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Instrument Question
Hi Mona or Lisa or both;
Over the last few months/years you two have played the flute, harmonica, and cello during songs. I was wondering do you have a goal to learn another instrument(s). If so, what is the next one you two want to learn and then play in a song. This can be answered by one or the other or both…..whenever you have time.
Mike.
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If I had all the time in the world, I’d learn to play the harp! Oh and the piano of course! Oh and lap steel guitar! Oh and the sitar! Oh and the hurdy gurdy looks pretty fun to play 😉
Anything I can play while singing really would be interesting. But at the same time there are a gazillion things on the guitar that I haven’t explored or mastered yet. Thankfully, certain skills translate somewhat well to other instruments. The Cello didn’t feel TOO weird though I can still only hardly make it work for me.
But whenever I have time I mainly focus my energy on incorporating new guitar techniques and styles into my playing which, when you first get into new territory, very much feels like learning a new instrument 🙂
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Ahhh… Lisa and I are on same thinking path. Sort of… Lol… I was wondering when you would mention harp and lap steel guitar… I’ve been hoping that one day you would mention your quest to tackle these 2 instruments… Thanks to the question being asked… (Wish I’d of thought to ask before, just never got around to it, someone has beat me to it… Lol) A former Canadian musician who has passed on for awhile but was blind from an early played guitar on his lap… Jeff Healey… I saw him only once live…. Glad I did… Jeff hailed from Toronto, Ontario Canada
Another local Ottawa blind guitarist of interest whom I’ve also seen once live but still alive and well, has his own YouTube channel is Luke Haneman?????… I would love to try a harp sometime… I enjoy seeing a group of local young adults play from a Harp school that performs yearly at a New Year’s Eve No Alcohol Family Event that takes place closeby to my place each year… If only… In my dreams I would be playing the harp.. Being of Irish heritage… Well, one appreciates the harp???
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OK… Here are 2 photo stills from the NYE’s event nearby my place that I went to this year 2019… I’ll post pix separately : of both harps and the Japanese Percussion instrument things I saw being performed by youth…
©JackiHopper2020 ~
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And now… The Funky and Awesome sounding Bamboo Japanese/Chinese?! percussion type instrument performed by youth /teens…
©JackiHopper2020 ~
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Jacki, I’ve always been a huge fan of Jeff Healey. So sad that he’s gone! He did a cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps on his Hell To Pay album with none other than George Harrison himself playing acoustic guitar and singing backup vocals – no offense intended to Mona and Lisa, but it’s my very favorite cover of that song!!! (MonaLisa Twins’ cover still rocks my world though) ❤️
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Hi Paul… MLT’s WMGGW is my all time cover fave but Jeff’s comes in 2nd??
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I think you would be awesome on the piano Lisa, just like Lennon and McCartney. That intricate guitar playing I am sure would naturally translate to piano easily. The harp is also such an elegant instrument too, I am sure would work great for you just like the Cello when you did Yesterday.
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