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rebelgirl Wrote:I think maybe my favorite male singers are Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, and Ray Charles. My favorite female singers are Karen Carpenter and Whitney Houston.
Good choice because she was a good drummer too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJUnh6N8-U << Tough to do, playing rhythm against melody.
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SteveO Wrote:Speaking of Neanderthals, I often wondered how one could make a guitar from the forest? The strings would be a problem I would think!
I've often thought the same thing....
I did however recently read in an old Nat Geo magazine that the origins of the guitar have been dated back to 15C Spain
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jazzboCR Wrote:Good choice because she was a good drummer too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJUnh6N8-U << Tough to do, playing rhythm against melody.
Karen was an accomplished drummer IMO.
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SteveO Wrote:Speaking of Neanderthals, I often wondered how one could make a guitar from the forest? The strings would be a problem I would think!
Stringed instruments capable of making sophisticated sounds are a relatively new thing. It took something like a civilization to come up with them and develop audiences for them.
http://professorstring.com/cat_gut.php#.VL8AYdLF-So
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Pheeeewwww! I'm not nuts after all! ..lol
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:I've often thought the same thing....
I did however recently read in an old Nat Geo magazine that the origins of the guitar have been dated back to 15C Spain
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
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Very interesting article ! Thanks Jazzy! Hmmmm...now to look for those natural strings???...lol...maybe hemp would work?
jazzboCR Wrote:Stringed instruments capable of making sophisticated sounds are a relatively new thing. It took something like a civilization to come up with them and develop audiences for them. http://professorstring.com/cat_gut.php#.VL8AYdLF-So
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
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SteveO Wrote:now to look for those natural strings???...lol...maybe hemp would work?
Interesting thesis--we do get a 400% better paper yield than from wood pulp and it makes a great fiber for clothing, etc. (at least equal to cotton or linen). And it's totally legal everywhere in the US--the non-intoxicating part that is. It was widely grown in the US Midwest during WW II for clothing and "ditch weed" is still widely found growing naturally all over Kansas, etc. A little imagination, a little technology and there you go. That which is not otherwise usable makes good biomass for use in steam generating plants. An outstanding plant that needs little or no care to grow (as I indicated above). I'll now climb down off the pulpit...
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SteveO Wrote:Pheeeewwww! I'm not nuts after all! ..lol
Remember peanuts are not nuts, they're legumes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjU8XDeh9Z0 << Ah, for the days when my falsetto could cover this...
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I am also a big fan of Elvis Presley. He was rock & rollâs first real star, not to mention one of the most important cultural forces in history, a hip-shaking symbol of liberation for the staid America of the 1950s.
