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It all started so innocently. A simple conversation with a coworker about music. His son had recently gotten a new electric guitar. I mentioned that Walt had been thinking about getting a guitar. The next thing you know, our home is starting to look like a music studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The guitar is a Dean Vendetta<\/a>, a good starter electric guitar. It needed a bit of work so my coworker gave it to us for free. But a free guitar is like a free kitten. We had to learn about amplifiers and pedals. Walt had to learn about adjusting truss rods and choosing string gauges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We got it fixed up. We purchased an amplifier and a pedal set. Time to play guitar! Walt had an acoustic guitar growing up and has played off and on. He’s also played a fair amount of harmonica. He quickly picked up the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was struggling with fingering, so we decided to go look at smaller guitars to see if that would be more workable for me. I found I could play better with a parlor or 3\/4 size acoustic guitar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then we took a right turn at Albuquerque. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While we were at the music store, I started fiddling around with a few digital pianos and keyboards. I had owned a 61 key basic digital keyboard for a few years, but had sold it to friends. To my surprise, I actually remembered a few chords. Now we had to learn about digital pianos versus digital keyboards. We had to learn about pedals and sound options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After some shopping around and some discussion, we opted to get a digital piano for me and purchased a Williams Allegro IV Digital Piano (this<\/a> home set).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m having a lot of fun re-learning chords and brushing up on my music reading skills. Maybe at some point we will actually be able to play something together ;). I suspect that one of those acoustic guitars will be the next instrument to find it’s way here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year of saying yes<\/a> continues! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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