From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016103011243736680-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > If someone wants to learn a sitar, why should I care ?   I don't.   It's   
   > their time, their life, have at it.  There are plenty of reasons someone   
   > might. Maybe they make sitar and need to be able to deomo them. Maybe they   
   > like some old Beatle record and want to sound like that at home.  Who   
   > knows :-)   
      
   That's my point about changing just because someone else 'thinks' you   
   should.   
   Besides, if you want the  sitar sound in the form of a 6 string electric   
   guitar, they exist.   
      
   > I'm loving my macbook pro.  Thinking about buying a new one. Ok, I won't   
   > really do that right now, but they did come out with some new models.   
   > Should I get a 13" or a 15 ?   There's about a $700 difference to get a   
   > slightly bigger screen. Hardly seems worth it, does it ?   
      
   Yet another Rip-Off!   
      
   > I have a 13 and a 15 that I use one or the other of now. Used the 15 inch   
   > one at our band job last night. Used the 13 inch screen one at my duo gig   
   > in the afternoon. They both work the same.  One has a bigger screen :-)   
   > How that looks depends on how close you have it from you.  A 13 looks just   
   > like a 15 if it's few inches closer. A 15 looks like a 13 if you move it   
   > about a foot father away.  Stages are big.  From 6 or 8 or 10 feet away,   
   > since I play guitar and keys and sometimes stand up and move around, it's   
   > hard to tell which one is which.  From 10 feet away ....   
      
   You use monitor speakers...why not use a monitor monitor ;) ?   
      
   Certainly it would cost a lot less to hook up an enormous monitor, if you   
   want something like that, for a LOT less I'm sure.   
      
   > I can see either one the same.  So paying a big premium for a barely   
   > bigger screen isn't likely. Still, who knows, I might splurge.   
      
   I'd like to see a serious competitor come along and Deflate the monopoly!   
      
   > I play guitars that are dirt cheap. Played one yesterday. The cheapest (   
   > probably ) Fender Squire Tele there is. Paid $150 for it new from Guitar   
   > Center, iirc.  It plays just like guitars that I have which cost much much   
   > more.   
      
   Yep, isn't CNC manufacturing wonderful!   
   Now there is where computers should be...and for a more personal touch, the   
   CNC part can be used up to a point and then followed by hand finishing the   
   rest of the way...along with a big price increase of course.   
      
   > They are still guitar, just ones that someone somewhere think are worth   
   > more. I know better because I have both extremes.  I can tell you that,   
   > you don't need to believe it. People won't.  I don't care.  It's true just   
   > the same.   
      
   I've been through that with  loudspeakers...and I know what I know, and if   
   someone else wants to worship some pricey name brand...it's their loss.   
      
   > Cheap guitars and expensive guitars sound the same, unles there is some   
   > problem with them.  Well, they sound the same in the sense that no two   
   > guitars really sound exactly the same.   
      
   If I played guitar, I wouldn't  like that...which is why I'd insist on   
   carbon fiber...which unfortunately, is expensive.   
      
   > It's in some perceived " better " that the more expensive ones are   
   > supposed to have that logic fails.  If you like the better paint, or the   
   > more time spend dressing the frets on an expensive guitar, then buy one.   
      
   I always joke about Epiphone guitars, I've  never known of one that isn't an   
   excellent instrument, and they're owned by overpriced Gibson...which   
   probably means that the very affordable Epiphone may very well have been run   
   on the same production line as Gibsons...so for an additional $1,000 plus,   
   instead of "Epiphone" on the headstock, you can have "Gibson" on it instead   
   )   
      
   > Life is all about choices.  My choice today is to rest. And unpack my gear   
   > from yesterday, and maybe eat some hotdogs, and think about what gigs I   
   > have next week.   
      
   > And a few other things, probably.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Yeah, that's for sure...and I'm all ready for Halloween. Friday, I put the   
   17 lighted decorations in the windows, and early Saturday, I finished with   
   the  outside 2 lighted pumpkins and 2 Jack-O' Lanterns, and the 3 ghosts and   
   a spook in the tree, along with a nice big spider perched in the low   
   branches of the mulberry tree to welcome trick-or-treaters.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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