Dulcimers vs flutes

[Flyingcursor]

Though I'm a far far better flute player than hammered or mountain dulcimer player I've discovered a distinct advantage to dulcimer playing.

I can eat a hand full of peanuts and still play the dulcimers right away.

[Nanohedron]

Maybe.

But you can't fire peanuts at someone out of a dulcimer.

[Unseen122]

Yeah you could. De tune a string and use string as the bow and the peanut as the arrow.

You can also smoke while playing when you don't have to blow down a Flute.

[Congratulations]

I like how we're pointing out that one can eat peanuts and smoke will playing dulcimer, but no one has mentioned the most valuable thing dulcimer has on flute: you can sing at the same time!

[Gabriel]

You also could throw the dulcimer itself instead of using it to launch peanuts.

[ten or more]

But beware the hammered dulcimer. Tuning it has been called a never ending journey. Not so with a flute

[missy]

I like how we're pointing out that one can eat peanuts and smoke will playing dulcimer, but no one has mentioned the most valuable thing dulcimer has on flute: you can sing at the same time!

evidently YOU have never heard Tom or me sing!!!!


But we can talk and play (like answering "what is that instrument?").

[Bretton]

I like how we're pointing out that one can eat peanuts and smoke will playing dulcimer, but no one has mentioned the most valuable thing dulcimer has on flute: you can sing at the same time!

Interestingly, I can't speak/sing while playing any instrument. It breaks my concentration and I have to stop playing. I've always been amazed by people who can sing, or even talk, and play at the same time.

I wonder if this means I don't know my tunes well enough, or if my brain just isn't wired correctly for doing two things at once?

Luckily, I rarely have the urge to sing!

-Brett

[Congratulations]

Well, I like singing and playing dulcimer at the same time. I'm not very good at either of them, but I don't do it in public, so it's okay.

[Nanohedron]

You also could throw the dulcimer itself instead of using it to launch peanuts.

Those there are who would hold that the throwing is better a "should" than a "could". I merely observe.

You can also smoke while playing when you don't have to blow down a Flute.

Hmph. Check out the likes of, say, Matt Molloy. He's always smokin'.

You can sing - and smoke - while playing uilleann pipes, too. Whether one ought to is another matter, but in any case, best not to do both at the same time, is my opinion. And ashing one's pipes is just.....déclassé. Hand that piper a Bud Lite.

[talasiga]

In the old days freshly roasted peanuts, salty and oily, bought fresh from a street stall came wrapped in scrap paper.

I reckon some of you lot could print this topic out
and wrap your peanuts in it. The thing is to make a funnel or cone with the paper.

[Ptarmigan]

But beware the hammered dulcimer. Tuning it has been called a never ending journey. Not so with a flute

How do you get three Flute players in tune with each other?
There is only one solution = Shoot two of them!

[Ptarmigan]

I can eat a hand full of peanuts and still play the dulcimers right away.

My only problem is that when I play Dulcimer, or any other instrument for that matter, if I happen to have food in my mouth I simply *have* to chew it ...... in time to the music!

This makes me look a real prat if we're playing a really fast Reel!