From: bf@hogbozysplit.com   
      
   I usually expect that type of behavior up North, especially   
   in the Pennsylvania & Northeast area.    Never happens in   
   the deep South.   
      
      
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1156786202.860733.16220@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...   
   > This past weekend I finally had an opportunity to take part in an old   
   > time jam. Now I've done bluegrass jams with my 5-string and some were   
   > good and some were not...but this was the first time I had a chance to   
   > play my fiddle in an old-time jam.   
   >   
   > So I get there about 5 minutes after it started....2 fiddlers....2   
   > banjos....bass....1 guitar. I get out my fiddle and stand beside the   
   > guy who seemed to be running things. He's fiddlin' away while the other   
   > guy is just kinda' holdin' his fiddle. The tune ends...and before you   
   > could blink, the guy goes right in to another tune. Midway through the   
   > other fiddlers puts his instrument away.   
   > The tune ends and I ask "what's the name of that tune?" Without even   
   > looking up at me the fiddler says "Cricket on the Hearth"....right in   
   > to the next tune....tune ends....next tune...he knew I had a fiddle...I   
   > did the proper thing and WAITED to be invited....never gave me the time   
   > of day. It was all "look at me". What a drag.   
   >   
   > Now I've only been playing for 8 years (also play 3 other instruments)   
   > so I'd say I'm mid-level at best on the fiddle...but isn't a jam   
   > supposed to INCLUDE people who want to learn?   
   >   
   > I hate to pre-judge, but early on in my playing someone once told me   
   > how "snobbish" some Old Time players could be...about including you AND   
   > about HOW you play the tune....I came away from that NON-jam   
   > understanding a little bit more about what she meant.  The thing that   
   > makes me smile in the face of such rudeness is the fact that I've have   
   > the opportunity to play with world-class, even world famous fiddlers   
   > who would openly share anything and everything you care to absorb from   
   > them.   
   >   
   > Thank goodness I have a guitar playing wife and some good friends to   
   > jam with.   
   >   
   > Just my observation.   
   >   
   > James   
   >   
      
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