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 I wish I could, Eddie. There is a sad addendum to the story I told. My son and I have been estranged since 2006. He no longer speaks to me, nor does he respond to phone calls or e-mail messages and I have no idea why. Until that changes all I can do is hope and pray. I like to think he still has and plays that guitar, or a better one.
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I wish I could, Eddie. There is a sad addendum to the story I told. My son and I have been estranged since 2006. He no longer speaks to me, nor does he respond to phone calls or e-mail messages and I have no idea why. Until that changes all I can do is hope and pray. I like to think he still has and plays that guitar, or a better one.
Ryszard, Sounds all too familiar. Don Junior has disowned his Mum and me nearly thirty-five years ago and we've been estranged ever since. He thought our religion was too restrictive. So now, having no religion, he has ruined countless lives of those closest to him.
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My first instrument at 10 years old was a Horner Harmonica that a buddy of mine gave me as he had NO interest in music at all. his mother although discovered 6 months later that he "gave" it me and promply repossed it.
My OWN real instrument was a nylon stringed no-name brand guitarthat quite litereally fell of a removal truck. I was 15 and thiught i'll fix itby glueing some pieces back and then thought i will "restore" it by varnishing it. The sound died with it and sounded as if i stuffed it with a blanket!!!!
On the 28th january 1973 i bought an Ibanez 12 string with my first paycheck and it is still my favourite today ....
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A teacher came into class and announced that we all had the opportunity to loan a brass instrument, come after school. I joined the queue four hours early to ensure I got first pick. I got that first place, but I was also last - no one else bothered!
I took home a trombone (no trumpets) and I call still remember lubing those slides and the smell of brasso. As soon as I could I switched to cornet.
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My first instrument was a recorder that I have learnt to play in first grade. A couple of years ago it went into the fireplace because it was not playable anymore. It sounded like being in vocal break. (It resisted the fire quite some time.)
After playing the recorder for about three years I went to play my dad's Hohner Verdi IIIm accordion. (I still have that accordion.) Later his guitar, a Tellson Nr. 10 (that I also still have). The accordion was huge for an eight year old, as well as that archtop for my tiny hands back then.
Somebody gave me a Hohner Chromonica, but I couldn't get to master that one. I always had too much air in my lungs or not nearly enough to blow the next tone.
The first guitar I bought was a ES 175 look-alike by Maya. It is still in my dad's place -- I'm going to practice with this one while I'm visiting him for his 81st birthday...
After that there was a pedal steel guitar, another guitar and another...
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Like Guido my first instrument was the recorder. I learned to play it in the 1st grade also. The next year I took up violin, which I played until I was 14. When I was 17 I got my first electric hollow body guitar and amp. I spent hours on end teaching myself how to play chords and such.
Later I graduated to a Kay solid body guitar with 3 pickups. After that I got a Fender Strat. (Used) I now own (to make a long story short) a Gibson SG-1, a Strat Knock off, a hollow body guitar which you've heard in some of my recordings and a
Fender MB5 bass. That's about the size of it.
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Like Russ, mine was also a recorder. I loathed it and dearly wanted piano lessons instead. Parents said they couldn't afford it
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Furry, no one hearing you play today would doubt that you were taught by a master. I recognize a lot of "you" in your playing and that's the greatest compliment of all.
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no one hearing you play today would doubt that you were taught by a master
Funny thing Don. A lot of people say that about me, too, that I obviously wasn't taught by a master.
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SYNTAX ERROR
SYNTAX ERROR
SYNTAX ERROR
IF ELSE GOTO LINE 870023
DOUBT = MASTER
TAUGHT = NOT MASTER
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Student size off brand guitar was my first instrument.
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When I was about 13 and all my class mates where getting guitars I nagged my mum endlessly to get me one. She went on holiday to South Africa and brought me back a nylon string Washburn . I think it cost R50 (about 5 dollars) which was a lot of money back then. In those days we were living in Zim and there were all sorts of restrictions on bringing stuff into the country. So my mum put on some hippy clothes and slung the guitar over her back like she always travels with her guitar. I really only started to play so that I could accompany myself singing and even today my guitar playing is a bit shoddy..something I am determined to put right in 2013!!
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I somehow got a hold of some cheap no-name acoustic when I was around 6. I taught myself to play with the help of Mel Bay. Won the elementary school talent show the next year with the Beatles "Yesterday".
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