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Hey Dwayne and Heather (bit late as I've already E-mailed you back!),

Thanks for the welcome. If I couldn't find songs to live inside of I would've been dead long ago.

Sorry Al, not Riverside but River City - Doh!

Hey RavenLady,

Drop me an E-mail and I'll send you a piece of music called "The Energy Rap" all about Energy Efficiency that made huge waves here in the UK.

My Faith came with Elixir and they recommended only them, tho' I don't know whether they were Nano or Poly.

The shop where I bought the guitar and buy strings told me Faith had stopped dealing with Elixir (12.95) and the shop only had Ernie Ball coated which I bought for about £2 more than Elixir. The tone isn't quite as bright, they are slightly quieter BUT I get no white powder on the guitar - they last.

When I was gigging in the '80s I put on a set of Klondikes (phosphor bronze)every 2 days at nearly £10 a time then discovered Ernie Ball Earthwood phosphor bronze in the '90s and saved myself £2 per pack and kept them on for weeks at a time.

When I tried then bought my Faith Natural series Venus I was thinking of getting the Jupiter which was only acoustic, but when I heard the tone and volume from the smaller Venus I was sold! Both have Engleman spruce tops, mahogany backs/sides and necks with ebony fingerboard. The Jupiter is now available as an electro with cutaway.

Try this:

http://www.faithguitars.com/productdeta … eb6506f175

Can't find the printed tab, but try this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPC87qRA0cA

Time and patience and you could tab it or simply learn it from this video.

Hey Deadstring,

Have you seen what Seasick Steve or even the venerable Willie Nelson are seen in public with? and I'm not talking partners here!

If it sounds good and you like it, it should be like everyone wishes they were like with their partners that "love is blind," if not deaf.

A useful thing I was told by a luthier named Rod Button is that there is 200lbs of pressure pulling the neck of a steel string perpendicular to the strings (think folding the neck in half at the heel) which is why steel strings have steel truss rods and the old classicals had wooden ones.

BTW Rod Button when he was starting out built these "boat back" guitars that used curved strips of wood something like a clinker built boat. The thickest part of the body was just behind the soundhole and was twice as thick as normal dreadnoughts. He even built acoustic basses that could be heard among the band WITHOUT being plugged in!!!

Sadly he went bust, but all I could afford at that time was a full set up on my old Fenix (by Young Chan) electro acoustic. That set up on a ply top made it sound ten times better and ten times easier to play.

Those Fenix guitars were great. Young Chan had an order from Ibenez to supply them with one-piece necks with their trademark sharkmouth pointy headstock but Y C got the long and short part the wrong way round so rather than have a big fire they married it to a semi curved wooden backed body they were doing for Charvel, result - Fenix rising from that ashes that weren't.

While I'm waffling (got back from Monday night gig and need to calm down) my new guitar was beautiful. I was thinking about a Jazz model and wanted a high action for tone and volume so when I saw that little number it was as your Epiphone - love at first sight and sound.

Everything was fine for 2 weeks then it developed a rattle, went back to the company, they said the pick up was incorrectly attached and repaired it and it came back to me. Joy was short lived as they'd done a set-up that lowered the action robbing it of tone and volume. It went back and they sent a number of new models from new shipment for me to choose from. It wasn't the guitar I'd paid for!

I paid for it in August, had the original for 2 weeks then had nothing until the following January but by holding out and sticking to my ground (with some very helpful advice from the Musicians Union legal dep't (the MU also give you £1000 equipment insurance and £10,000,000 public liability insurance as part of membership!!!)) I finally got what I'd paid for!

Some fantastic advice in this thread, thank you all!

Hey Ema,

Try this link http://www.jazzguitar.be/django_reinhardt_licks.html

This site is a great starting point for Jazz Guitar and they will also send you lessons via E-missive. I've got some great solos and choons including by "I arise" otherwise known as Django or THE Original Guitar God and INVENTOR of lead guitar.

Hope I haven't given you the wrong idea and suggested that admire him in any way.

Thanks Bensonp and Alvee33 (Ha sos, BTW),

You know that Kernuak and Gaelic share many similar words, original Brythonic languages - great stuff and well spotted.

I should have said on my intro that I've been playing the guitar for >32 years - it looked like I was stating my age!

Cum giotar A'cluiche (hope that's correct Alvee)

Slan leat!

Thanks Doug, Micky and Russell for the welcomes.

The great thing about music and audio is that it's a never ending journey with always more to learn. If I ever thought I'd arrived, that would be the time to stop. And, moreover, I signed up because I need help - that says it all!!!

Priddy is the actual centre of the known universe, Russell ;-) everyone who comes here comes back. Type XX degrees 15 minutes north and XX degrees 40.8 minutes west into a satellite map and you will be looking at the roof under which I'm writing this! (It's the UK, by the way). Priddy is in fact the oldest continually inhabited settlement in the country - we've had people living here continuously for over 10,000 years (if you saw some of the locals you'd believe some of the original inhabitants were still here)! We had lead mines here since before the Romans came and Priddy lead was found in Pompeii! Joseph of Aramathea came here, that's fact, he was a trader in lead and tin, what is legend is that he brought his nephew with him during the ages when he wasn't written about in the bible. Even though that is legend, records that go back over 900 years in Wells Cathedral state that our village church was built on the site where jesus slept and "That's as true as Jesus walked in Priddy," was a common saying less than 80 years ago.

Music, Geography AND History - can't be bad. Here endeth the lesson.

Great to be aboard, thanks for the greetings and I'll keep it music/audio from here........unless asked ;-)

Hey Guitarpix, a newbie to Chordie membership meself, but not the site and certainly not the guitar.

The http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/ … unings.pdf site is excellent - cool as mustard ;-) Didn't even think to look for suchlike but now I have it (insert Dr Evil laugh here) !!!!

Rudh hag Owr, KajiMa

If you lose your pick in the guitar, jiggle guitar until pick can be seen through soundhole, put fingers past strings until pick is pressed onto inside back then while keeping pick secured in place, invert guitar, remove fingers et voila, pick falls out through soundhole!