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Posted Jan 3, 2008
January 3. '08
Today is Tinners Hare's birthday. I won't say how old she is, because I'm a gentleman.
I've got four songs ready for recording, plus three instrumental covers. I may start soon. I'd like to have a CD ready for Easter.
I really need a new amp.
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4 String ELECTRIC
Posted Jun 25, 2007
Not content with building a 4 stringed accoustic guitar, I've now made an electric version... my god, but it sounds awful! A few of the more difficult chords are actually easier to do on this one, like F, Bb and Dm to name but 3! I've got it plugged into an old, battered karaoke machine I found in a second hand shop for a fiver! I've got my eye on a decent amp, but don't tell the missus!
More later, keep an eye out!
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4 stringed guitar
Posted Mar 28, 2007
When I was a lad I wanted to play the guitar. As I grew up, I found my fingers getting too fat to play one properly. Great for keyboards, but not strings. In an effort to overcome this I designed and built a guitar with only four strings. I removed the low E and A strings and spaced out the remaining D, G, B and E strings to give 66% more room between them. This worked fine, a little tinny, maybe, but not bad.
I wrote a dozen or so songs, made an album using my computer, and did a few "open mike" gigs in local pubs. No one had seen a 4 stringed guitar before, and my act was a bit of a novelty.
I've recently found some info on the web about Tenor Guitars... they have 4 strings, and can be tuned like mine, or the same as a ukelele. I had no idea they existed. Apparantly, Jhango Reinhart had one!
If anyone else has one, or has made one, could you let me know?
Thanks!
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I've had the builders in.
Posted Mar 21, 2007
This is my first journal entry, and if anyone ever reads it, i'll be as surprised as we all were when george dubbleyah got in again. I had to think of something to write, so I thought I'd write about the fact that I've just had a new condensing boiler fitted. Quieter, cheaper, greener and bigger than the old one, and I can bath my three nippers without waiting for the hot water tank to fill! If by any chance you should see this posting, please tell me somehow - though I'm not sure how to find out if you have! I'll be counting the replies - a prize for the first!
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