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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidKOS View Post
    That was not one I ticked - I like banjo music and play both 4 and 5 string banjo. I got that score in spite of liking banjos.
    You probably play bluegrass on the 5 string,right? Maybe?

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    -25.

    I've never yet played diminished chords, so I gained some points there. But now, in my old age, I've found that I do prefer to plug in. (making up for lost time, spent decades playing strictly acoustic but meh got tired of it, I like electric now.)

    But the survey's banjo question confused me. Before I was able to answer it, I had to go look up the word "oxymoron". (Seriously!) Mighty big word for such a survey. Where I'm from, people didn't use words like that; I'd never heard of it until reading it on the internet. But then again, I'd never heard of anyone make fun of banjo players either, until years after I got internet. Hmm. Maybe I should get extra points for that, eh?

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    So I like Jazz, big deal. I should get extra points for two pets one named Lester and the other named Earl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T.D.Nydn View Post
    You probably play bluegrass on the 5 string,right? Maybe?
    Believe it or not, I do sometimes play a few 5 string BG type tunes in my bastardized Scruggs/Reno mishmash, and some occasional frailing although the banjo is set up for Scruggs style and not oldtime.

    Just to be fair, I play 4 string tuned Irish-Italian style, GDAE, a lot more often, and have tuned my 4 string to CGDA and DGBE at times.

    Never did learn to use plectrum tuning on a 4 string, CGBD, although I do use that tuning on 5 string.

    So adjusting for that "banjo" question I could be a -65.

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    -5
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    I was taught that if you pull out a diminished chord, you must be prepared to use it.
    While I HAVE heard banjos make "music", I have also been known to make music electrically.

    -> Shouldn't there be a special dispensation for Trampled by Turtles if one also owns recordings by Tuttles?

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    -70. (And proud.)

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    +20
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    Earl, Earl com’on, get in the truck
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    -40. Oh well.
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    -10 was my score. Now, if I take the test twice and add the scores...no, it just gets more minusser.. bugger bugger bugger

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    I got a 10.

    Regardless, I have risen up every day for 56+ years completely secure in my hillbilly credentials and identity.

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    It's only political if you choose to plant your flag there. As an example, when I listen to a song like Balsam Range's "From a Georgia Battlefield", I'm not moved by the "politics" of it. I'm moved by that fact that is a beautiful story, well told, that is absolutely connected to the good and honorable parts of my southern heritage. Why, oh why, do we now live in a country where EVERYTHING (including this silly post), must be politicized.
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    -70 and love Bluegrass, among other genres of music. Oops - do I get more minus points for using the word "genres"?

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    Good grief anything can be overly politicized if sensitivity is taken to illogical extremes. I think the intent of this was jovially harmless enough. I also am a life-long southerner and still live in the thick of whatever is good and bad about it and I can tell you that a stereotypical "red-neck bluegrass" musician is rarer than hens teeth if in existence at all. Of the BG pickers around here, there are more doctors, lawyers, university professors behind those instruments than there are backwoods bruisers. The post didnt say you had to be a redneck to like BG. Its just speculating what might suite the stereotype as an exercise in comedic fun.

    Now try the other extreme: You know you might be a yuppie-hipster Bluegrasser when...

    -you've spent as much on your beard grooming products this year as you have on your mandolins

    -your tatoos are registered in the Amsterdam Museum of Epethelial Art

    -Your gig provides free PBR but instead you pay out of pocket for the oyster periwinkle craft beer

    - Your string winder has MOP inlay
    No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.

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    Minus 25...but I do love BG!
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    The Posting Guidelines.

    They are what keeps the Cafe the civil place it is in the middle of the vast wilderness that is the Internet. If you haven't read them please do. Carry on.
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    I got a 5, and I just got back from a gig, where we played Bluegrass!
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    Minus 60!
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    +10 Three dang Telecasters in the closet tattled on me
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    -15. I love bluegrass, but also love be pretty much anything else if it's well done. Own a Mandobird. Own and wear cowboy hats, but come from a horseman's tradition where plaid cowboy hats ain't no part of nothin'...
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    Quote Originally Posted by CES View Post
    ...come from a horseman's tradition where plaid cowboy hats ain't no part of nothin'...


    Agree.
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