{"id":3396,"date":"2006-09-06T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2006-09-06T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T10:43:00","slug":"the-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3396","title":{"rendered":"The guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One day I shall tell a story about a drunken Irish poet and the consumption of daffodils in Wivenhoe. Not today. However, said poet gave me his guitar for my 21st birthday – something I think he later regretted, but all his regrets are now moot, as he’s gone to be with the great poet in the sky.<\/p>\n

In these fifteen years since possessing this rather nice guitar (Ovation custom balladeer – beautiful sound) I’ve had one serious go at trying to learn it, in the first two years after obtaining it, and I picked up about a dozen chords, and half a dozen songs. It then sat unused for a very long time, and I even tried to sell it on eBay three years ago, much to my wife’s disgust. As is often the case, my wife was right to be disgusted, and I am glad I still have it, because I took it out of the case the other night, for effectively the first time in nearly a decade, and I found it immensely pleasurable. I could even still play a couple of songs – Traci Chapman’s ‘Talking ’bout a revolution’ was the one that gave most pleasure. Now to move on to Johnny Cash, as one of my commenters suggested \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’ve got a long way to go with it, but I might post occasional things about the joys of learning a new chord. And I keep meaning to respond to Tim<\/a> about folk music… all when I get the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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