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02 Jun 10 - 06:05 PM (#2919364) Subject: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: skipy I have fired 3 into mine tonight alone! I think that there are 8 in there at the moment! I keep buying more off Ebay & loosing them down the soundhole. Eventually I will of course shake them out. Skipy |
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02 Jun 10 - 06:12 PM (#2919370) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: s&r Blu Tack on the end of a pencil is a good plectrum retreiving tool Stu |
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02 Jun 10 - 06:44 PM (#2919383) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: gnu Ebay? |
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02 Jun 10 - 06:48 PM (#2919385) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Tangledwood I think that there are 8 in there at the moment! Keep adding them and you will be able to replace the shaky egg player. |
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02 Jun 10 - 07:20 PM (#2919400) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: mousethief I just keep shaking the guitar until it falls out. I love the "plonk" noise it makes when it hits the strings from the wrong side. Usually you can hold the guitar hole-up and shake the plectrum up until it's just under the hole. Then you test your dexterity by turning the guitar over, or turning it 1/4 turn and thrusting it (God, I love thrusting it) so the pick flies out. But why is this in BS? This is a legitimate music question. |
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02 Jun 10 - 08:48 PM (#2919457) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Bobert Just shake 'um out... No big deal here... |
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02 Jun 10 - 08:54 PM (#2919459) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: gnu Bobert... yer missin the whole point skipy is tryin ta make eh? |
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02 Jun 10 - 08:56 PM (#2919461) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Don Firth Nary a one. When I bought my first guitar (1952, Regal, plywood guitar, for $9.95; extra $5.00 for a fiberboard case), the salesman gave me a free copy of Nick Manaloff's "How to Play the Guitar" manual and a patented "chord wheel," a sort of slide rule (made of cardboard) on which you could dial a key and it would show you which chords to play. He also threw in a free pick. Never used it. Everybody I knew who sang folk songs played finger-style. The guitar sounded a bit like an apple crate, but I lucked out because the fingerboard was accurate and the action was fairly decent. Okay to get started on, although most guitars in that price range back then were next to unplayable. As I say, I got lucky. A year later, I got a Martin 00-18 steel-string. A year after that, I traded it in on a Martin 00-28-G classic when I started taking classic guitar lessons. Dunno where the pick got to. . . . Don Firth |
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02 Jun 10 - 09:17 PM (#2919472) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Melissa I usually have a few in my guitar..it's easier to store them there than break a circle to dig around in my case if I need one. Reaching in to grab one is one of my most useful party tricks. |
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02 Jun 10 - 09:25 PM (#2919476) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: olddude Naw I generally finger pick meself, but I did think a finger dropped off and fell inside the other day .. had to shake it out :-) |
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02 Jun 10 - 09:30 PM (#2919482) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Bobert Yeah... Shake the sumabich out... Done it a million times... No big deal... Lot's of stuff get in yer geetar... I once dropped a lit joint in mine... And it was my Martin... Just shook it out and continued, ahhhhhhh.... B~ |
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02 Jun 10 - 10:37 PM (#2919522) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: GUEST,number 6 "I once dropped a lit joint in mine" .....geeezuz .... shakin' my head in disbelief. but, I got to say it made me laff. biLL |
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02 Jun 10 - 11:41 PM (#2919547) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Don Firth A few years back, I had a guitar student named Marguerita. She was a full-growed woman (early twenties), but she was a little bit of a thing (also, cute as a bug's ear!). Her father was Dutch and her mother was Taiwanese. Her parents had met at a cooking school in Boston. Anyway, Marguerita had a fairly nice steel-string guitar (can't remember what kind: Japanese-made, I think). The strings were shot, and one evening I was changing strings for her. One of the bridge pines was stuck and even with a pair of pliers,, I couldn't get the bloody thing out so I could take the old string off. Marguerita stuck her whole arm through the sound hole, elbow and all, reached under the bridge, and manage to shove the pin out with her finger. I was afraid she might get her arm stuck in the guitar, but no problem! I've seen wonders in my life!! Don Firth |
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03 Jun 10 - 12:11 AM (#2919560) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: mousethief Cool story, Don. Pity you don't have pictures! :D |
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03 Jun 10 - 02:12 PM (#2919888) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: PoppaGator I use fingerpicks, not flatpicks, and occasionally catch one on a string only to see it disappear into the soundhole. I always retrieve it, if not immediately then as soon as possible after finishing the song. I have a certain amount of time and effort invested in shaping the (metal) picks to fit my (two) fingers, and try very hard not to lose 'em. For the record, I've kept the same middle-finger pick in service since at least the early 1970s. I kept its index-finger mate for a decade or two, but at some point lost it and had to replace it. Sadly, National changed the shape of their steel picks ~ the part that wraps around the fingertip, not the part that plucks the strings ~ and the new design simply does not work as well for my misshapen arthritic fingertips; I've had trouble finding and shaping a suitable index-finger pick among the various alternatives available today. I've gone through several less-than-satisfactory index-finger picks, and am currently using a Dunlap pick that I got about a year ago, which seems to be just about good enough (as I continue trying to fine-tune the shape with a pair of pliers). Also note: I have never had a thumbpick come off and fall into the guitar... |
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03 Jun 10 - 04:45 PM (#2919997) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Midchuck That would be "plectra." Have we no class? Peter |
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03 Jun 10 - 05:04 PM (#2920004) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: gnu You plectra. >;-) Bobert... "I once dropped a lit joint in mine" Ya got any seeds, man? |
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03 Jun 10 - 05:29 PM (#2920026) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Rog Peek None, I don't use one. Now, if my banjo had a hole in it, I'm sure you'd find dozens. Rog |
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03 Jun 10 - 05:31 PM (#2920027) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: VirginiaTam i say leave em in there. that way you know where one is if you need one in an emergency. now what kind of emergency and what purpose the plectrum serves is entirely up to the fates and......... you. |
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03 Jun 10 - 05:50 PM (#2920045) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Genie Plectrum?? Damn near KILT 'IM!! Genie |
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03 Jun 10 - 06:30 PM (#2920068) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: gnu I told this on another thread.... Waaay back in August 2007, Beer stayed over at my place one night on a trip Down East. I put on the dog and we had a great eve of drink and song. Due to a wrist injury, my five year old Seagull had not been touched in three years. I MEAN not touched... I had to dust it off before I put it in his arms. It was in perfect tune. Some time later, I figured it deserved a better life and I put an advert on the internut. That day, I picked it up to give it one last go and heard a noise. I shook it... the packet of silica gel it was shipped out with after manufacture was still in it! When the young lad that bought it paid me the money, I told him the story and he said he would never take it out... sniff. |
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03 Jun 10 - 11:09 PM (#2920234) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: GUEST,leeneia I never drop a plectrum in my guitar because the only kind of pick I use is a thumbpick. I really like the way the thumbpick brings out a warm, powerful bass. A friend of mine occasionally drops one in my guitar, but she is expert at getting it out again. |
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04 Jun 10 - 02:28 AM (#2920295) Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar? From: Gurney Well, Skipy, if you put a layer of painter's masking tape on the butt of the pick, you will find it helps you to keep hold of it. The adhesive migrates through a little, with use, and they are not so slippery. Of course, if you put a layer of super-glue on, they become very hard to lose..... |