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Topic: Imprompto Jam

I have friends from Montana that have been traveling across the country for a few weeks; with their grandson in tow. They stopped in here Monday morning. They are both bluegrass people and Sue can play just about any instrument. After a day of catching up, we spent yesterday afternoon and early evening just playing. She showed me some exercises for improving on the Mandolin, which I just started working on. Rain moved in around 7:00 so we moved indoors and went back to catching up but had a great time playing for 5-6 hours. Fingers were a bit tender after all that steady playing. Haven't done that for many years.

Here we are sitting outside their camper in our front yard. I'm on the right.

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And here is their 3 year old grandson sitting on the fender of our horse trailer "playing" his uke.

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Re: Imprompto Jam

That sounds like fun UJB - love the photo's - the kid playing his uke could be a Norman Rockwell print

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joe looks and sounds like it would be alot of too be there. Great pictures!

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the kid playing his uke could be a Norman Rockwell print

We thought the same thing! Sue is going to enter it in a photo contest when they get home.

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Is that a 000 slot head the gent in the middle is playing?

The pic of the the youngun on the trailer is priceless.

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Sounds like a terrific time. The kiddie pic is a piece of art as well as a valued memento.

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Dirty Ed wrote:

Is that a 000 slot head the gent in the middle is playing?

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No. It's a 3/4 size Yamaha.

They are making a large circle around the country and expect to be back in Montana in late August. They were pressed for space so they only brought that and the Uke. I have enough instruments to go around. The woman is playing my 12 string Alverez and picked up the mandolin for awhile as well. The one thing I don't have is a banjo which Steve is quite good with. I might have to look into one just to have it around for when someone comes by that can play it.

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Hey there Joe,what fun it is to hang out with old friends and do a little pickin. Nice picture of you guys having a great time. And an awesome picture of the little guy. Time spent with old friends is always time well spent. Thanks for sharing!
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Looks like you all had fun. Great pics

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Thanks for sharing this with us!  Good times, good people, and music, that's what it's all about!  Love the photo of the little guy too.  Priceless!!

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Looks like a lot of fun. Nice pics, too!

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+1 on the boys pic its awesome. great times you had. That is something I have always wanted to do,, family , camper and go see all my buddies  with no worry of time constraints or money. LOLOLOL That will be the day!

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