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Month: May 2009
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More apropos guitar builders and luthiers
I once wrote a piece about factory built guitars and those built by independent guitar makers. Well, “luthier” is a term that irritates me no end. When I was younger, there existed guitar technicians and guitar builders. Seems now that the latter are become luthiers. I thought luthiers made lutes. My bad. Nevertheless, in 1987…
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Podcasting
Alright, I’ll try this again. My last (and to date only) attempt, although successful, didn’t stir the blood. At least mine. I wasn’t sure what podcasting was supposed to do and it takes time to do it properly. Time well spent? I wasn’t convinced. I remember when I was preparing the last one in the…
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Too Much Introspection?
Lurking around online guitar communities one’s bound to come across a variety of opinions on this, that, and the other to do with the best example of this and the best way to do that. It’s all excellent fodder for contemplation and is occasionally informative. Most of what one reads is, though, borne out of…
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Uneasy Listening – a couple of nice reviews!
It has come to my notice that my last record has been reviewed rather kindly in a couple of places: FAME Minor 7th (a little way down the page!) You’ll notice that the first reviewer opines that I’m a better player than singer. I won’t argue with that, although some folks have written to me…
