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#255850 by GuitarMikeB
Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:59 pm
Missed my guitars! Only instrument(s?) I bought were a set of marracas for $5. Other than some claves (basically 2 sticks) and toy guitars there was nothing anywhere. Saw a few mariachi bands - a trio with 2 guitars and an upright bass, a full band with 2 trumpets and violin player, and a duo who came into a restaurant one night with a Mexican harp and small guitar - had never heard one of these harps before. The player plays both bass lines on the long strings and an arpeggiated rhythm/lead part on the short strings, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLCop4aFrpY

While I was away I got a pro set up on my Taylor and some straplocks installed on it too. I've had a couple of close calls with it - no more!

Looks like WIllie was here again and banned again (judging from missing posts).
#255854 by MikeTalbot
Sun Feb 28, 2016 1:50 am
Mike

By coincidence I was talking with a bass player from a Mariachi band - never seen one like it before (or at least, never recognized it for what it was).

cheers
Talbot
#255882 by Planetguy
Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:00 pm
welcome back, mike.

what....ya didn't get to see any guys playing marimba????

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#255889 by schmedidiah
Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:11 pm
That's a xylophone if I ever saw one, mark! :roll: :lol:
#255890 by Planetguy
Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:42 pm
no, no senor schmedito...esta xylophone-o!
#255892 by MikeTalbot
Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:30 pm
Aye Carumba! I must have had one bloody mary too many. I'm seeing three of 'em! 8)

Talbot
#255898 by Planetguy
Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:00 am
Guatamalan? I would guess it's diatonic, not chromatic... no?
#255903 by GuitarMikeB
Mon Feb 29, 2016 1:08 am
I did hear a marimba band at one restaurant, we didn't eat there, we were just walking by.

Here's me at Chichen Itza:

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#255919 by GuitarMikeB
Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:49 pm
Sorry to disappoint you, little boy, someone else reported you last time.
#256005 by DainNobody
Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:34 pm
GuitarMikeB wrote:I did hear a marimba band at one restaurant, we didn't eat there, we were just walking by.

Here's me at Chichen Itza:

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Mike, hope you stayed away from the SIKA viral mosquitos, looks a bit swampy there.. :)
#256012 by Planetguy
Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:39 pm
mike, what did you think about all that grain stored in there?????
#256013 by GuitarMikeB
Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:26 pm
Never saw a mosquito the whole visit, never a bug bite (had some strong DEET with me, too). Saw a few sandfleas on the beach, but even they didn't bite.

Mark - you think I would go INTO a 2000-year-old structure made of huge stone blocks? :lol: Can't even climb on the ruins since Hurricane Wilma did all the damage in that area 8 years ago.

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