Guitar Thread - Page 14

On August 21 2011 08:40 FlorisXIV wrote:
yay, a guitar thread. I play mostly classical guitar.

this an attempt at asturias <.<
me playing
(the guitar is a Contreras II)

My sister is a classical guitarist from Juilliard, and I can confidently say that you play this piece better than you think. You seem to know what aspects of the phrasings need improving, so I'll leave you be, but overall it's very nice
My sister's stuff http://www.conniesheu.com/audio.html

On August 21 2011 16:49 stOpSKY wrote:
No Martins on the list? This is full of fail. -_-

John Thomas, a law professor at Quinnipiac University and a blues and ragtime guitarist, says "there's a lot of anxiety, and it's well justified." Once upon a time, he would have taken one of his vintage guitars on his travels. Now, "I don't go out of the country with a wooden guitar."

The tangled intersection of international laws is enforced through a thicket of paperwork. Recent revisions to 1900's Lacey Act require that anyone crossing the U.S. border declare every bit of flora or fauna being brought into the country. One is under "strict liability" to fill out the paperwork—and without any mistakes.

It's not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What's the bridge made of? If it's ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar's headstock bone, or could it be ivory? "Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever," Prof. Thomas has written. "Oh, and you'll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration."

Consider the recent experience of Pascal Vieillard, whose Atlanta-area company, A-440 Pianos, imported several antique Bösendorfers. Mr. Vieillard asked officials at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species how to fill out the correct paperwork—which simply encouraged them to alert U.S. Customs to give his shipment added scrutiny.

There was never any question that the instruments were old enough to have grandfathered ivory keys. But Mr. Vieillard didn't have his paperwork straight when two-dozen federal agents came calling.

Facing criminal charges that might have put him in prison for years, Mr. Vieillard pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of violating the Lacey Act, and was handed a $17,500 fine and three years probation.

On August 28 2011 23:08 Sverigevader wrote:
Wuhuu! My friends super duper surprised me on my birthday with an acoustic Guitar



I promised them that I'd learn at least 4-5 songs before New Years. I just finished learning how to tune one. Gonna start to work on some chords and some music theory now :D

On August 28 2011 23:55 FLu wrote:

I really recommend http://justinguitar.com/en/BC-000-BeginnersCourse.php
It's really good, I learned with it aswell.