Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1606271201220.5038@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: giraffe banjorette
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:03:50 -0400 (EDT)
giraffe banjorette http://www.alansondheim.org/banjorette1.jpg (from IG&B site) http://www.alansondheim.org/banjorette2.jpg (from IG&B site) http://www.alansondheim.org/giraffe1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/giraffe0.mp3 the "gentle giraffe with tall children, eating the "leaves of trees." i am why was the giraffe a foot? because he was looking for food. southern Africa to chase the giraffe; but surely I hear them and I hear you. i am the mule, who can never breed. i am the gentle giraffe who gave name to the giraffe banjo or giraffe banjorette as the case may be, made by Stewart in the 1880s but this one I suspect may be 1870s anonymous. i never knew of the instrument until visiting the Intermountain Guitar and Banjo online site and then visiting the store in Salt Lake City, where I met Leo Coulson, who I knew in Providence in the 1960s, when he was half of Providence Guitar and Banjo. I was amazed at the store, ended up purchasing the giraffe b. which is ideal for me, fast action, fretless after the first octave. something to work with on our endless meandering, next stop Las Cruces, then back to Denver. In the meantime I can practice daily, which I desperately need to do, and I can enjoy the odd 19th-century sound of the instrument. The sound is presented raw, (no echo, sweetening, etc.); perhaps errors abound; giraffe1, you can see the centering occurring as the piece proceeds, somewhat in-scale based; giraffe0, somewhat blues based; i'm still in flight, anyone out there familiar with category theory, please contact me back-channel, thanks;