LMAO@Sancho's shanty (whew, say that three times, let alone fast)
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LMAO@Sancho's shanty (whew, say that three times, let alone fast)
mmm foood...*needs to go on a diet*
Heh heh,
Right you are. OK, so I wanna talk about guitars some more.
Emily, small hands needn’t be a detriment. I once had a friend (Uhh that sounds funny “I once had a friend”) anyhow, she was a very small woman with tiny hands and was probably the best classical guitarist I’ve known. And those classical guitars have big honkin’ fret boards. She’d hold the neck almost vertical and play with her wrist practically straight.
There are a few guitars that are known for their smaller necks and thus are popular with people who have small hands: Taylor’s OO model, Martin’s OM model, I’ve got a Fender Stratocaster that plays like butter; it’s got a thin neck.
Incidentally people with large hands complain too. Look at a picture Jimi Hendrix. His hands were so big that they made his Strat’ look like a toy.
Anyway, if you're halfway as good with notes as you are with words we may have another Eddie Van Halen on our hands. (I'm still cracking up over that monocle in the champagne glass bit.)
LOL poor Koa. So mean, Sanch :D
I'm trying to picture myself using that vertical technique, and all I can see is myself as Ravi Shenkar. Eep. (btw, in googling to make sure I spelled his name right, I discovered this post... just thought I'd share he joy: <http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/AutoSitar> )
Mmm.... Jimi Hendrix's big hands..... :p
And thank you for the compliment. :D I'll go for one of those. Although, I must admit, it's easy to be funny when you steal from the Simpsons. (Whoops! I guess the contest's off. Heh. I didn't have a real prize anyway.) I'll take credit for the champagne bit, though. (Is it right to begin and end a statement with the word "though?"....though? No. Gah, I'm turning into Plath.)
Anyway, I'll keep working on it. Thanks, Sancho.
Dang it! My writing is so poor I may have unintentionally expressed a hurtful idea. Koa, I no-way no-how meant to tell you that I thought you should diet. (I intuitively think that you’re probably being too hard on yourself.) I was trying to say that I need to diet; that one I can guarantee. After all, I’m the one who has been mindlessly blabbering about food now for the last umpteen posts. Whew.
LOL I thought you were kidding anyway, Sancho. I don't think it'd hurt her.
Koa's a tough bird. If you hurt her feelings for real, she probably wouldn't let you know.
Or she'd write a really creative and biting poem about you and post it. (hint hint, Koa :p)
I'm bulletproof
Not from an air to air missile.
Those are really hard to catch in your teeth.
Break right - chaff - flares - pull - pull - pull - put it on the beam, get out of plane, pull - pull - pull. You can make it miss. I'm tellin' Ya I'm bullet proof.
But are you gravity proof?
Oooh... i had lost track with the thread and only by chance noticed you were talking about me...:DQuote:
Originally posted by IWilKikU
Koa's a tough bird. If you hurt her feelings for real, she probably wouldn't let you know.
Nice one kik... You got me thinking about it... probably true, at least in some occasions... (but how did you get to talk of this btw? :D)
*blushes for her selfcentredness*
(*wonders if she just invented a word*)
LOL You said you needed a diet and Sanch said "Right you are" and I said he was mean and he apologized profusely and then Kik said that. :D
Oh now i see... well i actually interpreted sancho's post as something like 'who cares i'll go on with what i have to say'...which is perfectly fine as what i had said was just a random comment that came to my mind as all this thinking of food reminded me i should have less of it :D I didn't think his post was particularly related to mine, and didn't mind at all... I'm not even sure I read all of his post cos I know nothing about guitars....
Edit: I didnt' see emily's post before I wrote this... anyway I guess I didn't catch the 'right you are' as something directed to me but as something like 'rrrright let's move on to something else'... sometimes i don't pick subtleties (subtelties?) in this sort of sentences, i guess they're too colloquial for me to always get them in their full meaning. Maybe. Who knows...well anyway... Really hope that sancho didnt mean what you thought he meant, or i'll bite him to death (ever told you of my vampire-identity?:D:D:D:D)
LOL well, that's how I interpreted it too, and I assume that's what he meant. I think he was the only one bothered actually. :p
Yikes, My bullet proof armor is starting to chink.Quote:
Originally posted by Koa
...i'll bite him to death (ever told you of my vampire-identity?:D:D:D:D)
(I was tempted to do my best Austin Powers: "Yeah baby!")
*walks sedately over to the record player, puts on a Strawberry Alarm Clock, waits for the first note, and proceeds to do a little Nancy Sinatra dance like frickin crazy*
Hey don't knock Nancy!!!
My boots are made for walking!
LoL My boots were made for many things, but I don't think walking is one of them. I suppose it would have helped to buy the right size.
I know this was a while ago, Den, but sorry I've been dawdling from the computer.Quote:
Originally posted by den
Hey Shea! Long time no read :p
Harp, now there's something I'd love to learn, it looks so elegant and sounds wonderful and I'd love to have one just to decorate my apartment with. :D
Do you have your own harp? When did you start learning to play it?
I've got a 5 foot harp and I've been playing for over nine years. I love it, it's very relaxing! There's something about it leaning on my shoulder across my body while I play, it's almost like rocking a baby to sleep. And your right, I makes a lovely piece of furniture too!:)
Aw don't worry about it ;) I know you've been busy :D
<jealous> So you have your own harp? 5 feet! wow, may I ask how much such an instrument would cost? Not one made of gold of course :p Did you have private lessons for it or did you go to school to learn? Can you possibly compare it to playing another type of instrument?
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Originally posted by Shea
I know this was a while ago, Den, but sorry I've been dawdling from the computer.
I've got a 5 foot harp and I've been playing for over nine years. I love it, it's very relaxing! There's something about it leaning on my shoulder across my body while I play, it's almost like rocking a baby to sleep. And your right, I makes a lovely piece of furniture too!:)
Mine was $3000 but it was 8 years old when I got it. It had been a display in a music store (deep in the North Carolina woods (how romantic is that?)). Brand new it would have been about $5000. Actually, 5 feet really isn't that high, the ones that you see in an orchestra are over 6 or 7 feet high. It is my goal one day to have one of those, but they start around $20,000. Those are pedal harps, and if your interested, I'll explain the difference. Here is a link to a picture just like my own harp. The wood is just a little darker walnut. IMO, Dusty Strings makes the best harps!
http://www.dustystrings.com/shop/harps.shtml
I had private piano lessons from the time I was 7, but I don't play much any more. The lessons however, let me easily teach myself to play harp. I got a book to learn technique, and it just took off from there. I would say that the harp is a cross between a piano and a guitar (which I also dabbled in a little bit), but is definately unique. Of all the instruments that I've ever tried to play, the harp is one that I never felt compelled to throw across the room no matter how many times I messed up!
I make really weird multi media art peices, I love the idea of drawing, but my hands only like to draw a couple of things. Ill post some B&W pics I took this year and also I really want to make films, but all of my freinds are too busy to be subjects. I hate computer animated art, except for flash animation and some cool fotoshop collages. I play bass and guitar and want to get some turntables. And I like skateboarding and razor scootering and dirt biking and freestyle walking (parkour to the europeans here) because it gives me the freedom to paint the urban landscape with... nevermind.
My favorite thing to do is skiing. Everything from my hat to my bindings on my skis were carefully chosen to reflect me and my personality. On the mountain I charge hard, mach5 all the way, and then start some long smooth carves, listening to the metal edges rip through the fresh groomed snow. The terrrain parks will be an outlet for creativity, as soon as my skill catches up.
And I love writing. I wrote out a videogame proposal, 3 pages in length one day for no reason, it was about gay rollerblade gangs and had a full story. I stayed up until 3 in the moring after working 5 7 hour days in a row (hey Im 18) and wrote "The Index Card Story" about a guy named Void who is elected to be the Savior of a small group of people supressed by a... long story. It was a concept, I used no paragraph breaks and it was stream of concious type stuff. I envisioned it hanging on a wall in a museum, like 300 yellow 3x5 index cards filled with writing. So yeah... thats it.
LMAO :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by random_hero
And I like skateboarding and razor scootering and dirt biking and freestyle walking (parkour to the europeans here) because it gives me the freedom to paint the urban landscape with... nevermind.
oh, koa, it is "subtleties." :)
Yes... I like razoring. Scootering. I can do tailwhips though, and when your skateboards keep getting stolen and all you have left are your little sisters scooters you make do. And the statement in questin, you know "painting the urban landscape," that was caught on tape while I was at this girls house. She lives a block away, and seeing as I still dont have my liscense I scootered to her house and tried to defend the lowly aircraft-grade aluminum two wheeled wonder.