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08 Jan 2016, 6:13 pm

all I know for now is that I am fighting to get into some kind of playing shape.



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08 Jan 2016, 6:27 pm

auntblabby wrote:
all I know for now is that I am fighting to get into some kind of playing shape.

Yeah, I get that. I had to replace my guitar one time. Went into Guitar Center here in the West Village/Chelsea area. Guy asks me if he can help. I told him that I just wanted a good guitar. Said I would never be good, but wanted a good experience while being bad at it. He laughed, said he never heard that before and then took some extra time to explain a few things and pointed out, "Don't matter if it's $80.00 or $8000.00, if it don't feel right, it won't be right." Then he left and let me make horrible chords and picky sounds.

Too bad too...
I had the look when I was younger. Got mistaken for the guy in the band 38 special a few times here in Manhattan when they would play here.


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08 Jan 2016, 6:31 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
all I know for now is that I am fighting to get into some kind of playing shape.

Yeah, I get that. I had to replace my guitar one time. Went into Guitar Center here in the West Village/Chelsea area. Guy asks me if he can help. I told him that I just wanted a good guitar. Said I would never be good, but wanted a good experience while being bad at it. He laughed, said he never heard that before and then took some extra time to explain a few things and pointed out, "Don't matter if it's $80.00 or $8000.00, if it don't feel right, it won't be right." Then he left and let me make horrible chords and picky sounds. Too bad too...I had the look when I was younger. Got mistaken for the guy in the band 38 special a few times here in Manhattan when they would play here.

I did research for a few weeks until I found a model of classical guitar that the bulk of music teachers recommended. my thing is mr. Arthur Itis is making my hands not as flexible or strong as they need to be, so I needed lower string tension/softer strings and a classical guitar fit that bill. needed full-size for the same reason, as I can't scrunch my left hand fingers smaller than that. I tried a uke and it was hopeless. as for "the look" I coulda done grunge a few years back in terms of appearance.



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08 Jan 2016, 6:41 pm

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..... my thing is mr. Arthur Itis is making my hands not as flexible or strong as they need to be, so I needed lower string tension/softer strings and a classical guitar fit that bill. needed full-size for the same reason, as I can't scrunch my left hand fingers smaller than that. I tried a uke and it was hopeless. as for "the look" I coulda done grunge a few years back in terms of appearance.

hahahahaha...I look like Santa now...

Have you tried Nylon strings and just tune an octave lower? And, I don't have arthritis but, even though I have small hands, I can't go smaller than a decent size neck. Not full size as that's too big, but those skinny necks I've seen...wow....


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08 Jan 2016, 6:49 pm

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..... my thing is mr. Arthur Itis is making my hands not as flexible or strong as they need to be, so I needed lower string tension/softer strings and a classical guitar fit that bill. needed full-size for the same reason, as I can't scrunch my left hand fingers smaller than that. I tried a uke and it was hopeless. as for "the look" I coulda done grunge a few years back in terms of appearance.

hahahahaha...I look like Santa now...Have you tried Nylon strings and just tune an octave lower? And, I don't have arthritis but, even though I have small hands, I can't go smaller than a decent size neck. Not full size as that's too big, but those skinny necks I've seen...wow....

long story short, is in the early 80s I started out trying to learn on acoustic guitar [a decent one, an "applause" by ovation, bright ringing sound but my fingers never would develop the proper callouses that everybody said I should have gotten in no more than a week. they just kept cracking and bleeding. I know know the reason why in that I have an obscure genetic skin disease on my fingers but it basically, categorically removed steel-stringed guitars from consideration, so nylon strings are mandatory for me. wish I'd known that 3 decades ago, I'd have started out on the classical guitar [NOT the acoustic guitar] and been proficient by now. but that first experience turned me off on guitars since then until recently when I learned that there was such thing as low-tension nylon-stringed classical-style guitars which is what I have now.



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08 Jan 2016, 7:06 pm

I like classical guitar.



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08 Jan 2016, 7:08 pm

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I like classical guitar.

I would be happy if you took it up along with me so we could compare notes :)



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08 Jan 2016, 7:29 pm

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...develop the proper callouses that everybody said I should have gotten in no more than a week. they just kept cracking and bleeding.

I get that your fingers cracked and bled, but calluses in just a week? Took me months to get them.


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08 Jan 2016, 7:31 pm

zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
...develop the proper callouses that everybody said I should have gotten in no more than a week. they just kept cracking and bleeding.

I get that your fingers cracked and bled, but calluses in just a week? Took me months to get them.

meaning you put up with cracked and bleeding fingertips for MONTHS? :o



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08 Jan 2016, 7:33 pm

auntblabby wrote:
zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
...develop the proper callouses that everybody said I should have gotten in no more than a week. they just kept cracking and bleeding.

I get that your fingers cracked and bled, but calluses in just a week? Took me months to get them.

meaning you put up with cracked and bleeding fingertips for MONTHS? :o

Didn't really crack but did get sliced a couple times sliding along the string. And until I did get calluses it really hurt my fingers like you wouldn't believe. Well...I think you would...figure of speech only....


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08 Jan 2016, 7:37 pm

zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
...develop the proper callouses that everybody said I should have gotten in no more than a week. they just kept cracking and bleeding.

I get that your fingers cracked and bled, but calluses in just a week? Took me months to get them.

meaning you put up with cracked and bleeding fingertips for MONTHS? :o

Didn't really crack but did get sliced a couple times sliding along the string. And until I did get calluses it really hurt my fingers like you wouldn't believe. Well...I think you would...figure of speech only....

OUCH 8O I thought long and hard about whether or not I should bite the bullet and get an Yamaha EZ-AG electronic acoustic guitar, as it has soft membranous buttons in place of sharp biting steel strings, but I took a look at the neck and it was even skinnier than a regular acoustic acoustic, as it were. too skinny for me to get my fingertips in the right places, strings or no strings.



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