All we have in shops are the very thin crap cello tape that 1) Dont hold that well 2) gets torn in multiple ways and becomes a spaghetti mess. In US they have multiple strong tapes like Gorilla Tape, plus Scotch brand itself has a heavy duty packaging tape that is a beast in holding stuff together. It is not available in India for some reason. (Can only ship from US directly in Amazon for 1300 for a roll of tape aaargh)
I recently acquired a cello that I was planning on attempting to learn the basics of during this pandemic. Today I decided to make it my goal to tape the first position, however there must be something wrong with the intonation (i think is the correct term) of this cello, because when I play E on the D string, it is in tune, however, when I move my finger to play the corresponding A on the G string its flat. I edited this picture to explain it better
image is there anything I can do?
Hello r/FountainPen members,
I am sharing here few quick and easy steps I followed every time to take out Lamy nib from pen to swap or to clean or to send for replacement etc.
- Take cello tape about half inches and loop it over the nib.
- Keep loop such that tape sticks 80% to the main front face of nib and not at the body of the nib holder.
- Keep the stickiness of tape on nib specially at its bottom portion.
- Use thumb and index finger of pulling hand and hold main pen with other hand.
- Pull out as spike / quickly but smoothly..and only nib will pull out in a micro second.
--I attached below few picture where I have tried to show how we can tape over nib. And it comes out easily .
https://imgur.com/gallery/DoYv6l3
Please message me if any one need further help.
Wishing all r/FountainPen members and their families a Merry Chirstmas.
Regards, Sunil.
So I've been wanting to have orchestration added to enhance some of my acoustic singer-songwriter style songs, but just can't see paying over $1K to do it.
electro-harmonix recently released a guitar pedal version of the Mellotron, so I couldn't wait to get it.
I fingerpicked my chord progression from "So Alone" and a progression for a new song I've not yet finished nor named.
Some of the sounds worked great for this style, and some, like the brass an saxophone worked so poorly I didn't include it on the video but will add a soundcloud link to all nine.
This is all nine effects in order: orchestra, cello, strings, flute, clarinet, saxophone, brass, low then high choir.
So what do you think of the sounds?
edit: on the video I forgot to tag the last joke "Bonus" section in black-and-white, "Phantom Stairway to Heaven" spoof, it's done on the "orchestra" setting with the amp set clean and starts at 4:45.
