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    Why down tune your guitar?

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    I’ve never done it and wonder what some of your opinions and experiences are.  Not worried about tough chords or finger pain.  Like many others, I’ve got decades of callouses. I’m just wondering if you think the change is worth it.   I’ve got numerous guitars too experiment with and am thinking that an ol’ dog can still learn a few tricks.  I play Drop D on my squareneck, but using a slide is easy and I just play old blues stuff on it…...  Any big adjustments that you had to make to your normal style of playing?  Anything about it you don’t like?

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    Lurking mostly

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    4 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    Its really called pooping your pants. 

    That’s funny-as-hell, BUT, this is a guitar forum..  Serious people only.  My guitar playing  may be pretty crappy, but I’m serious about it.🤣

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    Posted · Edited by MissouriPicker

    Anne, this is superb.  I love the place you write from.  It’s deep inside your soul and very fragile and human.  You express hard-hitting feelings in a very gentle way..  I think everyone who likes writing their own songs could learn from you…..Excellent., my friend.

    On scale of 10, I give you 100!  And your voice and guitar playing remind me of Eva Cassidy….  You inspire me to start recoding again.  God Bless!

    Someone pinch me

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    On 1/26/2023 at 9:42 AM, Whitefang said:

    For the same reason someone buys a KIA SOUL.

    Or gets a Pit Bull as a pet.

    Some people LIKE ugly.  [wink]  (could be why my wife married me.)

    Whitefang

    My wife married me for the same reason……and the reason I know that is because she drives a Kia Soul (bright yellow).  I feel like a TAYLOR swift fan when I drive it….lol

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    There is an "acoustic in your head" perfect guitar after all...

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    On 1/24/2023 at 10:35 AM, tpbiii said:

    In my experience, what constitutes an extraordinary guitar for an individual is subjective and is framed by musical goals and abilities.  But for many people, it is also framed by genre and the communities associated with those genres.  My late wife and I were very involved with the Georgia mountain bluegrass community (40 years), the "folk" revival community (60 years) and the singer songwriter community (less intensively, 20 years).  The first two at their core are acoustic music -- we almost never plugged in.  The first was the one is most intensively involved in old power guitars,  the second used generally much less powerful guitars, and the last like Taylors.  I don't have any Taylors.

    After our mild folky beginnings, we struggled mightily for 35 + years the achieve the  power, speed, and "high lonesome" singing style of traditional bluegrass -- we never made it.  I don't have a lot of recording of our bluegrass stuff -- it was too hard to record it in my basement.  But I do have a few shows where a recording was made of the board.  Her is one from a jam show in 2012 in Lockeport Nova Scotia.

    Not a broadly popular style.  We use a lot of folk materials in bluegrass, but with BG keys and speed.   Here is an example using 62 HB,  Also not a popular style.

    It is not true that all of our 60s era Gibsons were mild and under-powered.  This weird 65 F-25 is really raw, in-you-face example with 30s power. 

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    Here is a folk song with the 65 Dove at a folk key

    One more with the 62 HB and mountain harmony.

     

    Best,

    -Tom

    I love this kind of stuff!  Thank you.

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    Don't play guitar with cheap jeans

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    On 1/19/2023 at 8:17 AM, gibsonles paul said:

    So I was playing my les paul traditional with some cheap walmart jeans, and the dye from the jeans rubbed into the laquer on the binding in less than 10 minutes of playing.🤦‍♂️Does anybody know a way to sort of make it look better?

     

    On 1/19/2023 at 6:55 PM, Brytam said:

    I had a new leather strap that bled onto the binding of my Rickenbacker 620 guitar.

    I taped up the finish next to the binding where it was stained & used a Mr. Clean dry eraser to rub the stain out.

    Seemed to work for me.

    Be careful with cheap tee shirts too…..Especially the designs.

    Help

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    Go into your profile, then “account settings, then “other settings,” then “notification setting,” then  “ mentions and my comments.”  I think you will find options there…..I think.  I hope this points you in the right direction.

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    Gibson J-60

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    17 hours ago, Sojourner said:

    Having owned one, how would you compare the tone to  a Martin D 28?

    Similar, since both are rosewood.  I’ve owned both, but the J60 may have been a bit louder.  Of course, that depends on the ears that are listening.

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