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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jun 11, 2007 23:51:05 GMT 1
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gypsy
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Post by gypsy on Jul 21, 2007 4:31:49 GMT 1
very cool. Now, just to lower the ceiling a bit, here are a handful of limericks:
Mild mannered but guilty Clark Kent
His dulcimer hammers still bent
Was arrested while jamming
For quadruple flamming
And assaulting a blunt instrument
Jazzing up an O'Carolan planxty
A dulcimest thought himself fancy
It sound good far away
But I wish he would play
On the banks of a river called Yangtze
The hackbrette of one Viennese
Had a tiny sweet sound sure to please
It smelled rank in abuse
From its secondary use
Slicing hard boiled eggs and soft cheese
A lady who did aver
Her distaste for hammered dulcimer
Said "It bothers me not
If you play a lot
As long as you play far from here"
Said a festival goer in Plano
I've heard dulcimer jams - and now I know
The most similar sound
That I've ever found
Is a cat fight inside a Piano
A dulcimer player named Kevin
Was playing in time of four/seven
Said "I've found my D sharp
When I got my harp
And dreamed I was playing in heaven
To a band that was barely starting
Bill Spence said "I must beg your pardon"
Though the reel that you play
Was once the Gaspe'
It now is called "Victory Garden"
The dulcimest Terry O'Carolin
Through McPherson's Fancy was barrelin
Said I've got up such speed
Airplane I won't need
I won't stop till I get to Maryland
He hammered his box trapezoidal
So out-of-tune it annoyed all
The audience who
Shoved the box somewhere new
Now he has severe pains hemmorroidal
A Dulcimerist up in Maine
Encountered disaster while playin'
A Particular Fling
He fell into the strings
And his entire body was strained
In the center of old New York State
There's a dulcimer gathering of late
The people do come
To pick hammer and strum
And the music they make is first rate
Some folks are addicted to pot
A chemical high is their lot
But a dulcimer sweet
Sweeps me off my feet
I'm hooked and refraim I can not
A hammered dulcimer player named Reilly
Puts zoom and zang into her stylee
She zings and she squeals
She bounces those reels
She may toke off over the valley
There were two woman its true
Who were bored with nothing to do
Their dulcimers they played
Met two guys and got laid
I think their pretty lucky don't you
An erstwhile poet named Shel
Was trying, but nothing would Gel
He was in a sad daze
Cried I can't find a phrase
That rhymes with that incredibly multi-syllabic instrument the hammered dulcimer
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 23, 2007 10:27:02 GMT 1
A Dulcimer player named Gypsy,
Had a habit of playing when Typsy,
Then one day for a prank
In the land of the Yank
She stood, dressed in grey, playing Dixie!
;D
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 23, 2007 21:41:33 GMT 1
& while I'm at it, here's one for Nikita:
There was a Hackbrettist called Niki
Who played on the Dulcimer quite nifty.
He played Accordeon too,
and that's not easy to do,
For playing both at the same time is quite tricky!  |
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Post by gypsy on Jul 25, 2007 4:34:33 GMT 1
A Dulcimer player named Gypsy,
Had a habit of playing when Typsy,
Then one day for a prank
In the land of the Yank
She stood, dressed in grey, playing Dixie! ;D Hey, were you the guy last night at Headlands, who wanted us to play Wabash Cannonball? Must be.........although, we did tons of bluegrass last night. they seemed to like it. |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Jul 25, 2007 8:44:52 GMT 1
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Post by gypsy on Aug 5, 2007 4:41:57 GMT 1
There was once a player named Dick
who could do quite a trick,
whilst strumming quite merrily,
on his fretted dulcimerrilly,
and hitting the other with the sticks!
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Post by ceadach on Aug 6, 2007 7:46:43 GMT 1
Here's one inspired by recent events: There once was a man named Tal, With whom endless debate was enthralled, He hijacked a thread, but his invective fell dead, When by Ptar and Mac he was mauled!!!  |
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Post by Dick Glasgow on Aug 6, 2007 9:51:15 GMT 1
LOL Chad, Gypsy. ;D
Well I suppose Chad, I'm the Baldy, Bearded wrinkly on the left, eh? 
With my eating habits I could never ever be the slim dude on the right! 
Say, does playing loads & loads of H-D help you to loose weight?
Maybe that's the secret to a slimmer me ....... I'm off to practice .....
Cheers
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Post by gypsy on Aug 7, 2007 4:59:26 GMT 1
yes, the more you play, the less you eat! so iguessihadbetterstartplayingLOTSmore! LOL!
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Post by Nikita on Aug 7, 2007 7:52:08 GMT 1
I've just seen my poem... ;)pity my english doesn't go to rhymes... but Dick, playing Hakbrett with the feet and box with the hands's quite okay... it's a good use of foot tapping, no ? ;D
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