I researched an article about Brother Bones and during my search I ran across the http://www.basichip.com/ website. I downloaded some Brother Bones'...
I just finished watching my short presentation on bones playing and the 100th anniversary of Brother Bones' birth on our local CBS television affiliate. The...
Hi Adam, Yes this goes to everyone (hello every one) so I will answer mostly in a private email to you, which I should write later today. Sorry it took so long...
Mike, Its right around this time of year, probably next issue of the newsletter. Just think the dues are the same and the newsletter has gone up to 6 pages!...
Any chance I can help with next year's Bones Fest? Do you all think we could hook up with a dixiland band next year? Never too early to start planning a...
I attended the Fall Homecoming of the Museum of Appalachia which is dedicated to old time music and craft. Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson were two of the...
Well, I never knew this before now. This has to do with cutting up vegetables for cooking. Those of you who may have dabbled in Japanese cuisine may know that...
Hey, everybody, At Bones Fest VI, there was some inconclusive discussion of smaller, regional gatherings of bones-players, as a way to keep in contact...
I thought I'd open a discussion on bone playing. I've been toying around with tone. Wood selection and shape create a note on the scale just like a xylophone...
Hi Mike, that's wild! Steve Brown and I were talking briefly on Sunday about what makes the tone of a bone. He was noting that even if two bones are identical...
... Hi Mike, Your note struck a chord (note?) with me. At the Avoca Festival this year I was preparing to go on back stage and heard an unusual bell like sound...
Wood tonality has much to do with it. Some wood sticks ring really well. Some ring really well but not in our normal hearing range. My best resonance comes...
Wow. Handbell choirs made of bones. Along that line-- I think I remember Steve Wixson playing a pair of bones with a little metal xylophone bar mounted on one...
I played in the band at church last night. My bones playing got drowned out pretty bad. It was a big incentive to get plugged in. I've been wanting to get...
I get to sit in with a local celtic band this Saturday. I've invited the group to play at a harvest festival my sub-division is having. I practiced with them...
I was thinking of making up some business cards with the RBS web page address on them and maybe the contact address to subscribe to the newsletter. I found...
Hi Mike, At festivals I have handed out the Rhythm bones Society blurb from the web site along with membership applications which I also print from the web...
Hi Parker, Long time to hear. The gig went very well. The band came outside to play in 55 degree weather with a mild breeze and no sunshine. They were really...
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Sounds like a wonderful event. I have been working on 3 to a hand also. I am using the ebony set I bought from Steve Brown. I need to order another pair. They...
This was just mentioned on the Bodhranii list. It might be interesting to any of you who play both bodhran and bones. This guy has found a way to combine them!...
I put Parker Waite's aluminum sticks to the buffing wheel and polished them up to a mirror shine. They are flashy. The big trouble I have lately is cold...
Playing can be hazardous to your health. Many people suffer from carple-tunnel inflamation causing numbness and pain. I suffered from over-exertion during...
One more thing. Gravity trys to pull the bones verticle, not matter what angle you hold them at. I was practicing and noticed I don't keep my forearm at 3...
Hi Everybody and especially any new members whom I haven't welcomed, please consider yourself welcomed. This has been a pretty low trafic group over the last...
