New 12-String

Since my 6-string needs to go to the shop for a tune-up, and I really can’t be without an instrument for too long, I decided to poke around on eBay and see what was to be had. Lo and behold, if I didn’t find a Yamaha FG-230 (I have one of these, although it’s loaned out and would need major surgery, if I were to reclaim it, before I could use it) (this is the twin, if you will, of my 6-string, an FG-200).

Luck smiled upon me, and it’s on the way via UPS. I'm counting the hours…

My next big challenge is strings. I’ve been using Ernie Ball Earthwood Lights on the 12-string, since they don’t seem to make an extra-light set, but I really like the extra-lights on the 6-string. I stumbled upon juststrings.com in, of all places, Smithsonian magazine. :::shrug:::

Turns out there are several 80/20 extra-light options; I need to call them and see which, if any, sound similar to the Earthwoods.

New Choir Member!

Last Sunday, after Tom’s pitch for folk to join the choir, a gal, Anne Lafferty, came up and volunteered.

She showed up at rehearsal tonight, and Wow: she can play the piano (well), and sight read (pretty well), and she sings!! And I’m no longer the baby in the group.

Her father’s cousin is the Karen Lafferty who wrote Seek Ye First.

We didn’t scare her away (yet)…