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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
Items of response:
– I happen to know that when you add “little” or “li’l ol'” to “well bless your heart” it becomes derogatory. (don’t ask.)
– Damn the Torpedoes is my favorite Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album. (“don’t ha-ave to live like ref u gee e e e e!)
– with regard to picks/plectra/les mediators, I’m using the Dunlop PrimeTones on single emandos with single string courses (5 stringers) and Wegens on everything else, including guitars.
– And Benedict shoulda done his homework. There is indeed a notable difference in feel and tone between the white and black Wegens. I don’t know if they are different materials, but if they aren’t, then the dye/colorant Wegen uses has an effect. The black ones are softer, click less, and wear faster.
that is all.
😀
Daniel
Daniel
