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@liz - Thanks.... I should have said what they were... doh!
First is famous Bach piece originally written for the organ and this is my interpretation of a version for the guitar published in a magazine some years back.
Second is a Spanish guitar classic written by a man who I will argue is as important to the history of the guitar as Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Christian etc. Tarrega also wrote one of the most heard tunes ever - the Nokia ring tone, but when he wrote it it was just a bar in the middle of a guitar piece.
Packington's Pound is an old English tune which as far as I know is not attributed to a particular composer but from around Downlands time so it must I presume have been a lute piece at some point.
very entertaing evening you had,well layed mr. F! yeah i found mr p and friends so far i have had only 2 problems with the gps, 1. it couldn't find our st, but now it can, just not our end of it, and when i asked it for the nearest certain type store , it sent me to a disribution center instead!
I'm building a new guitar. So three things influenced this one. A hybrid tele / Strat body I saw, an interesting neck and particularly an interesting electronics option. Here are the bits as arrived. The body is a telecaster shape, telecaster neck pocket, telecaster control cavity but routed for 3 Strat pickups and a Strat style vibrato bridge. The control cavity makes it different to many hybrid Telecasters a la the John Mayer model which have a more Strat like control cavity. The body was advertised as "mahogany" it's quite red in nature but nice looks to be two piece centre jointed. The neck is mahogany with a maple fingerboard and a maple skunk strip. So a bit reverse look from normal. Electronically I'm going with three Strat pickups from Tonerider, having used there nashville set in the nashville tele conversion I did I was impressed. Five way switch master volume and tone. But I'm putting in a shape shifter switch ...
Folks will remember my purchase a few weeks back of the Vintage Gordon Giltrap VE2000GG 12 string to replace my old Yamaha which sadly has seen better days... My requirement was for a nice playable 12 string electro-acoustic. Most of my stuff is as you know acoustic rock orientated in the David Gray, John Mayer genre. I'd had my eye on a Gordon Giltrap for a couple of years now anyway since a) I'm a big Giltrap fan b) I'd heard said Mr Giltrap use the 6 string version live a couple of times and was impressed c) it seems incredible value for money. Now then my life was made a touch my complicated by the appearance of the Paul Brett signature 12string. This is a slight oddity in that this is a parlour sized guitar which to be honest wasn't my initial desire but has received rave reviews and also has been designed as a 12string from the ground up - unlike the Gordon Giltrap which is an adaptation of a 6 string design. Not unusual to be fair most 12 strings ar...
I was only thinking last night it was time you played us some more music.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the second two. The middle one was very Third Man-ish and the third had an old English sound to it.
I liked them all!
@liz - Thanks.... I should have said what they were... doh!
ReplyDeleteFirst is famous Bach piece originally written for the organ and this is my interpretation of a version for the guitar published in a magazine some years back.
Second is a Spanish guitar classic written by a man who I will argue is as important to the history of the guitar as Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Christian etc. Tarrega also wrote one of the most heard tunes ever - the Nokia ring tone, but when he wrote it it was just a bar in the middle of a guitar piece.
Packington's Pound is an old English tune which as far as I know is not attributed to a particular composer but from around Downlands time so it must I presume have been a lute piece at some point.
very entertaing evening you had,well layed mr. F! yeah i found mr p and friends so far i have had only 2 problems with the gps, 1. it couldn't find our st, but now it can, just not our end of it, and when i asked it for the nearest certain type store , it sent me to a disribution center instead!
ReplyDeleteMmm very nice! I wish I could play an instrument and I keep meaning to play piano - learn it you know? and one day I will..kepp it up!
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