Poking around forums and reading all the Very Informed Opinions about the best super-thick artisanal picks made out of buffalo horn etc
…ah! Haven’t tested whether this is in the current release yet, but at least it’s been merged https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22149
old-time music, racism
This week's #banjototw over in instragram is 'Shaving a Dead Man,' whose original title is extremely racist.
Today I learned that people also call it "Protect the Innocent" (in reaction to objections over the original racist title) and I really can't parse that as anything but a great big dog whistle.
...like, at first blush it seems apologetic but the context here is "protect the innocent racists who just want to keep using their favorite racist song titles"
I'm going to call this tune 'Shaving a Dead Racist' from now on
…maybe not, I had forgotten that there is at least some of the rest of an upright piano in pieces up there too. But the keys in the basket are in various stages of having been repainted where veneer chipped off etc.
Maybe I’ll work up the nerve to ask my neighbor, who grew up in this house, if he knows anything about it. Like, I don’t think it was a “don’t want to pay somebody to haul this old piano away” situation, they would have just thrown it outside (going by other evidence)
how to reassemble old piano
@mayor Iucci Banjo is definitely a Star Wars Disney+ show character
On the one hand the internet is an amazing resource for learning about musical gear
On the other, it allows people to get so far up their own ass about researching gear that you see posts like “I just ordered a guitar that I’ve never played with pickups I’ve never heard in person, what pickups should I order because I read on the internet that I’m not going to like the ones it comes with”
So I just bought a leaver harp online after I sold some stuff on ebay
And I was wondering if there are any harp players on mastodon?
Bosts are very welcome
#harp #celticharp #musician
Alright heck it I've reached a breaking point with this crap. We have GOT to make the internet more than five big crappy websites full of screenshots of the other four. Hell with it, do-it-ourselves time.
PM me with your hobby website URL, email address and 468*60 non-animated banner image, and I'll give you free advertising on Improbable Island.
The Island transfers 1.5 to 2 gigabytes of text a day, that's a lotta eyeballs on your ad, no catch. Boosts welcome.
I play (mostly) 19th and early 20th-century banjo music. I'd play 4-string early jazz banjo if I could find any musicians to play with. I reserve the right to post non-banjo content, although I aim to keep this account more or less focused on music.
I am not particularly interested in banjo as a good-old-timey-appalachian-country-folk-bluegrass totem.
You should also follow my "official" music account at @magicians.
He/him.