„Country girls don‘t perspire, city girls don’t sweat...“ (F & B Bryant)
Anyhow, a flat picker is nothing I want my daughter to go out with.
„Country girls don‘t perspire, city girls don’t sweat...“ (F & B Bryant)
Anyhow, a flat picker is nothing I want my daughter to go out with.
Hey, it’s a better label than “pork chop abuser”.
I go by “player” but I don’t mind “picker”, which I think is more an implied compliment than “strummer” when applied to guitar or mandolin players. Pickers. Ists. Whatever.
Last edited by Bill Cameron; May-24-2018 at 6:34pm. Reason: Typo
Lifelong picker aspiring to become a plectrumist ... yeah, that's it.
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"A "plectrum" is a pick, so a picker plays with a pick. I never met anyone who played with their plectrum."
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The elemental word "picker" is not universally accepted as a term for a mandolinist.
A plectrum is a pick , so therefore a mandolinist plays with a pick. . I have met many mandolinists who play with a plectrum. I have gathered, you are a "picker", therefore you may play with your plectrum, or pick, all you like.
I often hear it as a degree of accomplishment, used to differentiate between a “picker” and some person with a mandolin.
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I wonder if harp players refer to what they do as fingerpicking
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I thought that harps, like chickens, are to be properly plucked.
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Words are always interesting - especially when put to use in describing ourselves.
I don't think I've ever heard a harper or harpist say "harp player," although perhaps one playing the other "blues harp" may say "picking tunes"... nor among, say, flamenco guitarists using "fingerpicking" - whose technique employs more hand/fingers than any other stringed instruments im aware of. It's a fun thing to say if you're playing upon an instrument with no such normal associations or connotations: I've picked a few tunes on my boxes
Then there's what's often called the "Chinese harp" - guzheng and the derivative Asian long zithers.. Dr H mentions the traditions of "the 1,000 ways to touch the guzheng." This is symbolic of the 'open-ness' and latitude of expression such an instrument affords -
It could be seen as continuum - from which we derive what we need to suit our style: at one end, "pickin" - connotation being the "plain-speaking/aint no mouse music" culture of our folk idioms; and at the other, the "1,000 ways"... as it were.
I pick therefore I am …….. Yup.. R/
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Yam picking? That's rootsy...tuberular even.
*btw, no enmity toward yams of any kind - heck I was a banjer picker!
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I had not heard the term before, but I like "mandolinist".
Since I'm really more of a guitarist, it seems to make sense.
I don't mean to brag;but,as an undistinguished member of the Georgia redneck society I know a mannalin picker when I hear one.
One that I just heard for the first time today is OldSausage. He's a tone-puller too. Powerful good. I will be enjoying Mandoliniana
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It would probably be one of the proudest moments in my life if any accomplished BG'r referred to me as a "picker". Trust me, with the way I play now, there's no danger of that happening any time soon!
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I do sometimes use the word "flatpicking",,,but I'm also a +5 redneck.. (?)...
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