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Bill Duncan


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Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 8 Nov 2023 2:32 pm    
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My wife's friend saw and heard me playing the other day and told my wife that I played keyboard sooo beautifully. My wife told her I was playing a pedal steel guitar and the sweet lady had no idea what a pedal steel guitar is.
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Ian Rae


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Redditch, England
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 12:38 pm    
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"You can observe a lot just by looking"

Apparently not. People ask me what the instrument is I'm playing, I tell them, and they still seem none the wiser.

I'm thinking I might take up the krummhorn or the theorbo.
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John De Maille


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Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 1:54 pm    
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I can t count the amount times that people call it a keyboard or have no idea what I'm playing. And, I tried explaining what is it and some seem to get it while others are clueless about it. The people who seem to get it somewhat are musicians, especially the ones who play guitar..
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scott murray


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Asheville, NC
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 2:14 pm    
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someone asked me the other night if it was a xylophone. that was a first for me
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Richard Sinkler


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Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 2:21 pm    
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My best was in the 70's. I was doing a duet with my best high school buddy at a friend's birthday party. His gorgeous girlfriend came up to tell me what a beautiful organ I have. Woo woo!
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Chris Brooks

 

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Providence, Rhode Island
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 4:17 pm    
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Clearly it's an electric table.
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Frank Freniere


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The First Coast
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 4:22 pm    
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Keyboard? Ironing board!
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Dave Grafe


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Hudson River Valley NY
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 4:58 pm    
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One bandleader I worked with introduced it as the electric cheese slicer
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Joe Krumel

 

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Hermitage, Tn.
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 5:11 pm    
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My cousin told someone I played an iron guitar.
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Donny Hinson

 

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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 7:17 pm    
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“Double-decker electric table-slide.”

(Tip of the hat to Dave Van Allen for that one! Very Happy )
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Bobby D. Jones

 

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West Virginia, USA
Post  Posted 9 Nov 2023 10:48 pm    
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I had my guitar sitting outside the kitchen back door at a gig one night, Near the stage steps. When I came back there was 2 little white haired ladies arguing, One was saying it was a cheese slicer, The other was saying it was a noodle cutter. On stage I chuckled to myself our whole set. The 2 little ladies kept looking at me, Playing the Cheese Slicker/Noodle Cutter.
To each their own.
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Steve Hitsman


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Waterloo, IL
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 2:38 am    
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Horizontal pitch approximator.
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Richard Sinkler


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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 3:55 am    
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I took an iron to a gig once. My last bandleader would tell the audience that for a fee, I would iron their clothes.
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David Wren


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Placerville, California, USA
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 8:05 am    
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One time I had a lady tell me, "You certainly are a wonderful pedal keyboard player". Smile

Next thread.... "What do the pedals do?" Smile
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Dave Hopping


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Aurora, Colorado
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 9:03 am    
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I've had the "is that a keyboard" bit from little old ladies at my country praise gigs.

Along with THAT look that made me feel so very unlike a little old man! Winking
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Don R Brown


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Rochester, New York, USA
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 10:25 am    
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Dave Hopping wrote:
I've had the "is that a keyboard" bit from little old ladies at my country praise gigs.

Along with THAT look that made me feel so very unlike a little old man! Winking


Gray-haired Groupie Grannies! Laughing
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Ethan Shaw

 

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Texas, USA
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 11:14 am    
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I've heard that stuff so many times that I made a PSA about it recently! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgp2TfSU6_k&t=194s
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Brett Day


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Pickens, SC
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 12:06 pm    
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When I first started playing steel guitar, I was still in high school, and I would tell the other students and teachers that I'm now a steel guitar player, and I remember one student said, "how do you play it", and I told them how it works-you've got picks, a bar, and pedals and you don't play it like a guitar, then I told them it's a pedal steel guitar, meaning it's got pedals underneath and you play using picks and a bar, and the student in question said, "so, it's like a piano with strings", and I shook my head in disbelief, chuckling. At a jam session in 2017 in my hometown, Pickens, South Carolina, all the musicians were taking a break from playing, and one lady said, the instrument you play looks like a table with strings, and I wondered if she'd understood what I'd told her about how the steel guitar works, then several jam sessions later, the same lady came up to me again and asked, "Why can't I hear you playing the steel?" and then I had to explain to her that there are differences in the lead guitarist and the steel guitarist, where the lead guitarist plays many parts and the steel guitarist only plays fills and solos if called on to do so.

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Ben Lawson

 

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Brooksville Florida
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 12:34 pm    
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I always liked "what are the strings for?"
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Skip Edwards

 

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LA,CA
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2023 5:41 pm    
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A friend of mine was playing his D10 at a bar here in the San Fernando Valley. He broke a string, and when the band took a break he stayed on the stage to change it.
Meanwhile a patron at the bar - a little lubed - went up to one of the other guys in the band and, pointing to the steeler still on the stage, said...

"You guys are good, but that guy up there in the wheelchair is really good!"

True story...
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Craig Stock


From:
Westfield, NJ USA
Post  Posted 11 Nov 2023 10:41 am    
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Funny story Skip!
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GaryL

 

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Medina, OH USA
Post  Posted 11 Nov 2023 2:26 pm     What is it?
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"It's a 4-legged divorce machine."
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Carl Houtz


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Central Pennsylvania, USA
Post  Posted 11 Nov 2023 3:24 pm     name it what ever.
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I just get tired of people calling it a piano. Any more I just tell them it's a 10-string cheese slicer.
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Andrew Goulet


Post  Posted 13 Nov 2023 10:15 am    
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I had someone ask me if it was a keyboard at a gig this weekend. It's funny to me, but I don't get annoyed. I bet I could go to their workplace and ask a thousand questions about their equipment that seems ignorant and obvious to them.
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Ricky Davis


From:
Bertram, Texas USA
Post  Posted 13 Nov 2023 2:12 pm    
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"Ignorance" or "Dumb=Drunk"
I don't mind the ignorant; as they do get to learn from me about the instrument I'm playing.
Dumb-Drunk obviously can't learn anything at that point; so I just say: "Are you Drunk?; get away from me".
Ricky
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