I know that tune! Couldn't have named it, but it brought back pleasant memories. Daddy grew up with Atkin's younger brother, sitting around on their front porch listening to Atkins play. So of course Dad had all his records in heavy rotation at our house.
My dad was always pushing instruments on us, without being actually pushy, having been pushed himself. He wanted instruments to be available. They were always around.
Give me a second. The organ starts with an H.
An electronic organ, a few rows of keys, a few automatic programmed beats, a few changes available through organ-y tabs.
Poop. It was a common name. You saw these things a lot. The stool seats flip up and hold small cabinet of sheet music. The instructions teach you notes improperly by color coding. They think that's an easier approach.
This is one of the songs. Can you hear the electronic drum and snare holding and eerie unnaturally mathematic mechanical steady synthesized beat?
This is one of the beginner songs!
I bet.
Ok fine, I bet $10.00 right now.
Brenda will know. I'll accept her verdict.
Hammond. If this were a crossword, my guess would be Hammond. I'll be a little bit sad if one of my sibs doesn't have that. It will mean that none of them wanted it. Now I'm starting to be sad. See what you did?
Harry Lime: "Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly."
Live and learn. I thought a zither was a Jew's harp.
Zither is a class of stringed instruments. The word zither is a German rendering of the Latin word cithara, from which the modern word "guitar" is also derived.
Back when I had TCM I watched "The Third Man" many times. That led to me reading up on Anton Karas, and the zither and on and on - Wikipedia is a rabbit hole that way - one thing just leads to another.
I have a Jew's harp around here somewhere - those things will crack you in the teeth if you don't look out. I'd rather play a zither.
An autoharp would be preferable to a zither. My brother Lex Luthier burned an autoharp the other day - it looked like what one might imagine Mother Maybelle Carter performing at Monterrey Pops might look like. AWESOME!
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Chester (Chet Atkins) and Lester (Les Paul), one of my all time favorites.
Do you mean Rubio?
Yes.
Weak tea, I know.
I'm just tired of Trooper always ignoring my "KLEM" posts and then trying to overlay his own "K-whatever" posts. It's just fucking rude.
I know that tune! Couldn't have named it, but it brought back pleasant memories. Daddy grew up with Atkin's younger brother, sitting around on their front porch listening to Atkins play. So of course Dad had all his records in heavy rotation at our house.
OMG. I just now realized what that connects to.
My dad was always pushing instruments on us, without being actually pushy, having been pushed himself. He wanted instruments to be available. They were always around.
Give me a second. The organ starts with an H.
An electronic organ, a few rows of keys, a few automatic programmed beats, a few changes available through organ-y tabs.
Poop. It was a common name. You saw these things a lot. The stool seats flip up and hold small cabinet of sheet music. The instructions teach you notes improperly by color coding. They think that's an easier approach.
This is one of the songs. Can you hear the electronic drum and snare holding and eerie unnaturally mathematic mechanical steady synthesized beat?
This is one of the beginner songs!
I bet.
Ok fine, I bet $10.00 right now.
Brenda will know. I'll accept her verdict.
Hammond. If this were a crossword, my guess would be Hammond. I'll be a little bit sad if one of my sibs doesn't have that. It will mean that none of them wanted it. Now I'm starting to be sad. See what you did?
Now I have to check on the goddamn organ.
Nice guitar work.
Christy said...I know that tune!
I have a very special connection to that melody, thanks to my father and his service in Germany during the Cold War. Growing up, I never knew what the tune was. It wasn't until I saw the movie years later (and after he was gone) that I made the connection.
Harry Lime: "Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly."
Don't dither, learn the zither.
Didn't know anything about the movie, but I do remember that tune.
Chet Atkins is a national treasure.
I have a CD of Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins playing together. It doesn't get much better than that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTVLIZaxMk
Neck and Neck. This is the album.
There'll be some changes made
Live and learn. I thought a zither was a Jew's harp.
Zither is a class of stringed instruments. The word zither is a German rendering of the Latin word cithara, from which the modern word "guitar" is also derived.
@Sixty and MamaM: Thanks for remembering the zither. The zither came up in conversation at Lem's a while back: link
@DBQ: Thanks for the link. You are a "Lem's treasure" when it comes to rating guitarists.
@MamaM: The Jew's harp showed up in this KLEM FM.
Back when I had TCM I watched "The Third Man" many times. That led to me reading up on Anton Karas, and the zither and on and on - Wikipedia is a rabbit hole that way - one thing just leads to another.
I have a Jew's harp around here somewhere - those things will crack you in the teeth if you don't look out. I'd rather play a zither.
An autoharp would be preferable to a zither. My brother Lex Luthier burned an autoharp the other day - it looked like what one might imagine Mother Maybelle Carter performing at Monterrey Pops might look like. AWESOME!
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