at Pages Books on Queen W.
Author: scruss
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husky gets the milk bone
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oh, and while you’re at it …
somebody please buy my Gold Tone Bob Carlin 350 banjo and Peavey SRP-16 Stereo Digital Reverb Pedal.
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somebody, please buy my guitar!
Black Godin SDxt. Floating tremolo bridge blocked out to make it a hard-tail. Plays very nicely. Cheap! $275, on consignment at Encore Music Exchange – call Dave at 416 691-2686.
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dammit
The left channel of my Etymotics just gave out.
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supplies!
Pleasantly surprised that a local store – Scarboro Music, at Vic Park and Kingston has autoharp strings.
It also has a very fine old Dobson banjo for $1500.
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banjo chord forms
I’ve been trying to learn banjo chords for a while, and the books I have keep flopping closed. So I resolved to make a blank chord form that I could fill in, like this:
You might wonder why it goes to the 7th fret. If you’re in Double C tuning, you’ll need that if you’re drawing a tuning chart.
So for G tuning, the F chord would look like:
There are 12 fretboard images to a page – that’s enough for four whole folk songs!
Download: stewart’s banjo fretboard / chord grid [PDF].
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mississauga smogrise
I love the way the smog rises over Mississauga in the morning.
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at Bill Rickard’s
I went up to Bill Rickard‘s yesterday to have Hugh Hunter tweak my banjo. Unfortunately Bill wasn’t there; he father died earlier in the week, and the memorial was later in the day. My condolences to Bill and his family.
Hugh was busily turning a banjo-uke block rim on the lathe when I arrived. After a little setup work (file the second string nut to kill a buzz, reduce the head tension to get the tubaphone sound), I looked around the shop.
Tone Rings and rims – including Bill’s new Dobson tone ring
Hardware – bracket bands, Whyte Ladye parts, etc.
The work in progress rack
Whyte Laydie at rear, Tubaphone up front.For a banjo and engineering nerd, Bill’s shop is amazing. Get yourself invited up there if you get a chance.
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coffee time
In which Catherine menaces my ca phe sua nong:
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Make Link
Make Link :: Firefox Add-ons copies the current page as a link. Just like that.
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wordpress can’t count: my 2000th blog posting
I was all exited about my 2000th post, because the dashboard is showing:
So I decided to tabulate my entries by number, and discovered that I really have 2261 (well, 2262 now) blog entries. This is the real story:
The numbering seems to have gone sideways in the last 1000 entries; entry #1000 is, as they say, what it is.
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we’re generating
You’ve no idea how happy I am to see several of these little fellers on my SCADA system:
That means we’re up and running. Go Lake Erie!
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autoharp frenzy
I got an autoharp on eBay a couple of weeks back. It was cheap, but fairly beat up. 32 of the 36 1970s-vintage strings were intact, if very tarnished. I spent more on new strings and a tuning wrench at Elderly last weekend. After spending a few evenings cleaning (you don’t want to know what I found in it), replacing strings (fiddly) and tuning (slow), I can now make 1970s sounds. Fun!
(and yes, before you ask, it does appear to have two Bâ™7 keys.)
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Olivet frogs
I think I’m supposed to be blogging about more Midwest Banjo Camp related things – but J.R. Jenks is doing this fine. Here’s a recording of some of the tree frogs in Olivet: olivet_mi-frogs-20080606.
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yeah, us long neck banjo players are a bad lot …
Still from 1964 NFB docudrama Nobody Waved Goodbye, as mentioned in a nostalgia piece in Spacing. -
operating (nearly)
We were testing wind turbines yesterday.
Not the best picture, but it is a running Vestas V82.
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perhaps the most sugar-coated admission of peak North Sea oil
The North Sea has almost as much oil left as has already been extracted, a BBC Scotland investigation has been told.
— BBC News, Oil reserves ‘will last decades’.
