General Music Chat

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).

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

welcome back, mike.

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

That's a xylophone if I ever saw one, mark!

no, no senor schmedito...esta xylophone-o!

Aye Carumba! I must have had one bloody mary too many. I'm seeing three of 'em!

Talbot

Guatamalan? I would guess it's diatonic, not chromatic... no?

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:

Sorry to disappoint you, little boy, someone else reported you last time.

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:

Mike, hope you stayed away from the SIKA viral mosquitos, looks a bit swampy there..

mike, what did you think about all that grain stored in there?????

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? Can't even climb on the ruins since Hurricane Wilma did all the damage in that area 8 years ago.