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But I don't want to be wanted anymore I don't think.  I told you I was a brat, and you don't play nicely, so I'm just gonna be my brat self now.

I don't want to talk about me, those kinds of things are *personal* and the *personal* me doesn't get spoken about here in public.  :evil: The real me is much too boring. I told ya, I'm just here to pick up men. I'm here to flirt, gain some MSN buddies...... hopefully the ones with webcams. This is all a part of my "new years resolution"........ to turn over a new - BAD- leaf. You were a fun little distraction too.

But since you asked like such a polite little well mannered gentleman........ the move is all done, and everything is fine. Hardly ANYthing is in it's place, and I have NOTHING but barbecues and sunbathing planned for my yard so far......... as soon as summer rolls around that is. TY for asking.

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well...XXXtal's not around sooooooo  you wanna?

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All work and no play make Homer something something

Someone that lives down the road from me croaked doing that.  Kerplunk, all she wrote.... He was only 51... I heard the call of the wild about 1/2 hour ago, but I just sat here and lit a match, much easier !

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Yeah, that single phone call got me a raise at work yanno? Haha, thanks....... for uh, that, and the OTHER stuff.  :wink:

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I'm glad you brought this up cause I fersure was tired of what preceeded it.

I'm looking at finally buying another acustic.....Years ago I owned a nylon string handmade Framus Valencia and got pretty good at picking it spanish style....I miss that....i really miss it.

I'm considering either a full size Martin, Gibson or Taylor steel string jumbo.....I can't imagine why you would be wanting a 3/4 size anything!....From what I gathered in your posts you seem to stay at home lots....So why are you concerned with a smaller box?...Why compromise sound when you got lots of room to lay it around at home?

Keith, You likely have brought up an excellent point.  My rationale was this, something small is ALOT easier to doodle around with when I'm just laying about, additionally I have pretty small fingers, Although I'm 6 feet, my finger's are smaller than many womens...(OK, so I shouldn't have admitted this, sue me), also I'm mildly arthritic, I like the fact that I can fly around more on a smaller scale neck, it's more comfortable, fret's are more easily accessable on a 3/4 scale practice guitar. Funny thing is, One of the nicest guitars I ever played "neckwise" was a 1950's Fender Duo-Sonic,  It was just an AMAZINGLY fast neck for me, I loved it (and like an idiot passed up on buying it in college), thing is Keith, it was a 3/4 sized electric, and my playing WAS more fluent... That's perhaps normal when A person makes a transition from a tougher neck, to a smaller one at least at first.... Yet my thought's are that a smaller guitar would be more conducive to just picking up while I'm doing other things, and doodling around with.. Not as a substitute for a large body guitar, but keep in mind, the baby Taylor is also only $259, and get's AMAZING review's in terms of it's tone...Yet naturally I don't know anything firsthand....

Anyway Keith, that's why I pondered size over tone...

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Be back in about an hour, I need to run out and shop before stores close....later dudes !!!!

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since we're on the subject, now.  do y'all know of any oversized guitar?  my fingers are FAT and i have problems with some chords specifically the A chord.  i've tried a myriad of fingerings for it (and others that i have problems with)  so i'm looking for a little help there

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All work and no play make Homer something something

Ha!...I'll gladly trade you fingers....Mine are too big and get crowded on a narrow neck, that's why i enjoyed the wide neck classical so much-it was something I could play!....Trouble is I like the steel sound over nylon, and I fersure would rather pick than strum chords...So you can imagine my hate for those guys who can fast finger a narrow necked acustic....And we all know nothing sounds better than steel strings...If I had it my way, I would be happy if I could master just two instruments....A steel string acustic  and the fiddle....But my big fingers just ain't made for it.

Sorry to hear you are getting stiff.....No wait a minute, I'm sorry to hear your FINGERS are getting stiff.

Try a nylon stringed classical box...They have really wide necks.....They are built for us handicapped fat fingered guys.

yeah, i thouht about that, but i just don't get the right "sound" out of nylon strings.  i need that twangy country sound.

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All work and no play make Homer something something

Me n you in the same boat.....

Why, I oughta...

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guess so.  i pretty much just fumble through A's and hit the rest of it.  i'm not that good anyway!

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All work and no play make Homer something something

Pick up a nylon string and finger it....Man, if it makes the difference in whether you play or not, then at least it is something you can play and maybe someday master.

I was just a kid....Dad had transferred to Germany again and drug us along with him(I was born there and graduated school there, but no I ain't German. I'm of Scottish/English/Indian blood-Stewart/Nottingham/Comanchee)

...Anyway............I'm in old downtown Heidelberg and I wander into a music shop....This old, old man asks me in German if he could help me....Old Germans then were so very polite and patient with kids and they loved Americans back then.....I stutter in broken German that I wanted to learn to play the guitar.......

He askes to see my hands....He examines them closely...turns them up and down both sides....makes me grip his wrist tween my fingers and thumb and then reach around his wrists like i was gripping a ball bat....Tells me to squeeze tightly....Then he goes in back and brings out a guitar.......It's a big fat body spanish guitar with a really wide neck.....God, it's beautiful with deep polished rosewood back and ebony neck and white spruce top and really fancy inlay all around every edge and the sound hole.....But it wasn't electric and it wasn't what all the other kids were playing, so I wasn't interested....

He said I needed it cause of my hands, that I could never master anything with a narrow neck.... Then he held it with just one hand on the neck standing it straight up on the counter... with his other hand he began picking spanish flamingo and tapping a drum beat on its top with his fingers as he picked......I was so impressed I wanted to someday be able to do that myself....Screw the Beatles and the Beachboys, I wanted to be able to do what he could do....

So he allowed me to pay it off over time....And everytime I visited to pay on it, he showed me a little more of what he could do.....The old man was a master at anything with strings.....The day I took it home he explained that it was the last he had like it....It was handmade before the war and that the factory had been blown up and the workers killed or scatted....That there were very few like it in the world.

Framus is back in business, but they are no longer producing anything near the quality or with such intricate beauty....Like a fool i left it with a girlfriend when I joined the Navy....I never saw her or it again.

Bar the A chord 2nd fret with your 1st (index finger). You'll be pressing just the D-G-B open strings 2nd fret as a barred chord and since your fingers are large don't worry about muting your high E string with the pulpy part of your first finger left hand (assuming you play right-handed), What you will be pressing is an abbreviated A chord


A string open
E
A
C#
muting 1s string or high E

There are many chords that are tough when you have larger fingers.


If you watch any Hendrix tapes he had HUGE finger's although he played a standard strat neck... There are tricks, people with large hands, or long finger's (often 4+ inches (index and middle finger) can bar with their thumbs, and invert chords to second position. You can Bar the A (5th fret low E string) with your thumb, and depending on your finger size, and the neck literally invert root chords to different positions. Gibson necks are usually not as tough for people with fatter finger's, Gibson acoustic electric would be a consideration for you... Large strong fingers CAN be a great advantage for the guitarist, you just have to work with what you have, and use that to your advantage...

Hendrix chorded with his thumb 5th and 6th strings, and his index and middle fingers (D,G,B,E). His pinky and ring finger did alot of the riff's and leads which complemented his root position chord. Now that's classically frowned on, and traditionally sloppy playing, but who cares ?  LOL,  It works for HUGE hands..

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maybe i should start to play flamenco guitar?  think that'd get the chicks?

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All work and no play make Homer something something

Umm...hon?  Which one of us are you talking about?  You have SO many guys eating out of your hand already...and this could describe any one of us!!  

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You could say it has something to do with how you use your hands and fingers....Just don't  say I said that.

I have a friend who's an amazing Flamenco guitarist, and as much as I hate to say this, the dexterity you need, and ability to play 64th notes in sequence is VERY tough.. It might be abit late for us to develop that Prod,  I hate to say it, but Flamenco requires tougher fingering, and more accuracy than just about most traditional classic rock style ever will see...It requires speed AND strength, and unless you look forward to studying classical guitar first, and learning counterpoint such as Bach stuff....You won't be too happy !

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".