{"id":1672,"date":"2007-11-25T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2007-12-16T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T21:02:00","slug":"strings-and-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Strings and Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>here’s an old Strings and uh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a> Dutch<\/strike> Polish<\/strike> Swedish<\/strike> British<\/strike> Belgian <\/strike>Luxemburg<\/strike> Czech<\/strike> Hungarian<\/strike> San Marino 18th century saying which explains the correlation between full moon and cold weather: “Clear Skies, Invalid Memory Writes”.\n<\/p>\n

OK. Skip the European geography introduction in the first paragraph: it was cold yesterday (and last night). I managed to get out and buy a cardreader (“Sandisk Extreme USB 2.0 Reader”<\/a>), for which the local store charged me 35 dollars<\/em> (pre-tax). Maybe it was so expensive because mine didn’t include the ‘soft pouch’ that Sandisk claims to have included. But I don’t want to sound too cranky: I support the local economy, I guess.\n<\/p>\n

I swept by the (local) music store<\/a> too, to buy some new strings for The Guitar<\/a>. Let it be known: I love putting on strings on a guitar, that is, preferably, without the presence of a cat. There’s no reason for a cat to chase (and jump) after guitar strings. After I dealt with the cat, I managed to get to the fun part of having new strings on a guitar: Retuning. If you play guitar a lot, the first string to tune is the low E string (which you can do by ear) and then use the “1\/3 tuning method”<\/a> to tune the other strings.\n<\/p>\n

The only thing I now need to take care of is to tie and cut the ends of the strings so that I don’t poke my (or the cat’s) eyes out while I play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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