the world's first rock band
Jack Campin - bogus address
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
"A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
belongs in rec.music.early?
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Rafe Culpin
>
> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>
> "A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
> belongs in rec.music.early?
Music With Rocks In? Perhaps alt.fan.pratchett
Or maybe alt.fan.douglas-adams
"the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys"
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Jacey Bedford
Culpin <nos...@see.sig.to.reply> writes
>> Buggered if I can figure out where I ought to announce this:
>>
>> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>>
>> "A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
>> belongs in rec.music.early?
>
>Music With Rocks In? Perhaps alt.fan.pratchett
>
>Or maybe alt.fan.douglas-adams
>"the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys"
>
Jacey
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"Jack Campin - bogus address" <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Buggered if I can figure out where I ought to announce this:
>
> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>
> "A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
> belongs in rec.music.early?
>
very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you to play
on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert on them a
couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)
ally
Roland Hutchinson
>
> "Jack Campin - bogus address" <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bogus-7CDABF....@news.news.demon.net...
>> Buggered if I can figure out where I ought to announce this:
>>
>> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>>
>> "A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
>> belongs in rec.music.early?
And "swinging harps", yet.
> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum has
> a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
> http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you to
> play on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert on them
> a couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)
Rock (Harm)on(icon), dudes!
And I though I played some odd instruments (well, one, mainly...)
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Jack Campin - bogus address
> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum
> has a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
> http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you
> to play on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert
> on them a couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)
I've added that link to the page. It may be another Till Family
instrument - a letter I didn't reproduce mentions another set (in
some way associated with Ruskin) as having been disposed of. Maybe
I should phone the museum and ask where theirs came from. It's a
far more elaborate piece of woodwork than the New York one.
The mountain I mentioned is an extraordinary thing to walk over.
Hundreds of metres of loose slabs going plinkety-plonk under your
feet. The idea of making a musical instrument is utterly obvious
as soon as you encounter something like that.
Richard Robinson
> Buggered if I can figure out where I ought to announce this:
>
> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>
> "A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
> belongs in rec.music.early?
That's tremendous. Thanks, Jack.
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KGB
Hi
Isn't there a set at Coniston also??
A year or so ago on TV there was a (regional?) programme actually
called "The World's first rock band" about the very subject - I am
fairly certain the stones were stated as being at Coniston museum.
Regards
KGB
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>>> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum
>> has a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
>> http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you
>> to play on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert
>> on them a couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)
>
> I've added that link to the page. It may be another Till Family
> instrument - a letter I didn't reproduce mentions another set (in
> some way associated with Ruskin) as having been disposed of. Maybe
> I should phone the museum and ask where theirs came from. It's a
> far more elaborate piece of woodwork than the New York one.
It's great fun to play. You can bash away on it to your heat's content. Next
time I've got time to spare in Keswick I'll bring the Belfagan camcorder and
get someone to film me playing on it... Any requests?
ally
johnb
> "Jack Campin - bogus address" <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in messagenews:bogus-BE42E6....@news.news.demon.net...
>
> >>>http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
> >> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum
> >> has a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
> >> to play on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert
> >> on them a couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)
>
> > I've added that link to the page. It may be another Till Family
> > instrument - a letter I didn't reproduce mentions another set (in
> > some way associated with Ruskin) as having been disposed of. Maybe
> > I should phone the museum and ask where theirs came from. It's a
> > far more elaborate piece of woodwork than the New York one.
>
> It's great fun to play. You can bash away on it to your heat's content. Next
> time I've got time to spare in Keswick I'll bring the Belfagan camcorder and
> get someone to film me playing on it... Any requests?
>
> ally
Granite Years?
Boulder to Birmingham?
Like a Rolling Stone?
Stones In The Road?
Heart of Stone?
Harry Stone?
I Am A Rock?
Something by the Stones?
Richard Robinson
>>> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum
>>> has a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
>>> http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you
>>> to play on them to your heart's content. Evelyn Glennie did a concert
>>> on them a couple of years ago (which I missed of course...)
>>
>> I've added that link to the page. It may be another Till Family
>> instrument - a letter I didn't reproduce mentions another set (in
>> some way associated with Ruskin) as having been disposed of. Maybe
>> I should phone the museum and ask where theirs came from. It's a
>> far more elaborate piece of woodwork than the New York one.
>
> It's great fun to play. You can bash away on it to your heat's content. Next
> time I've got time to spare in Keswick I'll bring the Belfagan camcorder and
> get someone to film me playing on it... Any requests?
Sticks and Stones is nicely appropriate. or the Bass Rock ?
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=T%3A.*rock
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind?P=T%3A.*stone
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"KGB (KGB)" <FedUpW...@NoEmailAddre.ss> wrote in message
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so you never know. The museum's website doesn't mention anything like this,
but that doesn't prove anything. I haven't been to Coniston for years -
maybe this would provide an excuse for another visit. How's tha fettlin',
KGB?
ally
Chris Rockcliffe
> Buggered if I can figure out where I ought to announce this:
>
> http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Music/Rockband/rockband.html
>
> "A Musical Instrument 100 Million Years Old", so I guess it
> belongs in rec.music.early?
Interesting and amusing Jack. I suggest you post it in RMMGA. They'd enjoy
it over there.
CR
Roland Hutchinson
Tu es Petrus.
(Posting from rec.music.early, if you couldn't tell.)
Dominic Cronin
<al...@situponDOGGIEseats.co.uk> wrote:
Hmm "Take a trip to Keswick, Jack"...
Sounds like the name of a tune.
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Jack Campin - bogus address
>>> Take a trip to Keswick, Jack - just down the road from us. The museum
>>> has a very well preserved set of musical stones, as you can see here.
>>> http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/kesart.htm - they even encourage you
>>> to play on them to your heart's content.
> Next time I've got time to spare in Keswick I'll bring the Belfagan
> camcorder and get someone to film me playing on it... Any requests?
Rock Around The Clock!
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"Dominic Cronin" <dom...@ReplaceThisBitWithMySurname.co.uk.invalid> wrote
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we can come up with.
ally
Chris Morriss
<al...@situponDOGGIEseats.co.uk> writes
Didn't Bob Pegg write a song about such a 'rock band' on the first 'Mr
Fox' album. 'The Ballad of Neddy Dick' I believe.
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KGB
> How's tha fettlin', KGB?
>
>ally
Hi Ally
I'm fettling fine - so is my pack of cats!!!! 8^)
Regards
KGB
Molly Mockford
<bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in
<bogus-BE42E6....@news.news.demon.net>:
>The mountain I mentioned is an extraordinary thing to walk over.
>Hundreds of metres of loose slabs going plinkety-plonk under your
>feet. The idea of making a musical instrument is utterly obvious
>as soon as you encounter something like that.
Just out of interest, Jack, where is it?
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Jack Campin - bogus address
>> Hundreds of metres of loose slabs going plinkety-plonk under your
>> feet. The idea of making a musical instrument is utterly obvious
>> as soon as you encounter something like that.
> Just out of interest, Jack, where is it?
Either Stob a'Choire Mheadhoin or Stob Coire Easain, western shore
of Loch Treig (I think the latter - they're about as close as two
Munros are legally allowed to be, I did them together).
The easiest way to collect enough schist for a lithophone would be
to use a boat on the loch rather than lug it all the way to Tulloch
or Corrour. Or possibly a team of donkeys or llamas.
The Till Family's schist was from Skiddaw and around.
The other approach would be leave the stone in place and have a bunch
of players turn up with wooden mallets - ukmf meetup, anyone? The
Northumbrian contingent could hive off separately after selecting
their own set of rocks in funny-F pipe tuning.
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"Jack Campin - bogus address" <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> The Till Family's schist was from Skiddaw and around.
>
> The other approach would be leave the stone in place and have a bunch
> of players turn up with wooden mallets - ukmf meetup, anyone? The
> Northumbrian contingent could hive off separately after selecting
> their own set of rocks in funny-F pipe tuning.
>
(Reminder to self - take wooden mallet on next visit to Skiddaw....)
ally
Stephen Kellett
Campin - bogus address <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> writes
>>> The mountain I mentioned is an extraordinary thing to walk over.
>>> Hundreds of metres of loose slabs going plinkety-plonk under your
>>> feet. The idea of making a musical instrument is utterly obvious
>>> as soon as you encounter something like that.
>> Just out of interest, Jack, where is it?
>
>Either Stob a'Choire Mheadhoin or Stob Coire Easain, western shore
>of Loch Treig (I think the latter - they're about as close as two
>Munros are legally allowed to be, I did them together).
Sounds like "The Glidders" in Snowdonia. Just looks like some giant
person "hand of God?" dropped their sticks and thats what you get.
To get to the Glidders, go up Tryfan from the road, down the other side,
up the next one and at the top you'll find The Glidders. Alternatively
you can have a really long slow hard slog up through The Devil's
Cauldron to get there.
Stephen
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Dominic Cronin
<bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>The other approach would be leave the stone in place and have a bunch
>of players turn up with wooden mallets - ukmf meetup, anyone? The
>Northumbrian contingent could hive off separately after selecting
>their own set of rocks in funny-F pipe tuning.
>
Surely they would F-off. (Which is what I've always known that tuning
as.)
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Amsterdam
Paul Burke
> Sounds like "The Glidders" in Snowdonia. Just looks like some giant
> person "hand of God?" dropped their sticks and thats what you get.
>
Glyders please. You'll be talking about Ellie Dear Vower next. And it
was the Devil's Kitchen last time I walked up it.