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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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I have a pitch pipe buried Deep in the recesses of every case I own.
I haven't depended on one in years.
Get the G from a Snark, and tune using 7th & 5th fret harmonics from there.
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Pain in the rump.....Pretty, Sounds like a Host Of Angels, but high maintenance.....
Too good for a cheapskate to appreciate....
Doing Chuck better than Chuck.
Even when we all used the same reference, tuning was still "relative" in my last cover band.
I remember the first guy I played guitars with back in the '60s had the "great" idea that we each played an E chord. If we weren't 'close enough' (of course we weren't, we were 13, it was the '60s) whichever "sounded better", the other guy tuned to him. Of course my Kawaii never sounded as good as his Fender MusicMaster. After he hooked me up with a Fender Duo-Sonic II we were much more even. However, whichever of us tuned to the other guy could never sound as good without some fine-tuning using harmonics, which often got out of tune again! We never understood why this was. It occurs to me now that one, or both, of us probably weren't very well intonated. We didn't know what that was back then.
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The 2 or 3 lessons I took with my new Kawaii our 3-player class just all tuned (some more, some less) to the teacher. I had already learned relative tuning from the Mel Bay book I learned my first 4-string chords from, which came with my cousin's Silvertone acoustic that he left at our grammaw's house. Now, that was a challenging guitar to tune. No wonder my cousin gave it up.
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Aha! That was our first encounter with an authoritative tuning standard! The Combo Compact organ our first keyboard player had. All the strings had to tune to it! What a racket!! All tuning at the same time, at full volume, and yelling at each other, "You're sharp", "You're flat", "No, you are", etc.
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I've still got a '60s or '70s vintage pitch pipe somewhere. Think I saw it in my gig bag o' cables 'n stuff a coupla decades ago.
Not sure when, or how, I got this Fender Speed-e tuner, but it was the smallest thing I ever saw at the time (before clip-ons). It only tuned Es, but any E on any string so, not bad. All the guys thought it was cool, so I did carry it on my keyring a few years. Dunno why/when I stopped using it. It's around here somewhere. Maybe with the pitch pipe!
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Sam Tellig, here!Too good for a cheapskate to appreciate....
So, you're saying that the two of you need to drink or smoke more of whatever before tuning up?It occurs to me now that one, or both, of us probably weren't very well intonated.
Hi Sam, I always wondered why you left Audiophile magazine.....Do tell....Sam Tellig, here!
So, you're saying that the two of you need to drink or smoke more of whatever before tuning up?
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- Oct 22, 2015
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Hi Sam, I always wondered why you left Audiophile magazine.....Do tell....
I had to look this stuff up
"My" guitar player "in the beginning" played a red ES-335 lookalike of some unknown brand. It was simply impossible to intonate correctly.
And headed to the M.D. shortly to discuss fusion surgery for my right foot yay. A proper Blues Monday with Blind Willy Johnson (a real household name?)
Safety belts were new to my world. Looking back, I can't believe my dad let me, a 16-year-old, install the aftermarket lap-only belts the law required a couple years after getting our brand new '65 Chevy. We weren't required to use them, that came a decade or more later, but just have them for vehicle inspection. But, since I had a vested interest (and wanted to be an astronaut and a Beatle) I started using them every chance I got. They did not prevent the seemingly mandatory couple of fender benders (no, not guitar FX) this young driver was responsible for. Yes, I had to pay for our repairs/repaint, which became the most monumental tribute to my color blindness!
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I had to look this stuff up
"My" guitar player "in the beginning" played a red ES-335 lookalike of some unknown brand. It was simply impossible to intonate correctly.
And headed to the M.D. shortly to discuss fusion surgery for my right foot yay. A proper Blues Monday with Blind Willy Johnson (a real household name?)
Sore Feet Blues. Sufferin succotash!
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I had a cherry red, made in Japan copy of the ES-335. The make was Raven. I gave it away when I bought a Stratocaster. It never occurred to me at the time that you could have more than one guitar and one bass. That's just how it was. Otherwise, I would have kept it.
Blind Blues Monday continues with the great.....
No Particular Place To Go: The song is a comical four verse story. In the first verse the narrator is cruising in his car with his girlfriend, and they kiss. In the second they start to cuddle, and drive slow. In the third they decide to park and take a walk, but are unable to release the seat belt. In the last verse they drive home, defeated by said recalcitrant seat belt.
Ridin' along in my calaboose
Still tryin' to get her belt a-loose
All the way home, I held a grudge
For the safety belt that wouldn't budge
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
The "belt" served to protect the young lady's chasity.
Ridin' along in my calaboose
Still tryin' to get her belt a-loose
All the way home, I held a grudge
For the safety belt that wouldn't budge
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
The "belt" served to protect the young lady's chasity.
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Oh, well...if we're doing blind blues....
To start off with, it was Stereophile magazine, not Audiophile (never heard of that one). And I lost interest in Sam (and, the magazine, in general) when he was no longer the Audio Cheapskate. Loved it in the JGH days, though (something else for you to research, ContessaI had to look this stuff up
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Figuring this out ...
Modern technology preserves a lady's modesty
men give their lives to give seats the the ladies
and down at the juke joints we find meat shakin' wimmen
way down in the hole
Hesitating now
It's Blind Gary Davis who dun figured out chords that didn't even exist
and later Jack and Jorma blow my mind
Jack's bass
::awe::
Modern technology preserves a lady's modesty
men give their lives to give seats the the ladies
and down at the juke joints we find meat shakin' wimmen
way down in the hole
Hesitating now
It's Blind Gary Davis who dun figured out chords that didn't even exist
and later Jack and Jorma blow my mind
Jack's bass
::awe::
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