Saturday June 27

Restrung both my Wechter 3135 Pathmakers [with Martin M240 Bluegrass strings: .012, .016, .025w, .035w, .045w, .056w] Saturday in anticipation of the Princeton contra dance gig that evening with Mr Darcy. Only one of the guitars was played, the other just stayed in its stand as a backup.
I was sorry to find out today that Wechter no longer offers the 3135 model with the 3 source pickup design for this guitar that I like so much. The ability to mix a magnetic soundhole pickup, an under-saddle pizeo pickup and a condenser mic to any proportion needed made this the most versatile acoustic-electric I've ever owned. Guess I'll have to search Ebay and used dealers if I need to replace one of these in the future...
The gig went well and the not-too-large crowd seemed to enjoy us. I'll be curious to hear the recording our flute player made to see if my rhythm playing has improved since the last dance. Next gig for Mr Darcy is the Glenside contra in July.

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From Facebook - here I am at the Princeton Country Dancers 30th Anniversary contra dance, playing the Deering Whyte Ladyie Boston in the open band, Ross Harriss conducting. It's probably the one set I played that day... Photo by Stas Nuke

Week of 6-21

Last weekend changed strings on the new (to me) Gold Tone Weissenborn - used GHS Bright Bronze strings .060w D, .042w A, .032w D, .024w F#, .018p A, .014p D. Also restrung one of the Epiphone guitars Sunday afternoon for GCD Demo rehearsal with the usual Cleartone lights. Last time this guitar had new strings was May '08 -! Quite a long time for strings to last...
Also received individual strings for the Trinity College Bouzouki for the fourths tuning: .040w A, .030w D, .020p G, .014p C. Used the TC Zouk at Demo Team rehearsal for a few tunes + seemed to work out OK - reasonably intuitive to find fingerings + partial chords.