knee timbre, how do I improve it?

Bridgehouse

richardhomer said:

I’m 4 stone lighter than I was at my heaviest - when my guitars rest against me, does it mean they sound thinner?

Stones are not good at transmitting vibrations.

jdgm

Learn from the master:

SteveF

Surely just stand up to play. Instant isolation from your knee.... 

edit: it’s early and I clearly missed the joke here

Snags

Bridgehouse said:

Snags said:

Aeroelastics attached to spring-damped ceiling hooks mounted through rubber grommets, supporting a silk sling that suspends the guitar at playing height.

Try not to touch the body when you pick the strings, and obviously use cotton buds to press the strings to the fretboard so you don't damp the neck with your thumb around the back.

Sounds entirely practical to me

I  can't take full credit. I was inspired by someone I know who claimed to have suspended his washing machine on elastic/rubber strips to stop it walking on the spin cycle.

viz

Snags said:

Bridgehouse said:

Snags said:

Aeroelastics attached to spring-damped ceiling hooks mounted through rubber grommets, supporting a silk sling that suspends the guitar at playing height.

Try not to touch the body when you pick the strings, and obviously use cotton buds to press the strings to the fretboard so you don't damp the neck with your thumb around the back.

Sounds entirely practical to me

I  can't take full credit. I was inspired by someone I know who claimed to have suspended his washing machine on elastic/rubber strips to stop it walking on the spin cycle.

I’ve done that with ours. 

Perdix

Long john silver was an accomplished guitarist. During jam nights at the Admiral Benbow he would remove his usual wooden leg and replace it with one of intricately carved koruna, a ebony toe piece and Spanish cedar stump cap. Was the most incredible tone. It sent shivers through your timbers.

57Deluxe

I am not understanding the 'issue' here??

meltedbuzzbox

Perdix said:

Long john silver was an accomplished guitarist. During jam nights at the Admiral Benbow he would remove his usual wooden leg and replace it with one of intricately carved koruna, a ebony toe piece and Spanish cedar stump cap. Was the most incredible tone. It sent shivers through your timbers.

excellent!!

Nitefly

Can you play "kneed your love so bad"?

scrumhalf

Nitefly said:

Can you play "kneed your love so bad"?

Oh yes, anything by Patela Green.

robgilmo

No, but I can play Lou Kneed , walk on the wild side.

Bridgehouse

robgilmo said:

No, but I can play Lou Kneed , kneel on the wild side.

pintspiller

Do you play with your mouth open or closed? Other parts of my body vibrate in sympathy.

I sometimes remove my dentures if I don't have fixing paste.

prlgmnr

pintspiller said:

Do you play with your mouth open or closed? Other parts of my body vibrate in sympathy.

I sometimes remove my dentures if I don't have fixing paste.

More open depending on how far you're bending a note from its resting pitch, have you never learned anything from Paul Gilbert?

ICBM

Perdix said:

Long john silver was an accomplished guitarist. During jam nights at the Admiral Benbow he would remove his usual wooden leg and replace it with one of intricately carved koruna, a ebony toe piece and Spanish cedar stump cap. Was the most incredible tone. It sent shivers through your timbers.

The Admiral Benbow in Penzance? I once got food poisoning in there - I was ill for three days. When I was finally able to stagger out of the B&B I discovered the Soviet Union had collapsed in the mean time - I briefly wondered how many weeks I'd been in there. This was before smartphones obviously, and no TV in the room so the outside world hadn't filtered in.

Come to think of it, wasn't Long John Silver the cook? That might explain things... I hate to think what else he might have been doing with his spare leg.