On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:10:47 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:02:41 GMT, Don White
wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:
JohnH wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:15:26 -0500, (N.L. Eckert)
wrote:

Don wrote:
Well...I've grown tired of just surviving the winters, and since things
have mellowed out inn this newsgroup I can't even count on a good dustup
to keep me going. This morning I went to a local music store and
bought a Takamine GS-330S
acoustic guitar. I didn't know what to buy so I let the salesman
convince me that this
model was the best value..for a beginner as it was on at a reduced
price. They threw in the case, strap and half a dozen picks... all for
$300.00 CDN. Next I walked upstairs to the Canadian Conservatory of
Music and signed
up for 18 weeks of music lessons. Classes don't start until next
Tuesday night, so I found beginner
lessons online but might have trouble with my frettin' hand. I find the
strings seem close together for my chubby fingers. Anyway, I'll see how
it works out. Gotta do something..... the wife has been called back to
work a month early and I'll be semi-housebound for months. Back to that
chromatic chord... G major
D major
C major... mmmm wonder if they do cash refunds at that store?
==================================
Not a bad choice for a hobby and you can have a lot of fun with it
during the boating season, too. Some years ago, a friend showed me
the basic chords and I banged away on an old guitar that my wife had
used as a teenager. Later, a marina friend was trying to learn the
banjo, so it became sort of a contest to see who could progress faster
with their chosen insterment. It was about a tie, but we had a lot of
fun. Then still another marina friend brought her accordian out and we
had a 3 piece combo, this brought out a fourth that played the
harmonica very well. We limped along with various singalong stuff for
several years, usually attracting some others for singalong.
But, for a winter hobby, I took up ship modeling about 19 years ago.
Not being much of a craftsman, I was surprised (as were many others) at
the results..

Happy hobby & boating, Norm


Where are some pictures, please? Alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean would
be a great place, unless you're one of those talented guys with his
own web
site.
--
John H


Why are you suggesting that someone post photos of guitars to an ocean
sports photo group?

Survived my 1st lesson tonight. Six of us in the class and I might be
the rookie.
Gotta practice my first song..
Twinkle twinkle Little Guitar.... (actually 'Star')
He also had us strumming four blues chords... but it takes me way to
long to move my frettn' hand from chord to chord.
Fingers were sore at the end of the class but instructer says a couple
of weeks practicing half an hour a day should toughen me up.

thats about right, but i might want to take a fifteen minute break
between sessions.

LOL!
--
John H

******Have a spectacular day!******