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Topic: How Many of You Play the Tarropatch ? |
Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 14 Feb 2009 10:08 am |
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Since the steel guitar originated as an Hawaiian instrument, I'm interested to know how many of you play the tarropatch, which is an 8-string ukelele, with a slightly bigger body and eight double courses, with the top three courses in unison and the bottom an octave ?
This is the tarropatch that I play.
This is a Martin tarropatch. |
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James Kerr
From:
Scotland, UK
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Posted 14 Feb 2009 1:18 pm
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Alan,
There is a site called :-
http://www.taropatch.net/
Which I frequent, at present I'm building a couple of National Lap Steel Replicas with the sole intention of running Slack Key tunings and playing Hawaiian music on them, transposed from the Slack Key Guitar music. Its delightful stuff.
James. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 14 Feb 2009 2:07 pm
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Before this gets too "off topic", keep in mind that taropatch has more than one meaning. Here is another thread:
Click Here
I believe this topic is about the instrument.
Lee |
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John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2009 1:43 am Re: How Many of You Play the Tarropatch ?
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
Since the steel guitar originated as an Hawaiian instrument, I'm interested to know how many of you play the tarropatch, which is an 8-string ukelele, with a slightly bigger body and eight double courses, with the top three courses in unison and the bottom an octave ?
This is the tarropatch that I play.
This is a Martin tarropatch. |
Alan,
I was at a farm auction up in MI, years ago and there was one of those on what they call the "Jewelry Wagon", small items, pots pans, dishes etc.
I had no idea what it was. I figured , ah, what the hell, it has strings on it and it looks old, I kicked the party off at five bucks, some old bidee on the other side of the wagon kept giving me the "evil Eye" so I jumped off at $10.25. I guess I should have kept going!
Same auction, walked off with a beautiful "Kalamazoo" mudburst 6 string steel guitar in A-1 puppy dog shape. Four dollars!
So that was a Taropatch! Who knew!
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
"Practice cures most tone issues" ~ John Suhr |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Feb 2009 3:54 pm
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Oops! My mistake. I thought you said "play in the turnip patch".  |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2009 4:35 pm
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Good one Donny!  |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 17 Feb 2009 4:52 pm
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I wear a tarotpatch to try and give up my addiction to fortune telling.
Arch.
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