How Many English Players?

[stuart estell]

Of course, if the player changing the lightbulb is a Hayden system player, then they'll change the lightbulb the same way each time.

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Umm.....what?

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A bad joke about the uniform keyboard layout...

 

I'll shut up now

[David Barnert]

At least we Hayden players turn it the same way whether we're using our left hand or our right.

 

We don't have to continually switch hands (like the EC players) or switch directions (like the Anglo players).

[Ashkettle]

Anglo players do it with bounce...

English players do it with both hands...

But Duet players play with themselves....

[bigsqueezergeezer]

Almost on topic, How many folk singers does it take to change a lightbulb?

 

Two, one to change the bulb and the other to write a song about how good the old bulb was.

 

Derek

[Lester Bailey]

Almost on topic, How many folk singers does it take to change a lightbulb?

 

Two, one to change the bulb and the other to write a song about how good the old bulb was.

 

Derek

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I thought it was 6, one to change the bulb, one to write the song, and four to sing it in full harmony

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[JimLucas]

Almost on topic, How many folk singers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two, one to change the bulb and the other to write a song about how good the old bulb was.

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That's not a folk singer; that's a modern "folkie" singer-songwriter. A true folksinger would sing an old song about gas -- or maybe whale-oil -- lamps.

 

I thought it was 6, one to change the bulb, one to write the song, and four to sing it in full harmony

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Depends on the tradition. I think the Coppers did mainly 2-part stuff, though others took their arrangements and added more parts. Would four parts be right for West Gallery followers? Then there were those sisters from Galway, who sang is such close unison, including the ornamentation, that the only way you could tell it wasn't a single voice was the change in timbre when one of them stopped singing while the other kept on.

[Robin Madge]

You need more folkies than that. There's got to be someone there to complain that it is electric!

 

Robin Madge

[JimLucas]

You need more folkies than that. There's got to be someone there to complain that it is electric!

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Which leads me to wonder just what an acoustic light bulb would be.

Is that what they use to take those ultrasound pictures?

[bigsqueezergeezer]

who's going to invent a "doppler effect" lightbulb?

 

Derek

[JimLucas]

who's going to invent a "doppler effect" lightbulb?

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They're already quite common... well, sort of... as traffic lights.

It's actually an inverse Doppler (Relppod?) effect...

... As you approach a traffic light at high speed, the color wavelength gets downshifted, first to yellow, and then to red. Only after you've stopped does it return to the natural, unshifted frequency of green. (And if you could see that liight on the far side of the contraption as you sped away, you might see its fequency appear to shift upward to blue or purple.)

 

[The shades are to protect my eyes from the ultraviolet, in case you go too fast. ]

[malcolm clapp]

And how many concertina makers to change a light bulb?

 

Only one, but there's a long waiting list....

 

In the meantime, there's always Chinese lanterns

 

MC

[JimLucas]

And how many concertina makers to change a light bulb?

Only one, but there's a long waiting list....

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And how many do-it-yourself concertina repairers?

 

.... Only one, unless you count all the Concertina.net members (s)he got advice from.

[Robin Madge]

The traffic lights reminded me of the driver who explained to the judge that it was the doppler effect on the red light that had caused him not to stop when he should have, as he thought it was a green light. He was fined for speeding!

 

Robin Madge