Eddie Adcock playing banjo while having brain surgery:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm
That is one dedicated picker.
This is just wide open for so many banjo jokes. 
djm
How is that?
I think that WAS the joke! 
Watch it, she’s a banjo frailer you know.
My favorite instrument joke of all time:
Q: How long does it take to tune a hammered dulcimer?
A: Nobody knows.
I’ve been known to play one of those too. Yeah, its a pain to tune by comparison to a fiddle.
Sorry I didn’t catch djm’s joke. I couldn’t get past what the success of the surgery might mean for people contemplating having it done on themselves.
Eddie Adcock is well known in the world of Bluegrass banjo and on the internet they’re saying he’s a great teacher and really nice guy as well. (Even if he’d been a teacher at any banjo camp I’ve attended I wouldn’t know. BG banjo and clawhammer banjo folks rarely mix at those things.)
The whole therapy was a 3 step process that he’s been going through all summer. Besides the good publicity the surgeons are going to get off it (providing its a success) I’m wondering if Eddie’s going to get endorsement $ from Deering for playing their Goodtime in the video.
Most of the males in my family have a familial tremor, that’s one contra-bass clarinet player, four tuba players, one trombone player, two horn players, two flute players and one baton beater, who has the worst time of it. Thanks for posting this.
The thread reminds me of the old Far Side cartoon with a guy sitting on the exam table in a doctor’s office, saying “I’ve come all the way from Alabama with this damn thing on my knee.” (There’s a banjo growing out of his knee.)
Hey, I represent that! 
I tell people that hammered dulcimers were invented to make mandolin players stop whining about tuning. At least hammered dulcimers get respect – people look at my whistle and think it’s a cute little toy, but they’re in awe of the dulcimer when they first see it, even before I start to play. (Hmmm . . . come to think of it, they’re ONLY in awe before I start to play. 
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Here’s my favorite dulcimer joke, an original from my son:
A mountain dulcimer walks into a bar and says “Bartender, get me ten beers.” The bartender says “Whoa, buddy, why are you drinking so much?” and the mountain dulcimer responds, “I’ve always wanted to be a hammered dulcimer.”
Dulcimer players. We don’t get hammered, we do the hammering.
The cartoon is called “Far Side” but it was authored by someone on the inside. Gary Larson plays banjo.