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    Default What do you plan to be doing when You're 104?

    As a mandolin player, I must say that I hope it's not playing the banjo, but still...
    (This is from somewhere in Manitoba.)

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    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    Default Re: What do you plan to be doing when You're 104?

    It worked for me.

    Interesting...tenor banjo, not 5 string, and i hope I'm still playing at that age.

    Tenor banjo is fine for a mandolin player! It's that 5 string thing that's different.

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    I don't know yet. It will be at least a couple of years.

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    Die?? ;-)
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    I have composed a few tunes and songs - I suppose I might be erasing them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Hicks View Post
    I have composed a few tunes and songs - I suppose I might be erasing them.

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    De-composing? (!!)

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    I plan to die quite unexpectedly while hang gliding in Peru. And no I don't hang glide yet: there'll be plenty of time for that when I'm 103!

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    Is he playing "When I Grow Too Old to Dream"?
    Sounds like it to me.
    Very appropriate, if so.
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    Musically I suspect I will be decomposing. That kind of lifespan doesn't run in my family. That's great for him thoug!

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    Playing old timey music.

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    rumour has it that Bob Mcquillen (RIP) booked a contra dance on the date of his 100th birthday and everybody expects him to show up and play. https://mcquillentunes.com/

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    At 104, I expect to be lying on a beach on Lake Huron! I’ll probably be ashes but, that would be fine with me.
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    The first thing I thought of was the Beatles song, "When I'm Sixty-four." Supposedly written by a teenage Paul McCartney about his father. I guess when you are 14 years old, 64 must have seemed like an impossible to imagine amount of time.

    These days, according to social media, 64 is the new 40 -- or something like that. Unfortunately, my old worn-out body never got the memo! Back in pioneer days, 40 was considered old.

    By coincidence, yesterday, I spent about a half hour talking to a man who was 95 years old while I was waiting for new tires to be installed. He was amazingly fit, not overweight, very happy, and had a very quick mind and wit. Truly an inspiration!

    By contrast I have an aunt in her 90's who has been in a nursing home for at least 15 years. Perfectly healthy, but her mind is completely gone. She doesn't know who her kids are anymore when they visit and it has been that way the whole time. Beyond sad, IMHO.

    Banjo or not, 104 is a great milestone!

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    Still playing my tenor banjo!
    Too many instruments...too little time

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    From "iHeart Radio" (note Carm's list of instruments):

    A Manitoba man is showing age is just a number when it comes to his musical passion.

    Carm Colvin, who is 104 years old, is still bringing his musical talents to a jam session in Carman every Wednesday.

    “Carm's sight isn't the greatest, but his ear for music is spot on,” his friend Bill Bunka wrote to CTV News Winnipeg. “He has impeccable timing and can still pick out numerous tunes on his banjo, leading the jam group.”

    The centenarian has worn many hats over the years, from a farmer to an ice cream truck driver.

    The one constant has been his music.

    He picked up his first instrument as a child, and continued to learn an array of others including the violin, piano, guitar, mandolin, saxophone and ukulele.

    But he prefers the twangy tune of the banjo.

    Colvin was hospitalized with COVID-19 during the pandemic, but didn’t let the experience sideline him for too long.

    He was back at his favourite spot playing tunes just one week after being released from the hospital.
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    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    Completely brilliant. I want to be like that.
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    This isn’t music related but we visited my aunt and uncle several weeks ago. My uncle had a doctors appointment and it was inspiring to see him drive away with the top down on his V12 Jag convertible. He is 88.

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    My dear old mother was playing the piano, as she'd been doing all her life, at her old folks' home at the age of 97, shortly before she died. Her short-term memory was declining, but she was pretty sharp mentally, and knew all her family to the end, though she had trouble keeping track of newer friends. Music brought joy to her and her family throughout out lives. She'd play the piano at night after the four kids were in bed. I often fell asleep to the jigs, reels, and waltzes of Prince Edward Island. Music provides many warm memories.
    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    Passionate interests like music can keep you going and the community and social aspects also help. Many of my fellow old time and Québécois musicians are in their seventies and eighties and despite some lapses for medical treatments are doing fine.
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    I'll still be searching the pawn and junk shops for a Loar

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    I don't like to make plans that far ahead. That's when they start throwing terms like "premeditated" around the courtroom.

    (Can't remember who I stole that from.)
    "The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
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    Good luck on that Jimmy.

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