Sore, yes.
And neither of us could quite wake up this morning.
This is a good clue that allergy plays some part in our laziness. Took Allertec, and hope for a brain later.
Sore, yes.
And neither of us could quite wake up this morning.
This is a good clue that allergy plays some part in our laziness. Took Allertec, and hope for a brain later.
Jane sent me a reply to an email I had sent her in December :D, she wants to haul out her guitar, but it’s got a terrible buzz. I sent her an address for a service center that will work on Martin guitars, it’s in Spokane, so it’s not terribly far away. I don’t know what the guy will charge, though. I had my Sigma D-28 worked on a couple of years ago to have the bridge redone to Martin specifications (Sigma Guitars were imported by Martin for years, and were built to Martin specs.) I don’t recall how much it cost, but it wasn’t very expensive.
My Cordoba C5 has a buzz on its 5th string, and I need to take it to the local Guitar Center for a look. Unfortunately, the days that I go to Dayton are days that the technician isn’t in the store. I have new strings, but until the tech looks at the guitar, I don’t want to put them on. I’ve noticed that the wound strings are looking kind of funny where they contact the frets.
My poor Ibanez 12-string just sits in its stand in the living room and hardly gets touched. They’re so hard to keep in tune, but not impossible. I just don’t have a lot of stuff that I play that calls for a 12-string, except for some Gordon Lightfoot songs, and only a couple of those, at that.
I’m hoping to start playing guitar again this year (your posts inspire me!). Only a 6-string, but I love the sound of a 12-string. Is it like a hammered dulcimer, where you spend as much or more time tuning as you do playing?
a friend of mine teases me that 12-string players will do a song, tune, do another song, tune again, and continue this pattern..
Actually, I don’t find it out of tune quite that quickly. It does go out eventually, more quickly than my 6-string folk guitar. The classical guitar (nylon strings) goes out even more quickly, and I’ve got to change its strings after the technician has had a chance to look at the guitar. I think that’s just the nature of the beast. The 12-string has a greater amount of tension on the tuning machines, due to the higher pitch of the octave strings. I imagine that could be adjusted by the technician, too, but I don’t feel like hauling it down almost 50 miles and leaving it and then going back when it’s ready. I don’t play it that often, the classical guitar gets played almost every evening, the folk guitar, not so often.
The Sigma D-28 is a standard dreadnought steel-string guitar and when I bought it in 1981, it was roughly $275. The Ibanez 12-string was roughly $200 when I bought it in 2010. The Cordoba C5 is the classical guitar, it was about $300.
I use a Snark electronic tuner, which has a protective covering on its clip so you can clip it on the headpiece and see the visual representation on the face of the tuner. It’s not very big, so it doesn’t take up a lot of room in your case. It might be all of 3cm in diameter, maybe a little more, runs on a watch battery, so you don’t have cables all over like I do with my first tuner, a Korg.
Snarks are wonderful. I have the red one that tunes anything, not just guitars and the biggest problem I have is remembering what instrument case it’s in. I should probably get another; the ukulele alone would justify it.
That Snark electronic tuner sounds like a very handy device!
There are several on the market….I’ve got 2 of them….
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dmi&field-keywords=Snark+electronic+tuning+devices&rh=n%3A11091801%2Ck%3ASnark+electronic+tuning+devices
You need a coo stick.
What that? I know what a “coup stick” is.
Does it “coo” when you achieve the right tunefulness?
A coo stick makes certain your guitar will never buzz.
(Say it aloud if you’re not cluing in.)
D’OH!!!!!
Hah! I finally got it, and had to laugh.
Slow as treacle in winter, I am – I thought it was some new esoteric musician’s vocabulary, ’till I tried it aloud. 😉
DH and mom are the musicians (pianists) in the family. The 10+ years of piano lessons mainly left me with an appreciation for people who are actually good at playing.