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On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Andy Owens wrote: > That is funny, I can tell Rick is excited by the f word, he hardly uses > it otherwise, lol. Oh gosh <blush> am I that bad? > That, is a cool thing, just ordered two, and the CDs. I bet that guy is > gonna freak out by the little spike in sales he gets from Rick, he will > owe you one!! Hey, please tell the guy if you order them that I sent you: maybe he'll give me an endorsement deal: wait, a second, I already bought one (or my wife did), there's nothing he can give me for endorsing his product other than a second Lamborghini (and who wants one of those, with the exception of selling it and using the cash to buy Harmonic Capos for the entire population of very small third world countries?). > Rick, have you tried to use it also to hold down the string on the fret > to make weird tunings, you could use two or three and get it the typical > LD goal of complete almost unusability weirdality by having about four > of them clamped all other the geetar!!! Like for a drop D tuning capoed > to A, would it hold the strings down enough like a regular capo and > leave the low E to be a drop "D" (actually E of course)? Actually, unlike the third hand Capo (which does fret individual strings) this device doesn't change the tuning of one's guitar (I tried already)........it just allows one to play barre harmonics without using one's fretting hand at all, so I'm fairly certain that it wouldn't be efficacious to use two of them at once. I can't remember if I posted this earlier, but you can play 5th, 7th and 9th fret harmonics that will sound even though the 12th fret is always 'played'............the 9th fret harmonics are not as loud as is typical with finger barre harmonics, however, but the 5th and 7th ring out rather loudly. Gareth Whittock wrote: "Sounds very cool rick - make some recordings man!" And as far as recording things go, for some inexplicable reason, I have never reinstalled my computer based home recording studio after my horrible multiple C-drive failures at the time of the Looping Festival, so I don't have anything to record on. It's my own fault: I just haven't taken the time.......and I've also been really into playing four string acoustic instruments and been happy just being in the middle of a huge learning curve. I told my wife the other night, 'for the first time in my life, I feel like I am actually a guitarist' as opposed to having always played guitar as a sort of found sound instrumentalist and looper. That's a nice feeling. I've always been intimidated by the guitar.......it's nice to begin learning more in earnest at the age of 57. It's been a wonderful time but also a strange and difficult year since the Looping Festival ended............I've never been so burnt out as after this last one........it was so beautiful, but the most stressful one of all of them times two and it took me to Christmas to overcome it. On New Years day, I then promptly got sick for the first 6 weeks of the new year and then hit a horrible lull in my income coupled with really bizarre weather (last week, we had the heaviest rains I've ever experienced and flooding and yesterday it was 86 degrees in Santa Cruz in a bizarre heat wave. All through it, I managed to play tenor guitar, tenor banjo, baritone ukulele, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, strumstick and fretless electric guitar and bass every day. I also, paranthetically, made really major strides in my pool game and came in second last week in the first pro pool tournament I've ever entered. So it's been the best of times and it's been the worst of times as Charles Dickens has said. I'll get around to putting my studio back together again......honest, I will........lol