bit
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
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You know - the hole down the middle of the stick in which slime drips and air resonates?
I, on the other hand, am a tube boor.
Sessions with lefty & righty flutes are great - you can corner somebody else for a double-dose of drip.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by wormdiet
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I fit the mark!
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Red Crow
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What personality type would you ascribe to a multi-instrumentalist then ? ( Apart from over-optimism ? )
Martin Carthy told me many years ago that I was too cheerful to be a real bass-player ( but then he had been playing with Ashley Hutchings, which might have skewed his views ). I've just remembered that I am hairy, so I fit the stereotype a bit.
Are fretted-stringed musos all one type, or are there sub-groups, depending on number of strings and length of finger-board ( phallic symbolska, anyone ? ).
What if you digress into free reeds and goatskin-thumping for a bit of diversion ?
We need to be told.
And does one type tend to gravitate towards another for purposes of partnering and procuration ? Like if you're a Gemini and you ought to look for a Pisces ? ( Sorry, strayed over from another thread ) .
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by Guernsey Pete
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"Hmm I thought flute players were people who had a tendency to slabber.... "
but good craic. I think it's all in the fags they smoke 
And full of wind and themselves Conan in my experience. Now box players and banjoists are a jovial , happy-go-luck lot. Pipers are definitely a cranky auld bunch. Fiddlers think they're the bee's knees and bodhran players, don't take offence guys, are a wee bit light-headed. That's been my experience to date....oh yeah, and guitarists are usually Whackey
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by Strathfoyle
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happy-go-lucky.....another typo. I'm losing it
# Posted on March 8th 2006 by Strathfoyle
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"Hmm I thought flute players were people who had a tendency to slabber..."
It's perfectly distilled water... so just fill your glasses fresh from the tap... it's cheaper than a Ballygowan... hahaha
# Posted on March 10th 2006 by vanessa
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Another lurker makes a squeek...
Then there's us singers: obnoxious and unremittable attention-seekers with a flare for drama.
# Posted on March 11th 2006 by Ingrid