One of my interests is music. I have always just played on my own but I have had the most joyful music sessions lately. My daughter found my old recorder (back from when I was a kid!) and she has been learning to play it! Yesterday she got to play it for her whole class! I was so proud of her!
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Ashlar2006
Masonic Mafia
That is great . I remember when I picked up one of my Dad's harmonicas when I was young . I took to it like fish to water and still play them to this day .
thebrianmo
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I've slowly been learning to play the Djembe. A lot of times just free styling for stress relief, other times actually learning the right "slaps" for the 4/4 time for various songs. I am highly interested in getting a trap (drum) set for Christmas or early next year and really investing more time in learning to play the drums.
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Gary
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I've been drumming since high school. I highly recommend that you continue practice with your Djembe. I have an Ashiko (similar to the Djembe) that I love to play. They are fun and portable!
My wife sings, and my older son plays guitar. I play the bass guitar a little.
Music is definitely a part of our family... I think my infant son is going to be a drummer. He absolutely LOVES beating on stuff, and he goes crazy any time he hears drumming.
My wife sings, and my older son plays guitar. I play the bass guitar a little.
Music is definitely a part of our family... I think my infant son is going to be a drummer. He absolutely LOVES beating on stuff, and he goes crazy any time he hears drumming.
PatrickWilliams
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I have been known to torture cats musically (shorthand for saying I play the bagpipes). Some of my neighbors have asked (not all kindly, either) if there's any way I could play them any quieter. My response? No, but I can't play them any louder, either.
Some of my Masonic brothers & I have talked about putting together music for the Lodge played on the pipes. I must admit that the idea of sneaking up behind a candidate and starting up the pipes has its cruel appeal!
Some of my Masonic brothers & I have talked about putting together music for the Lodge played on the pipes. I must admit that the idea of sneaking up behind a candidate and starting up the pipes has its cruel appeal!
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Gary
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The pipes are music to my ears. There is a guy who works at my Fire department and is the piper for our Honor Guard. He practices in the apparatus bay with the doors open. The neighbors can hear him for miles...
PatrickWilliams
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Yes. The pipes are surely an outdoor instrument. Our Lodge building was constructed in 1923 and the Lodge rooms are LARGE (when the structure was erected there were more than 2000 Masons in my town!). I've been asked to play my pipes for Jobie installations, and let me tell you, the pipes fill the room. Uncomfortably so, sometimes. Bagpipes are best enjoyed out of doors.The pipes are music to my ears. There is a guy who works at my Fire department and is the piper for our Honor Guard. He practices in the apparatus bay with the doors open. The neighbors can hear him for miles...
PatrickWilliams
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Perhaps I should come visit you and play them for you at bedtime.
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Gary
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You joke about that. When My son was 4 months old, my wife brought him to one of our FD Honor Guard details. Retirement of a chief.
Anyhoo, the pipes were marched right past my sleeping son, and he didn't so much as flinch. He had heard the pipes regularly (I mean nearly daily) in-eutero.
So to him they ARE soothing...
Anyhoo, the pipes were marched right past my sleeping son, and he didn't so much as flinch. He had heard the pipes regularly (I mean nearly daily) in-eutero.
So to him they ARE soothing...
Well if you happen to be in FL, stop on by. The wife my try and kick you out though, but I do not think she is scary as people tell me.
I have always sang since I was in the first grade. I direct the choir at my church and my little girls are following my foot steps. I sometimes get a lump on my throat when I see them imitating me when I direct the choir. We are always singing and it definitely makes us happy.
berthemp
New Member
I am a former touring harmonica player, and play drums for my church group. I have been threatening to learn the bagpipes. We are putting together a Law Enforcement/Fire Fighter degree team and thought it would be cool to have pipes. May have to settle for recordings of pipes though. Between work, family and the lodge, I don't know when I would get to practice.
Bob Franks
Past District Deputy Grand Lecturer
[begin Scottish burr]I have been known to torture cats musically (shorthand for saying I play the bagpipes). Some of my neighbors have asked (not all kindly, either) if there's any way I could play them any quieter. My response? No, but I can't play them any louder, either.
Some of my Masonic brothers & I have talked about putting together music for the Lodge played on the pipes. I must admit that the idea of sneaking up behind a candidate and starting up the pipes has its cruel appeal!
A Gentleman is one who can play the bagpipes...but doesn't.
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