On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:55:47 -0700 (PDT), Andrew VK3BFA
wrote:

On Nov 1, 4:46 am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:51:25 -0700 (PDT), Andrew VK3BFA




Gunner, admit it. You cant REALLY play the banjo, can you.

Actually...yes. Not all that well, but I finger pick and play "three
finger" banjo.

Its something I do occasionally when I get stressed out, after a hard
day etc.

I also play the Mountain Dulcimer..though even worse than the banjo.

But..I started playing when I was hummm...40 yrs old. After my hands
had been busted many times. And Id lost a fair amount of hearing by
that time.

Shrug

Gunner



Andrew VK3BFA.

Bummer - my commiserations, and I withdraw my allegation. A much underrated instrument, the banjo - Billy Connelly plays it very well. I think you need to start at about age 5 to get really good on an instrument. Not much hope for the oldies starting out..

Andrew VK3BFA.

I had two choices in instruments to learn. Id played the harmonica a bit
when I was a kid..even did some blues in a band..but I was always fond
of the banjo..and bagpipes. I LOVE the bagpipes. Past life
recognition..whatever..but the pipes send the prickles up the back of my
neck, I start seeing old battles..the usual.

But...sigh...the dogs and cats hate the pipes..the Phillistines!..so it
was the banjo or nothing.

Sigh....

Gunner

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but obviously craves. The most appropriate response, and perhaps the
cruelest, IMO, is to simply killfile and ignore him. An alternative, if
you must, would be to post the same standard reply to his every post,
listing the manifold reasons why he ought to be ignored. Just my $0.02
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