She should be nominated for sainthood.
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"Music: A minor auditory irritation occasionally characterized as pleasant."
"It is a lot more fun to make music than it is to argue about it."
2002 Gibson F-9
2016 MK LFSTB
1975 Suzuki taterbug (plus many other noisemakers)
[About how I tune my mandolins]
[Our recent arrival]
Yes, it turns into an hour or more and you only go half as far.
Your wife is way beyond patient!
Should be nominated for a sainthood ? nah I don't think so, one needs to be dead to be canonised.
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2016 Capek ' Bob ' standard scale tenor banjo
Ibanez Artist 5 string
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This is the best thing I have seen all week 🤣. My wife, though responsible for my mandolin obsession, would have no part of this.
-- Don
"Music: A minor auditory irritation occasionally characterized as pleasant."
"It is a lot more fun to make music than it is to argue about it."
2002 Gibson F-9
2016 MK LFSTB
1975 Suzuki taterbug (plus many other noisemakers)
[About how I tune my mandolins]
[Our recent arrival]
Nah, wouldn't work for me. When I play my mandolin, I play my mandolin. When I go out walking with my wife, I go walking with my wife. I wouldn't mix the two because each is special to me and For me it is best to be fully present for each of them.
That said, if you and your wife are each happy this way, good for you! What do you play as you walk? Does the tempo of the music match your pace? Kind of hard not to match them, huh?
Purr more, hiss less. Barn Cat Mandolins Photo Album
Give her a baton and you've got yourself a parade.
Being right is overrated. Doing right is what matters.
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What a great idea! I walk 5 miles a day. When I was teaching public school, one of our duties was supervising lunch duty for one period a day. I would bring my mandolin and practice scales,tunes, whatever.
Try walking with this...
https://youtu.be/42JIf-ntJkM
I need more time to practice, so figured it would make sense. The finish on my beater Eastman has already seen better days so now I’m committed to really wearing it out
As for what I’m working on, my project this month is to learn the Bach Cello Suite Prelude, and I’m about 20 measures deep so far. It did make waking awkward but it was fine.
My wife is getting sick of measures 1-16 though
I used to walk and play with a banjo player. I played bass guitar through a Pig Nose amp. We played mostly Scruggs tunes. Good walking tempos. More fun then a metronome.
OP, this is a staged picture right? I’m not coordinated enough to walk and play. So first, I walk.
Back in the Jurassic era I busked on street corners (San Francisco, sure) with a guitar. I could stand and walk and jiggle and otherwise move while guitaring. Later, my first mando was Grandpa's 1918 Gretsch banjo-mandolin, a heavy, awkward booger that brooked no movement. The 1960s Kay mandolin came later but I felt no urge to move around with it. Playing whilst lounging is much more fun and relaxing.
Take a stroll with a mando? I think not. With pennywhistles and harmonicas, sure. A sturdy tinwhistle is an excellent defensive weapon, necessary for the dogs running loose around here. And mastering Rhapsody in Blue on a Hohner chromatic whilst stumbling through the forest isn't too distracting. But a mando? It would tangle with low-handing branches.
The last time I played the mandolin on a walk the police were called and I was issued a citation for endangering the eardrums of the public. They impounded my mandolin, and all music stores within a 200 mile radius of my home were threatened with legal action if they ever sold me picks or strings again. My credit card has a 'Music Store Block' on it, too - so I can't cheat on the internet.
I take my mandolin for a walk, but I don't play it until I find a place to sit. And what's on your wife's back? Words to the songs?
No, the photo wasn’t staged. The tabs deftly positioned under her purse strap only lasted a few blocks.
Next I am working on a way to hang them on an armature that will put them at a better reading distance while waking
I don't take my mandolin for walks. It uses the mando door.
Out of tune and out of time.
Sorry, my neighbors would not approve !
If you want some real exercise, try this with a double bass.Or this:Give her a baton and you've got yourself a parade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smgVpcFMp8
Bobby Bill
I've taken walks to the park, with the kids, dog and wife. I found it hard to walk and play at the same time. Between the mandolin, dogs and my younger son, I think the mandolin needed the most watching, lol. Not sure why the wife was so put out with me...
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