BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics

Subject: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:11 PM

After the lively thread on capoing, there can only be one way to go:

When I play my guitar, should I hold it with the strings toward me or facing outward?

Chicken Charlie
Bold Explorer of all Dimensions of Brain Death

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:12 PM

Are the strings on or off the guitar?

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:15 PM

Listen, CC, I am not f#ckin' around here. Do NOT waste my time with this shit if you have no intention of answering my question with regard to your question. This will lead to no good. So, are the strings on or off the guitar? WELL?

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:15 PM

In your case, Charlie, do us all a favor and hold the strings tight against your belly.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:17 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Janie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:19 PM

Guitars have strings?

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:22 PM

Who knows. Hell, he won't answer the question!

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bert
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:27 PM

Hmmmm. Reminds me of when I was a kid. A friend gave Mum and Dad an old Banjo. It didn't have any strings. I was really keen to learn to play it, but Mum said she would buy some strings when I learned to play it. Catch 22 before the term was invented.

They sold it, I guess to pay for food for the family, but I still haven't forgiven them.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:28 PM

They did you a favour, Bert. It was a BANJO!

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bert
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:32 PM

LOL! Peace mate. Trouble is, it would have got me started. It was thirty years later before I could afford to buy a guitar. Thats a big chunk of music I lost. I would have sooner gone hungry for a few days.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:40 PM

I hear you, buddy. The person who gave me the old Stella (which I painted with a kitchen enamel and it didn't change the sound one iota) for a few bucks has a place in both my heart and memory.

I have been writing lots lately after 25 years of not, and I am very sorry I ever stopped. I DO understand about lost years.

Great to see you posting again, Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:57 PM

Peace, Peace!

I would have answered "Guitars have strings?" but Jamie beat me too it.

I was out on the patio decompressing, or I would have answered you sooner.

Hey, Joe--if you ever come back to this thread, look on the 82nd Airborne Jody one, OK? I asked you a question about German stuff.
Jawohl!

CC now B#B#
B#ib#kfbn B#harliFb
Oh, Gawd He'p Me

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 09:44 PM

Only God can, maggot, 'cause your ass belongs to the Marine Corps now...oh, wait. Never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:00 PM

Sir! Yessir! And one for the Corps! And one for Chesty Puller!

Semper Fi, Mac!

And I wasn't even a Marine.

(I tried to join, but they discovered my parents were married. :) )

B#B#

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:01 PM

Bert, that stringless banjo of yours might have made a halfway-decent bongo drum.
-Joe-

Charlie, see my comment in the "Airborne" thread.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bert
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:10 PM

Yeah! Joe, Don't you wish you'd had parents like that.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bert
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:17 PM

If I had known then what I know now, I'd have scrounged some fishing line from a friend and played the damned thing anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:35 PM

Whether to hold a guitar string side in or string side out depends entirely on how one's fingers are attached to one's body. People whose fingers are attached to their hands generally find it best to use a string-side-out orientation. People whose fingers are attached to some part of their bodies other than their hands may be more comfortable with the string-side-in approach.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:43 PM

My best suggestion is to not buy strings OR a guitar and simply buy the soundhole. These are often available for considerably less than an entire guitar. If you want, spend a few more bucks and get a set of f-holes so you can alternate.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:00 PM

Buy a soundhole? Just take a tour of the Martin factory and they'll give you a soundhole for free!

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bert
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:11 PM

Ah yes Spaw. I hadn't thought of that. I should have asked the expert on holes.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 12:01 AM

Geeziz Beedub.....Anybody can get a new Martin soundhole but who wants it? The really valuable ones are the vintage ones and you pay through the nose for them. Some folks say they can't tell the difference but you can. Take a soundhole that's spent the past 60 or 70 years in front of Brazilian rosewood and surrounded with pre-war Sitka and you can tell the difference right off.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Bert
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 12:02 AM

Like the one on Willy Nelson's guitar.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 01:23 AM

Can someone play air soundhole, like they do air guitar?


Some kind of ....hole, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 04:09 AM

I would be very happy to help any struggling young musician to achieve his/her full potential, to which end I have a number of banjos to give away.

No strings attached.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 10:39 AM

Being extremely versatile, I play the guitar AND the banjo by laying them strings-side-down in my lap. I would prefer not to explain my patented picking technique any further lest it be stolen by one of you unscrupulous pric...gentlemen. There's also the matter of the order from the Health Department, but I'm appealing that.

Subject: RE: BS: As Long as We're Dealing with Basics
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 12:29 PM

"CC now B#B#
B#ib#kfbn B#harliFb
Oh, Gawd He'p Me"

LOL