Sunday, February 20, 2005
giving thanks
As I browse the different blogs and comment on same, it struck me that kids should really be happy to live in the age where the Internet is available to them, to what extent they manage to use it. For instance: My mother called me on my cell and asked what a "dobro" was. She had been listening to Prairie Home Companion and I guess Garrison Keiler said one of the performers was playing a Dobro. I never heard of it before. I said hold on and pulled up dictionary.com:1 entry found for dobro.
Do·bro ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dbr)
A trademark used for stringed musical instruments, specifically guitars and banjos. - Alright! I read it to her.
I was making a comment on Presurfer and was typing "grups" as the word for grownups as used in one episode of Star Trek, but then I wasn't sure... so I pulled up google, typed in grups - lots of entries, so typed in Star Trek and it gave me many links such as this Miri.
Those are only two examples, but I LOVE being able to access the information on the Internet!
Since it is Sunday, I think it would be a good idea to thank whatever God made it possible to think up, create the Internet, & make it available to the great unwashed masses.
Amen.
Do·bro ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dbr)
A trademark used for stringed musical instruments, specifically guitars and banjos. - Alright! I read it to her.
I was making a comment on Presurfer and was typing "grups" as the word for grownups as used in one episode of Star Trek, but then I wasn't sure... so I pulled up google, typed in grups - lots of entries, so typed in Star Trek and it gave me many links such as this Miri.
Those are only two examples, but I LOVE being able to access the information on the Internet!
Since it is Sunday, I think it would be a good idea to thank whatever God made it possible to think up, create the Internet, & make it available to the great unwashed masses.
Amen.
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Afternoon, Ms. OWL. The instrument I associate with that tinny, quavering, high-pitched guitar sound has a large sort of metal resonator, lets call it, in the center of the "voice-box" of the guitar, i.e. the bottom part, not the neck. It's big in blue-grass, old-school country, and your better country-rock groups.
"LISTEN"Here's a bunch of pictures, and Gawd bless Google's image search:
"DOBRO"Let's see what Mister Intenet has to say about this...
OK, the Dobro was named for its' inventors, the immigrant Slovakian DOpyera BROthers, of Los Angeles, who were commissioned to find a way to increase the volume of pre-electric guitars, to compete with horns and banjos, etc, on bandstands and on the radio, back in the 1920s.
"The Dobro Story"The original resonator guitar was the Dopyera's "National," with an all-steel body, like the one Johnny Winter plays on his first album, "The Progressive Blues Experiment." Then one of Dopyera's split and started making cheaper, wooden "Dobros."
The two companies later merged, and finally went under after electrification, and more "sophisticated" tastes killed the market. "Gibson guitars" later revived them, or at least the Dobro.
This is a good thing. Gibson is known for quality, and classic guitars still prized by great musicians everywhere, both electric, like the "Les Paul" model, and acoustic, like the "Hummingbird." You're probably listening to one of them right now. (Not to slight Martin's, or Fender's; great guitars, also.)Though it came to America from Spain, and has connexions to other European and African musical traditions, the resonant banjo and the guitar, especially the slide guitar and the electric guitar, are the most uniquely American of all instruments. The music they make, and the image of free-wheeling, easy-going, road-hitting, rock and rolling exuberance is one of the few good things we have left here, in the eyes of the world; along with the jazz trumpet and saxophone, portable instruments of a road-based culture, also. Celebrate your freedoms, and your roots, kids: Pack yer axe and hit the road!
And there you have it: Fifteen minutes on the Internet can make YOU an expert in anything! Now, about that nuclear physicist's job...
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Afternoon, Ms. OWL. The instrument I associate with that tinny, quavering, high-pitched guitar sound has a large sort of metal resonator, lets call it, in the center of the "voice-box" of the guitar, i.e. the bottom part, not the neck. It's big in blue-grass, old-school country, and your better country-rock groups.
"LISTEN"Here's a bunch of pictures, and Gawd bless Google's image search:
"DOBRO"Let's see what Mister Intenet has to say about this...
OK, the Dobro was named for its' inventors, the immigrant Slovakian DOpyera BROthers, of Los Angeles, who were commissioned to find a way to increase the volume of pre-electric guitars, to compete with horns and banjos, etc, on bandstands and on the radio, back in the 1920s.
"The Dobro Story"The original resonator guitar was the Dopyera's "National," with an all-steel body, like the one Johnny Winter plays on his first album, "The Progressive Blues Experiment." Then one of Dopyera's split and started making cheaper, wooden "Dobros."
The two companies later merged, and finally went under after electrification, and more "sophisticated" tastes killed the market. "Gibson guitars" later revived them, or at least the Dobro.
This is a good thing. Gibson is known for quality, and classic guitars still prized by great musicians everywhere, both electric, like the "Les Paul" model, and acoustic, like the "Hummingbird." You're probably listening to one of them right now. (Not to slight Martin's, or Fender's; great guitars, also.)Though it came to America from Spain, and has connexions to other European and African musical traditions, the resonant banjo and the guitar, especially the slide guitar and the electric guitar, are the most uniquely American of all instruments. The music they make, and the image of free-wheeling, easy-going, road-hitting, rock and rolling exuberance is one of the few good things we have left here, in the eyes of the world; along with the jazz trumpet and saxophone, portable instruments of a road-based culture, also. Celebrate your freedoms, and your roots, kids: Pack yer axe and hit the road!
And there you have it: Fifteen minutes on the Internet can make YOU an expert in anything! Now, about that nuclear physicist's job...
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oldwhitelady--
Absolutely agree with you. Having all this information whenever we want it is really something to be thankful for. The reference materials are great, and having each other's thoughts and ideas on blogs like this makes our world a bit more bearable.
Rexroth's Daughter
Absolutely agree with you. Having all this information whenever we want it is really something to be thankful for. The reference materials are great, and having each other's thoughts and ideas on blogs like this makes our world a bit more bearable.
Rexroth's Daughter
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i see "oldwhitelady" commenting on several sites i frequent so i got curious / i must be an "oldwhatlady" (sic) / i do love the internet too / i looooove Googling / looking up almost anything / but then my first favorite book at 8 yrs old was a dictionary / i still have it / then "dharma bums" link caught my eye / book by Kerouac / so i hopped over there to discover talk of /Richard Feynmann one of my all time favorites / i saw an inspiring pbs documentary on him some years ago / long enough ago he may have still been alive / i will have to look it up / i have all his books / an inspiring genius with a great sense of humour and smile and twinkle in the eye / as well as a musician / anyway / just thought i'd say hello
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i see "oldwhitelady" commenting on several sites i frequent so i got curious / i must be an "oldwhatlady" (sic) / i do love the internet too / i looooove Googling / looking up almost anything / but then my first favorite book at 8 yrs old was a dictionary / i still have it / then "dharma bums" link caught my eye / book by Kerouac / so i hopped over there to discover talk of /Richard Feynmann one of my all time favorites / i saw an inspiring pbs documentary on him some years ago / long enough ago he may have still been alive / i will have to look it up / i have all his books / an inspiring genius with a great sense of humour and smile and twinkle in the eye / as well as a musician / anyway / just thought i'd say hello
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