the worst of both extremes


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(evil_mikey is right behind you, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:12, archived)

crikey
www.hamerguitars.com/pics/artists/ricknielsen.jpg
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:14, archived)

I understand that b'aint even shopped.
Lennon used to play a genuinely short-scale guitar didn't he?
What was the point?
( PastorSauce : easy on the anchovies..., Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:18, archived)

well the frets are closer together which makes it easier to play.
the 5-neck one is just showing off
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:19, archived)

 
That seems rather backwards to me. Being a guitarist myself (and not some bedroom warrior, i am quite qualified in it already). Smaller frets make guitars harder to play. Having said that everyone's hands are different so to each their own i guess. I like my Les Pauls necks, nice big frets :).
(EvilDeathSandwich Woof, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:22, archived)

well i play guitar, banjo, bass and mandolin.
the mandolin has very small frets, and is, i would say, probably a bit harder to play. the banjo has nice wide ones, and is, i think, easier. this could also be a result of the tuning and the amount of tension in the strings, as the mandolin is tuned less intuitively (from a guitar player's point of view) than the banjo, and has very tight strings. also, it has double strings, which adds a little more difficulty, but not much.
(schnurricane, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:25, archived)

I play the spoons.

( DogHorse wants to do a poo in Paul's bathroom, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:31, archived)

not anymore you don't.
i hid them.
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:34, archived)

In the cutlery drawer?
You fiend!

I don't care anyway. I got a recorder AND a glockenspiel yesterday, so I am contented.
( DogHorse wants to do a poo in Paul's bathroom, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:35, archived)

that's what you'd like me to like you to think,
isn't it? isn't it?!
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:37, archived)

Do ANYTHING,
Bre'r Dan, but DOAN' HIDE ME SPOON IN DE CUPLARRY DRAW!
( DogHorse wants to do a poo in Paul's bathroom, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:39, archived)

just play the forks
instead
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:40, archived)

Fog on the tine?

( DogHorse wants to do a poo in Paul's bathroom, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:41, archived)

hahaha!
i won't even try to top that
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:43, archived)

tsk

(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:54, archived)

I wonder
if anyone has ever tried playing the sporks...
( nick the greek You're the one for me, fatty, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:56, archived)

now you can play stairway
with glock accompaniment
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:38, archived)

 
I can play my nose too. I do a mean Star Wars theme tune on it :P
(EvilDeathSandwich Woof, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:36, archived)

 
Yes my friend has a mandolin, it is rather cumbersome at first but after about an hour so you get used to it and are able improvise once you get used to how the mandolin is tuned. Guitars are tuned in 4ths. Not sure what mandolin is tuned in but it doesn't take long to figure it out.
(EvilDeathSandwich Woof, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:33, archived)

it's hardly worth it just to play
maggie may
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:47, archived)

maybe he just had very short arms?
i mean, he wasn't really a lead player anyway. i've got a short-scale rickenbacker bass and it's a lot easier to play than my jazz
( Reverend Dan Thank you, please > fbanimations.tumblr.com, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:30, archived)

Y'know what's weird...
That guitar isn't shopped; it's something he actually plays.

I think I'll stick to my ES-295
(evil_mikey is right behind you, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:20, archived)

Rockbibibibibibi-
billy or what? You flash sod.
I used to have a tobacco-sunburst bound-edge tele that was rather yummy...
( PastorSauce : easy on the anchovies..., Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:21, archived)

 
ohh snazzy jazz box ;).
I'd take a pic of my Les Paul (with new EMG pickups i might add ;)) but you would get jealous.

Fact.
(EvilDeathSandwich Woof, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:24, archived)

Ive seen this guy
He had his guitar serviced where I work. Michael Angelo right?
(Ivan The Mad, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:44, archived)

Yep.
I've never heard him, but I imagine he does a lot of flash noodling.
(evil_mikey is right behind you, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 21:52, archived)