Bones or instruments very like bones were played with belly dances, or at least with similar dances that were done during the Ottoman period in Turkey by male...
I find the mention of bones in Middle Eastern style amusing - I never would have thought anyone else was doing it. I am in the musical group backing an...
Hello Everyone: I was happy to receive a telephone call yesterday from Aaron Plunkett who lives in a city close to me, and it turns out he has an instructional...
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...
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...
Applying to present at the NEXT MAssachusetts Music Educators Assocication Conference, March, 2006, with a more "Hands On" experience on ALL the jugband...
I'm just brainstorming out loud here. It's obvious that some items in the outline have a more complex derivation than this "tree" is able to describe. I'm...
Hello Everyone: I just joined the group and want to send greetings to fellow rhythm bones players everywhere! Cordially, Jennifer Ranger www.SoKattywompus.com...
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;...
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...
Hi Jeff, possible tacks to take for "next steps" might be: musicality: dynamics, speed control, pitch/tone variation (through "choking", scissoring the bones,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hey I just wanted to tell you about a great company I found! I applyed for a lower mortgage rate and i only had to fill in a simple form. This month alone I...
Ray, Welcome to the group. This may seem strange to you but that is what many of our members thought, that they were one of the last players. As it turns out ...
Hello there everyone! I have been playing the bones for over 60 years...I didn't know there were so many of you...I thought I was one of the very few! I live...
Philip Brake of Waltham joined us today as a "community volunteer", and knocked the socks off some of my kids. He alsoo contributed about 10-12 sets of bones...
BTW, you all missed a fanastic time last weekend at the Sea Music Festival in Mystic, CT-- Tim Reilly and Kenny Wolin ran a 1-hour workshop, and I would...
Ack, that last message was supposed to go to Steve not everyone, sorry! But it's true (as I've mentioned to many folks in the past) that I'm hoping to give a...
