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Thunderbird Club

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Count Bassie said:
(Lol, edit) Thanks!
I probably should've done clear, but I'm all about the "use what you have" school of late. It's an old chunk of Ebony from a broken upright tailpiece. My last few thumbrests were made from it.
I use my grandfather's old bench disc sander to get round edges and flatten the bottom of it, sharpen up a profile here and there with a razor knife, sand contact edges smooth...
Up close I thought it looked a little like a raptor's talon. Gotta have a little inspiration.
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I’m all for ‘use what you have’. :thumbsup:
 
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I’ve had a good couple of days.
Yesterday, Anzac Day, went to see the Avengers End Game movie. Enjoyable though 3 hours is getting a bit long for ‘comfortable viewing’. Then in the afternoon watched the Anzac Day footy. (My team lost to my son in laws team).

Today my wife and I were off to Wollongong to watch no 1 child accept her second University Graduation. High School Teaching first time, Psychology with Honours this time, started her Masters now so we may be doing this all over again next year.

Tomorrow I need to get into some practice. I’m dragging a bit behind where I wanted to be.

@Chucky Stiletti I downloaded a Trombone sheet of ‘Happy Birthday’ . Seems to work. Thanks for the suggestion. Making some progress with simple reading - trying not to fall into the trap of memorising rather than reading. Not always successfully.
 
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I'll be picking this up this weekend. I'm gonna see if I can save it. If not, I'll reuse the parts and eventually try my hand at a Fenderbird down the road :laugh:
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RedVee said:
@Chucky Stiletti I downloaded a Trombone sheet of ‘Happy Birthday’ . Seems to work. Thanks for the suggestion. Making some progress with simple reading - trying not to fall into the trap of memorising rather than reading. Not always successfully.
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I don't know that you can "sight read" something that you have seen many times unless you have a great faculty for obliviation.

I treat sheet music like cue cards - a reminder of what needs to be played in case you forget. So, for example, the pieces I work on for lessons, I end up internalizing to some extent. I couldn't play any of them off the top of my head, but with sheet music in front of me, the cues remind me of where we are going.
 
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Kriegs said:
I'll be picking this up this weekend. I'm gonna see if I can save it. If not, I'll reuse the parts and eventually try my hand at a Fenderbird down the road :laugh:
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Looking at only he first picture, I was thinking that it was a fine bird and why would you want to 7enderbird it? Then is saw the following pictures...:( It looks great except for the one small flaw.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Lovely T5! The Dingwall is certainly beautiful too, I've played several and think they incredible instrument as well.
Congratulations on your new basses. Let me know on the club number, happy to do something special if you like.
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Thanks so much, add the Roscoe, and I am indeed blessed. The Dingwall is perfect for my Country Band which requires a lot of 1-4 walking lines and heavy B string work. As previously stated the T5 is for my Hard Rock Band. The Roscoe will back either up at gigs, and I have a fantastic Squier P5 for tight stages or shady bar gigs.

I would like number 813 if you would. I was born on Friday 13th, wore #13 all through my 30 year soccer playing years, so it is my lucky number. The refs called me Leo 13, and it stuck for years.
 
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PillO said:
I don't know that you can "sight read" something that you have seen many times unless you have a great faculty for obliviation.

I treat sheet music like cue cards - a reminder of what needs to be played in case you forget. So, for example, the pieces I work on for lessons, I end up internalizing to some extent. I couldn't play any of them off the top of my head, but with sheet music in front of me, the cues remind me of where we are going.
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that's the whole point, you're not supposed to play them "off the top of your head", you're supposed to read them..
 
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RedVee said:
I’ve had a good couple of days.
Yesterday, Anzac Day, went to see the Avengers End Game movie. Enjoyable though 3 hours is getting a bit long for ‘comfortable viewing’. Then in the afternoon watched the Anzac Day footy. (My team lost to my son in laws team).

Today my wife and I were off to Wollongong to watch no 1 child accept her second University Graduation. High School Teaching first time, Psychology with Honours this time, started her Masters now so we may be doing this all over again next year.

Tomorrow I need to get into some practice. I’m dragging a bit behind where I wanted to be.

@Chucky Stiletti I downloaded a Trombone sheet of ‘Happy Birthday’ . Seems to work. Thanks for the suggestion. Making some progress with simple reading - trying not to fall into the trap of memorising rather than reading. Not always successfully.
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thanks Dude..to learn faster, you're better off picking parts you don't already know "by ear"....it's really cool when you pick a piece you don't know by name and start recognizing it when you read it for the first time...
 
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