On an unrelated note, here is the message I tried to send you last week (to cleek at lunarpages dot com). Apologies if the message is rambling, it was late when I wrote it.
“Today I sat my first written exam since 1989 –
a Java exam nonetheless (I am studying for a degree – correspondence style – and have just completed my second year – only another 3 or 4 years to go). Lucky you say? Sitting a JAVA exam? Well, when I got
home my wife had bought me a little something to keep me occupied in the evenings when she is watching ER/Greys Anatomy and I am at a loose end (until my 2007 courses start in February).
It’s a Crafter Twin Bird Bubinga electro-acoustic guitar.
No, I’d never heard of them either, but man, this guitar is frickin’ beautiful. Not only is it small (so easy to handle), sounds fantastic, but the little built-in amp thingy has a bloody TUNER! A tuner AS PART OF THE GUITAR! Such a gadget is new to me over here in
Merry Olde England, and whoever came up with it, well, they deserve a
medal.
Now, this guitar can’t of been cheap. I mean, I know roughly how much it cost, and, well, you wouldn’t get much change out of $800 on your side of the pond. My wife was recently made redundant (from Sony UK
who have outsourced her job to a really, really shitty 3rd-party) and last week received a few quid from them as thanks for her 6 years of taking it up the arse from angry customers, and what does she go and
do? Spend a large chunk of it on me because I have been a bit stressed about sitting my first written exam in 17 years (yes, I had to write out Java code – lots of it – by hand).
She quite literally rocks.
Sigh. Just had to tell someone! :)
P.S. The little amp thing has the following controls – perhaps you can shed some light on what they do (I haven’t plugged it in yet):
wow. that’s one sweet guitar. what a gal! congrats :)
scoop? no idea. could be similar to my amp’s “presense”, which is a high-end exciter of some kind. but “scoop” makes me think more of a midrange cut, than a high-end boost.
phase? if there are two pickups, it could control how their signals are mixed (in phase / out of phase with each other). unless.. it has a built-in phaser/flanger/chorus, in which case scoop would control the depth of the effect and phase would turn it on?
it sure is purty !
Rob Caldecott
Yeh, I’m a lucky guy. I’ve played it every day since I got it, and my fingertips are getting rock hard again. It also means I am spending less time in front of this bloody laptop (usually working later than I should) and I have dug out the chords to songs I haven’t played in years. My wife plays the piano and I am trying to get her to learn a few rock numbers so we can duet, but it’s hard as she has a classical background and finds rock songs really hard to play (yet she’ll bang out some Beethoven with her eyes shut). he he. I will dig out my amp this weekend, plug in and see what those controls actually do.
>dug out the chords to songs I haven’t played in years
good times.
i haven’t played much in a while, but i’ve picked it up again pretty recently. as a challenge, i’ve been trying to teach myself LedZep’s “Lemon Song” for the past week. the basic riff is pretty easy, but i’m trying to learn it note-for-note, all the fills and licks, and the solo, too – all 6+ minutes of it. i’ve never done that with a song before, so i don’t know if it’s even possible for me to play all of the stuff he does. but, i’m gonna try anyway.
On an unrelated note, here is the message I tried to send you last week (to cleek at lunarpages dot com). Apologies if the message is rambling, it was late when I wrote it.
“Today I sat my first written exam since 1989 –
a Java exam nonetheless (I am studying for a degree – correspondence style – and have just completed my second year – only another 3 or 4 years to go). Lucky you say? Sitting a JAVA exam? Well, when I got
home my wife had bought me a little something to keep me occupied in the evenings when she is watching ER/Greys Anatomy and I am at a loose end (until my 2007 courses start in February).
It’s a Crafter Twin Bird Bubinga electro-acoustic guitar.
http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/2004/Twin-Bird-Bubinga-lg.jpg
No, I’d never heard of them either, but man, this guitar is frickin’ beautiful. Not only is it small (so easy to handle), sounds fantastic, but the little built-in amp thingy has a bloody TUNER! A tuner AS PART OF THE GUITAR! Such a gadget is new to me over here in
Merry Olde England, and whoever came up with it, well, they deserve a
medal.
Now, this guitar can’t of been cheap. I mean, I know roughly how much it cost, and, well, you wouldn’t get much change out of $800 on your side of the pond. My wife was recently made redundant (from Sony UK
who have outsourced her job to a really, really shitty 3rd-party) and last week received a few quid from them as thanks for her 6 years of taking it up the arse from angry customers, and what does she go and
do? Spend a large chunk of it on me because I have been a bit stressed about sitting my first written exam in 17 years (yes, I had to write out Java code – lots of it – by hand).
She quite literally rocks.
Sigh. Just had to tell someone! :)
P.S. The little amp thing has the following controls – perhaps you can shed some light on what they do (I haven’t plugged it in yet):
Bass – OK
Middle – Gotcha
Treble – Uh huh
Scoop – WTF?
Phase button – Eh?”
wow. that’s one sweet guitar. what a gal! congrats :)
scoop? no idea. could be similar to my amp’s “presense”, which is a high-end exciter of some kind. but “scoop” makes me think more of a midrange cut, than a high-end boost.
phase? if there are two pickups, it could control how their signals are mixed (in phase / out of phase with each other). unless.. it has a built-in phaser/flanger/chorus, in which case scoop would control the depth of the effect and phase would turn it on?
it sure is purty !
Yeh, I’m a lucky guy. I’ve played it every day since I got it, and my fingertips are getting rock hard again. It also means I am spending less time in front of this bloody laptop (usually working later than I should) and I have dug out the chords to songs I haven’t played in years. My wife plays the piano and I am trying to get her to learn a few rock numbers so we can duet, but it’s hard as she has a classical background and finds rock songs really hard to play (yet she’ll bang out some Beethoven with her eyes shut). he he. I will dig out my amp this weekend, plug in and see what those controls actually do.
Have a good weekend yourself mate.
>dug out the chords to songs I haven’t played in years
good times.
i haven’t played much in a while, but i’ve picked it up again pretty recently. as a challenge, i’ve been trying to teach myself LedZep’s “Lemon Song” for the past week. the basic riff is pretty easy, but i’m trying to learn it note-for-note, all the fills and licks, and the solo, too – all 6+ minutes of it. i’ve never done that with a song before, so i don’t know if it’s even possible for me to play all of the stuff he does. but, i’m gonna try anyway.
The musical looping dots are cool. That guy must have a lot of time on his hands.