Stanleysteamer · Jan 15, 2023

DanClarke said:
...that at the ripe old age of 68 I have bought myself a harmonica and I am having fun trying to make it sound like anything other than an anguished animal.
I suspect newbie bagpipe players are in the same boat.

Just use your tongue, bruv, to cover up the holes you don't need to use. Then practise where you need to suck and where you need to blow. It won't take you long to be able to play a tune. Once that is sorted, you can try to play chords etc.
What sort of harmonica have you got?
I'm hoping a Hohner!

Stanleysteamer · Jan 15, 2023

And go for simple tunes that need no accidental notes which you can only manage with a chromatic harmonica i.e. one with a button on the end.
So Christmas carols, etc.
I dare hardly say "hymns" but they really are simple to play.

WhiskyLassie · Jan 15, 2023

DanClarke said:
This is the "machine-sewn" wallet. Untreated.
Theirs I treated with neatsfoot oil and embossed with patterning.
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The tension looks out, however that's fab

WhiskyLassie · Jan 15, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Or flippin auto incorrect!!!!!

What the duck are you on about?

Stanleysteamer · Jan 15, 2023

WhiskyLassie said:
The tension looks out, however that's fab

I have discovered that the tension setting on heavy materials is well out from where you would expect it to be. In fact you have to just go for it and work it out for yourself!!!

Hippo · Jan 16, 2023

kermit_rr said:
It's rubbish, probably written by someone who can't drive but reads quora or some other bollix website.
If engine braking damages your car then so does accelerating

Ere, dint ter fall oft yer bike while driving it

Hippo · Jan 16, 2023

kermit_rr said:
The same website says turning the heat up in your car uses more fuel!!
Cars make excess heat which is why we have radiators, all your doing is diverting that waste heat into the car instead of outside

Slowing down the warm up time can use more fool. Also ma hippo has a lectric heater. They use a lorra lorra power.

Stanleysteamer · Jan 16, 2023

Not happy.

Thort I set up the Humax box to record the snooker final.
Ity only got half of it then went off and did its own thing so i missed the last few frames.
Arrgghh!!

Hippo · Jan 16, 2023

Lr's baff day soon

Hippo · Jan 16, 2023

Anyone who rides a motybike knows that engine braking is the way, prolly summink to do with two wheels I dunno, but that's what I do. Similar inna Tratter, match revs to speed both up an down. Carefully though, the engine is stronger than the brakes.
Bruv (another biker) got told oft by the driving instructor for wrecking his clutch.
Fink I read somewhere that engine braking was more economic?

The economy bit is due to engine revs dropping. Yer also get back some of the effort used to gerrup to speed, by slowing down naturally.

My Old Landy · Jan 16, 2023

Morning all, off to the quacks at 9.00 for 'another' medication review. Different person same review

Turktowner · Jan 16, 2023

Mornin peeps.
Cold today they say, bettern bloody rain

DanClarke · Jan 16, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Just use your tongue, bruv, to cover up the holes you don't need to use. Then practise where you need to suck and where you need to blow. It won't take you long to be able to play a tune. Once that is sorted, you can try to play chords etc.
What sort of harmonica have you got?
I'm hoping a Hohner!

Its a Hohner Special 20 Progressive in "C".

My Old Landy · Jan 16, 2023

DanClarke said:
Its a Hohner Special 20 Progressive in "C".

Shame arthritis has removed my ability to play guitar or I would have right there with you. I liked to mess around in the Am Pentatonic whilst the harp player did his thing in C

kermit_rr · Jan 16, 2023

why dont all cars have self levelling suspension? sure it would make parts more expensive.. but thats never stopped us before.. adding airbags increases cost too

My Old Landy · Jan 16, 2023

Shameless plug for some video from last year. I finally got around to editing it today!

Stanleysteamer · Jan 16, 2023

My Old Landy said:
Morning all, off to the quacks at 9.00 for 'another' medication review. Different person same review

Cross fingas!!

derwendolly · Jan 16, 2023

Are there any wrist watch 'tinkerers' on 'ere who are/might be looking for a job?

Stanleysteamer · Jan 16, 2023

DanClarke said:
Its a Hohner Special 20 Progressive in "C".

Good man!

https://www.hohner.de/en/instruments/harmonicas/diatonic/progressive/special-20
Cool!

Sounds great for a beginner!!

Stanleysteamer · Jan 16, 2023

My Old Landy said:
Shame arthritis has removed my ability to play guitar or I would have right there with you. I liked to mess around in the Am Pentatonic whilst the harp player did his thing in C

You too, re arturitis and not able to play the guitar still.
Me too.

And not long after W bought me a fabbo electric jobby from the 70s, like what George Benson play/ed.
Then I helped the disaster along by chopping off the first 8mm of me left index, then doing my neck in so I lost feeling in my thumb 1st and 2nd fingers.
And now recently I bashed my hand so that my already arthritic little finger hurts like heck and cannot bend far!
I am, seriously thinking of trying to play left-handed!

As the other fingers oin the other hand bend more or less OK, though arthritis has badly affected it too.
SOOOOOO annoying.
You don't have one of those Bob Dylan frame things for putting your harmonica in to play while playing your geeetar?.

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