[Marsha] Sure I've seen those things on the television, but that's not my guitar experience. I did love Jimi Hendrix. Who didn't? But I doubt that we had
identical experiences. I'm sure we didn't. [Krimel] Ok, forget guitars for a second. You posted the YouTube link to Jill Taylor's TED talk. I watched it. I would say that our shared experience of this event has more in common than it we had both attended the conference and been in the audience. We both saw it and heard it from the exact same point of view. If we actually wanted to share an even more identical experience we could each watch in darkened sound proof rooms with the thermostats set to the same temperature. Even minor environmental differences aside our memories of the event are very similar and any discrepancies between what you remember and what I remember can easily be resolved by accessing the stored memory of the even that we both share on the TED site. [Marsha] Want to talk more about guitars? [Krimel] Sure I'd like to hear about that German guitar. You say it has a bass neck and a six string neck? Is it acoustic? That sounds really awesome. Does it say who made it? Just how bad a shape is it actually in? Is it just cosmetic gnarliness in the finish or does it have cracks. I have an old Sigma guitar made in Japan and sold by Martin. This one is 1970's ish. It has cracks in the wood and bad spots in the finish but the strings are so low on the neck that it almost plays like an electric. It is kind of a project guitar that I make occasional modifications too. I replaced the plastic nut with brass which gives it a touch of extra sustain. I took a drill and modified it to have an electric pickup under the bridge. Someday I plan to refinish it. I have loaned it out to my kids for years at a time and when it comes back to me, I alter it. I like to take things apart and put them back together and this thing is so financially worthless that I can tinker with it and not worry too much about messing it up. I think it is this urge to tinker with even the nuts and bolts of a musical instrument that make me appreciate the things Pirsig says about the classic/romantic split. Perhaps that also accounts for why I think something as sterile and soulless as a computer is an instrument for art and the expansion of awareness. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
