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Posted in Instruments on Jul 29th, 2008
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Well, the day finally came.
This past saturday, I had the piano I purchased about a month and a half ago moved to the new place. Â I had to postpone the move a few weeks so that some work around the house could be completed prior to its arrival…but it was well worth it.
The movers arrived [...]
Posted in Instruments on Apr 18th, 2007
Hey all
I’ve been fooling around lately with the guitar and trying out some different tunings. I’ve 2 to be very interesting; the DADGAD tuning (where you down tune both E strings and the B) and a similar one EADGAD (where you leave the base E alone).
I’ve used these tunings for the last two songs I’ve [...]
Posted in Instruments, Random on Mar 25th, 2007
Hey everyone,
Just making these 2 things known.
I’ve recently been offered to play at a Starbucks in Lexington on a farely regular basis.  I’ll be doing both guitar/piano vocal things, as well as full nights of just piano solos there. The only dowside is they don’t have their own PA system so I need to invest in [...]
Posted in Instruments on Feb 26th, 2007
In preparation for the CD release, and the fact that I’ve beaten my Martin DCME to a pulp over the last 3 years…literally — scratches, a patched hole in the back, a rattling truss rod due to the percussion stuff I do on the neck of it haha…I’ve decided to invest in a new baby. [...]
