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It's not as frightening as it looks, there's lots of keywork but even if you've played the recorder for instance it'd kind of make sense, I played the saxophone as a teenager and that transferred a lot of stuff over. No idea about teachers, you could get a fair way on your own if you're musical anyway. Bloody expensive certainly, though likely turn up on ebay as bargains sometimes, a bit of a "pig in a poke" that way of course. Your sis should have a go if she fancies it, coincidentally there's quite a few ladies that play bassoon.

I played the Bassoon for a while, not got any recordings of it tho.. Very useful instrument actually is the bassoon, my interest in that direction was more baroque continuo type thing at the time, but it would be an interesting addition to a number of genres no doubt. It's great as everyone knows in "tears of a clown " of course. I don't still own one regrettably.

I've never thought of it as "it changed my life"... but for instance, if Punk had never happened, I wouldn't have done the things I did, been in the bands I was, met the people I did, and took the path I did... so in that sense yes..

The first gigs I did were in the Punk era, so sneering contempt was the look our audience got, and spitting back at them in the face of the inevitable gob-fest Subsequent post-punk outfits had a more "serious and detached" persona, no smiling or anything like that ! I guess it entirely depends on the genre as to how you present yourself.. Ultimately it's all "acting" really.

From what I gather she's only stashing them for a matter of months rather than years, so its very possible to overthink it a bit... with basic common sense applied as in many posts here, I'd really think the instruments will be fine.

Pick 95% of the time, exclusively the old Jim Dunlop grey nylon .73 ( tho I did have some JD .88s that I modded a bit with sandpaper ! ) The exception to the above being low dub stuff ( for which the thumb works best for me)

If the garage is dry I wouldn't see a problem, especially for the bass in a hardcase. I seem to recall it being recommended that you store cased guitars standing upright on end, like "soldiers" if that makes sense. Do you not envisage having a more "indoors" area to live / sleep in then ?

Doing some stuff with Andy Gill ( gang of four) would've been good, because he was a properly innovative guitarist

Ukulele, Banjo and suitcase obviously... 👍

S'all right Doc, I've gots Oxy Acetylene and a 12" Stihl disc cutter.. Oh, and lots of hammers.. I sometimes ask girls if they'd like to come and see my collection of hammers... 😈

I actually like that .. 👍

I'm still awaiting the goat body parts for the big banjo, plus I've ordered some extra long skinny bolts to assist with tightening it down on the rim, the lil' hooks that come with the banjo wouldn't be long enough to make a start on pulling the goat skin into place, so I'll have to do a bit of bodging and cheating (as always) i'll do some pics etc of all that when i've got the bits and made some progress. ...hopefully your banjo is behaving itself Mr S.. ?

Trust me, you can never have too many G clamps !

Some pics of the little banjo I'm fixing up, as you see the body had come apart and required gluing plus every G clamp I could find. The back was missing entirely so i carved a disc out of an old drawer bottom and glued it on, having a back makes the body pot much more rigid the neck had dots missing and a bit of a crack in fingerboard, sorted with CA glue, I made a wedge by laminating layers of thin veneer with glue to heel of the neck ( to get a usable neck angle when strung eventually.) the drum head assembly was easy enough to work on as it comes out seperately, for goat skin mounting purposes !

That's more than a little sh!tty to say the least, they should've honored the sale despite the fact they obviously thought "oops we've priced that too low" or whatever.. Sounds like they're a place you're best going to in person rather than taking a risky punt buying online. Obviously this is only viable if you live within reasonable distance.

Excellent idea, I could then flog 'em down the lane on Sunday... ..."Lovely fresh souls.. Only 2 bob a 'pahnd..."

You not bolted that lot together yet ? ...that jazz neck I thought looked absolutely spot on, and as mentioned I had it on a body strung up for a bit and it stayed straight & bang in tune just leaning in the corner, never even needed to touch the truss rod ! Clearly the one Nibody got was from a dodgy consignment in some way.. NE were out of stock of many bass necks when I got mine, which was from their existing stock.... perhaps they sourced the next batch from a different factory to get some necks in asap, who knows ?

I'm more likely to lead them well astray from the path of righteousness

When there's quite a few on the page it takes so long to load em on this crappy tablet thing arrghh...

Mentor is a character in the Odyssey too it seems

Blimey I've become a "Mentor" now.. I'll have to find a suitable pic for that. According to the Internets ( so it must be right) A mentor is a seasoned professional who informally helps guide a lesser experienced person in their endeavors

Ooh not with me "farmers" nah....

I think I mentioned before, I'm fixing up a little mandolin banjo thing for someone else, I'll try and get some pics of that too ( again it's still 'in progress' ).. It had pretty much fallen to bits and the 'body' de-laminated, which I glued back together, and seems fairly solid now, that one had my "goat skin fettling" applied as well, the drum head is on a seperate metal unit that screws into the body. I made a wedge to set the neck at a reasonable angle too otherwise youd never get a bridge under the strings ! Will be interesting to hear what it sounds like with 8 strings (doubled strings like a 12 str. guitar type thing)

Through ebay it's coming from the "not as described" angle then...ebay are very much biased towards the buyer these days, which is handy in this case !... keep us informed as to how it goes 👍

You didn't fancy doing a bit of fettling of the wood with a dremel or something to make a bit of room under the plate ? Sometimes you only need to take a little bit off or enlarge the slot a bit.. Are the pots full size as opposed to mini pots btw?