Tuning and Intonation

Chapter 2 of "The Guitar Cookbook" is about, of corse, tuning and intonation. The principals covered in this chapter are no mystery, but I would like to stress a couple of points it made. First, the last direction made while tuning a string should always be a tightening motion, not loosening. This will help the string stay in tune longer. Second, and this one was new on me. When intonating a guitar, one matches the pitch of the open string to the 12th harmonic of the same string. I've personally have been matching the open string to the 12th fretted note of the some string. So for the last 10+ years that I've known how to intimated a guitar, I've been doing to incorrectly. I now have a project before me. I will intonate the 4 guitar that I have with adjustable bridges.

On another note, I've been trying to increase my upper body strength. So far my workout consist of 50 sit-ups and 10(ish) push ups. I timed my self doing the sit-ups this morning, 1:48. Not bad if I do say so myself. I lost some steam there at the end. Bet I can that down to a minute thirty if I keep at it. I also have to find a way to do pull-up in an apartment. Jen and I don't want to install a permeant pull-up bar anywhere. To be continued I guess. I'll let you know how all that is going later.

I don't know if this is bad or not, but I want another guitar. I love all of my instruments, but the qualities that make them great also set them apart from other instruments. Then I recognize the qualities in the other instruments and I wants those. No one instrument can contain the whole spectrum and now it has come to me wanting another. Sorry Jen. I know that I've exhausted my budget for musical thing for the next several months, but I have some gear that I can not use at the moment or in the near future and this wishful acquisition is for immediate use. Plus, I know this hard to believe, but I've been want this (or at lease a model very close to it) for a very long time. I sold a guitar to an young musician that needed a quility instrument, and I've been pining for something with similar features. That was a Seagull guitar and this is a Seagull guitar with a great pickup system. An acoustic guitar with L.R. Baggs Ribbon and Mic. You can use a mounted mic in your guitar and blend it with a traditional ribbon style acoustic pick-up. Thats awesome. Better yet, the guitar sounds like a dream unplugged. I want it bad, but I can't have everything. I'll have to do some soul-searching. But I think I can make a trade for it with no money down.

Heres hoping.