To the music nuts

On Feb 13, 7:13 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing <em....RemoveThis@swsports.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:59:48 -0500, "Eisboch" <r....RemoveThis@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >Mid winter boredom setting in, so I've been getting back into the guitars..
> >I "self" taught myself and learned a bunch of bad habits, so I got some DVD
> >instructional videos and have been practicing and trying to correct some of
> >my  long established bad techniques.   I've finally mastered "Lying Eyes",
> >doing both the chord progressions and riffs on a Taylor acoustic/electric..
> >Even Mrs. E. is impressed.
>
> >But, yesterday I visited our local "Music Unlimited" store.  They sell both
> >new, used and consignment instruments.
> >One consignment guitar caught my eye.  It was the Eric Clapton model of a
> >Fender Stratocaster.   I resisted at first, went home, then said "screw it"
> >and went back and bought it.  It's in perfect, like-new condition.
>
> >What nice guitar!   I love it.  The pickups are so hot that you have to turn
> >the gain on the amp down to about half that used for the other electrics I
> >have, including the Les Paul Gibson.   And it has that very characteristic
> >Clapton sound.
>
> >Happy picker, here.
>
> >This is the exact model:
>
> >http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Eclapton_cardiff.jpg
>
> The upper end Strats are very nice guitars.
>
> You would love to play my Strat if you like that one.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Or my... shhhhhhhhhhhh.........
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On Feb 13, 4:36�pm, Short Wave Sportfishing <em....DeleteThis@swsports.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:15:29 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
>
> <chuckgould.ch....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun with these out on the boat
> >next summer. I like to do "colors" at sundown, and blow taps on the
> >shuttle pipe. That manages to annoy everybody for 30-40 yards around.
> >With a great highland pipe, I will be heard for about half a mile in
> >all directions.
>
> I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I've always wanted to
> learn how to play the pipes.
>
> If only for the annoyance factor. �:>)

Good news. There are only nine notes on the chanter.
However, between grace notes (sort of like 256th notes, or the
percussive "pop" on a Hammond organ) and a host of tricky little
moves with marvelously strange celtic names- getting around those nine
notes properly and precisely takes about seven years for the average
person to do at a semi-accomplished level.

In the beginning, having prior experience reading music is a
detriment.
In bagpipe notation the long notes are presumed to be longer than
written and the short notes shorter.

It also takes some adjustment to the non-Western scale. Low "A" on the
bagpipe is where most people would listen for B flat, or even B.
Beyond that, the scale is something like a major scale but with an
augmented fourth and a diminished seventh. Its sort of a combination
of an Aabic scale and scales used in Europe druing the Middle Ages.

One of these days I'm going to try the organ solo from "Light My Fire"
on the bagpipe. Will have to work around the range a bit, but
particularly the middle part of the long version (the bit where all
the solos are based on a repetitive A minor and B minor progression)
that uses almost the same Arabic motif that would sound super on the
GHP.
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On Feb 13, 6:36 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing <em... RemoveThis @swsports.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:15:29 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
>
> <chuckgould.ch... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun with these out on the boat
> >next summer. I like to do "colors" at sundown, and blow taps on the
> >shuttle pipe. That manages to annoy everybody for 30-40 yards around.
> >With a great highland pipe, I will be heard for about half a mile in
> >all directions.
>
> I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I've always wanted to
> learn how to play the pipes.
>
> If only for the annoyance factor.  :>)

Put a Oboe reed on a hose , then attach the other end to an upright
vacuum cleaner bag.

That'll tell you if you're good enough for the Pipes!
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On Feb 13, 6:56 pm, "John Q. Public" <g....TakeThisOut@shamgod.com> wrote:
> In messagenews:0v-dnYE-TZzoGS7anZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@giganews.com, Eisboch is
> alleged to have said:
>
> > This is the exact model:
>
> >http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Eclapton_cardiff.jpg
>
> Blackie rules.

But "Brownie" was the money grabber

http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/guitars-amps/brownie-sunburst-stratoca...r-layla
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On Feb 13, 6:58 pm, "Eisboch" <r... DeleteThis @nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Chuck Gould" <chuckgould.ch... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:fe039258-d005-488a-8397-ebb51a7170e9@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> You only live once.
>
> I'm ready to upgrade from my practice chanter and the "shuttle pipe"
> I've been learning to play. Ready to buy my next musical instrument.
> Lusting after #5, but with the GBP at $1.96 I may settle for something
> less elaborate. The maker of these pipes is acknowledged as one of
> the world's foremost masters of the craft.
>
> http://www.hendersonreedmakers.com/pages/bagpipes.htm
>
> I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun with these out on the boat
> next summer. I like to do "colors" at sundown, and blow taps on the
> shuttle pipe. That manages to annoy everybody for 30-40 yards around.
> With a great highland pipe, I will be heard for about half a mile in
> all directions.
>
> For rather obvious reasons, morning colors (0800) are made without
> benefit of music.
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> I give you a lot of credit.  Bags are not something many lust to learn.
> But, they *do* have a certain appeal in certain ceremonial occasions.
>
> Maybe I've been shortsighted.   Mrs.E. puts up with my amateur capabilities
> on keyboards, piano, sax, trumpet, trombone, guitars, banjo and mandolin
> (which she bought me), but I've never tried the bags.    Might produce some
> powerful negotiating power when discussing giving up music versus horse
> hobbies !    
>
> Eisboch

Why dink with a vaccum cleaner bag when you can go with a muffler
pipe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc&feature=related
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On Feb 13, 8:34 pm, "Eisboch" <r....TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:
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>
>
> > You can just buy a replacement tank and it will cost less than the repair
> > bill.
> > Try Ebay. Search for "reverb tank".  I'm pretty sure the ones Mesa uses
> > are made
> > by accutronic. Also used in Fenders. You can probably find one for less
> > than $50
> > including shipping.
>
> I'll check around, thanks!   I am not a big Ebay fan, but I'll check it out.
>
> Eisboch

I was going to say that there's not much to go wrong with a "tank"
itself. about the only thing that can go bad is if coils break which
is highly improbable.

Even so, and if that be the case, Richard. You could probably fix it
yourself.

Sounds more electronic to me...
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On Feb 13, 8:48 pm, "Eisboch" <r....TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Tim" <tschna....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Feb 13, 8:34 pm, "Eisboch" <r....TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > <sa....TakeThisOut@dog.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:bc97r31numan5iicijl3sifknp2h9iolt9@4ax.com...
>
> > > You can just buy a replacement tank and it will cost less than the
> > > repair
> > > bill.
> > > Try Ebay. Search for "reverb tank". I'm pretty sure the ones Mesa uses
> > > are made
> > > by accutronic. Also used in Fenders. You can probably find one for less
> > > than $50
> > > including shipping.
>
> > I'll check around, thanks! I am not a big Ebay fan, but I'll check it out.
>
> > Eisboch
>
> I was going to say that there's not much to go wrong with a "tank"
> itself. about the only thing that can go bad is if coils break which
> is highly improbable.
>
> Even so, and if that be the case, Richard. You could probably fix it
> yourself.
>
> Sounds more electronic to me...
>
> I spent a couple of hours on it.  It's the transformers. (coils).
> Apparently, it's a common failure, but the problem is locating the
> replacements.  I was quoted about 50-70 bucks to fix it at the guitar joint.
> That's not bad.
>
> Eisboch- Hide quoted text -
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do it!
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"Chuck Gould" <chuckgould.chuck DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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You only live once.

I'm ready to upgrade from my practice chanter and the "shuttle pipe"
I've been learning to play. Ready to buy my next musical instrument.
Lusting after #5, but with the GBP at $1.96 I may settle for something
less elaborate. The maker of these pipes is acknowledged as one of
the world's foremost masters of the craft.


http://www.hendersonreedmakers.com/pages/bagpipes.htm


I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun with these out on the boat
next summer. I like to do "colors" at sundown, and blow taps on the
shuttle pipe. That manages to annoy everybody for 30-40 yards around.
With a great highland pipe, I will be heard for about half a mile in
all directions.

For rather obvious reasons, morning colors (0800) are made without
benefit of music.


--------------------------------------

I give you a lot of credit. Bags are not something many lust to learn.
But, they *do* have a certain appeal in certain ceremonial occasions.

Maybe I've been shortsighted. Mrs.E. puts up with my amateur capabilities
on keyboards, piano, sax, trumpet, trombone, guitars, banjo and mandolin
(which she bought me), but I've never tried the bags. Might produce some
powerful negotiating power when discussing giving up music versus horse
hobbies !

Eisboch
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"Chuck Gould" <chuckgould.chuck.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 13, 4:36?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing <em....TakeThisOut@swsports.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:15:29 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
>
> <chuckgould.ch....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun with these out on the boat
> >next summer. I like to do "colors" at sundown, and blow taps on the
> >shuttle pipe. That manages to annoy everybody for 30-40 yards around.
> >With a great highland pipe, I will be heard for about half a mile in
> >all directions.
>
> I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I've always wanted to
> learn how to play the pipes.
>
> If only for the annoyance factor. ?:>)

Good news. There are only nine notes on the chanter.
However, between grace notes (sort of like 256th notes, or the
percussive "pop" on a Hammond organ) and a host of tricky little
moves with marvelously strange celtic names- getting around those nine
notes properly and precisely takes about seven years for the average
person to do at a semi-accomplished level.

In the beginning, having prior experience reading music is a
detriment.
In bagpipe notation the long notes are presumed to be longer than
written and the short notes shorter.

It also takes some adjustment to the non-Western scale. Low "A" on the
bagpipe is where most people would listen for B flat, or even B.
Beyond that, the scale is something like a major scale but with an
augmented fourth and a diminished seventh. Its sort of a combination
of an Aabic scale and scales used in Europe druing the Middle Ages.

One of these days I'm going to try the organ solo from "Light My Fire"
on the bagpipe. Will have to work around the range a bit, but
particularly the middle part of the long version (the bit where all
the solos are based on a repetitive A minor and B minor progression)
that uses almost the same Arabic motif that would sound super on the
GHP.


I want to hear it.

Eisboch
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"Tim" <tschnautz.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 13, 8:34 pm, "Eisboch" <r....RemoveThis@nowhere.com> wrote:
> <sa....RemoveThis@dog.com> wrote in message
>
> news:bc97r31numan5iicijl3sifknp2h9iolt9@4ax.com...
>
>
>
> > You can just buy a replacement tank and it will cost less than the
> > repair
> > bill.
> > Try Ebay. Search for "reverb tank". I'm pretty sure the ones Mesa uses
> > are made
> > by accutronic. Also used in Fenders. You can probably find one for less
> > than $50
> > including shipping.
>
> I'll check around, thanks! I am not a big Ebay fan, but I'll check it out.
>
> Eisboch

I was going to say that there's not much to go wrong with a "tank"
itself. about the only thing that can go bad is if coils break which
is highly improbable.

Even so, and if that be the case, Richard. You could probably fix it
yourself.

Sounds more electronic to me...

I spent a couple of hours on it. It's the transformers. (coils).
Apparently, it's a common failure, but the problem is locating the
replacements. I was quoted about 50-70 bucks to fix it at the guitar joint.
That's not bad.

Eisboch
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"Eisboch" <rce DeleteThis @nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Mid winter boredom setting in, so I've been getting back into the guitars.
> I "self" taught myself and learned a bunch of bad habits, so I got some
> DVD instructional videos and have been practicing and trying to correct
> some of my long established bad techniques. I've finally mastered
> "Lying Eyes", doing both the chord progressions and riffs on a Taylor
> acoustic/electric. Even Mrs. E. is impressed.
>
> But, yesterday I visited our local "Music Unlimited" store. They sell
> both new, used and consignment instruments.
> One consignment guitar caught my eye. It was the Eric Clapton model of a
> Fender Stratocaster. I resisted at first, went home, then said "screw
> it" and went back and bought it. It's in perfect, like-new condition.
>
> What nice guitar! I love it. The pickups are so hot that you have to
> turn the gain on the amp down to about half that used for the other
> electrics I have, including the Les Paul Gibson. And it has that very
> characteristic Clapton sound.
>
> Happy picker, here.
>
> This is the exact model:
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Eclapton_cardiff.jpg
>
> Eisboch
>


http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Lessons/InstrumentLessons/?Index...Where=A**&Style=Blues&search=true
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>


That's awesome. Thanks!
I can dream, can't I?

The guy doing the "Bar Blues" is playing the same Gibson I have (or very
similar), but I can't play quite like that.
The Gibson sounds best on a big old Messa Boogie tube amp that I picked up a
couple of years ago.
The reverb unit is bad, so I don't use it much anymore. I should get it
fixed.

Eisboch
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:59:48 -0500, "Eisboch" <rce DeleteThis @nowhere.com> wrote:

>Mid winter boredom setting in, so I've been getting back into the guitars.
>I "self" taught myself and learned a bunch of bad habits, so I got some DVD
>instructional videos and have been practicing and trying to correct some of
>my long established bad techniques. I've finally mastered "Lying Eyes",
>doing both the chord progressions and riffs on a Taylor acoustic/electric.
>Even Mrs. E. is impressed.
>
>But, yesterday I visited our local "Music Unlimited" store. They sell both
>new, used and consignment instruments.
>One consignment guitar caught my eye. It was the Eric Clapton model of a
>Fender Stratocaster. I resisted at first, went home, then said "screw it"
>and went back and bought it. It's in perfect, like-new condition.
>
>What nice guitar! I love it. The pickups are so hot that you have to turn
>the gain on the amp down to about half that used for the other electrics I
>have, including the Les Paul Gibson. And it has that very characteristic
>Clapton sound.
>
>Happy picker, here.
>
>This is the exact model:
>
>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Eclapton_cardiff.jpg

The upper end Strats are very nice guitars.

You would love to play my Strat if you like that one.
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