My new musical instrument

Discussion in 'Music' started by Nauseous, Mar 12, 2009.

  1. Nauseous

    Nauseous Active Member

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    I am getting an Appalachian Dulcimer. Hopefully I can stick to learning this. I have two guitars, a keyboard and a harmonica that I didn't stick to. I even tried the drums and realized that they are a lot harder than I thought.

    So the dulcimer will have three strings. It'll still be hard to play but I love their sound and I can't wait to get it.

    I found a guy online who makes them and sells them for a good price using real wood and not that plywood junk I kept finding on amazon and musician's friend.
     
  2. Nauseous

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    Just think, this could be ME!!!

     
  3. BIGMAMA

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    I hope you will wear better shoes.

    I got a huge sitar one time at a flea market... never learned to play it...

    I got huge cello at a yard sale not to long ago ... um I forgot about it till just now... it is still in my grandma's basement. oh and I never learned to play it.

    I have no musical talent... cept playin the skin flute aka meat whistle

    come to think of it...I have no artistic talent what so ever... or any damn talent. I am a worthless talentless bastard . :frown:

    hey you also sang in a choir...right? you can record a youtube video... singing and playing your... whatever it is , I forgot the name already... I am glad you posted a pic, so I would not have to google it.. I have never herd of a ....um ....thing you just got .
     
  4. Joeslogic

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    Likes fast cars, and Ford Bronco trucks, not afraid of guns, lives in the sticks, enjoys nature, and not so snooty as to be above enjoying Appalachian blue grass sounds?

    :redface: Shucks Pukey we should have met 20 years ago. But then again you would have been what? 13?
     
  5. Nauseous

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    Yeah, the shoes were my whole reason for posting the picture.

    I have no vocal range.

    I am talentless too. I can't do anything, but at least we admit it. The people who suck are the ones that act like they do when they don't.
     
  6. GAS

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    I've been wanting to learn how to play the piano recently for some reason. No idea why, I'm just diggin it lately.
     
  7. Nauseous

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    I would have been 11. :eek:
     
  8. Nauseous

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    Bluegrass is in my blood. My people are from Appalachia, except the one from Muscatine, Iowa. Dunno where he came from.

    My grandparents were in a band here back in the late 30's and they were kind of a big deal. They played on the local radio station over 1800 consecutive broadcasts.

    I keep thinking that some type of musical abilty should come from that side of the family, but so far, nada. I don't have patience to learn, but I am hoping that the dulcimer will break me of that.
     
  9. Zoop

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    Must get myself a penny whistle, although it will cost a hell of a lot of money nowadays and should be renamed the $20 whistle, truthfully I did by a set of Blues Harps a few months ago, the old set I had got very smelly :p
     
  10. Nauseous

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    I still haven't got the damn thing. I was going to give it to myself for my birthday but didn't.
     
  11. Lomotil

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    Damn... We just had one in last week's auction, too.

    I didn't look at it closely, but I think it was made out of thin layers of plywood like the cheap ones you mention.
     
  12. Nauseous

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    I had a dream that I bought one last night. There were a few and I picked a small one that sounded nice but hurt my ears, thinking it was the cheapest. I checked out with my debit card and didn't look at the price... just thought it was super cheap. Then I got home and looked at the receipt and it was 695 bucks, so I took it back.
     
  13. BIGMAMA

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    I will keep an eye out, check craigslist and ebay.
     

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