XPost: rec.music.country.old-time   
   From: peterf@silcom.com   
      
   On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:53:21 -0700,  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > GRRRRRR!!  No amplifiers!!!  If you want to be heard, learn to play   
   > louder, or play in a smaller group.  No drums (well, maybe hand drums,   
   > those are certainly not traditional in this music, but in the right   
   > hands, it won't ruin a jam session).   Drums that use sticks are out.   
   > Drums with brushes, in the right hands, maybe.  Actually the kind of   
   > drumming that I have enjoyed in old time music is when someone turns   
   > the guitar over and plays it as a drum.   
   >> From that moldy old fig,   
   > Suzy Thompson   
      
   Well, amps are a pain.  I quit attending our local Calif. Old Time   
   Fiddlers events once participants there began using fiddle amps,   
   ridiculous things they strapped to their belts, walking around and   
   playing.  The sound was akin to using an old $3.98 radio shack mic,   
   recording a cheap fiddle in a bathroom from inside the empty tub!  Gaawwd   
   - auful!  The locs thought it was wonderful ... wow, electricity!!   
      
   Oh, the same folks doing this banned open tunings and bluegrass tunes as   
   being "not old time' !!   
      
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