Weekend News

I don’t recall if I’ve mentioned this here yet, but Cynthia is now playing at Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill, so she is happy to be back in an Episcopal church. (Last year was Lutheran church hell.) This is her first church job with a real pipe organ, too!

Today I played my first accompaniest “gig” in quite a while. As the music director’s husband, I enjoy some slight preferential treatment in terms of being selected as a guest guitarist, so I played for the choir on an anthem. This is a somewhat conservative church, so it’s quite possible that many of the congregation had never heard a guitar in chuch before. (I got some puzzled looks as I was taking my guitar up to the balcony before the service.)

I had to use my Ovation today because my new Taylor is in the shop. I discovered a few weeks ago that the output from the pickup is quite distorted, thus rendering it useless for anything but Jimi Hendrix songs. I’m not quite sure if it was like that when I bought it, or if it’s developed the problem since then. I’m a bit embarrassed to say I don’t recall plugging it into an amp or anything in the past year, although I’m pretty sure it was plugged into an amp at the store when I was test driving it. Anyway, the luthier at Guitar Center said that it is beyond his skills and might be a “bad sensor.” This would probably be a major deal to fix since I believe on this model of Taylor some of the pickups are built into the neck. He suggested I contact the tech guy at Guitar Works, who may have more experience with Taylor guitars. Otherwise it would need to go back to Taylor. Kind of sucks, anyway you look at it.

In other news, I’ve spent a fair amount of time submitting my software to various Shareware sites this weekend.