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I am told a piano has weighted keys like a real acoustic piano and fewer features like a rhythm section and built-in juke box you find on many electric keyboards.

Reminds me of a bit I used to do at closing time when I fronted my bar band.
I would announce something like:
" Hey, guys, it's last call for alcohol. Time for us to ease on down the road. I hear the state of Wisconsin is number one in deaths due to drunken driving. So drink up guys, and let's get Alabama up there in first place."

A great example of your love of music guiding you to make new friends who share your dream. That's how it should work.

Check all cables and connections first.

This song sounds like Christmas to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3M7IR6jkpc

On a trip to Siberia, I got to hear a guy who really cooked on a balalika - a three stringed triangular guitar.
Check out this guy shredding to a deadpan crowd and burning it up anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JqeSU7l … re=related

Dear ms. Carla,
Welcome to chordie. May I advise you that a proper fit is very important for a guitar case. Guitars come in many sizes and shapes. I learned this the hard way and wound up buying two cases . I heard my son was intending to by me a case for my Yamaha dreadnought for my birthday. I had my wife tell him to take my guitar along when he went case shopping. He did and I now have a fantastic new black fabric, padded case that fits my guitar perfectly.
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On a flight getting ready to depart for Memphis, a guy took a seat behind Jack. The guy was an emotional wreck, pale, hands shaking, moaning in fear.
"Are you okay?", Jack asked.
I've been transferred to Memphis. There are crazy people there. They've got lots of shootings, gangs, drugs, awful public schools and one of the highest crime rates in in the nation.
Jack  replied, "I've lived in Memphis all my life. It's not as bad as the media say. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, enroll your kids in a nice private school. It's as safe a place as anywhere in the world."
The guy relaxed and stopped shaking and said, "Oh thank you. I've been worried to death. But if you live there and say it's O.K., I'll take your word for it. By the way, what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a tail gunner on a FedEx truck."

You got the Christmastime blues, Zurf. Not uncommon for some of us.
I used to get those after a close family member died.
You are doing the right thing by bucking up and smiling for the kids.
Don't worry about it. Play some blues music and cry 'em out. Then smile and play a silly song. It, like all sad times, will pass.
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Myibanez, glad you like your new Martin. Get it set up by a competent luthier and you won't believe how easily it will play.
I got a cute idea for my tip jar at my restaraunt gig. I took my "TIPS" sign off the tip jar and attached another sign that read, "DENNIS' NEW GUITAR FUND". Nobody put any money in.
I then attached a sign that read, "DENNIS' YACHTING FUND". Nobody put any money in.
I made a new sign that said only, "TIPS" and put that back on my tip jar and they put money in it. I guess it pays to keep it simple.
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This is probably an original song. Club bands play these three chord reggae tunes six nights a week. They often get the rhythm and chords going and then plug in lead vocal - making it up as they go. If one of these jams is a hit they write it down on their songlist and try to do something similar the next night.
My grandson got a full trap set on Slingerland drums from a retiring drummer. Of course he wanted me to haul them around to our gigs and take 30 minutes or more to set them up for him. Phooey on that!
I bought him a single jembe drum that produces high and low sounds that he plays with his bare hands on a stand. I may get him a single cymbal on a stand he can strike with his hands. This is enough to add a lot more rhythm to my guitar and our vocals without hauling a whole trap set.
I suggest you buy him some reggae recordings he can drum along with. The tunes vary but the rhythm line stays much the same. Get him to solo over the predictable gaps in the music.
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You are absolutely right, sir. My senior moment.
I just called him on the phone to get his asking price and he said he'd take $125 for it.
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