Re: New Bass
  By: slew to Daemon on Thu Mar 31 2005 01:10 am

 > > labeled their full-size "student" or "beginner" line, but theres no differ
 > > in the quality of material or worksmanship between these and their
 > > higher-priced ones - the difference is in complexity.
 > 
 > cool. there's nothing like a new, full-size acustic at springtime. for me,
 > the selling point is the action, and of course, the tone.

  *grin*  Sorry, but I'm in a babbling mood and this might run long.

  *mods*  I usually have to play a series of guitars in a row if I'm in a shop,
kind of letting them choose me, rather than the reverse, by how the action,
bracing, etc. facilitates or disturbs my style.  I've been wringing my hands
for weeks now, waiting for an acoustic/electric to arrive that I bought off
eBay because I DIDN'T get the chance to play it first.  

  *sob*  It arrived today.  I guess because this is International Guitar Month,
UPS figured they'd sacrifice one to the gods.  Something hit it - HARD - on the
top of the headstock, gouging it, and cracking the neck clean through under the
1st to 4th fret.  It plays beautifully because no moisture has gotten into the
crack (or the reverse) yet and the truss rod kept the neck fairly straight, but
that's a mortal wound.  It has to go back.  

  So I worried for nothing, in a way.  It's perfect.  I should have been
worrying that it would be damaged during delivery instead, I guess.  Then, at
least I could say, "Ah HA!  I THOUGHT so" instead of the 5-full-minute stream
of profanity I muttered as I paced the length of the house when I saw the
damage.  lol

 > > coordination, fingering, etc. with a simple tune I put together a few year
 > > that she's always liked, and she's just about got the entire theme down pa
 > > after 2 nights of sitting there mirroring her (not the turn-around or litt
 > > variations here and there that are the style, but I'm curious what her sty
 > > whatever it'll be - will make of the theme, so I'm sticking with the basic
 > > structure for a while).
 > 
 > right on! my ex girl wasnt able to make a 'C' chord because her nails were
 > too long. i guess having long nails is more important that creativity for
 > some people. any chance of you tabbing out that lil ditty?

  I was AMAZED when TheWoman(tm) realized within her first 5 minutes of playing
that she'd have to cut her nails that she was so recently proud of in order to
gain any kind of proficiency...  and promptly went and cut them just about as
short as MINE are.  I was waiting for that monent, and would have laid a small
bet that she'd have gone the other way.

  *grimace*  I hate tabbing.  lol  Oddly enough, you're the third person to ask
for that tab in... eh ... maybe a month.  And you've never heard it before.

  It's really simple...  The challenge is in the style and nuance rather than
the compexity.  My problem with tabbing it is I can never decide which time
signature to "officially" use.  Depending on the meter, it can look like two
different pieces almost entirely, side by side.

  My brother's got a list of my stuff that he constantly nags me for, and
that's one of them, so yeah, I'll sit down tomorrow or the next day and get it
over with.  

 > > idiot set it against the wall at a party, it slid down, and the neck 
 > broke. >   I think the idea of such a catastrophic wound being inflicted on
 > it soured > him completely, because he never picked it up after it was
 > repaired.  He just > abandoned it there, to my complete amazement.
 > 
 > oh my god. i would have had to get a check from someone at the party. thats 
 > terrible thing to have happen. after the repairs, did it sound the same?

  Noone would own up to doing it.  He might just have pulled their larynx out
and handed it to them and everyone knew it, so they all played completely dumb.
(Personally, I'd have been pretty tempted to start breaking people one after
another, nice and slowly, until someone got fingered.)

  The repairs were excellent.  If you knew to look, you could see where the
break had been, but you couldn't feel it and it was in the shop quickly enough
that no noticable warping bled into the sound.  In my own pretty finicky
opinion, it still sounded like new.

 > i'm not quite sure if the .12's were mediums, it seems a medium for company 
 > is sometimes a light for company y. but those are what i use, martins 6's.
 > great tone.

  I was just told something generally about strings that I've been wondering
about...  The owner of one of the local guitar shops was telling me, generally,
that for some reason a few decades back, string companies started calling their
"heavy" strings "mediums", ditto "mediums" to "lights", etc.  Ever hear that
before?

  I'd usually take anything the guy said at face value, but that sounds a
little odd to me, and I keep wondering about it for some reason.  Anyway...  He
hooked me up with some light D'Addarios for the Samick, and I just MAY be
switching away from Martins if their quality holds as long or longer than what
I'm used to.  I don't know what it is yet exactly, but I'm liking the tone they
give so far.


       [daemon]                 
       In the shuffling madness...      



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