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He means the bridge pins. Looks like that guitar is strung from below the bridge rather than above.
yea what the ....
He means the bridge pins. Looks like that guitar is strung from below the bridge rather than above.
Interesting.
TPark, don't count your chickens before they hatch concerning your problems with bridge pins. I've had a guitar like that before...and it's just a big a pain in the ass to reach into the soundbox to thread the string through that little hole as it is to deal with bridge pins...maybe even more so.
The bridge pins on my Seagull are easy as pie. I don't even use a string winder, I just push up from underneath and they pop right out. I've never had a problem with them.
Cheaper guitars that many people learn on tend to have harder bridge pins, however. My first Washburn was a to change strings on. Any Martin I've owned has been easy however, my Seagull is even easier.
I would never buy a guitar based on bridge pins either way. It's all about sound.
Oh, and action. I hate guitars with high action.
I don't mind hard bridge pins...I always cut the strings anyway when I change them, and using the wire cutter to nudge a stuck pin is no big deal. Especially since, on a 12-string, the pins are set very close and it can be hard to get a grip using my fingers.
High action doesn't bother me much...since I can't play lead well, it's never been a big deal. High tension...now that's a different story. My 12-string could have used a slightly longer neck...even with extra-lights the tension is pretty high and I'm almost positive it's a scale-length issue.
Oh, and TPark, never buy a guitar you have never played.
I don't think I'd ever be able to buy a guitar off of ebay, it amazes me people do that.
Isn't it amazing that so many people have responded to this question? Could it be that musically-inclined people are also sports-minded?
For my part, I started out in Junior High on the trombone. Shortly after my parents purchased/rented this instrument, a group of my co-band members got together at my house for what we termed a "jam-session." I believe we were playing some difficult piece, "Twinkle-Twinkle, Little Star," when I stepped back and fell over my baby brother's pull-toy. The trombone was crushed and the next thing I knew, I was playing the French Horn.
Hey! The French Horn is a haunting and beautiful instrument, but I didn't know it at the time. I tell myself that I can still play the French Horn...
hmm.. i'd love to learn how to play the guitar and piano..
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I faked a halfway decent french horn so I could be in marching band to get into all the football games for free.
Didn't hurt that it knocked out that pesky PE credit, either...
I faked a halfway decent french horn so I could be in marching band to get into all the football games for free.
Didn't hurt that it knocked out that pesky PE credit, either...
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And the trips to Florida & California...and Arlington.
played the saxophone a long long time ago.
I missed Florida thanks to Mark White and Trigonometry/Analytical Geometry. in' no pass, no play rule...And the trips to Florida & California...and Arlington.
We didn't get Cali or Arlington. They only let us go to hole, TX ERRRRRRR Houston before you got there.
I took up guitar way back when but never really got very good.
I've got a Yamaha Acoustic but sold my Fender Strat quite a few years ago.
Yamaha makes some awesome acoustics in the Compass series. When Mars when out of business, they were selling one for less than half of what it would normal go for, and I wasn't able to get it. I was very sad.
We got us one potentially bad assed horn section working here...
I played sax for years, but haven't picked it up seriously for a lonnnnnnng time.
I haven't picked up a baritone in a long time, or a trombone. I prefer the valve's to the slide though.
I still have a trumpet, and I've thought of picking it up to learn some Jazz stuff, but my embrochure is so ing gone I'd have to practice forever to get it back.
Not everday you get to say embrochure.
I've managed to keep mine up fairly well...although you can never get enough practice in.
I've managed to keep mine up fairly well...although you can never get enough practice in.
Well, I guess there are excercises that help.
Chris: "Wanna work on your embrochure?"
In fact, I've never heard anyone say it.
I have heard people say embouchure though.
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