...for the guitar players in the house.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 4, 2005 11:08 AMThe fiddler in my Thursday night group sort of complains about a fellow who didn't know Bob Wills' band had two fiddlers and worked out how to play twin fiddles on one fiddle. Now all fiddlers have to do so and it is darn hard.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at May 4, 2005 11:53 AMI wonder if you could do more than two...
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 4, 2005 12:06 PMI can't do one so you must be using the royal "you" in your question. I don't think it would be possible to do more than two, but there is probably some aspiring star working out the method as I type.
I have a CD by Norman Blake (a good old Valley Head, Alabama boy) where he plays 26 songs. On two, there is a second guitar. All of them sounds like two or three guitars. I find it totally disgusting.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at May 4, 2005 12:12 PMActually, it was more of the "ungrammatical use of a personal pronoun" than anything remotely royal. But it sounds bad to say, "One wonders if one could play more than two..." when speaking of fiddles.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 4, 2005 12:16 PMI think I'll get snotty now.
While schools these days are vying to present such glamorous acts as 50 Cent, Reed brought us Elizabeth Cotten, the writer of "Freight Train".
She played guitar left-handed and upside down.
Posted by: Janis at May 4, 2005 12:47 PMNo, Janis. The snotty ones are the ones who think that Fitty and Miss Elizabeth are somehow equivalent.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 4, 2005 12:55 PM