Old Kay

[Ted]

I got an old 1950ish Kay jazz box with terribly high action. It needs some repair work. Nonetheless, I love the old thing and sat down yesterday practicing my D Major scale with it and worked the scale up to 120 bpm/16th notes.

Big mistake.

When I woke up this morning, my left hand fingers were so sore, I didn't even want to touch a guitar today. Instead, I did some paperwork, took the bicycle out and picked up my shirts at the cleaners and did some grocery shopping.

Practice today was reading the Principles and watching the accompanying videos, watching some YouTube vids of other bands and players. And that's about it.

I hope I can start to practice again tomorrow!

Here's me and Old Kay, while the finger damage was being done yesterday: http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv96 ... ay2012.jpg

Tomorrow, I am calling the techie to see about getting Old Kay whipped back into shape.

[Ted]

Well, that's it for Old Kay.

I brought her down to the guitar doctor today and got a diagnosis...

As it turns out, she needs more repair and more money than I am willing to part with to make her healthy again... And my fingers are too sore to continue practicing or playing with her.

But when life hands one a lemon -- one makes a lemonade!

Being a huge rock/blues fan, I have always wanted to learn a little something about slide guitar and never really bothered to do so -- until now... So, instead of Old Kay gathering dust in a corner, she's going to be my new slide/experimental guitar! I can work with slide and lots of different tunings with Old Kay -- instead of having to mess with my other guitars, which I always keep in standard tuning.

Done deal.