Would you like to join my merry band?

25Avalon

I can blow across a blade of grass which makes a screeching sound or I can blow into my hands to make an owl hoot, and I can still whistle with two fingers in my mouth. Not assets required very much these days.

The owl hoot could be at the start of the recording, then a couple of unsung lines as just music, then the singing.

I am also very proud of my chicken impersonation which I can do to music. Maybe softly in the background? I can make it mournful, inquisitive, happy or whatever is required EP

25Avalon

I am also very proud of my chicken impersonation which I can do to music. Maybe softly in the background? I can make it mournful, inquisitive, happy or whatever is required EP

Thank you. Happy would be good.

I noticed in one of the Youtube videos that the singers were wearing some sort of German national dress - I believe it is called a dirndl I think we would all look charming dressed like that. I am going to buy myself one anyway - it will definitely cheer up my Sainsburys shopping trips If you see me in your local Sainsburys in my dirndl please come up and say Hello!

I have seen those costumes on television and then in videos for years, but I did not know of the word dirndl before reading your post.

I have now found, and been reading, the following.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl

A comb with a bit of thin paper over it and you blow on it. Did it as a kid so might still be able to it if I have enough puff.

In the early 1990s we got what was often called "a Sky television system" in shops, though it was actually an Astra system that carried many television channels of which just a few were from Sky television, some subscription, but two, at the time "in the clear".

Yet there were many other channels in the clear, mostly German channels, though Eurosport was in English - I think it had several language sound options. So one evening I was looking through the channels and I saw a programme on the German channel Sat-1 of what I learned is called volksmusik. It was, if I remember correctly, broadcast on Tuesday evenings from 8:15 pm to 9 pm German time, which was usually 7:15 pm to 8 pm English time, except, until Summer Time in England got extended, it was 8:15 pm to 9 pm, for about four weeks in the Autumn.

I later found that volksmusik shows were on various channels and there were also sort of Eurovision Song Contest programmes of volksmusik involving Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Alas, these days, live German television is region-blocked on the internet feeds, but I get to see some videos on YouTube, including some of performances that I remember first seeing on television in the 1990s.

Here are links to some videos where dirndl style, or similar, I am no expert on the topic, is being worn.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sfgqG1I7nM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe_RtoYtJ_A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR9tXqq46ss

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYf0H8jIHk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pALzK-vo-Tg

Barmeyoldbat

A comb with a bit of thin paper over it and you blow on it. Did it as a kid so might still be able to it if I have enough puff.

My Dad taught me that!
You might prefer it to my singing ?

but I did not know of the word dirndl before reading your post.

You are obviously male!!

Some of us had to make ourselves dirndl skirts at junior school, all stitched by hand. Mine had three rows of ric rac round the bottom.
I'll see if I can find it.

The boys could do woodwork, lucky them.

Callistemon

^but I did not know of the word dirndl before reading your post.^

You are obviously male!!

Some of us had to make ourselves dirndl skirts at junior school, all stitched by hand. Mine had three rows of ric rac round the bottom.
I'll see if I can find it.

The boys could do woodwork, lucky them.

Well, there we are, the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

At grammar school the girls got to do domestic science and the boys did woodwork.

I think the first thing the girls did was to make a pinafore. I really wish that I had been taught to sew. But there we go.

Though later when one either continued to do physics and chemistry or started German or Russian there was no gender discrimination. In the event almost all the boys continued with the sciences and almost all the girls did the additional language, but it was a free choice.

As the string section seems to be woefully unrepresented, may I offer my (rather rusty) services on my cello? Never did like playing solo, so would appreciate some company from fellow strings.
I can carry a tune, and still have my tap shoes, if there is a need for half time entertainment?

How about blowing across glass bottles with varying volumes of liquid in them? Or when I was young Elastoplast plasters used to come in a red tin. You take the bottom of the tin and wrap various thickness rubber bands around the tin and then pluck them. Oh happy simple days!

I could play the theme tune to Crown Court on the glockenspiel when I was 12.
I did so in a school assembly.
It was the peak of my musical career

Wow we are doing well aren’t we. My very talkative burmese cat would also like to join in. Thank you all for running with my idea, it’s cheered me up no end.
Love you all . ?

At grammar school the girls got to do domestic science and the boys did woodwork.

I didn't do domestic science but somehow managed to bring up a family (learned on the job).

And learnt how to play the piano but don't ask me to play one in the band ?

FannyCornforth

I could play the theme tune to Crown Court on the glockenspiel when I was 12.
I did so in a school assembly.
It was the peak of my musical career

I can have a bash at recreating it, if needed, wearing a dirndl of course, and accompanied by BBW’s cat.
In fact, that’s exactly the sort of thing that I remember being on New Faces c 1978

Have we agreed that drindls are to be worn? Fair doos, I can easily convert my ball gown to a drindl while Googling the theme tune to Crown Court so that I can accompany FC on my triangle. This is going well, isn’t it.

Oh no ...there was no mention of dirndls when I signed up. A bit drafty at the front methinks.
There doesn't seem to be much room for my vest!!!

Thank goodness for a sensible thread on GN for a change!

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25Avalon

I am also very proud of my chicken impersonation which I can do to music. Maybe softly in the background? I can make it mournful, inquisitive, happy or whatever is required EP

Respect! Can you lay an egg as well?

I’m happy to dance about as a dolly bird to any music at all, and shall wear my lacy stockings and leather mini skirt ( and very little else)?

I can also yodel quite loudly and so so regularly when Lord Lemongrove’s bull mastiff (Caesar) stands on my foot.

seacliff ?lovely! Is that a recent pic of you?

If I had done woodwork at school I should have been able to knock out a recorder to play.

Parsley3

Have we agreed that drindls are to be worn? Fair doos, I can easily convert my ball gown to a drindl while Googling the theme tune to Crown Court so that I can accompany FC on my triangle. This is going well, isn’t it.

It’s not a drindle although I remember from my childhood in Scotland full-skirted cotton summer skirts were generically called drindle skirts.
But the word is dirndl

Lemon....... Sadly not, "things" have gone south a bit since then.

Sometimes Lemongrove when I am stressed out.