Quest for Monday: new bouzouki strings!
Oct. 20th, 2007 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperMy poor bouzouki, having suffered my mistuning of it before one of the recent Jams, has been waiting in reproachful silence for me to fix its broken D string. Today, after finally swapping out the B string on my guitar so it'll stop rattling against the bridge, I resolved to try to deal with the zouk...
Only to discover that I actually don't have any appropriate strings for it. Doh. I have extra mandolin and mandola strings, but none of them are appropriate for the D string in question--because it's the high D on the octave-tuned D course, not the low one. The D strings I have would be an adequate swap for the bronze-wrapped low one, but none of them are plain steel.
I called the music store in downtown Bothell as well as Trading Musician in the U-district, but neither of them have bouzouki strings in stock. If we still lived in the U-district I would totally be on my way over to Dusty Strings right now since I'm certain I'd find bouzouki strings there. But as it stands, I shall simply have to go on a quest to Lark in the Morning on Monday evening after work. They, when called, confirmed that they do indeed have bouzouki strings.
In the meantime I have discovered how to actually get the bridge peg out so I can get the loose string off: it requires just a bit of gentle twisting with a pair of needle-nose pliers. I shall attempt to retune the rest of the strings in the meantime, just to remind poor Spring that I do indeed still love him.
Also, I am pre-emptively and categorically denying any accusations that this entire post is an excuse for gratuitous use of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
turple_purtle's loverly Alan With Bouzouki icon. So there.
Only to discover that I actually don't have any appropriate strings for it. Doh. I have extra mandolin and mandola strings, but none of them are appropriate for the D string in question--because it's the high D on the octave-tuned D course, not the low one. The D strings I have would be an adequate swap for the bronze-wrapped low one, but none of them are plain steel.
I called the music store in downtown Bothell as well as Trading Musician in the U-district, but neither of them have bouzouki strings in stock. If we still lived in the U-district I would totally be on my way over to Dusty Strings right now since I'm certain I'd find bouzouki strings there. But as it stands, I shall simply have to go on a quest to Lark in the Morning on Monday evening after work. They, when called, confirmed that they do indeed have bouzouki strings.
In the meantime I have discovered how to actually get the bridge peg out so I can get the loose string off: it requires just a bit of gentle twisting with a pair of needle-nose pliers. I shall attempt to retune the rest of the strings in the meantime, just to remind poor Spring that I do indeed still love him.
Also, I am pre-emptively and categorically denying any accusations that this entire post is an excuse for gratuitous use of
turple_purtle's loverly Alan With Bouzouki icon. So there.
Re: /wave
Date: 2007-10-22 02:27 pm (UTC)In ye olden days of yore at Jam we had three, count 'em, three regular guitarists; right now it's just me! So yeah, it'd be very cool to have another guitarist jumping in. Or a dulcimer! You wouldn't be our first;
I'll be heading to Lark in the Morning today, since that's downtown, and within an easy shot of where I'm working these days: the Seattle Times. Otherwise I'd totally be heading over to Dusty Strings! I just need to make sure and find out what Lark in the Morning's hours are.
Indeed, we're glad we got to Japan too--and I need to finish posting my journal entries about that, in fact, since I got totally derailed from doing so.
And re: my medical woes, thanks. Hugs and love are good!