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Comment by AGP # on June 22, 2017 at 2:32pm

"That's Different Jim", your always thinking outside the box !!!! 

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Comment by Jim Morris on June 22, 2017 at 1:32pm

Thanks Richard. Strange and unique are some wonderful adjectives. By all reports the Dan Bau dates back about 1,000 years, maybe longer, and the sounds it can produce in the hands of masters are truly haunting. Sometimes I make an instrument, play it a bit, and then I'm done with it. But this thing fascinates me and now I want to get some of it's nuances figured out.

Comment by Jim Morris on June 22, 2017 at 1:26pm

Thanks Shane. Us older chaps need to avoid ladders.

Comment by Jim Morris on June 22, 2017 at 1:24pm

Thanks wes. I wanna say one word to you, just one word - Plastics. There's a great future in plastics. OK name that movie!

Comment by Richard Sundberg on June 22, 2017 at 11:56am

I learn something every day. I know what keeps me up at night, not ghosts, my neighbor has one of these! It might have been Yoko! Maybe red spray paint , UJ changes his tune. This is top of the leader board of strange and unique and fascinating instruments Jim! Your mind is a voyager of ideas and we all benefit. Couldn't have imagined the sound it produced! Well done all around. Not to familiar with the song, but I was humming!

Comment by shane wagstaff on June 22, 2017 at 11:05am

Right Jim . Been up the ladders and took all the pipe from the side of the house .

But someone stole my saw . Lol 

Comment by Jim Morris on June 22, 2017 at 10:04am

Thanks Erasmo. Yeah man, I've never met another dan bau player around here. I do know a banjo player named Dan if that counts!

Comment by Jim Morris on June 22, 2017 at 8:19am

Ha, what are you saying Unc? I know it looks like a sewer pipe. (it was) and I know I didn't pretty it up much, so I'm guessing it's the wonderous skill of me playing Dan Bau for exactly one hour that leads to your comment. Oh, snd thanks man!

Comment by Jim Morris on June 22, 2017 at 8:15am

Yup, exactly Andries! I tried four different things trying to find something stiff enough to hold string pressure and flexible enough to control. The one like in your pic looks like it takes very little effort. The masters I've listened to have total control and don't need to force it like I do.

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