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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 23, 2013 10:08:13 GMT
; Plus two guitars of the same model ain't gonna sound exactly the same. Ah! How true! This is precisely the reason not to buy low priced guitars from the internet. I try always to play the guitar I buy. I have had some lucky buys from the internet, but I know some people who've bought absolute dogs, and in the days of Exchange and Mart, I bought a guitar that I hated because I wanted a particular model without playing it first. I guess it's to do with batch manufacture. That works wonderfully for keeping costs down, but when working with a natural raw material like wood, there are bound to be variations that not even the best quality control process can deal with. And the scrappage rate must be material to the price, so some bad examples of all industrially produced low price guitars must get through to the market (the Martins, Taylors and Gibsons of this world scrap or remake the dogs because they can afford to do so). But whichever model maninashed chooses, he really ought to play the actual guitar he buys before he buys it.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 22, 2013 14:07:24 GMT
Aha! Thanks to Youtube, here's the whizzy way:
The relelvant bit starts at 3:47.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 22, 2013 13:40:48 GMT
Do you lock the strings onto the post, Paul? That might help. How would I lock them There a whizzy way of doing it that I have had described to me 2 or 3 times. I know IanLP59 can do it and so, I'm sure can many others on the forum, but I forget. My way (the easy non technical way), is to wind your new string once over the tail end of the string (so it goes up the capstan) and then cross it over so that the winds go down the capstan not up (ie the tail end goes over the string). That locks the string end onto the post by pressure from the string winds. It sounds more complicated than it is.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 22, 2013 11:42:43 GMT
Do you lock the strings onto the post, Paul? That might help.
12 strings have always been a bugger to tune. Usually it's because tuning up the treble strings puts the bass strings out (or vice versa). Not so much a problem since the electronic tuner which makes it much quicker to adjust when it goes out.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 21, 2013 16:23:45 GMT
Ah! I really should learn to read things more thoroughly. They both seem like pretty tasty little guitars. It's amazing what you can get for your money these days.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 21, 2013 15:11:42 GMT
I haven't, but I'm surprised you're testing them against each other. One's a dreadnought and one's a 000. You can do everything on everything, but I'd say the Sigma would be likely more suitable for fingerstyle and the Norman for flatpicking. So bear in mind what you play before deciding. I wonder whether this helps: Sadly, they're not playing the same stuff on both, but I'd expect them to be better at different things anyway. I have a Sigma 000M1ST that I like and think is a fantastically good value guitar. but that's not really comparable with the Sigma you're contemplating (it's a good bit cheaper!). I'm really sorry, but I think you should try them both.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 16, 2013 10:49:56 GMT
Great tunes well played on a lovely instrument, Martin. I just hope CBT doesn't mind being in the hands of a true ham fisted incompetent next. I am looking forward to spending some time with it, but I don't expect I'll be able to post anything worth listening to.
I'm in no desperate rush, Martin, and I'd quite like to hear a little more of your great playing.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 16, 2013 10:26:43 GMT
Good job done there, Glyn. Isn't James incredibly good? What a fun evening it was!
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 14, 2013 11:41:39 GMT
Can Nuffsed please explain why he felt the urge to snog the microphone at the beginning of the second half, though? That's how he rolls!
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 14, 2013 11:37:37 GMT
It was a great night. James' guitar playing was sublime, made even more so by the excellence of his guitar (built by our own Dave White, of course).
The local duo (Gayanstraight I think they were called) were fantastic with great harmonies and excellent musicianship.
Then there was the support act, who turned up late so got to play last. The less said about them the better!
First time in front of an audience for Leo's "Tribute" song. It went down pretty well, I must say.
Huge thanks to Keith and Glyn and Viv and Pat for making us so welcome.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 10, 2013 16:33:34 GMT
What's interesting - and a little terrifying - is that in this connected post modern world it's becoming ever more difficult for art to gestate in the relative isolation I spoke of, and hybridisation is becoming increasingly common. Maybe that's why it's difficult to find anything that we recognise as new and exciting. And why living in the past seems to me to be a good idea. That's profound, WD and a fascinating thought. But if human creativity works on the same principles as evolution (sorry to all you creationist out there - Ah no. This isn't AGF) then hybridisation can produce an Akita or a Chihuahua from wolf stock in a relatively short time, or a seal and a bear from common stock in a slightly longer timescale. And that without the creative instinct of humans (possibly parallelled by mutation - what do I know?). So I'm quite optimistic that we haven't exhausted all artistic and musical possibilities and that the future may well hold artistic leaps and bounds. But I do live in the past. It is more my home than the present. And much more than the future. Good thread, this.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 10, 2013 16:03:25 GMT
I have found a variety of non-committal grunts useful in these situations. there was much more than this that I agree with in your post (and in most of the other posts in this thread), Kym, but this is my favourite, so far. As regards the topic, I have only recently discovered jazz. By that I mean I have only recently discovered some jazz guitar that I like (paradoxically as a result I have discovered that some things I have liked for years, others describe as jazz). I discovered it by asking friends who like jazz to educate me (I had heard a Martin Taylor song and loved it) and as a result have discovered Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass - both very accessible jazz players IMHO - I can't say I enjoy what I've heard of Al Di Meola, nor Larry Coryell, but I'm just discovering Pat Metheny, and I'm not sure yet. I've only mentioned jazz guitar here, because that's the nature of the forum, but jazz is such a wide genre and there is so much good, melodic music out there that is called jazz, I'm sure if you explore any jazz fusion recordings with the type of music you prefer, you will enjoy them. This may be your way in.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 7, 2013 9:34:11 GMT
Deffo a "Yay!!!", Leo. Great stuff. You write cracking songs.
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Post by scorpiodog on Oct 2, 2013 10:01:16 GMT
I've got 13 - 56's (Elixirs) on mine, and have it tuned B to B standard tuning intervals. certainly sounds different! But if you want it tuned concert you can go ultra light. That makes the octave G a 9! Electric guitar string, that.
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Post by scorpiodog on Sept 26, 2013 16:42:50 GMT
Did anyone sign up to the petition against it ? There was a similar attempt to do the same in Liverpool a while ago. John I signed the petition. I also signed the Liverpool one if I remember rightly.
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