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Hesh, sounds like Ron Wisdom is playing a trick on us!???

Maybe...Ron?

That Ron never ceases to amaze me!

I am also one of those that cannot play. I know about seventeen cords, but that's not music. Almost everyone in my family plays something, I just got no rhythm, no timing. Can't dance either.

Thanks Brad for the tidbit about D'Angelico, I feel better now.

I've been playing guitar since the early 70's and really enjoy it.Basically rhythm acoustic but I still like to break out my old Strat every now and then! Actually I need to build a little more and play a little less

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Wasn't me Serge and Hesh. I'm an old man and not sure I want to be a really old man.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

sounded like Bruce to me....

sk

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

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Ron, I'd like t know more about that guy then! Serge Poirier38935.1074074074

Well, IMVHO, whomever Really Old Man is, they don't know their geography very well or perhaps they scrolled to an incorrect country

Now, I know there have been some pretty powerful hurricanes blow into the southern states, but I don't recall a one that would have moved Antiqua and Barbuda anywhere into the middle of Arkansas!

I agree Serge, I'd like to know more about this new OLFer.... Jeanne38935.5187037037

I've played at guitar(hack) since 1963. Much more acoustic, fingerpickin' but I would go to the crossroads to be Clapton for a week.My 50 year old little brother is a truly gifted guitar player in the Cleveland blues/jazz scene. My nephew studies guitar at Burke-Lee in Boston. On the other hand, neither of them would dream of picking up a chisel,plane,scraper and to them a "gramil" must be a lower echelon record award. So, that's how my dad's musical genes got distributed. When I do play, I keep picking up my 1976 D12-28. I haven't given up yet. MT

I'm an ukulelist . I've dabled in guitar off and on forever and a year but for now the ukulele is what I reach for.

I jam (hack) once a week and practice when I can.

I began playing at 13. Self taught, 6-10 hours of daily practice, Bands in N.Y. and CA until becoming an apprentice to John Carruthers.

Today I play once every week or two as time, and my son Josh, permit!

Paul

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[QUOTE=MichaelP] I play for my own pleasure now days, I use to perform many moons ago. I developed CTS and it severely limits my duration and technique anymore.[/QUOTE]

Me too Michael, CTS, Oh I gues that's CRS that I have. But I still pick it up several times a day, I used to play a lot but not so much now that I live in isolation. I need ta get out more.John How38935.8640625

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I got my first guitar in 1973 when I was 20. I strummed chords and sang mostly, and played for a lot of years at private parties and bars. I took up piano in 1997, and started learning scales. It helped me be a better picker. I took up dobro about a year ago, again scales. I mostly play lap style slide now and I still sing. I built my first dobro after deciding that I could not afford to buy one.
I am nearly finished with number two. Maybe I can get some pics on here soon.

yes Jeff, please do share some progress pics!

I haven't touched a guitar since the fisrt week in July.

I'm concentrating on the Mando lately.

once I get back to work in Sept it'll be building by day (in free classes in school) & playing by night & weekends.

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/\ I hope you get MANY a free class!!!

Don't forget also the ex-Lowden employee/Avalon Founder Sam Irwin's course!!!

Martin, which of the three mandos you have made you play the most and prefer? I am only asking, because you have three very different designs, there...Sam Price38938.3359606481

the solid sided one lives in school.......

the mandonaught WAS favourite, though it's currently out on loan to a possible buyer.......

that leaves #1!!!

which I set down to read this!!!

the neck is really shiny now that the Danish oil is getting worn there, and I've fitted a bug pup for amping it in church.......

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I'm not surprised about the mandonaught creating interest, that's a great mando with SOME volume..

Ahh, do ya mind posting a sound clip of the amped mando #1, when you've got time? I'm thinking of a mando pup too when I get into soundhole pup buying for my avalon and my potential firewood custom git-fiddle...

BTW the mando you made me is STILL sounding splendid.

That neck is built to last for an eternity!!!Sam Price38938.5948263889

Yep, I'm a guitar player also. Have been for about 40 years now. (Man, i'm getting old!).

Decided to take up woodworking a few years back and began to dabble with it. Never really thought about building guitars until a couple years ago. Then I saw the show 'Handmade Music' on TV with luthier Lynn Dudenbostel. He built a D-28 copy and it just smacked me in the face...I love guitars and I love making sawdust, so why not combine the two.

Haven't looked back yet, and don't plan to. But like you say, now instead of picking I find myself more and more out in the shop trying to figure out how to build the darn things.

I play the radio!! Seriously It took my daughter 3 solid days just to teach me how to play a harmonic. The reason I started building is because I'm so Cheap! I had no idea how addictive it would be, or expensive. Now 5 years later and about 20 instruments I still can't get enough.
I honestly beleive that it is a god given gift you either have the ability or you don't, & beleive me I've tried.

I came to guitar building from playing. I've played since my early teens (now 55) and some years ago decided that I couldn't continue taking my vintage guitars around the clubs so decided that building would be cheaper than buying the three custom guitars I needed. How wrong can you be! I've now built 20+ guitars and four lutes as well as repairing a number of original lutes and early guitars. I still only do it as a hobby builder, building only for myself. But I still think of myself mainly as a player, increasingly a consort player of early music.

Colin

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