Friday 03/08/2024
Took the standard walk and felt fine. Practiced guitar. On Monday I will be among a small group playing for the people in AL in the Lee Center. Not a hugely demanding audience, I believe. But I practiced twice today and will some more on the weekend.
At 1pm I met with Lynne with whom I will share the stage on May 10. She plays ukulele. We have decided on “If I Had a Hammer” and today practiced together for the first time. She’s head of the harmonica group, a half dozen people who perform standards on harmonica as a group. She is an assured leader, not at all afraid to direct and correct somebody else. OK, no problem. One of her neighbors wandered in to listen and said we sounded good.
Then I took the guitar over to Gryphon Instruments where I had an appointment. I wanted them to install some kind of button or knob at the top end of the guitar, around where the neck meets the body, to accept the end of a strap. I’ve been using with a strap that kind of wraps around the head, in between the tuning knobs, but that isn’t satisfactory. So they did that in about 10 minutes, $15, very reasonable. We talked about adjusting the action to lower the strings, but they would need to keep the guitar for a day or so, and I couldn’t do that, see above about practicing for Monday. Maybe next week.
In the evening I went down and internet rabbit hole, exploring the world of automated music transcription. I would like Kay to play about 20 seconds of bridge on her flute during one of my songs. She says “I don’t improvise, give me a score.” I don’t have any skill at notating music or any music paper. But there must be a dozen sites and apps that promise they can convert audio into sheet music. So there went the evening, trying to find one that actually worked and didn’t want a prepaid subscription.
Codgerville 