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"~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote in
news:is1auk$7l1$1@dont-email.me: 

> 
> You sure do! I used to play with a guitar a bit but, after not having
> one for ages, than picking one up with thoughts of getting another I
> quickly realised that my fingers had forgotten how to make the chords
> and, boy did my fingertips get sore quickly!
> 

I played long enough that my hands have the muscle memory to play the 
chords still without my having to think about it. Kind of like WordPerfect 
keys. I used them so long I'll remember those hot-keys still when I can no 
longer remember my own name. Of course my fingers take a bit longer to 
shift from one chord to another, but that's getting better with practice. 
Fingertips still hurt after too short a time, of course!

> What do you play (if you've already told me I plead senility)? I've
> never been a serious muso, more a dabbler. I used to do soundmixing and
> stage lighting for a touring band for a few years in my feckless youth.
> In that environment it's hard to *not* pick up an instrument. When
> there's three classic Telecasters there it's even harder! ;-) I always
> said I'd buy my own Tele and Fender Twin Reverb (or Super-Twin) one
> day..... 
> 

I play keyboards and guitar. I have a nice Ovation six-string and also 
love to play my wife's old Guild jumbo-body twelve-string. I no longer own 
any electric guitars. I used to play bass, too, but no longer. I had 
several years of classical piano when I was young, and the theory I 
learned then has been so useful ever since. I recently bought an 
electronic keyboard which has several hundred voices and have been amusing 
myself playing all the parts from Tubular Bells. I have always been amazed 
at what Mike Oldfield did with a sixteen-track tape machine (and he did 
his original demo on a single quarter-inch tape). Man, would that have 
been easier if he'd had today's technology.

I'm mostly well, thanks, and glad to hear (from the other thread here) 
that you're feeling a bit better, if only temporarily--isn't it all 
temporary, though?

My sister came to visit from Scotland last month, bringing a nephew and 
niece I've never met. I took them for pony-and-cart driving lessons and we 
all had a lot of fun.

All the best, mate.
                      Mark.


-- 
While I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the
same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of
deliberate.--V.