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I like to play my short scale guitar.I am old!
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04-09-2021 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by ronjazz
Last edited by oldane; 04-09-2021 at 08:13 AM.
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"Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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I'm on a seefood diet myself. I see food and I eat it. My wife seems terrified that I will starve, so she keeps on serving me huge portions, and cooking enough for about 6 people. I can't change that, so I have to eat less on my own. It is possible to have worse problems.
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This guitar is too small:
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And one can go the other way entirely like Alan Holdsworth
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Well, Jazzers are strange canaries, indeed! That's a given. In the Classical world, a guitar must fit a person's body type. Young students usually start with a 1/2 or 3/4 guitar and work up to a full size instrument when appropriate. Hand size also matters. That's why there are 660, 650, and 640 mm Classical guitars. A student or professional should never struggle with an instrument since it will impede both progress, sound as well as desire to play. So, just because you want to play a full-size archtop, it may not be the best instrument for you. If your goal is musicianship . . . not image, you need to get a guitar that fits your hands and body. My brother was gifted a 3/4 EG(Teisco?) when he was 10 with good action and easy to play. I was playing a Kay triple pickup Value Leader with action so high you needed a C Clamp for the strings. I never liked that guitar and didn't know that the action could be adjusted. I often wonder how many more hours I would have played with a better adjusted guitar. However, I played many gigs with that instrument until I bought my first Gibson. So, yes . . . size matters. You want to look hip or play hip?
Play live . . . Marinero
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Originally Posted by kris
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
And, they liked reverb!
Play live . . . Marinero
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But this little guitar sounds great!
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My dad was an outdoors man... think Daniel Boone here. He wouldn't get lost in the Adirondack mountains and could survive a major snow / ice storm, and likely come out of it gaining weight.
Anyway, when I was young (age unknown but preteen for sure) my dad pulled me aside and said "We need to have a chat" I grew up in the burbs of New York and already knew about the birds and the bees and told pop that. He said it's not about THAT!
He said: "Son, you're of a small stature AND left handed and in a man's you're F'ked, so here's what you need to know... In your lifetime you're gonna have to learn to use the tools of a larger right handed man to get along in the world... or, you can stay at home with your mom when I go hunting, golfing or fishing because you're not getting custom made tools".
In the 1950's left handed anything was rare, and expensive, and, I learned to do most everything right handed and never crabbed about the size / handedness of a tool, any tool for any purpose.
Just sayin' :-)
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Originally Posted by GNAPPI
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Originally Posted by GNAPPI
Nice story! However, gaining functional utility is a far lesser skill than mastery. And, as our old friend Hamlet said "Aye, there's the rub." Play live . . . Marinero
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Originally Posted by oldane
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Originally Posted by Marinero
IMO, we learn to use the tools we have regardless the form they present themselves to us, overcoming the form is at issue. Why are there (for the most part) one size violin... big, small, female or male most use that tiny instrument, the same goes for inherently larger instruments like say the piano, tuba, or cello. Are some gifted with larger hands, or bodies that match their instrument better? Sure. Does that make everyone who plays them the same stature? Not at all.
Guitars are the one instrument that players whine, complain, crab and moan over subtleties more than any other standardized instrument. Gads, if men were this rigidly selective in women the planet would depopulate in a generation :-)
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Originally Posted by GNAPPI
I have the ability to learn any musical instrument to functionality. However, my hands are thick and I could never play the picolo, violin, or ukelele, for example, at an artist level. My hands are too big. Many small stature people(small lungs) try to play the baritone/tenor sax and have a weak/uncontrolled sound where if they chose an alto/soprano, or clarinet, they could have a much better sound. So, I'm referring to highly functional musicians/artists when I state these facts. Anyone can play an instrument poorly. The world and Youtube is full of them. Play live . . . Marinero
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Originally Posted by GNAPPI
Last edited by Jim Soloway; 04-10-2021 at 12:23 PM.
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<< [...] my hands are thick and I could never play the picolo, violin, or ukelele, for example, at an artist level. My hands are too big. Many small stature people(small lungs) try to play the baritone/tenor sax and have a weak/uncontrolled sound where if they chose an alto/soprano, or clarinet, they could have a much better sound. >>
Excuse me, there is no scientific or empirical evidence at all in the world of "highly functional musicians/artists" for such statements - just individual opinion!
In the violin world some of the greatest performers were known to have sausage digits.
In the baritone/tenor saxophone world a small stature has nothing at all to do with "having a weak/uncontrolled sound".
Medically, small stature doesn't correlate by default with having small lungs.
Sadly, we face more symptoms of bias, small-world-thinking, subjective sensivities, beating_around_the_ bush, and even resounding ignorance lately in this forum. Sorry, gents (to those concerned), real class is a horse of a different color - not worth to follow some threads any longer!
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Originally Posted by Woody Sound
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Originally Posted by Woody Sound
Last edited by Paulie2; 04-11-2021 at 02:26 PM.
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Originally Posted by Ol' Fret
O.K. OF, I'll play . . .
1. What "great" violinists have sausage digits? Name one.
2. How many small men play Baritone/Tenor sax with a big sound? I only know two: Pepper Adams- Baritone;Johnny Griffin-Tenor sax. Very rare in the sax world for great players.
3. "Medically, small stature doesn't correlate by default with having small lungs." So, there is no such thing as symmetry among Homo Sapiens? You must be spending too much time at carnivals.
4. These "woke" lectures are always created to shut down debate. They also want to rewrite History, Biology,
Economics, etc., and anything they can get their politically correct hands onto to change reality into their unsupported views without debate.
5. And, why run and hide . . .Ol' Fret? I would like to be enlightened by your phantasmagorical concept of
the natural world. C'mon, friend . . . take a deep breath. I know you can do it!
Play live . . . with thick hands . . . Marinero
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Mary can play whatever she wants to and I will play whatever I want to. I'm 60. I work out. I can schlepp around a Fender Twin Reverb and it doesn't bother me. But with guitars, for me, ergonomics is key. I can play a 17" jazz box but I play it in the classical style. My go to now is a small bodied, 12 fret acoustic with a cutaway. Very comfy.
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Originally Posted by ronjazz
Last edited by oldane; 04-12-2021 at 09:02 AM.
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Originally Posted by Marinero
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Itzhak Perlman has big hands. The Strad. But he is unusual.
Transcriber wanted
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