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I now have a third guitar in playable condition. My late brother was a bit more than eight years older than I am. He bought a Teisco Audition electric guitar in, at a guess, 1969 or 1970. (It looks like this one.) His best friends were all musicians…
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I like how she moves, too.
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Pew Research Center Science Knowledge Quiz The national scores on a random sample were pretty sad, but not surprising.
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A guitar made out of clay?
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What they call chromatic sounds atonal, but I don't see why you couldn't write tonal music using the chromatic scale as the basic frame of reference. Suppose the reference scale is a chromatic scale in which the notes are numbered 1 through 12. If y…
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The popular blues scale isn't just a subset of the major scale, and there are three minor scales, two of which aren't subsets of the major scale. So the chromatic scale isn't used in its entirety, but a lot of popular music draws from it. This compl…
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@fenomas said: I understand why you frame it that way, but what you wrote wasn't really predictions, so much as apologetics. I disagree. The rise of a white party and a non-white party is a prediction. Increased bloc voting is a predictio…
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Richard Stallman Update
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@filious said: that post reminds me of rudyard kipling Rudyard Kipling was an optimist.
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I've been avoiding reading this thread, knowing that it would probably cause me distress. Fenomas, I'll be glad if none of what I think is going to happen comes to pass. I am not optimistic.
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I've been studying music theory. One of the reasons that I wanted to learn guitar is so that I could learn music theory. I've always wondered why some sounds are musical and others are not. I don't find it difficult, but I've noticed that the numero…
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@LonMabonJovi said: https://twitter.com/NYT_first_said Coooolll
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Despite frequent backsliding, I've sworn off this stuff. Nevertheless, I'll try yet again. Consider the Lee Kwan Yew quote: In multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in a…
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And Then They Came for Richard Stallman ...
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I just realized that messed up the math on my fantasy guitar. The math is technically correct, but it is counting some capacitor selections for when the pickup would be turned off. The capacitors would be different, but they would make no practical …
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Yes, from what I've read/watched tone wood is way down on the list of things that make a difference. I'm surprised that it makes any difference at all. I would have guesses that two pickups held up by a strip of Styrofoam would sound exactly the sam…
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I cracked up: Justin Trudeau Wore Brownface at 2001 ‘Arabian Nights’ Party While He Taught at a Private School
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Unfortunately, the format the emails are in make them difficult to quote. Pages 19 and 20 of the emails looks like a burn-the-heretics mode to me. Also, see the statement saying debating the definitions of rape and sexual assault isn't productive. G…
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I looked through the leaked emails. I didn't feel like reading them slowly and carefully, so I might have missed something. The gist of the notes seems to be Stallman defending his late friend, Marvin Minsky. People have been accusing Minsky of s…
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Tulsi Gabbard to Trump: ‘We Are Not Your Prostitutes. You Are Not Our Pimp’
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@Dave said: re: tuning heads -- avoid hipshot. they're cool but you're not there yet. Dang it. Of course, I've already installed Hipshot staggered locking tuners on the thing. By shopping around I did manage to find a set for $55, which i…
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Is Orwell's Ministry Of Truth Alive? Why Don't We Hear Much About Julian Assange?
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@Rufus said: https://www.xxxchurch.com/ I can't say I've ever struggled with internet porn.
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The order I preferred them was B > C > A. In which order do you prefer them? Come up with your choice before you watch the reveal video.
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I like how she moves:
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Wave of child sex abuse lawsuits threatens Boy Scouts Which comes as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about the stalking habits of pedophiles, hebephiles, and ephebophiles.
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Assuming you're not pulling my leg: "Tuning machines," in my totally non-expert opinion, appears to be the now-preferred term for tuning pegs on guitars other than classical guitars. It appears -- and I'm just speculating here -- that they say "tuni…
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So, does anyone have any recommendations for tuning machines, or more importantly, bad tuning machines that I should avoid?
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Well, I was trying to intonate the new guitar when the tuning machine for the low E string gave up the ghost. They really are total crap.