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Siouxsie and the Banshees..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNJ9eWyxnZ8

This is jolly well good!

Most of what you offer here is interesting. I like the wide variety of interests you have. But, is screaming really an art form? LOL

In this case yes or she won't be heard over the racket they're making...

Scream-o makes my ears bleed.

I'm not overly fond of it these days..
you know, in an argument my ex wife cut my guitar strings with a pair of Scissors..
She said she was a music lover....guffaw...
one nil to her!

Aren't those strings made of steel? It must have ruined the scissors.

No Sir,
it was a Spanish acoustic guitar...the strings are of a lighter guage...
I've still got the guitar with new strings and no wife...result!

I think you made the right choice. I happen to have an acoustic Spanish guitar as well. The strings are nylon if I recall. I don't play and received the instrument from a cousin who worked for a music supply house. At the time, some thirty or more years ago, i went through a couple beginner books and learned some chords. I'm a terrible singer so that it never worked out. Besides, my fingers became all calloused after a few weeks. I wasn't too happy about it back then.

We should form a band ...our abilities are very similar..
what make is your guitar Dennis?

It's a Conrad460. Don't think you ever heard of it because it's at last forty and maybe fifty years old. My cousin at the time was working as a purchasing agent for a musical instrument supply house and received this and a few other instruments as samples from a Japanese manufacturer. It sounds mellow and all, but I don't have any idea how popular this particular brand ever became. And, by the way, I doubt that I'd fit into any other band than a band of robbers perhaps.

Hey great photo!
I have a guitar similar to that it's a Japanese Yamaha...
we could go busking round Covent garden and on the Tubes!
Conrad460's are available today on the e-bay....

I think the frame makes the picture look good. I'm glad to find out that Conrad wasn't just a flash in the pan. I had ambitions for being a folk singer at one time, but then was told I have a terrible singing voice. LOL

I play for my own enjoyment which is just as well!

After 2-3 years of fiddling with my guitar I decided I wasn't going anywhere and gave it up. It was a great pastime and taught me a thing or two about playing the instrument. I was surprised to see that some of my rock idols of the day were not really playing the guitar in their hands. The fingering, if any, was way off.

who is your favourite guitarist?

Andrés Segovia

Good call
I've heard of him and heard some of his playing and he is exceptional...
I feel like discovering him some more....
I like John Williams and Jimi Hendrix...
Much to discover stilll...

I'm not that big on classical music, but Segovia certainly did know how to make great music. Have you ever used a 12 string guitar?

to hold a door open yes!
The sound is very melodious but I have not studied it properly at all,
there is one here at work in the cupboard....
how the dickens do you string/tune it Yogi?
have you played one before...?

Back in days wen I studied guitar, last century, I had a friend who owned a 12 string. I did try to play it once and it was a very unique sound. The second string of each pair is tuned to the second harmonic of the primary string. If you had a good ear you could hear the resonance. The tone sort of dipped when you were at the right spot.