From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:201610282153013428-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Good.  You're getting some benefits from your church connections.   
      
   What's that supposed to mean?   
   If I wasn't getting any benefits from going to church, I wouldn't go...but   
   being given things certainly wasn't and isn't any kind of motive!   
      
   > I use to care a lot about the " action " of a guitar, the lowness of the   
   > strings over the frets. Then I grew up and realized it was about the song,   
   > not about how easy my guitar was to play.  Heavier strings tune better.   
   > Higher action sounds clearer.  Neither make the instrument easier to play.   
   > They both, however, make it sound better.   
      
   Your instrument is *your* *personal* *interface* to becoming as one with the   
   Music! When it best 'impedance' *matches* for you, the  Love Vibe will be   
   the most effective, i.e. the most easily, quickly, powerfully, dynamically   
   realized!   
      
   > Nope.  You get away with the out of tuneness because there is no   
   > reference. Add a keyboard with its fixed pitch keys and suddenly an out of   
   > tune guitar becomes noticeable.   
      
   Out of tune Vibes aren't cool! Good thing when there is a keyboard present   
   )   
      
   > Does Fender call it a tremolo ?  Could be, I don't know.  But yes, that's   
   > the problem in a nutshell. It's a cheapo design intended to do crass "   
   > dive bomb " sort of effects. There are usable, stable tremolo sysytems,   
   > it's just that the garden variety strat isn't one.   
      
   I don't recall if Fender calls it a 'tremolo'...which it's NOT in any case,   
   because a tremolo varies the Amplitude up and down, while a Vibrato varies   
   the Frequency up and down.   
      
   > Well, yes, there are far better systems on the market.   
      
   I understand there are some vibrato tailpiece systems that actually allow   
   both raising and lowering the frequency and have excellent tuning stability,   
   minus the ability of the string to withstand changes in tension and still   
   return accurately to the tuned frequency.   
      
   > It's what Fender did for their Clapton signature models back in the day.   
   > Presumably because that's how his personal guitars had been modded.   
      
   If they'd just focus their engineering talent on something better than what   
   they're currently using for a tailpiece, particularly if it's to have   
   vibrato capability.   
      
   > Who knows. I play these things called " chords " on my guitars. And I do   
   > that Nashville thing of plucking several strings while bending one or   
   > more.  Both of those make using a cheesy tremolo ( or is it called a   
   > vibrato, I can't remember ) unusable.   
      
   Decent instruments are neither cheap nor considered to be 'necessities',   
   unless you're a musician that  is ;) so the very least they should  be is   
   well designed, to be totally usable!   
      
   > I will, but not tonight. I have two gig tomorrow. It'll be a long day.   
   > Gotta get some rest.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Enjoy!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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