neilfein

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Acoustic guitar player; here's my band's site with links to our music: Baroque & Hungry. Come visit! Buy our stuff, if you like!

Blog posts about music:

Getting a Beginner Guitar
The 12-String Bluebird - my $200 parking-lot find
Flat Guitars (or Why I Break Strings)
Mille goes Under the Knife - installing a pickup in a parlor-sized acoustic guitar

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Sep 17	asked	What glue to use to repair maracas?
Sep 14	revised	Collaborative remote music recording spelling
Sep 8	revised	Does shifting vary on a fretted instrument? Added bit about where touching the string is a problem
Aug 31	comment	A guitar won't stay in tune, also dirty pickup selector What might work is contact cleaner. I got rid of the noise in my headphone amp's faders this way. For more detail, see this answer on the AVP site.
Aug 31	comment	A guitar won't stay in tune, also dirty pickup selector Simply cleaning the nut may help. Also, if the strings gauge was recently changed, that could also be causing problems. Are the strings binding at the nut? (i.e., are the slots wide enough for the strings to freely move when tuning? They should be.) Is the nut a standard type or is it a locking nut?
Jul 17	revised	How to prevent a string from breaking during a performance? deleted 4 characters in body
Jul 15	comment	Acoustic guitar: How to stop right index finger nail from wearing away? A combination of holding the pick with more of it exposed as well as clear nail polish on my index finger nail seems to be doing the trick. The trick is to put the nail polish on in several layers, with the intent of it wearing away slowly over a few hours.
Jul 12	answered	Are there alternatives to developing calluses when learning guitar?
Jul 12	comment	Are there alternatives to developing calluses when learning guitar? This would be a much better answer if you had used the product or could tell us something that's not "in the brochure", so to speak.
Jul 8	answered	How do you successfully share another drummer's kit at a show?
Jul 8	revised	How do you successfully share another drummer's kit at a show? Removed some poll-like language to make the question more specific and answerable
Jul 4	comment	Why can't I whistle and hum different notes at the same time? Noldorin - Humming and whistling would be on-topic, certainly, so why not the combination of the two? Or am I missing the point?
Jul 3	comment	Recommend reading why we have 12 pitches and another metrics in microtonal music? This looks like a list question.
Jun 27	revised	What to look for when buying a digital piano for a beginner? edited body
Jun 23	comment	Vertical wall mount / Holding a guitar by the neck I recommend you go there and downvote the page, then. :)
Jun 23	comment	Vertical wall mount / Holding a guitar by the neck @Rafael - You're looking at that page as if it were a page here on music.SE. It's not, it's a luthier's personal take on these issues. I think the phrase is a bit wordy but clear.
Jun 22	comment	Vertical wall mount / Holding a guitar by the neck @Jduv - I did that with my parlor-sized steel-string that hangs on the wall of my living room, but more because the headstock is so small relative to the hanging brace thing.
Jun 22	comment	Vertical wall mount / Holding a guitar by the neck Frets.com's answer to this: Where should I keep my instrument? In the case, on a stand, hanging on the wall?
Jun 22	revised	Reinforcing an acoustic guitar's bridge added 308 characters in body
Jun 21	revised	Reinforcing an acoustic guitar's bridge Added link to bridge removal