| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L]to magnetize chicks or to not magnetize chicks....that is the question? | | Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2007 15:50:16 (-0400) | | From: | Damon Wack <dwack @....net>
|
I just read that the magnet broke in two, but they hope to fix it. (no
lie!) I guess the banjo player's inherent repulsive properties
overwhelmed Cern's equipment!
unable to resist as well!
;->
On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:00 PM, lh@lennieharvey.com wrote:
> I think they just installed a new 10 mile long particle accelerator at
> the
> CERN laboratory in Switzerland, this apparently uses a magnet so
> powerful
> that once they have finished working out how all the fundamental
> particles
> that make up the universe hang together, they are going to attach a
> banjo
> player to one end and see if they can attract a chick.
>
> I'm going to start a petition against this experiment, figuring that if
> banjo players ever manage to breed it could spell the end of
> civilisation
> as we know it. The planet can cope with a small percentage of genetic
> throwbacks as longer as they are rendered neutered by their noxious
> noises....
>
> :-)
>
> Sorry I couldn't resist
>
>> As a long time banjo player, I also am very familiar with the
>> chick-magnet
>> issue...
>>
>> I have spent a lot of time and effort trying to magnetize my banjo
>> parts
>> for
>> this purpose. However, the metal parts on my old banjo are primarily
>> brass,
>> making magnetizing this instrument very difficult if not impossible.
>> Luckily
>> this banjo does have a fair amount of iron in the springs, washers and
>> ballbearings, and the few nuts and bolts, that hold the thing
>> together.
>>
>> So, as many of you have seen from previous discussions with me here,
>> it
>> was not
>> surprising that when I got my first real Dobro, it would be an old
>> metal
>> body
>> Dobro. Unfortunately, like my banjo, it also has turned out to be
>> magnetically
>> dissapointing, the body aluminum, the coverplate brass, the cone
>> aluminum,
>> the
>> spyder and even the bridge on this old custom Rudy-workshop model,
>> aluminum.
>> As Don Young said when identifying this Dobro, "What was Rudy
>> thinking?"
>> The
>> only iron content of this fretless instrument, perhaps with the
>> exception
>> of
>> the tailpiece and the tuners, is once again in the few nuts, bolts,
>> pins
>> and
>> assorted hardware that hold it together.
>>
>> Both my old banjo and my old Dobro do have one major source of
>> magnetism,
>> that
>> being the steel strings. I do spend a significant amount of time
>> magnetizing
>> them. For my Dobro I've even gone the extra step of magnetizing my
>> steel
>> slide, which in effect replenishes the magnetism on the strings.
>>
>> Alas, I fear my efforts have been futile though... Despite repeatedly
>> magnetically charging the few parts on these instruments that I can,
>> I see
>> no
>> evidence of them enhancing my image as a chick-magnet.
>>
>> So, while mis-guided, I continue to try. Ironically (pun intended),
>> the
>> chick-magnet concept has not been lost on my wife; however, when I've
>> tried to
>> explain my chick-magnet efforts to her, she in the most deeply sincere
>> voice
>> wishes me "Good luck!"
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -- Don
>>
>>
>>
>> reso-man@comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Being a reso-player alone, is chick magnet enough! Add purfling, and
>> things is gonna get outa control for sure. Of course if you already
>> are
>> a chick, then your mileage will certainly var........oh forget it.
>>>
>>> signed,
>>>
>>> "Geeky"
>>>
>>
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