John Nguyen
8/13/2011 7:02:00 PM
On Aug 13, 1:38 pm, Slogoin <la...@deack.net> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 9:15 am, John Nguyen <johnnguyen5...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Unfortunately yes, fortunately!
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> You are a man of many... talents.
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> One of my ex students has it bad. He has been teaching a CG making
> class at the local WoodCraft and is on the board of the local luthier
> group.
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> When the students finish the guitars we get together and play them.
> Lots of fun with some very interesting people. One systems engineer in
> the class has posted here but none of them have gone as far nor as
> fast as my student, who seems almost obsessed.
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> In fact he's is going to Spain to see all the places he read about
> in the Romanillos biography of Torres. His luthier teacher was the
> first female to study with Romanillos and he's made a number of
> guitars based on various models in that book.
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> Sorry to hear you are so prone to such a seductress because she can
> take you away from playing like it did for my ex student and you can
> see how that's working for him. :-)
I find woodworking very addictive but therapeutic. I have to admit I
try to play more than to build. There is some sort of instant
gratifcation with playing a piece of music. With woodworking I enjoy
more on the proccess as there are so many variables and
unpreedictability involved.
Cheers,
John