garry
212 posts
May 12, 2012
5:09 PM
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on another thread someone mentioned leaving harps laying around as a means of promoting impromptu practice. this is a good idea, but not without its risks.
i always have harps laying around, and pick them up when i'm bored to mess around with. but i also work at home a fair amount, and attend a lot of meetings via conference calls. a few months ago, i was on such a call where someone was giving a long detailed technical presentation to a large audience. at some point, without thinking, i picked up a harp and started playing some riff that had popped into my head. i could have sworn i was on mute...wrong.
silence on the call. then my boss (bless his heart), said, "will whoever's phone is ringing please mute themselves?". now he knew damned well that wasn't a phone ringing, and that it was me, but he covered for me nicely. the call continued, with me feeling very sheepish. it wasn't even the first time this had happened.
now, before i call in, i make sure the stereo is turned off, shut off the audio on all the computers, and make sure there are no harps even visible, let alone reachable.
anyone else had this happen?
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Aussiesucker
1121 posts
May 12, 2012
5:38 PM
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Ha Hah, it could easily be a phone. My mobile phone has a number of my harp tracks that are used as ring tones for general as well as to ID certain callers. I always know it's my phone as it is me playing. And in such circumstances you were in it would be a good excuse. So, go & record 'that riff' on your phone & play it to your boss.
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nacoran
5656 posts
May 12, 2012
5:42 PM
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RFLMAO!!!
I haven't quite had that happen. I've accidentally picked a harp up out of instinct a couple times when my brother is over. Live harp playing, any over the middle register on my LLF, bothers his tinnitus. He just gives me a dirty look.
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Chinn
63 posts
May 12, 2012
6:59 PM
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In addition to harp, I also play guitar and blues mandolin..... I often sit and noodle around on my electric blues mando during conference calls taken from the house, with the phone on mute of course.
Recently, I was doing just that, and all of a sudden, I hear one of my co-workers on the call say with a very questioning tone "I hear music?". Of course, I instantly knew what they were talking about and put the phone back on mute.......
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BronzeWailer
546 posts
May 13, 2012
12:46 AM
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I recorded a short riff on my phone as part of my "please leave a message" message. I got a message from my harp teacher with the same riff. I was a bit puzzled until I realised he'd just copied it on the spot...
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garry
213 posts
May 13, 2012
5:28 PM
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i actually do use a harp riff as my ringtone. but in this case, it was clearly more than that.
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FatJesus
9 posts
May 14, 2012
11:17 AM
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yup. i'm a WFH feller, and i'm always playing along on the boring calls; i'm hoping to combine a regular fixed everyday call with Iceman's "5 minutes of practice" routine, but i'm not there yet.
the worse non-mute thing that ever happened on one of these, though, was not with my harps--but with the 30 empty bottles leftover from the prior night's jam; they were stacked on a side table next to my desk, which i happened to trip into mid-call. they went down domino-style into each other... plink plink plink... SMASH!
dead silence on my call at this point.
so i blamed the cat. this seemed to go over well enough.
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toddlgreene
3654 posts
May 14, 2012
11:33 AM
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Freaking hilarious! The worse thing I've done on a conference call(not my own, but a co-workers', in which I knew both parties)was to sneak in behind him and make fart noises.
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Todd L. Greene
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