Termyn8or
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Guitar. Mainly acoustic. I started on electric a long time ago but found some chords just do not sound right. I got one hit called "Dance Of That Spider" in which at least half of the chords are not in the book (unless you get the REALLY big book). In the old days everything was in the key of E of course, but that little ditty is in G, I think. Well it starts in G but ends on an E. Some may say that by strict interpretation it is therefore not music, but the listeners beg to differ.
I've grown away from the electric in favor of the acoustic, I believe there is so much more you can do with it. Cs and Gs sound like shit on an electric. On an acoustic I have about three ways to play chords that all sound good, while on an electric they sound like mud. To me anyway. However I can still grind that axe, and am asked to do so quite a bit, but I am just getting into more complex chords on the acoustic and am not so into it anymore.
I sorta got talked into buying a piano. An electric but it does sound good. Weighted full 88, touch responsive. After a while I was glad I bought it, and have learned a bit on it.
I am not going to go into the violin here, but if you look for an earlier thread called Violin Experience it goes into detail about my foray into the world of violin. A few people got a chuckle out of it as well. Talk about a newb !
Played the tuba for a short time in the highschool band, a short time mind you. It was befitting my portly ass at the time and my football or soccer player sculpted legs. Yup, as a guy, people liked my legs.
Back in those days I also learned how to hold drumsticks the proper way, and now about 100 years later I understand why. It really is better, even though I can't play worth a ,,,,,,, nevermind.
While Dance Of The Spider is completely instrumental, and the structure defies accompaniment, my other work The Answer In The End I am trying to make more friendly. Simply something I thought I had finished about two years ago but realized I hadn't. Go figure.Both tunes I am trying to find accompaniment on the piano for, that is going quite slowly.
One thing that sometimes inhibits my opportunities to play with other people is the fact that I will not play copies or covers. I play my music, not someone else's.
There is one thing I really excel at, and that is tuning a guitar, and I mean the whole thing, adjusting the bridge, tress bar and so forth. Everybody wants me to tune their guitar. Because every guitar is not perfect, I know how to compromise and make it sound the best it can. Now if they want perfect I might have to start fiddling with the bridge and such. And I do not use a tuning machine. The piano comes in very handy though.
One thing I did with an electric in the past was to use two amps, totally different. One was about a hundred watt solid state with a compressor inline, and the other was a tube monoblock MacIntosh Williamson copy with absolutely no negative feedback (I cut a wire). It sounded like I was playing two guitars ! It had to be loud, but when you lay low and play nice it's mostly in the left channel, nice fuzzed out and mellow. When you get down on it that other channel kicks in and you got true tube distortion, not preamp overdrive. It sounded great on my Peavey T1210s.
I gave the Peaveys away (kick me) to a chick I really liked, and she needed them because she played the drums and had to have something loud enough to keep up with that. Plus the cops were at my house just too many times :-).I also gave her a reel to reel tape deck with which you can overdub, so she could play with herself :-).
Now I do play music (recorded) quite well. I like my speakers and have heard many of the nuances in music that I THOUGHT I had heard before when listening on OhifiOs.
For the uninitiated OhifiOs are speakers and equipment that was real cheap, sold at our IX center at an event called OhifiO. Back then seemed like everyone I knew had a new set of speakers, and they were mostly all junk. Looked good, didn't sound bad really, but were not high fidelity in any sense of the term. It's amazing to me how good some of the old music sounds on really good speakers.
So the answer is :
Guitar : Yes
Piano : Maybe, you would have to judge that
Violin : Only for the truly masochistic
Radio : Been replaced by the computer, with great results.
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I was in school choirs but never went further. I can play steel drums and was in a band years back. Very east end.
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