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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Audition
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:25:02 -0400 (EDT)
Audition so today I went to my favorite pawnshop and found a dirty messed-up electric guitar with the name 'Audition' on it, with four strings, two of the geared tuners broken, pretty much rusted tailpiece, one knob missing, one that wouldn't turn, a broken and useless nut. so for $20 I got the thing plus a four-string nut, tuned the four strings like a pipa - ADEa - cleaned the instrument, got the knobs to work, used wire to cut out as much of the hum as possible (the pickups aren't hum-bucking) and have had a grand old time with the instrument, which it turns out sells from $400- $500 in good condition, from 1965 made by Teisco in Japan. I love the oddly dirty sound and can use it when I'm with sax players; anyway here are three pieces: http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/1081 (best) - but see the following descriptions - http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/audition1.mp3 - this is a blues improvisation - the first music I learned was the blues - not so much the commercial stuff - fairly slow here - http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/audition2.mp3 - more experimental work taking advantage of the pipa tuning (which I used for all of these) - http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/audition3.mp3 - just a minor scale improvisation but I like its energy - enjoy, they're not long - alan -