gj Michelob -> RE: Fustero Tuners (Jan. 27 2009 5:15:16)
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LOL... oh gee, I didn't notice. Thanks for pointing out that all my favorite guitarist use tuners! BTW, it was John's statement originally, AND I'm sure he meant it as a joke. Which, imo, was funny. I too use tuners, but the next one is going to have pegs as my builder assures me he can get them right. It is ironic, Francisco, while I was responding to you to second the sentiment that “true flamencos use pegs” I started thinking about my favorite musicians, and it occurred to me that none of them uses pegs [footnote], but tuning machines. I did not mean with my list of flamencos using machine heads to silence your suggestion, but as a sudden epiphany that they do. Anyway I reiterate I really was trying to get into pegs recently and felt so cool, different, special to have a guitar set like that. But cursed….it seems I am too awkward with them, and hurt my fingers like an imbecile. However, using pegs may be a whim of vanity as much as choosing pretty machine heads is. Yet I see nothing wrong with being fastidious about guitar’s details, considering how much we play it and “with” it. [footnote] Grammar: “none of them use or useS pegs” or none of my friends smoke or smokes? I often test on grammar with this example and recurrently, here in the US, most college graduates I interview, will conjugate the verb in the plural, as instinctively feel that “them” pluralizes the sentence. However, none is the subject (think of no one) and of course determines the verb in the third singular “no one, or none, of them uses pegs”. A Columbia university graduate was so ashamed about failing this test that presented me with a convincing well researched argument that this callous error and poor colloquialism is so recurrent that it is considered “American English”. As sad and unjust as it may seem, it is consistent with linguistic transformation and progress, often choosing simplicity and shortcuts, over accuracy. In a relative way this could apply to Pegs v. Machine heads, as progress does inexorably move towards simplifying matters.
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