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Limited Edition of 50 - Fender '51 Nocaster Relic in Black.
It has a Broadcaster flat pole piece pickup in the bridge & Twisted-Tele pickup in the neck.

It was made in 2008. I believe I am only the 2nd owner of this guitar. Has a great chunky neck like all Nocaster's have
 
jrwagh333 said:
Limited Edition of 50 - Fender '51 Nocaster Relic in Black.
It has a Broadcaster flat pole piece pickup in the bridge & Twisted-Tele pickup in the neck.

It was made in 2008. I believe I am only the 2nd owner of this guitar. Has a great chunky neck like all Nocaster's have
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How much was it?

Is it American?
 
Expanded setup a little with a small edirol controller keyboard for live tweaking, it's sustain also works with Reason unlike the NP30 which doesn't play ball.

For straight Piano use running a Steinway hypersampled grand from the Reason Piano refill... sounds pretty dam good

Missus thinks I'm having a mid life crisis, could be right :), but it's all the gear I need... I use the screen also for pulling up PDF sheet music, dead handy!

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timbob said:
Now for my latest bit of new gear...

I bought a new mouthpiece for my baritone over the winter. I've been really struggling with the intonation on the sax - some notes are flat, some notes are sharp. A couple of notes were nearly a semitone out, and I had to use alternative fingerings to get them anywhere near playable. If I wasn't careful, F and F# in the middle octave were nearly indistinguishable!

Anyway, a lot of reading and chatting to guys on the saxophone web forums revealed that older baritones were designed to use mouthpieces with larger "chambers" inside. The bore of a sax is conical, until the neck, where it's sliced off at the end. The chamber of a mouthpiece should ideally match the volume of the missing imaginary part of this cone, and older saxes have bigger cones than newer saxes. Even the mouthpieces with the biggest chambers on the market today aren't big enough for old saxes like mine :(

So, a chap in Seattle took a 2nd hand hard rubber mouthpiece, re worked the facing to ensure it was straight, constructed a big wedge shaped baffle in it to give me the punchy sound I like, and bored out the chamber inside to bring it in line with the requirements of my sax - which now plays as near as makes no difference in tune with itself! :)

Unfortunately, the only pic I have has the rest of me in it (sorry!) You just want to look at the mouthpiece bit...!
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So was your original mouthpiece the one that came with your sax? The bari is looking good, do you have electrical tape on the bell or that just a shadow?
 
jrwagh333 said:
Limited Edition of 50 - Fender '51 Nocaster Relic in Black.
It has a Broadcaster flat pole piece pickup in the bridge & Twisted-Tele pickup in the neck.

It was made in 2008. I believe I am only the 2nd owner of this guitar. Has a great chunky neck like all Nocaster's have
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Very very nice :)
 
Flukester said:
*Grades*
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Good luck with the grades but in all honesty fella, grade 8 will take more than a month to get to a decent level of pass! i jumped straight from 5 to 8 when i was about 15/16 and it was utter hell, non stop practice and i only just passed it then! it was in a different instrument mind you but nevertheless it was a challenge!
 
Neoni said:
Good luck with the grades but in all honesty fella, grade 8 will take more than a month to get to a decent level of pass! i jumped straight from 5 to 8 when i was about 15/16 and it was utter hell, non stop practice and i only just passed it then! it was in a different instrument mind you but nevertheless it was a challenge!
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Thanks, I've had 4 piano lessons now and really done and dusted grade 1 (I know I'm a noob)

I do have a feeling the piano teacher isn't pushing me at all... like every week giving me one page of 'dozen a day' book and one grade 1 piece to learn. When I had first lesson I said I can already play the kids piano book cover to cover and can play the grade one pieces in a couple of evenings.

Got more grade 1 pieces to learn this week but instead I'm ignoring them and a couple of mins into learning this... nice easy piece thats actually fun to play and sounds great!



I guess it's all about learning the right way to do things, and sight reading (you have to teach yourself that though), but playing popeye the sailor man doesn't make me want to play piano, nor spending 10mins with teacher playing a adlevise duet :\
 
Crizzy said:
So was your original mouthpiece the one that came with your sax? The bari is looking good, do you have electrical tape on the bell or that just a shadow?
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No - once you get to a certain point in the "beginner to pro" sax spectrum, (especially when buying 2nd hand) saxes almost never come with mouthpieces. Players get attached to certain mouthpieces - I've had the same alto mouthpiece for 9 years, and it's survived 3 different saxes in that time!

The previous mouthpiece I had was a metal Otto Link New York. It had the largest chamber I could find when playtesting a whole variety, and I struggled with it for over a year.

And yes, that is electrical tape on the bell! It holds on my wireless transmitter :)
 
Flukester said:
Thanks, I've had 4 piano lessons now and really done and dusted grade 1 (I know I'm a noob)

I do have a feeling the piano teacher isn't pushing me at all... like every week giving me one page of 'dozen a day' book and one grade 1 piece to learn. When I had first lesson I said I can already play the kids piano book cover to cover and can play the grade one pieces in a couple of evenings.

Got more grade 1 pieces to learn this week but instead I'm ignoring them and a couple of mins into learning this... nice easy piece thats actually fun to play and sounds great!



I guess it's all about learning the right way to do things, and sight reading (you have to teach yourself that though), but playing popeye the sailor man doesn't make me want to play piano, nor spending 10mins with teacher playing a adlevise duet :\
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Einaudi is great, can't go wrong there!!

Have you told your teacher what you want to accomplish in your piano lessons? It's essential to have a chat about where you are and where you're going.

It may be that whilst you think you can play the grade one pieces, when an experienced teacher with a trained ear hears you, there are a whole raft of bad habits and timing/technique issues that can only really be fixed by starting from the beginning again - it can be quite hard to maintain motivation through this kind of thing.

On the other hand (and obviously, I can't tell without hearing you play), it may just be that the teacher is wrong for you, and can't appreciate where you've got to on the instrument already, and is just using the same old "starter" pieces they've used with every student, from primary school to adult for their whole teaching career.

Try and have the "where am I" conversation soon, else you'll end up resenting the teacher, find it a barrier to making progress, and quit lessons thinking all teachers are rubbish and you're better off self-teaching. Finding the right teacher is super duper important! :)
 
timbob said:
Einaudi is great, can't go wrong there!!

Have you told your teacher what you want to accomplish in your piano lessons? It's essential to have a chat about where you are and where you're going.

It may be that whilst you think you can play the grade one pieces, when an experienced teacher with a trained ear hears you, there are a whole raft of bad habits and timing/technique issues that can only really be fixed by starting from the beginning again - it can be quite hard to maintain motivation through this kind of thing.

On the other hand (and obviously, I can't tell without hearing you play), it may just be that the teacher is wrong for you, and can't appreciate where you've got to on the instrument already, and is just using the same old "starter" pieces they've used with every student, from primary school to adult for their whole teaching career.

Try and have the "where am I" conversation soon, else you'll end up resenting the teacher, find it a barrier to making progress, and quit lessons thinking all teachers are rubbish and you're better off self-teaching. Finding the right teacher is super duper important! :)
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Thanks, I think I'll have a chat...I guess I wanna rush ahead, which is prolly bad.

Finally learnt the Einaudi piece and can play it through without music with only a few errors here and there. Took 3 weeks :( .....all his stuff would be amazing to play, and some is surprisingly easy even for a beginner

Gonna buy a Fatar / Studiologic hammer action controller this wkend hopefully, I think it should help being expressive
 
Fatar stuff is good - they have a good reputation amongst keyboard players I know for their realistic action.

Biggest piece of advice (as an instrumental teacher) I can give you is buy a metronome, and learn to play your pieces in time with it. It's harder than you think, but a vital skill.

:)
 
Nice thread! How is it I've been coming here nearly 5 years and only just noticed it :o
Loads of guitars, so here's something a bit different.

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It's a Blue Moon Tenor ukulele. Picked it up for 60 quid about a month back. Right now it's getting more play time than both my piano and guitar combined :o It's so much fun and so easy to just pick up and play. :) Sounds great too.
Any more love for ukes?
 
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