Help? Any ideas - ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks Hille

as far as I can remember it had/has something to do with the BBC youth music thing. If you contacted the BBC they may be able to help you.

I found this in a news clipping... hope it helps...

Ella... From Music Aid website... (www.musicaid.org) May/June/July 2000 UK Instrument Amnesty

Instrument Amnesty is a UK-wide campaign led by the National Foundation for Youth Music and BBC Music Live aiming to 'liberate' forgotten musical instruments from cupboards and attics across the land and give them new homes where they will be played and enjoyed by children and young people. The WMF are official recipients of some of these instruments and we will be giving them an excellent 'foster-home' where they will be put to very good use providing music access for young people in the community. Watch this site for further updates and details.

Good luck

Hmmmmm....saw the title of this thread & thought it was something to do with Bodhran players handing in their instruments with no fear of prosecution....

*WG*

(Our Cousins may of course replace 'Bodhrans' with 'Banjos' above..... they seem to be joked about in much the same way....*G*)

Paul (who doesnt have enough musical talent to attempt to play the Bodhran....)

LMHO :) My vote would have been piano accordians - : ) "Welcome to Hell - here is your accordian.."' Well, then I heard the very talented Bing Lyle playing 'Little Red Rooster' (mind-bogglingly well!)

Yeah, banjos though - especially in the wrong hands!

Good to hear from you! :) Hille

Thanks again Hille

'ello 'ille.... Well, I thought you conspicuous by YOUR absence....though I was offline for a little while back in November.

Yeah, computer and myself (it felt like) were shrouded in dust sheets - not showing solidarity with my sisters in Afghanistan, merely (merely, Hah!) knocking down walls and remodelling the house (8 months and a steady procesion of 6 cowboys later - sort of removed the will to live temporarily ) :)

Banjer: looking through the webpages it did look as though the instruments were mainly going out to 'projects' though, little sign of individual needs... I'll try ringing them again today (they were all at lunch yesterday :). It would be good if it were available to individuals - the UK government have taken on some 30 children advisers (to hear the voice of youth or something). Surely, it ain't too difficult to work out that youth cultural icons and thus aspirations are basically sport and music. My two boys have rejected the sport, i.e., football (despite pleas to at least pay lip-service to Arsenal as Great-grandad was the instigator back in 1888: this holds no sway with them as football is for 'Townies' - they are 'Grungies' - which isn't the grunge we knew (just the wearing of carefully selected extreme-sports labels. However, thankfully it does include liking music and being the next Nirvana (trying to wean them off this narrow ambition with a little interjection of Led Zeppelin and Smashing Pumpkins :) With kids so disaffected these days and bored witless because their imaginations are stultified by the plethora of electronic stimulation - I think it's high time that home-grown community Arts/music projects was given some precedence and credence by GOvt. I mean look how 'Stomp' started out (local to us in Brighton) as Pookiesnackenburger - street busking with dustbin lids - now 8 troops world-wide and Luke Cresswell has just bought the Astoria (the name says it all - great in it's hey day but reduced to obsolescence) as an arts centre for a million quid! (Besides the fact that studying music improves performance in other subjects)

Sorry, nothing like a little rant before breakfast! :)

Hille x

Ah! Thank heavens, I've had this WW1 Kazoo of Grandad's in a box under the bed and it's worried me for years - but the bog paper was already removed. Darn! So, it wouldn't work then? (But, then, there is a bloke down the pub who can get any make of bog paper....)