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Playing Since: 1966
Experience Level: Purty Good

Interests:
[Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: musician

Gender: Male
Age: 73

My Instruments:
Walden D-550, Alvarez-Yairi nylon string (mostly with a flatpick),
tweaked and modded Standard MIM Strat, Warmoth mahogany bodied parts Strat, Strat and "superstrat" clone with a Strat trem (all also with flatpick),
clawhammer banjo, fiddle.

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Carter Family, Doc Watson, Riley Puckett, Carter Stanley

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Created 4/26/2009
Last Visit 1/17/2015

I started guitar in 1966 when my dad bought an awful nylon string guitar with 11 & 1/2 green stamp books. I had made no attempt to learn it until a friend came over, played the "Man From U.N.C.L.E." theme on it, and I had to do it too to avoid him one-upping me. And it wasn't that hard, so I got out the E-Z Guitar Method that came with the guitar, and taught myself chords, and transferred some of the notation reading skills I'd learned from clarinet to guitar just so I could learn tunes out of songbooks easily. I used the guitar to sing and perform at a backyard barbecue and the host encouraged my dad to get me a decent guitar, so we traded the clarinet in on a Goya nylon string. I proceeded to get into elementary electric rock guitar and classical guitar as well. In college I discovered Old Time banjo and fiddle, and my guitar tastes shifted to match, and I learned to do Carter family picking (of sorts, I use a flatpick), Travis picking, and made a pretty good start on flatpicking. However, for instrumental melodies, I tend to play fiddle, but I use the guitar for accompanying singing as a solo performer. I got into blues as an adult about 1999 after hearing B.B. King, and like him used a flatpick, although oddly, I've always seemed more attracted to a Stratocaster tone than a Gibson humbucker tone. Playing blues with a flatpick has greatly developed my flatpicking ability, and it should be interesting to see how much transfers to 6 string acoustic now that I have one again.