I would like to tell you some (true) anecdotes on my life in the pubs.
In the pub "Ti Johnny" in Paris
A new and noisy mandoline player was deteriorating the session with wrong notes, we did'nt say anything but it was really enoying, no pleasure.
He stopped a while to go to the toilets and let his mandoline on a chair. The instrument slipped down and fell loudly, with a horrible sound!
My neighbour, a scottish piper named Peter then told me in the ear: "This is surely the best thing he played since he arrived"
Michel

I was in a session once,there was a fiddle that was really out of tune! When they went to the toilet, another musician tuned it in for them without telling them! Does anyone think they should have tuned it or not?

LOL
Well, it's a good idea, sutil but how did he react? Did he put it back out of tune when he came back?
I think there is a polite, educated way to explane to someone that he or she is playing too loud or out of tune, etc...
The Tuning of the fiddle is ok, I wonder if he noticed?
Later (I am at work right now) I'm going to tell an anecdote about me, bodhran player, quite funny indeed, about the loud playing.
Thank you for your post, actually this can be a nice new thread

Michel

Funny.
A long time ago, in a pub named "The silver cup" (Paris) I started my first bodhran playing in sessions, I used to play loud, I did'nt know how to use the left hand. It was in an exceptionally hot summer day, everybody was sweating.
Then the owner, came to me and gave me a little towel. He told me something but I did'nt hear because the music was loud, I grab the towel and started to wipe my face, thinking that he was a considerate man.
I realized that the towel was not for this purpose, it was to put under the skin of the bodhran so it would sound not so loud...lol.

Michel

ps: sorry for terrible english

I'll give a towel to every bodhran player with a shamrock on their drum!


Gabriel