I have been making bones for a number of years. You may have seen themm offered by Elderly at one time, usually labelled "hard to get". This was primarily...
Jeff, Howdy, I'm a bones player/teacher in Eugene OR. (for about a year now). Welcome to the group, good to know there are other "boners" in the state! I'll...
I am de viper.. I come to vash your vindows old joke.. sorry could not help it... Hi Vash I'm in Williams south of Grants Pass, west of Medford... not much...
Sorry, I will NOT be there to give the children's workshop, but Jonathan will teach it for me. I hope that a few of you will help out. Rob Rudin and I met...
Applying to present at the NEXT MAssachusetts Music Educators Assocication Conference, March, 2006, with a more "Hands On" experience on ALL the jugband...
Hi everybody Am I really the (only) third french people on this discussion group ? I live near Paris and try (from times to times) to make a "groove" with the...
Hello everybody, I am making slow but continous progress in playing my bones and the more I learn the more I like it! I have ebony bones. Now I would like to...
I'm going to be teaching a bones class at Lark Camp (www.LarkCamp.com) this year, in Mendocino, California. It will be an intermediate/ advanced class -- I'll...
... group ? ... (stationary ... Hi - I play with the "irish grip" as well & have only been playing for about 9 months (so I'm not the most experienced player,...
Hi Jeff, possible tacks to take for "next steps" might be: musicality: dynamics, speed control, pitch/tone variation (through "choking", scissoring the bones,...
Thanks for the ideas. I recall reading about the "rub" but didn't quite get it -- it's so hard to write about playing the bones (or any instrument, really)....
Trying harder: the "rub" implies "scissoring" the bones, so that they are no longer parallel to each other but still gripped in the hand in the regular bonesy ...
... Okay...yeah, I've done that, a bit quiet for group playing, so I don't do it often. ... Ah, I've seen Artis the Spoonman do that too (among others) -- I...
Hi Everyone, Great classes and special events are coming up in July and August at Bang a Drum. Hope you can join in the fun! In this email: * Bang a Drum will...
any help would be appreciated here. While vacationing in colonial Williamsburg, I happened upon a bones player in a pub. They were playing traditional music;...
Hello Everyone: I just joined the group and want to send greetings to fellow rhythm bones players everywhere! Cordially, Jennifer Ranger www.SoKattywompus.com...
Jennifer, thanks for joining the group, the web site is interesting. If you have bones comments or questions, please let us know, take care, Steve Brown ... ...
Hi Jennifer, Those photos were taken by my wife Melissa, at the Mytic Sea Music festival held on the second (?) weekend of June every year in Mystic, CT. It's...
Hi Johnathan: Thank you for the info! I'd sure like to include this event and related bones info in the November issue of our magazine. Would you be...
Hi Johnathan: May I have your permission to print those photos in our magazine - and give Melissa credit of course?! Thank you, Jennifer ... From: Jonathan...
Jennifer, thanks for this question and for inspiring more traffic on the list. Although I've come out of the two handed American style and was intially taught...
... I'm a relatively new member to this site & to bones playing in general. After reading Steve Brown's response I have to say that he hit the nail right on...
