That's a pretty guitar. Did you get a book? Does it have "Red River Valley" in it? I bought a cheap guitar once, and the neck separated from the body as though the glue gave way. I took it back and left it for them to repair. In the meantime the place went out of business. I never got that guitar back, and I never bought another one.
No book, but it did come with a hex key wrench. It has something called a truss rod in the neck you can tighten or loosen. There is heated debate about whether that is a good thing or not, among classical guitar snobs. My first guitar was a cheap one back in the 70's, probably from Kmart. It was torture on your fingers to try to play and I gave up right away. Sold it to a woman for $10 who was tickled to give it to her son. He probably hated it. Funny we remember details about some things, and not others, isn't it?
I forgot about the hammered dulcimer under my daughter's bed that she left behind. I wonder if it plays like a zither with hammers. I like the sound of them.
"Beginning in 1965 with Michael Bloomfield at the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan has used an array of the finest guitar players on the scene to provide lead guitar for his albums and backing bands. This video chronicles many of the brilliant guitar players he's chosen for his various projects from Newport through his "Never Ending Tour." Bob Dylan is very particular about his lead guitar players
There are a bunch of old fishing rods, with rusty reels, that we used back in the 1960s just sitting around the garage taking up space. My idea was to hook a suet block for the birds on the end of one and dangle it off the deck, so the squirrels couldn't get to it. It seemed to work, but most of the birds don't care much for suet. The squirrels aren't too keen on it either. The next idea was to do the same with a bird feeder using 50lb test line, and a galvanized pipe instead of a rod. Someone must have tried this before, so I searched the internet for tips, and found this.
They sure are motivated little suckers. I wonder if someone's tried barbed wire? It makes me want to try electric fence wire. You'd have to have a ground wire for them to touch, probably coiled around the hot wire with insulating spacers.
We have found that only woodpeckers and the like really go for suet @Nancy Hart. Nuthatches also eat it. I guess the insectivores re the real fans, but I don't know about the birds that we don't have or don't overwinter here since feeding is discouraged here in the summer due to bears, which will eat seeds, but really love suet.
Someone tried that a few years ago. The method was to space hot wires and ground wires alternating and far enough apart so the birds could perch on one wire or the other, but the squirrels were large enough to have to touch both a hot and ground at the same time. It worked for a while, but he said eventually the squirrels figured that out also. I'll see if I can find it.
Just amazing. If squirrels and ravens ever put their intellect to use against us, we're done fer. I wonder if they would first take out the power grid, or maybe start low-key with the electrical systems in our cars.