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From: WVE~ol.com
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:53:23 EDT
Subject: Re: .No-hands instruments.

In a message dated 5/14/99 6:18:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
slevi~lark.net writes:

> > >Aside from the voice, name another instrument that can be
> > >played without the use of the hands!
>
> Kazoo, bass drum, fodtella (Jesse Fuler's foot pedal bass) :)

I reject jugs, didgeridoos, bass drums and other instruments incapable of
playing a scale.

Since I excluded the voice in my definition, and the kazoo is merely a device
for distorting the voice, I reject that too.

I accept the pan pipe as a theoretical, but not a practical possibility. The
physical size of the pipes that I have seen would require too much head
movement and the instrument would mechanically interfere with the guitar in
the space in front of the player's belly.

The floor keyboard is a more realistic possibility. I have seen organists sit
on their hands and play very rapid and intricate pieces with their feet
alone. Playing with hands and feet on organ keyboards is an awesome feat of
musical coordination.

I have seen Mike Curtis play a foot-pedal bass keyboard while playing guitar
and harp.

I have a tape of a performer known as Colonel Wingnuts (Walt McKeown) who
played fast, jazzy music on guitar, chromatic harp, and hi-hat cymbal. I have
corresponded with him and he no longer performs. He was studying for his Phd.
in orbital mechanics and wrote a very interesting short story about a harp &
guitar player....a real renaissance man!

Vern