On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:00:00 -0800, chuckgould.chuck wrote:


I'm now a little more than a year into my bagpipe lessons. You want an
oddball instrument, the bagpipe qualifies. The first thing one needs to do
is learn to "unread" music, as the time values are only approximate.

Scottish or Australian bagpipe? ;-)

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

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

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