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24th January 16, 07:30 AM
#11
These jackets in my opinion are terrible, and sadly this thread is always at the top of the "new posts" list. Worse still is having posted here, I will now get emails when somebody posts to it.
It's like a train wreck.... I have to see more.
"Everything is within walking distance if you've got the time"
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24th January 16, 07:34 AM
#12
 Originally Posted by GrainReaper
These jackets in my opinion are terrible, and sadly this thread is always at the top of the "new posts" list. Worse still is having posted here, I will now get emails when somebody posts to it.
It's like a train wreck.... I have to see more.
You know... you CAN hit "Ignore this Thread" under "Thread Tools" or turn off E-mail notifications.
Rev'd Father Bill White: Mostly retired Parish Priest & former Elementary Headmaster. Lover of God, dogs, most people, joy, tradition, humour & clarity. Legion Padre, theologian, teacher, philosopher, linguist, encourager of hearts & souls & a firm believer in dignity, decency, & duty. A proud Canadian Sinclair with solid Welsh and other heritage.
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24th January 16, 07:55 AM
#13
'Dunno if any of you play electric guitar or bass, but the instruments have been subject, for five-plus decades...
...to varied forms of experimentation and production variations using style, layout, finish, engineering, embellishment, shapes, color(s), woods, decour, artificial aging, materials, bling, starkness, technology...
...as 3D musical, visual, aural and tactile palettes...
...and while one who is somewhat of a conservative can be anything (month-in-and-out, when magazines arrive or going to a show or store) from appalled to amused to confused to delighted by some of the designs and luthiers' imaginations...
...y' gotta admit, folks are still trying "new ideas" on the medium...
...as in this thread, with "Highland" dress / kilts.
Creativity can be applauded; taste, well, it must remain at best interpretational?
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24th January 16, 08:52 AM
#14
Originally Posted by Father Bill
You know... you CAN hit "Ignore this Thread" under "Thread Tools" or turn off E-mail notifications.
What fun is that?
"Everything is within walking distance if you've got the time"
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24th January 16, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hood
'Dunno if any of you play electric guitar or bass, but the instruments have been subject, for five-plus decades.
Creativity can be applauded, taste, well, it must remain at best interpretational?
As an 'extended range guitarist' (...as we're called) I will agree.
I'm sure my 8 string guitars, fretted and fretless, have offended plenty, and assuredly begged the question 'why?'
"We are all connected...to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the universe, atomically...and that makes me smile." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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24th January 16, 09:56 AM
#16
Originally Posted by GrainReaper
These jackets in my opinion are terrible, and sadly this thread is always at the top of the "new posts" list. Worse still is having posted here, I will now get emails when somebody posts to it.
It's like a train wreck.... I have to see more.
bump :mrgreen:
Kilted Technician!
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24th January 16, 10:06 AM
#17
Not to derail the thread, but it has been personal experience; 8-string guitars (especially in standard scale length ) seem to have inharmonicity and intonation issues on the lowest strings (probably not an issue if playing with intended distortion, but annoying playing clean), not to mention, 8-string players "need" rather large hands and long fingers.
'Guess it's something y' just have to get used to and embrace, like the totally new-agey cosmic-astro hipness of tartan cuffs and collars on one's Argyll or PC.
'Heard a rumour, the next season's super-mod PCs and Argylls will feature tiger-stripe-shaped patches of tartan. And for next winter...
...wait...
...really...
...PCs and Argylls with the tartan cuffs and collars having tartan formed in LEDs. Batteries not included.
Oh, yeah.
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24th January 16, 10:22 AM
#18
Originally Posted by James Hood
Not to derail the thread, but it has been personal experience; 8-string guitars (especially in standard scale length ) seem to have inharmonicity and intonation issues on the lowest strings (probably not an issue if playing with intended distortion, but annoying playing clean), not to mention, 8-string players "need" rather large hands and long fingers.
'Guess it's something y' just have to get used to and embrace
True, scale length and string gauge should be considered for proper intonation. My hands, however, are terribly average. I would say the only necessity is an adjustment of technique to be comfortable making use of them.
"We are all connected...to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the universe, atomically...and that makes me smile." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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24th January 16, 10:38 AM
#19
Fashion is a vicious mistress particularly if you're of conservative bent.
Moreover she has no firm grasp on logic and tradition.
Sometimes I wonder what level of horror the Hielanders that gathered before Culloden would express were they to see what great kilts have morphed into. Or perhaps they, perhaps being closet evolutionists, would clap their braw hands in delight, eh? Or, then again, being Scots, perhaps they would shake their heads and mutter something unintelligible in Gaelic and get on wi' it.
Slàinte mhath!
Freep is not a slave to fashion.
Aut pax, aut bellum.
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24th January 16, 11:16 AM
#20
I can take the tartan - but - why oh why make the tartan almost but not quite mirror image?
I know I have issues - I measure out pleats with a Vernier calliper - but those are just painfully close and yet so obviously 'off' you'd almost think it was done on purpose
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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