Great find on the minstrel toy.

Check out patents: (www.uspto.gov)
1,570,268 *
1,332,732
6,273,781

Louis Marx, do a patent search on "in/(louis and marx)", made a lot of toys
and they're all collectors' items. Perhaps his tamborine or drummer was
adapted to be a bones player. See a bio on Louis Marx at:
http://www.toy-tia.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Toy_Industry_Association/Hall_of_F\
ame2/Toy_Industry_Hall_of_Fame.htm

I really enjoyed the music. You're awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Mike Passerotti
Cincinnati, OH


----Original Message Follows----
From: "bonequint" <bonequint@...>
Reply-To: rhythmbones@yahoogroups.com
To: rhythmbones@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [rhythm bones] Bones Links & Sounds
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:42:16 -0000

Hey again, some more bones stuff for y'all.

First of all, I recently got some very nice bones by Clif Ervin. The
yellow cedar pair is subtle and variable, not too loud. The teak
pair is louder and more solid, but not as variable. Here's a nice
recording of Clif playing with banjo player Dan Gellert:
http://orphonon.utopiandesign.com/Blackeyed_Susie.mp3
See my link page for more details:
http://bones.JeffLeff.com/links.html

I've added a few little things to my webpage (but more is coming).
Here's a 2003 recording of me with The Tanglers (2.4 megs):
http://bones.jeffleff.com/media/StormBones.mp3
And one from just the other day, just a social music get-together,
recorded a bit too distantly, but it's not too bad (5.4 megs):
http://bones.jeffleff.com/media/tune.mp3

And just for fun, I found an old wind-up minstrel bones player on the
web. It sold for $37,500:
http://bones.jeffleff.com/graphics/SecorBones.jpg
http://content.liveauctioneers.com/item/1732350/jerome-secor-bones-
player-clockwork-toy

Anyone find anything else fun web trawling?





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