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Wow! Not much to add to all the great advice. But music has to be the greatest expression of joy, and at the other end the best medicine for pain. Just play - your soul will lift with each new day and each new note!

Regards,

I'm also a Floyd fan from the early days. Now I enjoy getting out the 12 string and playing them.

I've just restrung my 12. I've not had a problem breaking them, but a couple of things: its best to leave the last couple of turns for a while to let the strings adjust to the tensions before you wind up to the right notes; second you should take off and replace each string individually, rather than take them all off at once. That way the pressure on the neck doesn't go from high to zero and back to high tension again.

You need a good quality capo, because the high octave strings are smaller gauge than than adjacent low octave ones, and a cheap capo often won't put enough pressure on them all equally.

You shouldn't be mowing your grass and playing your guitar at the same time...!

had to restring my 12 string the other day, what a job! Many, many bad words... But its all worth it. You dont realise how dead strings get untill you fit some new ones and a whole new beautiful world opens up!

I am in New Zealand, and because we are next to the international date line it was supposed to hit us first. I can safely inform the world that it hasnt happened yet, So keep on plucking for now... but one day....
So be kind to each other, and enjoy the music.

As the original cause of all this disharmony amongst our big chordie family, all i can say is that it was not intended to pluck the wrong string of anyone, and that Russ is entitled to say how he feels, and I certainly took no offence, nor was any intended.

Wow RussH thats a bit OTT. There was not an ounce of criticism or comparison in my post, merely an observation that there was another version of the song worth looking at. After all, God forbid that we should all play a song the same way as if it was guitar karaoke.

By the way I enjoyed your song.

Back on the public toilet theme. Many years ago i walking into the mens toilet and stood there doing my business, and this guy came and stood at the adjacent urinal. And as you do, i starting up a casual conversation with this guy. Well when "he" replied, I literally wet myself - it was a very nice looking blond girl standing there smiling sweetly, totally unselfconscious about the situation.

I totally lost my usual cool self and fled...

53 and loving life. married to a 53 yr old Scottish lass who is my 19 yr old 6ft blond for the last 20 yrs.

I like chordie for its music, it members ( i feel as tho i know some of you real well thru the forum), the chat - some threads of which is useful if you are looking for a certain topic, others are mind boggling nonsense which  is WONDERFUL!. keep it going - nothing compares to chordie