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Matt, Just come. The border here is open and I haves extra mandos. 🙂
Mr. Jelly, Yep. I can take up a lot of space when I play my own rhythm arts too. I try to back off a lot when I play with others.
Hank, When I come to Florida I’ll bring a mando. I’m not giving up mandolin by a long shot. Just realising I am my own best rhythm guitar player.
There are lots of things I do when I play rhythm that I find it difficult to communicate verbally. And often trying to show someone who already plays as well or better than I do can seem condescending. So I usually just get on with whatever the guitarist is doing as long as it’s in time and in tune.🙂
Fair winds all!
Daniel
Cool!
Would you try the DADGAD repertoire in B or drop it to C?
I bought my Paul Lestock Arrow G5 from those guys. They were excellent to deal with.
Daniel
Aww hell. Sorry Richard.
At least you’ve changed your strings properly.
FWIW, very quiet on the private client (English lessons) front here too. It’s summer, and French people prefer not to work in July and August. I expect things will pick up in September, “God-willin’ and the crick don’t rise.”
Daniel
Thanks Richard!
Hey did you lose any blood changing strings? If not, you didn’t do it right! 😉
Good to know about Peghead Nation. I have been thinking about guitar lessons…
Sorry to hear about the work. That must be a bummer. All we can do is keep moving forward.
Daniel
Update:
The NY Times and The Guardian are reporting heavy flooding in Liege area of Belgium and also in western Germany. That’s about 4 hours west of here by car.
We are getting so much rain that my basement is begining to get wet. Local lakes and streams are overflowing their banks, but we’re not in as bad shape as Belgium and Germany.
So there you go. It has come to the point where we need to send the rain to the wetern US.
We are meant to get some sun in the next few days. I’m hoping the forecasts are right.
Daniel
Matt, my step-father brought that album with him when he moved in. I played it a lot even though there were things, little dissonances or clunky passages, that kept it from being a favourite.
🙂
Daniel
ouch. My brain hurts just trying to remember 105 in Modesto.
What do you do to stay cool/minimize the effects of the heat?
68 and raining cats and dogs here in Laon. It has been a rather wet late spring/summer so far.
I bet when your heatwave finally breaks our weather will change too.
Daniel
It has been a wet summer here in northern France so far. I expect we will have hot dry weather later, perhaps by the end of the month and then running into November.
I am grateful we don’t have the heat that Canada and the Pacific Northwest are suffering, and like Hank, I wish we could send some rain your way to balance things out.
My nagging fear is that as things contnue to warm, weather will grow ever more extreme and winter will simply disappear. And at some point things will start to fall apart because governments will be unable to manage the sheer number of disasters and the imensity of their collective impact.
The best we can do is stay as cool as possible and take care of each other.
Daniel
Lovely wood.
I like the yellow bits in the back too. Are they being excluded because of stability issues?
Daniel
Thanks for sharing the video, bert.
Not news: The SCGC every time.
Collings guitars just sound tight to me. The SCGC has a deeper ‘smile’ curve in the EQ (more bass and brighter treble).🙂
Daniel
No real clue.
The top one is labelled LENO on the face. It’s brass and well-made.
The bottom one was made in Japan and looks indeed like the same type of mechanism as a Shubb, but less sophisticated.
I’ve been playing the Leno on my Arrow G5 for a couple of nights. It’s pretty cool. Playing G scales 2 frets up imparts a lovely bell-like tone. My mando likes it!
Daniel
Got Vaxxed last weekend y’all! Second dose is in June.
We bought tickets for a family trip to upstate New York (way up, west of Plattsburg), and now we’re crossing our fingers that we can go this summer.
My SCGC has joined my Telecaster in open G tuning, and Claudine’s Martin remains in standard.
Way too much work to do. Shouldn’t be thinking about music. But I got an offer to play l’Escal (our local arts centre stage) as part of an online concert series.
Thanks for all the well-wishes. I do hope your days are as wonderful as possible too.
Daniel
