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The Acoustic Guitar Wire
From Acoustic Guitar Magazine
www.acousticguitar.com
March 2003 Issue 18
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1. Welcome to the Acoustic Guitar
Wire
2. News and Notes
3. New at Acoustic Guitar Central
4. Commonsense Care
5. Win a Set of CD-Songbooks
6. On the Web: Classical Connections
7. Highlights from Upcoming
Issues of Acoustic Guitar
8. Rainsong WS1000 Giveaway
9. Great Books from String Letter
Publishing
10. Win a Free CD!
11. Lightbulb Jokes
12. A.G. Wire Archives
13. Contact and Unsubscribe Info
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WELCOME TO THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR
WIRE NO. 18
Enjoy the latest acoustic music
news, information
about happenings online, advance
notice of special offers
and giveaways from Acoustic Guitar
magazine, and previews of
new publications from String
Letter Publishing. You'll also
get tips and advice about guitars,
gear, and playing, plus
maybe a joke or two and the chance
to win a guitar, gear,
and other great prizes.
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NEWS AND NOTES
Acoustic Guitar is accepting
entries for our third annual
Homegrown CD Awards contest.
We're looking for self-made
recording projects--music that
is played, recorded,
produced, packaged, released,
and sold by the artists
themselves. Winners receive a
$500 gift certificate from
First Quality Musical Supplies.
For rules and entry forms,
go to http://www.acousticguitar.com.
The deadline for
entries is March 31.
Bring your guitar out of hibernation
for String Thaw's Old-
Time Music Weekend, March 13-16,
in Penland, North Carolina.
Events include dancing, jamming,
and concerts and workshops
by Alice Gerrard, Wayne Henderson,
and others. To register,
visit www.stringthaw.org.
The National Festival of the
West, March 13-16, Scottsdale,
Arizona, gives cowboys and cowgirls
the chance to hear three
stages' worth of toe-tappin'
music, eat fine chuck wagon
cookin', and enjoy a special
tribute to cowboy balladeers.
For more information, go to www.festivalofthewest.com.
Guitar Talk is the online discussion
forum at the Acoustic
Guitar Central website. For the
past year or two, folks who
have been meeting in cyberspace
to chat have been gathering
to play music together in real
time. Read about the events
and post your own in the Gigs,
Workshops, and Gatherings
forum of Guitar Talk.
http://www.acousticguitar.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi
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NEW AT ACOUSTIC GUITAR CENTRAL
http://www.acousticguitar.com
Excerpts from the April issue
of Acoustic Guitar magazine
are now available online. Read
about Tracy Chapman and her
life-long obsession with the
acoustic guitar, check out the
latest CD reviews, and get tips,
advice, and insights from
the pros in the Q & A and
What They Play sections. See the
latest at
http://www.acousticguitar.com.
Acoustic Guitar magazine subscribers,
now you can take care
of all your subscription needs
online. Our website has been
upgraded to include easy access
to your account. You can pay
your bill, renew, give a gift,
and change your address all
online. And of course, new subscribers
can sign up online,
too. Come to http://www.acousticguitar.com/Subs/index.html
and save yourself time and hassle.
Smooth out your solos with David
Hamburger's new lesson on
"Hammer-ons, Slides, and Pull-offs."
http://www.acousticguitar.com/lessons/lessons.shtml
Get more every month when you
subscribe to Acoustic Guitar
magazine:
http://www.acousticguitar.com/Subs/index.html
or call toll
free (800) 827-6837
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ACOUSTIC GUITAR OWNER'S MANUAL:
COMMONSENSE CARE
The Acoustic Guitar Owner's Manual
is the book that should
have come with your guitar. With
this definitive and
indispensible guide, you'll become
a more savvy acoustic
guitar owner and repair-shop
customer, thanks to tips such
as this one from Simone Solondz.
Once you're confident
that your guitar is safe at home,
think about other places it goes
and how it gets there. If
you're taking your guitar
out, always carry it in a case or
well-padded gig bag. Make sure
that the case is closed and
that the strap is secure before
you pick it up. Cheap,
flimsy gig bags can really be
dangerous.
Treat your guitar more like a
fellow passenger than a piece
of luggage when possible. Put
it in the back seat of your
car rather than in the trunk
if there's room. If it has to
go in the trunk, get it out of
there the minute you get to
where you're going. Even
if you park in the shade, on a hot
day your trunk can become an
oven, and in the hour that it
takes to eat your lunch or do
your errands, your guitar can
undergo serious damage. If you're
traveling by train or by
bus, try to find a safe spot
near your seat to stow your
guitar, rather than trusting
it to baggage handlers and
other passengers.
For more tips on guitar care,
repair, and maintenance, check
out The Acoustic Guitar Owner's
Manual
http://www.stringletter.com
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WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF PATTY
LARKIN'S "RED=LUCK"!
There's always a good discussion
about guitars, players, and
acoustic music going in the Guitar
Talk forums. Register to
participate and automatically
get a chance to win a free
autographed copy of Patty Larkin's
new CD, "Red=Luck."
Get the details when you sign
up today at
http://www.acousticguitar.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi
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ON THE WEB: CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS
In the April issue of Acoustic
Guitar, Mark Small provides a
virtual tour of classical guitar
resources on the Web.
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/index.html#guitar
http://www.guitar69.com
http://www.guitarvista.com/ts/classicalguitar.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~Braumeister/index.htm
http://www.peperomero.com
http://www.worldguitarist.com
Get more every month when you
subscribe to Acoustic Guitar:
http://www.acousticguitar.com/Subs/index.html
or call toll-
free (800) 827-6837.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM UPCOMING ISSUES
OF ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE
Our May issue will be hitting
the newsstands in early April.
Highlights include:
-- Features on Ryan Adams, John
Mayer, India.Arie, and other
new acoustic artists who are
tearing up the charts
-- A history of harp guitars
-- Budget steel-strings from
Blueridge and Hohner reviewed
In our June issue, we review
small-bodied guitars, profile
bluesman Son House, and transcribe
a bluegrass tune from
James Alan Shelton.
Don't miss out on any of these
great features! Subscribe to
Acoustic Guitar today. Sign up
online at
http://www.acousticguitar.com/Subs/index.html
or call toll-free (800) 827-6837.
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ENTER TO WIN A RAINSONG WS1000
GUITAR
The lucky winner of this grand
prize will take home a
Rainsong WS1000 with chrome Gotoh
tuners and abalone rosette
and fretboard inlays, equipped
with a Rainsong Element
Onboard system, designed by L.R.
Baggs, worth $2,495. The
winner will also receive a Baggs
Para Acoustic DI, worth
$209, and a Rainsong T-shirt,
worth $20, for a package
valued at $2,744. Five runners-up
will each receive a
Rainsong T-shirt, worth $20.
To enter the contest and see
the grand prize package, go to
http://www.acousticguitar.com/giveaway2/rainsongplus/index.html
To meet some of our previous
giveaway winners, go to
http://acousticguitar.com/giveaway2/winners/index.html
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Learn more at http://www.stringletter.com
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WIN A FREE CD!
We're giving away a free CD of
acoustic guitar music to the
contributor of the best music
joke or gig story each month.
To enter, simply send your favorite
music joke or anecdote
about a gig from hell to mailto:jokes@stringletter.com.
Be
sure to include a mailing address
in case you win. We'll
award a new prize with each edition.
This month's winners
are Steven Siddle and Margo Peck,
who sent us these
lightbulb jokes.
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LIGHTBULB JOKES
Q: How many country and western
bass players does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: One (five, one, five, one,
five)
Q: How many guitar players does
it take to change a
lightbulb?
A: Six. One to change the bulb,
and five to discuss how Eric
Clapton would have done it.
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