{"id":625,"date":"2008-02-01T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/new-strings-same-fingers\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:38:26","slug":"new-strings-same-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/02\/01\/new-strings-same-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"New strings, same fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/uploads\/guitarstrings.png' alt='guitar strings' width='399' height='299' \/><\/p>\n<p>I briefly related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/30\/inclement-weather-blues\/\">my harrowing adventure<\/a>, out into the ice, wind, sleet, and cold, to purchase new guitar strings for my lovely rosewood guitar.  The strings I got are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elixirstrings.com\/whyelixir\/storyofelixir.html\">same kind I&#8217;ve been using<\/a> since I discovered them, recommended to me years ago in a music shop in Port Townsend, I think, back in 1997 or so.  I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re really the best strings out there, but they do keep a nice tone for a long time, which is essential for a musician as lazy as myself, and one therefore prone to not changing strings for significant lengths of time.<\/p>\n<p>I bought two sets of strings, polyweb lights and polyweb mediums, and put the lights on first.  My fingers are out of practice, so I thought maybe lighter strings would do a little less damage for now.  They sound great, of course, as new strings should.  Bright and clear.  Once they&#8217;ve worn in a bit, I imagine I&#8217;ll like how they sound even more.  I usually do.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only they made me a better guitar player.  Here&#8217;s a little sample of a tune I&#8217;ve been working on.  My favorite at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ahniwa Ferrari &#8211; Untitled Guitar Tune<\/em><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/uploads\/tune04.mp3] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I briefly related my harrowing adventure, out into the ice, wind, sleet, and cold, to purchase new guitar strings for my lovely rosewood guitar. The strings I got are the same kind I&#8217;ve been using since I discovered them, recommended to me years ago in a music shop in Port Townsend, I think, back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}