Since we don’t have a percussion forum yet, I’ll post this here and let the Moderators move it as they see fit (thanks Mods!).
I’ve been playing bones for a couple of years now, but I’m not very good at it.
Are there any other bones players here? I know there are several bodhran players.
i just got into it - i can do triplets easy enough my daughter too-----it is funny too she can hold it in the middle and double tap on the top , but now I am trying to throw a beat---------------- good topic 
Visiting a local tourist trap I was surprised to find that Cooperman was now making “bones” along with a wooden whistle.
is this this guys house -that is too cool i would love that life-----------
This guy plays well.
http://bones.jeffleff.com/index.html
way better
Where does one post this? I’m thinking the ITM forum, but bones and other percussive things like that are, or have been, played all over the world. I’ll move it to the Pub and we’ll see how that works.
I would have thought the ITM discussion forum, until such time as an ITM percussion forum gets created.
djm
I was thinking along the lines of a similar ancient Chinese instrument, and the Morroccan qarqaba - and castanets, too - as falling in the same category, to say nothing of the bones’ use in North American trad music. Well, let’s vote, or send me a raft of PMs on it, or somebody set up a poll, then. I gotta run some errands. 
I am a proud bones player (along with flute, whistle, and bodhran). I play with both hands in a manner meant to sound like step dancing. Great fun!
so would that make us BONERS 
I always thought of them as leprechaun surfboards. Is that, like, too cutesy?
so…leprechaun’s cutesy boner boards?
Bonequint is a greats boneser. I guess he’s not tuned it here at the moment.
his site
I jiggle a pair of bones around from time to time, but not well enough to inflict them on anyone in public.
No one has played Bones since DeForest Kelley died.
Ha!
Historically, percussion discussions (say ‘percussion discussions’ over and over for a few seconds) have found a home in the ITM forum.
“Dammit Spock! I’m a doctor, not a musician!”
“And get your Vulcan harp out of here!”
(say THAT out loud a few times.)
That’s hillarious!!
I use the actual ox bone bones from Lark in the Morning. What kind of bones are your own favorites?
Thanks…that’s me. Yep, Mr. Enders, I was away for a while.
I tend to like a lighter wooden pair in my right hand and a heavier pair in my left. I don’t do as much with the left, I use it more for accents, so I like a more resonant sound. Purpleheart may be my favorite “lead bone” wood – it’s nice and resonant without the bright, glassy sound of ebony or other very heavy, dense woods. Bone bones can be very nice, but they’re also more tempearmental. The ox bones from Lark in the Morning are very heavy and more than a little awkward – a nice sound, but not good for fast stuff.
I’m still planning on making a bones video sometime soon, half instructional and half performances. Suggestions for what to include would be appreciated. I did just record a little jam with a friend of mine on guitar, which I’ll probably load onto YouTube.
I really don’t play Irish all that much, more old-time and ragtime and blues and stuff. I’ve been playing 11 or 12 years. Lately I’ve been working more on concertina, dancing, and some other stuff.