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BarkellWH
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Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC
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 RE: Why is everyone so fussy???? (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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Miguel,
Marta and I are departing Washington, DC tomorrow (Monday)and flying to Phoenix, where we will rent a car and drive to Tucson to spend a few days. Then we will drive to Flagstaff for a few days of enjoying the Fall leaves turning color (especially the quaking aspen, which look like liquid gold when they turn!). After Flagstaff, we will drive to Tempe where we will stay at the Tempe Mission Palms October 20-24, returning to Washington, DC October 25.
Please PM me a telephone No. where I can reach you, and let's try to get together for lunch or dinner, or at least a drink. I seem to recall you mentioned you had a gig at Lon's at the Hermosa Inn in Paradise Valley. Are you still playing there, or anywhere else where we might catch your show?
Cheers,
Bill
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Date Oct. 6 2013 15:46:22
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Bulerias2005
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From: Minneapolis, MN
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RE: Why is everyone so fussy???? (in reply to Ricardo)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo
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The only thing I am fussy about is changing strings -- since I play so much, and sometimes on the rougher side, I prefer to change strings once every three weeks or so (sometimes more often). Otherwise, the response starts to dull and I just get frustrated with the sound.
I noticed this too when I was in my 20's to early 30's, and the same deal with the guys I play with in that age range. Somewhere around 35 or so this thing slows down (ph in the fingers or whatever) and strings last longer. Trust me, it's weird but true. I recommend, to get more life, take the strings off when they get dull and flip em around or put em back on slightly pulled toward the bridge side so the worn down spots are off center from the frets. Strings sound like new for a couple days. You can keep doing that till they break or you run out of string length and get some more life out of em.
ricardo
Wow, that's so cool! Damn pH levels. :P Thanks for the tips, too, I'll be sure to try that!
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Date Oct. 6 2013 17:16:45
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z6
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Joined: Mar. 1 2011
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RE: Why is everyone so fussy???? (in reply to estebanana)
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I expect he missed the umlaut, and meant flöded, a bastardization of the Swedish 'to flow'. (I don't know the Swedish for 'umlaut' though.)
'Flooded' would have been pajorative. And as we're all pals, but by way of all being compulsives, are endowd with the said sticks up buttcracks, which sometimes become invisible, or even hypercool, thus we take to brandishing our sticks at the forest, he must have meant the place is flowing with yummy stuff.
Files and glue and pussying around is sometimes part of the battle for mere mortals.
Don't discourage all the string (etc,) looniness. One day I might not like mine in-tune, slippery and cheap and have to visit where people give a rat's a r s e.
I even heard of people that stick great gaping (extra) holes in their guitars, and they profess sanity.
Everyone knows that if your guitar can beam traffic-cone orange, all fusiness is dispelled.
This is a cue for Stephen to link to the one extra-holed guitar design, I've seen, that has a future.
(I do not have a puro-orange guitar but expect my ability to increase by magnitues if I ever own one. And if I can find the right string combo.)
Anyway, without compulsion there's no guitar getting learned, much less flamenco. Try playing without being 'fussy' about the beat, or about sounding suitable tones.
Sometimes it spills over and we find out that someone sells arm socks that really do make a difference to someone who is not you and has a different stick than yours ensconsed in 'his' fussy little bunghole.
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Date Oct. 7 2013 15:19:04
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: Why is everyone so fussy???? (in reply to Leñador)
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I've observed that there are guys who are obsessed with the idea of playing and they are the guys who have, or have had, a bunch of guitars, tried all the strings, stools, tuners, polishes, etc, and don't always play all that well.
Then there are guys who also obsess over what seem like trivial details, but THOSE guys are also really particular about their sound, their action, their intonation, the smallest details of their playing, and those characters are often really really good players.
There are guys who can play the crap out of a guitar for years and it's still spotless and cretins like me who have dropped guitars on the street, had them knocked off stands by waitresses, never polish them, let other players use them, and whose guitars look like they have been through WWIII. Some of those guys play well too.
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ORIGINAL: Lenador
I feel like I'm in the minority here so I'm probably going to get an earful for this but I feel like everyone is too fussy about their guitars. Experimenting with a million different strings. Using all kinds of fancy cleaning and polishing products. Playing accessories like sleeves, towels, stands. Exercise equipment?? I don't get it.....I understand rehab for an injury but beyond that I dunno........Granted my guitar is only about 1,000 bucks so how you store yours may differ but my guitar sits on my wall for 21 hours a day or so and the other 2-3 hours I'm just playing it. Once every couple of months I change the strings and give it a quick once over with a cloth, even this I put off till I REALLY have to cus I hate it, it takes away from playing time. Do I really need to do more then that to be a good player??? I kinda feel like all this is the equivalent of dudes in the electric world buying pedals to make themselves better players.......JUST PLAY THE DAMN THING!
Anyways, rant over, do your worst.  lol
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Date Oct. 7 2013 22:01:50
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) so that section of string isn't kinked or damaged. That means I get a whole "new" unplayed section of string under my right hand when I turn 'em round. 
