So I was in The Porterhouse Temple Bar last night. This fella asks what’s in th case. My non-musician friend said “Oh, this is Ben. He’s pretty good trad fidlle player.”. Blank looks from third pairrty . “He’s sh!t-hot at that diddley-eye sh!te.”. Recognition dawned. I took it as the highest compliment.
So he didn’t recognise a fiddle case? 
And did he ask you to play on the strength of the recommendation?
Er … No.
nuttin’ ta do with the translation of the complement…
what I thought was an excellent translation!
This would be less of a surprise in the US, where it mightn’t be so much a matter of ignorance, as suspicion. There’s an urban myth - spawned by lore and movies surrounding Prohibition-era Chicago gangsters, and could be yer man knows it well - that a grown man traipsing around with a fiddle case is likely toting a Tommy gun in it. I’ve been accosted before, too - humorously, but there you have it - with my gizmo; fiddle cases are just the best, primo, go-to cliché. The guy asking always has a raised eyebrow and a “Yeah, there’s no music in whatever you’re skulking around with in THAT case” look. Sure, he’s joking, but is he really? This idea of an instrument case as firearms camouflage became such a meme (in the US, anyway) that it’s part of the reason, it could be argued, why we go around these days with our instruments in gun cases. Counter-camouflage, like.
Ha. First chair is MINE.
No need to only carry one or the other.
You just can’t predict the direction a thread will take cam ya? Straight from diddley-eye to guns. Maybe it’s a matter of homeland security - protecting the nation from the diddley.
See ‘deep memory’ > sewing machines > guitar strings > pronunciation of Appalachia and Moscow!
This is why I consider thread drift to be almost a living art form. Like cheese. Or Lady Gaga.
Gaga? yesterday you called her “a little red x”
could we get just a little consistency?
It’s Moss-co over here BTW… and there’s a Moscow, Ayrshire, as well as a Moscow, Russia! 
Did I?
I seem to have been hallucinating yesterday, your post is gone now.
seems like it could have been about something better’n that 
Here, have some nice cheese.
ack! it’s yellow 
Cut it into small insignificant pieces with hammered dulcimer strings.
I don’t know what those wierd metal bars are hanging from the bottom of the necklace but the spacing beads are those beads at the bottom of guitar strings. I’ve been collecting those for ages. When D’Addario started color coding their beads, I was major bummed but now I have enough beads to make a few rosaries which each decade being a different color. I would just like someone who plays the bass to send me some of their beads, because those beads are bigger and would make great “Our Father” beads.
The weird bars are hammered strings.