Nobody ever asks about the fiddle, because everyone knows what it is. Except one guy who asked if it was a banjo, but he was VERY drunk. I think.
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Or maybe your playing it sounded like a banjo There is a guy here in Glasgow who mikes up his fidil for accoustic sessions so that ye can hear it more. Trouble is he plays really badly and oot of tune mostly although he probably thinks he is Yehudi which brings me onto my main thrust which is why are ye even giving the time o day to this thread?The guy is entitled to an opinion…
Remember what other people think is really none o my business
Uilliam
God, what session is that?! Pack the guy up and send him over here. Us Americans have a far more well-established reputation of hearing only what we want to hear…
Nice of ye to deify me but I will settle for Lord It is a session I wouldnae bother ma aerse wi but ye are more than welcome to the fidil the player and the amp.
Uilliam
One of our local pipers here once had a guy walk up to him while he was playing, stare intently at the pipes for a minute and ask, “Is that a trumpet?”
His choice of reviled instruments tells me he’s not an utter ignoramus: at least he knows enough what to call them, and displays an at least passing understanding of their contexts and repertories. I’ll bet he even knows what an esraj is. But the gutter-patois is a fine dissonance that distracts the casual onlooker, for a bit, from what must be his shame at even knowing such things. It makes me wonder about the demographic whose approval he craves, and what he plays.
Of course, I’m not above using adjectives like “suck-hole”, myself. But you knew that.
Justine, that’s a coincidence! A lady thought my pipes were a trumpet just this past Monday night. I had them on, but was also holding my fiddle. She was kind of checking out who was playing what, and when she got to me she was like, “ooh, and another violinist, and a trumpet too!” I just smiled at her. Then I played the pipes, and she looked a bit confused and asked me, “are those bagpipes??”
Of course, I’m not above using adjectives like “suck-hole”, myself. But you knew that
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Yes, I know. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But I wager you and others on this forum would come up with something far more imaginative in context. Richard Pryor used many choice words too…the difference: he was talented.
It makes me wonder about the demographic whose approval he craves, and what he plays.
Hmmm…indeed…maybe he’s trying to score points with a teenage viola player??Perhaps he’s a failed Didgeridoo player??? We have it revealed thru this very thread that Almighty God is himself a piper! ( Holy Reeds??)
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I’m a non-piper. 
There is a guy here in Glasgow who mikes up his fidil for accoustic sessions so that ye can hear it more. Trouble is he plays really badly and oot of tune mostly although he probably thinks he is Yehudi which brings me onto my main thrust which is why are ye even giving the time o day to this thread?The guy is entitled to an opinion…
