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Unread 04-17-2015, 10:21 AM   #140
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I have been having a hard time keeping up on my reading, and have stopped watching most television because I started back playing the guitar. I am trying to learn to play classical style guitar and am really enjoying it. I always was a finger picker but this is really a workout. Now when I go back to playing James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, etc, it seems so much easier. A good friend asked me if I wanted a guitar, and I said sure. I had been helping him move with my truck. Turns out, it was a beautiful Ibanez dreadnot from the early 1970's that was such a direct knock-off of the Gibson that they were sued over it. Many were destroyed by cutting off their necks when they were seized coming into the country--They are called "lawsuit guitars" on the internet. A former Chet Atkins award winning guitar player who lives here loves it ( Martin makes a special run of guitars named after him-Roger Hoard).
It plays much easier than my old 1972 Yamaha FG 160. So, I am enjoying it but sure wished I hadn't stopped playing 20 years ago
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