Much appreciate your inputs
Bill and
Wiley on string theory, many thanks! Great to hear from people who like to get their minds around such things as otherwise I'm just left with my own wonderings! :laugh:
Dan seems to be AWOL :laugh: It was different strings on different guitars and a recent event which prompted my question Wiley. I get it that steel is not like an elastic band and tuning up and down is going to fatigue a string eventually. I think Bill has centred in on what happened this time, possible faulty string and the Seagull neck not providing any bend at the nut to ease things. I don't have the seagull here right now so can't check but it makes sense. I will certainly string my guitars with greater care in future and make sure I systematically stretch the strings too instead of just occasionally, so it has been good to be reminded of string basics, at least in this neck of the universe that TG luckily exists in. :laugh:
And this reminds me of opening the case of my mother's Spanish Classical guitar shortly after she died to find it lying there covered in its cleaning cloth with a broken G string and I just knew she did not put it away in that state, a goose bumps moment!
Thanks for the comments on the Video! I recorded with my Tascam (stereo mics) and added a slight reverb and rotating stereo chorus option in AVS audio editor which seems to move the focus of the audio around in a circular fashion. Quite liked that for "the circles that you find, in the windmills of your mind..."
Chris
Oh, seeing as
Daryl is also AWOl, I better reveal the Freudian slip in the lyrics: I sang "Is the sound of distant
strumming just the fingers of your hand? Should have been
drumming... but I was actually strumming! :dry: