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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 15, 2020 23:26:07 GMT -5
There are plenty of how-to vids on YouToob for playing guitar, but up until now, nobody has provided a truthful guide for new players on the parts of a guitar. Knowing what these parts are and what they do is important because it can help you make an informed and educated decision to take up a more sensible hobby such as stamp collecting. Let's begin with the acoustic guitar.  And here's the electric guitar.  |
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 16, 2020 1:08:11 GMT -5
I actually had someone call the neck the handle. Not the brightest crayon in the box, and I am being nice. Real nice.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 16, 2020 6:24:33 GMT -5
Anytime a player complains of neck dive on a guitar, I usually say something like, "that's what the handle is for."
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Post by HenryJ on Jan 16, 2020 8:01:37 GMT -5
"Pick trap" reminds me of when my grandkids were toddlers. It's been a long time since they dropped a pick down in there.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 16, 2020 8:45:53 GMT -5
henryj, I was originally going to call it 'your parents will find the weed you hide in here'.
But this is a family-orientatered board, so...
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Post by Leftee on Jan 16, 2020 9:15:06 GMT -5
This is very thoughtful of you! Most of us had to learn all this the hard way.
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Post by Leftee on Jan 16, 2020 9:16:59 GMT -5
Btw - the “plug breaker offer” is also known as the “crackle jack.“
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Post by gbfun on Jan 21, 2020 22:46:15 GMT -5
As a late comer to the guitar world(read : retarded), I thank you for this important and sorely needed information.
No doubt I will soon attain "creamy lead tones" and become the greatest guitar god EVER !
And it all started with my trumpet in 5th grade, good grounding indeed !(actually it did get grounded...run over actually. I forgot about that !)
Is the "handle" named after Handel ?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 22, 2020 8:43:58 GMT -5
Is the "handle" named after Handel?
Probly.
We all suffer for our Moe's Art.
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Post by hilltop87 on Jan 22, 2020 12:08:40 GMT -5
And here I thought that hole in the acoustic was to store my wallet and cell phone.
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Post by professor on Jan 22, 2020 12:16:14 GMT -5
I call the sound wires along the handle "fingertip hurters" and the hand shredders are also "finger trippers"...and that handle on the untuner! It's so hard to hold it in the right place to keep it in tune! And how can I do that and strum the sound wires?
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Post by Stratluvr on Jan 22, 2020 12:20:47 GMT -5
That’s pretty funny.
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Post by McCreed on Jan 22, 2020 20:06:59 GMT -5
"Pick trap" reminds me of when my grandkids were toddlers. It's been a long time since they dropped a pick down in there. You're lucky that's all they dropped in there. I would have expected Lego, Fruit Loops, bits of banana, small pets... Like the time my buddy's 3 year old daughter put a PBJ sandwich into the VCR! |
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Post by gbfun on Jan 22, 2020 22:42:30 GMT -5
Food Porn ?
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Post by LTB on Jan 23, 2020 18:02:26 GMT -5
Hey goo, thanks for nliten us. That thers useful informin. Seriously though, I hate to admit when I started playing acoustic in the mid 60's the "Pick Trap" was like a vacuum cleaner for me. Pick got anywhere close and woosh, there it went   |
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 28, 2020 13:00:12 GMT -5
One of the techniques that is extremely valuable as the new learner is one that very few guitar instructors teach--and that is how to flip the guitar hole-down and jiggle/shake the pick out of the thing.
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Post by tiedyeddevil on Jan 28, 2020 20:41:09 GMT -5
Is it still a pokey end without the string breakers and the curlicue? I think maybe this one's defective.   |
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Post by gbfun on Jan 28, 2020 21:23:28 GMT -5
ooh....that looks BROKEN. Or dropped from a very high height. Or a buck tooth shark bit the front of the head and snacked on the tail ! That guitar wins the award for the least amount of design elements that line up....  And it's probably a hazard for a perfectionist to look at it for very long. Perfectionist Hazard Alert !!! (band name ?) Ooh...my head hurts. |
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