Re-Curve Bows

" ... I made a large drum out of a 30" dia piece of oak ... "

... sounds like a Big Bass Bodhrán. Did/does it work?

I'd like to hear - if you can & are willing, please pm me, & I'll give you my address to which you can send an attachment (mp3, wav etc).

Arrgh Dacron...I know I have a reel of it somewhere in my garage but can I find it? (Answers on a post card...)

Del

Are you sure the kittens didn't get ahold of it?

Now you are being silly, it would be much easier to ask Verm for some of his giraffes wot he got for his giraffe cannon. Or did he shoot 'em all to Mars, or was it the Moon?

Del

The Giraffes crossed my mind (probably everyones, if they just ended up in geostationary orbit), but the dinosaur was better named.

I still dunno about this extract ; "The longest sinew is found in the white cords that run along either side of an animal's backbone".

This looks like an interesting place for bow fans ; http://www.archerylibrary.com/books/badminton/docs/chapter03/chapter3_3.html

Nice link, Kris. I'll have to do some reading on that one when I'm not on CR4 working.

I tell my wife "I used to SIN, but EW won't let me any more".

music -> {Ceegars and whiskey and wild wild wimmen...}

Bill

"music -> {Ceegars and whiskey and wild wild wimmen...}"

One I sometimes bawl out in folk clubs goes:

{Cigareets and whisky and wild, wild wimmen ...}

I got it from a 78 my folks once had - I think it was Spike Jones & his City Slickers.

I couldn't remember if it was cigars or cigarettes... but definitely Spike Jones.

And those old 78s... If you dropped them, you had pieces of record. I can remember an early 33 I had which was a collection of "Cowboy Songs". One of them had a line of "If the ocean were whiskey and I were a duck... I'd swim to the bottom and drink my way up".

If you were to give that record to a 5 year old today, they would probably throw you in jail for child abuse.

Ah the political incorrectness of it all.

Bill

Sorry, not Spike Jones,even though he might have done a cover of it. According to several websites found by Google, the song was written by Tim Spencer in 1947, and recorded by Red Nichols and the Natural Seven. This site has the best listing of the lyrics, but doesn't include the "ocean were whiskey" line. That might have come from a similar sounding tune. "Rye Whiskey". I'm off to Google it.

Edit: found it here!

My folks must've had the Spike Jones cover - which stuck word-for-word to the original (as per your link), except for the interjection of a slurred "sing Temptation, will ya!". I can't remember exactly where it came in - I've noted it in my transcription, but my folder of words & music has found it's way to Aberdeen, and I'm not likely to see it for a while.

They definitely didn't have any 78s from Red Nichols.

Hey!! I love that site!! It has some others which I remember too like "Big Rock Candy Mountain". And you're right... the ocean line came from "Rye Whiskey".

So much of that music, todays kids have not heard, and probably will never hear. It is such a shame in that alot of it came out of the great depression, and has quite a meaning in American history.

I don't know where Kiefer is, but my #1 daughter lives in Shawnee... about 40 miles east of OK city.

73s de Bill NW7L

Kiefer is southwest of Tulsa. It's now primarily a "bedroom community" where most people work in Tulsa or one of the larger suburbs. Kiefer played a major role in Tulsa's development as the "Oil Capital of the World." When the Glenn Pool oil field came in, the oil was shipped out by train from Kiefer because this is where the closest rail connection was. Tulsa grew and got all the glory because that's where the bankers were.

Many of the songs recorded during the Depression come from earlier periods. America has experienced several depressions and panics, and the one from the 1930's was actually worldwide. Hard times often spawn the most memorable music.

This has got me to thinking if there might be some connection between the development of archery and the development of stringed musical instruments.

So no new songs yet about the current credit crisis?

I left my credit at indymack bank,left my credit at indymack bank,left my credit at indymack bank!

I got the get to get it, i got got to get it.

How d'you manage to do so much clever stuff with a blurred thumb?

(Well, it's been a looong week - sorry ).

It's not that clever. The secret is buying straight string .
Del

whaaaaaaaah................................flump thud