Yesterday evening we held a preparatory meeting when all kinds of subjects were discussed. There were those who preferred not to have the 'threat' of a performance hanging over their head, whereas I pointed out that having a performance and/or a deadline is a good way of focusing. Everyone wants to play and enjoy themselves, but it seems that there is a tendency towards simpler songs. Back at the beginning of September, a candidate list of about 40 songs was created; this list was resumed with a few additions. I have to say that I don't feel much enthusiasm regarding most of those songs and some I really do not want to play. Not because they're hard, but rather that they're simple and that I don't like them; they're not songs that I would ever want to listen to. Unfortunately one can't vote against a song.
I've barely played a guitar since our last performance1 at the beginning of August. I did play the Ovation acoustic one evening when it seemed that I might be playing at my nephew's bar mitzva (held a month ago), accompanying my sister in law's beginner playing, but that idea was silently dropped.
Other than that, I've restrung two guitars, in both cases without 100% success. On the Stagg guitar, the top E string is thicker than the B string which doesn't make much sense. I think that I'll remove all the strings even though they haven't really been used and put on a fresh set. I took the strings off the 12-string guitar and cleaned the guitar for the first time since I bought it. Putting the new strings on wasn't that easy and tuning was hard. In the process, the high G string snapped which was not a total surprise as this string has the highest tension of all. Maybe I should tune the guitar down to D as this will help somewhat. I'm waiting for a replacement set of strings to arrive before I add the new string, but anyway I barely play this guitar so it doesn't really matter.
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