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I retrieved my vintage Gibson that I loaned to a friend for several years in Minnesota. While I visited there last summer, I packed it in the original case with cashmere fabric to completely cushion...
In a word, "no". The suggestions offered thus far all depend on airline employees breaking or bending the rules. Currently, the carry-on size limit for most domestic airlines is 22 x 14 x 9 inches. A...
I had loaned out a copy of a Gruhn book, got it back, and it confirms my internet browsing conclusions. 'Trapezoid' inlays & neck binding were used 1950-1956, unbound with dot from 1946-1949. I...
As a general rule of thumb composers have become more strict in writing down what they wanted rather than expecting performers to share the same conventions re: execution. Not just w.r.t. what the...
I was just being tongue in cheek. Still — Christian would know more about this, but conventions generally spring up for a purpose and figured bass was less capable of fully representing what a...
Convention you mean? Can't see I've seen many of his autographs but use of figured notation had been out of vogue in classical music for some time already during his life...
In monk transcriptions, you’ll often see an instruction at the beginning like “symbols are for solos only, during head Monk plays open fifths in left hand and clusters in right” … sometimes clarity...
Yeah — I mean, they are different. In practice a quartal will be what a guitarist plays for a 7sus chord, but as you mention about the fifth, they aren’t the same thing. Agree about the symbols...
Cabin crew can usually find a safe spot in their own quarters (or who knows, in a toilet that's out of commision). Maybe discuss this with the cabin crew on your inbound flight, supposing you're...
Amen, Brother Vinny! And thank you for that! I know you're one of the true believers! When I pick up that guitar I feel pretty blessed!
It does look like something one has to warm up to. I don't know where the name "Florentine" comes from, but this design looks too ... eroded to still be called that way. I'd call it French, after...
Why would this not be Csus? Is it important to omit the 5th? As I've railed in the past, chord symbols are shorthand that relies on convention. They are not meant to replace standard notation. If...
Variation 1 - Chick Corea / Herbie Hancock style...
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