How many musicians or organists among us?

[KL7AJ]

Just a query from a non musician. Is it true that 'tube' type amps have a noticeably different sound than solid state stuff? I guess my hearing loss doesn't let 'me' differentiate.

Well, you've certainly opened up a can of worms here. Nobody has more tube equipment lying around than me......but when it comes to guitar amps, there is a ton of bad science and "audiophoolery" around. The amp I use for blues is a STOCK solid state Fender Princeton that sounds as good as ANY "boutique" amp when I crank ujp the compression. (My video recorded with an el cheapo cell phone does not do it justice!) The only amp I can say that is noticeably different from my stock Princeton is a Vox AC-30...which runs class A. If you ran class A with a solid state amp, it would sound exactly the same.

Eric

[G8ADD]

Speaking of which, I'm a percussionist and timpanist.

Which brings us to the old joke, what do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians?

A drummer.

(Ducks...)

Oh yes, I play sax and clarinet...except when I'm payed not to!

73

Brian G8ADD

[W4HAY]

I had one of these for years. Amazingly versatile for how simple the circuitry was, once you learned the ins and outs of the stop tabs and balance controls. It was tricky to keep tuned, though.

After I got married the second time I sold it because horses were taking up most of my time.

[G0GQK]

I would have liked to be able to play a piano but my musical interest is listening to string quartets which I do most evenings while I'm reading the correspondance on QRZ. Right now I'm listening to a string quartet by Jan van Gilse. I have 273 C90 cassette tapes it takes about 6 months to listen through the collection

[KD5PME]

I have played the guitar for many years. Just got a little more serious about it lately and now I am taking classical guitar lessons.

[K8ERV]

After I got married the second time I sold it because horses were taking up most of my time.

Is there a relationship among marriage, horses, and hay?

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[K8ERV]

I have played the guitar for many years. Just got a little more serious about it lately and now I am taking classical guitar lessons.

Being musically disadvantaged, I have a really dumb question.

Why do all the tv performers on stage play the guitar?

(Because it is smaller than a pipe organ is not an acceptable answer).

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[WB2WIK]

Being musically disadvantaged, I have a really dumb question.

Why do all the tv performers on stage play the guitar?

(Because it is smaller than a pipe organ is not an acceptable answer).

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

They don't.

Elton John, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and many others play keyboards; Kenny G plays reeds; so do or did most of my favorite jazz artists. Even Woody Allen plays clarinet. The only instrumentalist in Celtic Woman plays violin. Sheila E. plays drums, so did Karen Carpenter while her brother played keyboards, Mick Fleetwood led a major rock band while playing drums. There have even been major rock/pop groups lacking guitars, or where guitars were purely background instruments (like Chicago, et al).

I think guitar is popular worldwide because a pretty cheap one can sound great in the hands of a skilled artist; almost anybody who can carry a tune in a wheelbarrow plays guitar in Mexico, and they bring that talent up here. The other half play accordian.

[WB2WIK]

I had one of these for years. Amazingly versatile for how simple the circuitry was, once you learned the ins and outs of the stop tabs and balance controls. It was tricky to keep tuned, though.

After I got married the second time I sold it because horses were taking up most of my time.

I've played a few chord organs over the years; they're very frustrating for pianists because you run out of keys fast when there's only two or three octaves to work with. But I imagine if you learn on one of those before ever playing piano, you can get really good at it.

Hammond always made good stuff.

[K7RQ]

I would have liked to be able to play a piano but my musical interest is listening to string quartets which I do most evenings while I'm reading the correspondance on QRZ. Right now I'm listening to a string quartet by Jan van Gilse. I have 273 C90 cassette tapes it takes about 6 months to listen through the collection

Oh boy, does that bring back a memory! I don't pretend to enjoy or understand string quartet music. I once worked in a radio station with a producer type who claimed he really did dig string quartet music, He was listening raptly to a tape of it one day and after awhile I pointed out to him that the tape had not yet been rewound. It sounded the same, forward or reverse!