Wednesday, May 30, 2007

String or nothing

I'm excited because I restrung my guitar. I have a Steinberger, which is an unusual guitar from the 80's that looks like a large black lollipop, and sounds even better. Or at least it has the potential to sound better than a gooey wad of sugar. A key factor is the f-ing strings. One thing I haven't mentioned is that a distinguishing feature of this guitar is that it's easy to string. You'd think this would encourage me to restring it more often but I don't. I have a good excuse: the strings for it are hard to find. That is, if you can't use the internet. After putting on these punchy new strings, I'm motivated to rock harder than ever before, but actually I'm home sick now typing on a laptop atop an improvised iLap, that is to say on a cookie sheet. It actually works really well. My lap is, that is to say my nads are cool and the fan doesn't sound like a 747 on takeoff. Friends, no more excuses, I am now committed to the proper care an maintenance of my guitar, as soon as I can hold my head up for more than ten minutes.

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