[Iain Churches[_2_]]

"roughplanet" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message



Ruff wrote:
I used to play trad jazz (4 string banjo), modern jazz (7 string
semi-acoustic) clasical (Concert Classical nylon 6 string) blues (6 & 12
string steel stringed guitars) bluegrass (5-string banjo & lap steel) &
folk (5-string banjo & 6 & 12 string guitars). But not all at the same
time :-)

Pretty versatile. One of my favourite instruments is the flat back
mandoline. One saw them quite often on pop sessions at one time.


I also managed to get a nice Laney tube amp to accompany it, and, would
you believe, it has the same tubes as my TT SET amp, vis 12AX7's for
drivers & EL84's for finals. What a coup!

Brilliant. What make is the guitar:-)

An Electa. They have been around for many years but have really lifted
their game of late.

That seems to be the game plan for many makers of musical
instruments. They get in at entry level, and then start to push
up the quality to provide interemediate and professional grade
instruments. The Devil is in the detail:-)

I used to have both a Martin DB6 & DB12. I was doing a gig in the ACT one
evening when a young guy came up to me and offered them both to me for
£500. It turned out his father was the US Ambassador & the family was
returning to the US the following week.
Did I buy them? Does the Pope **** in the woods?

Sans doubt!

There have been some pretty informative posts about guitars and tuning
on RAO (not everything there is cross posted flame!)

E maj and A maj seem to be the favourite keys for guitarists. I used to
play in a quartet with a guitarist who could play in any key - he used
a capo:-)

So did I for the first few years. It sure beats the hell out of finger
strain.

But then we get back to the basic argument that certain pieces only
work in certain keys.

Cheers
Iain

[TT]

"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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Pretty versatile. One of my favourite instruments is the flat back
mandoline. One saw them quite often on pop sessions at one time.


Do I detect a reference to Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells here? ;-)

Cheers TT