21 Dec
2004
21 Dec
'04
11:57 a.m.
John Check wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 03:07 am, Russell Hanaghan
wrote:
I have not been doing regular gigs lately because life is what happens
while I plan to do stuff I luv! THink I'm going to do a New Years gig
though...and so long as a musician plays a new years gig he does not
have to relinquish the use of the secret handshake right??? :) Been
down in my base ment howling into a mic and playing my gitar out of tune
(doh) the last few days to shake the cob webs off!
My favorite line to hecklers is not an original but is effective. " I
don't come bug you at your job at Mc Donalds...leave me alone! :) If
that don't fly I simply have them exterminated!
If I am in NY you will be the first one I look up! But if the weather
is so cold I get nipples harder than glass cutters I will have to stay
in the bar. {thats my excuse and I'm STICKING to it. :) }
Cheers
John Anderson wrote:
"Spank the plank". You crack me up Russell. How could you not put on a good
show? If yer ever in NY, the first round is on me. You'll know if I get out
that way, because I heckle ;)
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 07:05, Michal Seta wrote:
I'm still going with the "Shutup and play yer guitar" theory. If I
talk
about my guitars they make nil noise, good, bad or otherwise. If I pick
one up and spank the plank...even if slightly out of tune but liveable
to the average yogi bar, then I'm making noise...
As it's been pointed out, the 12TET tuning
system is incompatible with
overtone series of a vibrating string so even the Feiten tuning must
be out of tune. Probably differently and perhaps the differences are
actually appealing to some players but still out of tune.
I read an article a while back where listening tests showed that most
people prefer a slightly stretched octave. My guess though is that
they'll prefer a stretched octave where the beating will correspond to
their current brainwave frequency. Which when awake is normally 10 - 16
Hz, IIRC. But that's just a theory right now.
I hope that some day the digital technology will
bring us a just
intonation guitar that will retune itself depending on which key
you're playing in :) But by then, I will probably go back to acoustic
instruments (providing I'm still alive). For now, I have modified one
of my instruments to do just intonation and it's alot of fun. And I
don't play tonal music so modulations to different keys are of no
consequence to me :)
Heh. No matter which way one looks at the whole conundrum, there's a
tradeoff to be made. I have an old nylon-string acoustic that I
unfretted. Playing it isn't too hard, except for some chords. The big
problem is sustain, which is well, what sustain? This fixes the sustain
problem, according to the reviews I've read:
http://www.vigierguitars.com/GCatalog/Gve6f.htm
bye
John
as I recall, *that* IS what it's all about.
:)
F*cking-A right.
PS: I regret even commenting in the beginning. For
musicians...we sure
spend LOTS of bloody time hovering around computers eh? :)
Cheers
R~