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The Acoustic Guitar Wire
From Acoustic Guitar Magazine
www.acousticguitar.com
September 2004 Issue 31
This issue is sponsored by Acoustic Pro Musician
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1. Welcome to the Acoustic Guitar Wire
2. Acoustic Pro Musician
3. Acoustic Guitar Cruise II
4. Enter to win a Martin Guitar
5. Play Guitar!
6. New at AcousticGuitar.com
7. New at Stringletter.com
8. Talk it Up!
9. News and Notes
10. DVD Dilemma
11. On the Web: Radio from Scotland
12. Highlights from Upcoming Issues of Acoustic Guitar
13. Try a FREE Issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine
14. Back Issues of Acoustic Guitar
15. Win a Free CD!
16. Grown-up Guitarists?
17. AG Wire Archives
18. Contact and Unsubscribe Info
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WELCOME TO THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR WIRE NO. 31
Summer's winding down and school's back in session, and the
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ACOUSTIC GUITAR CRUISE II
A handful of spaces are still available on the second annual
Acoustic Guitar Cruise, sailing the eastern Caribbean Oct.
23-30. Publisher David A.Lusterman, AG editor Scott Nygaard,
fingerstyle ace Peppino D'Agostino, Taylor Guitars founder
Bob Taylor, guitar wizard Happy Traum, and singer-songwriter
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ENTER TO WIN A MARTIN GUITAR
Enter by November 30, and you could be the owner of a Martin
OM-28JM John Mayer Signature Model acoustic guitar, courtesy
of C. F. Martin & Co. and Acoustic Guitar magazine. The
grand prize package is valued at $4,823. Check it out and
enter the giveaway by clicking on the 'Win' button in the
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PLAY GUITAR!
Not only is the new, fourth edition of Play Guitar! on the
newsstands now, but we've launched the new, improved Play
Guitar! website, a cornucopia of resources for beginning and
developing players. Check it out at
http://www.playguitarmagazine.com/
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NEW AT WWW.ACOUSTICGUITAR.COM
The new and improved Acoustic Guitar website is easier to
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Acoustic Guitar sweatshirts, caps, T-shirts, travel
tumblers, duffle bags, and other authentic AG wearables and
accessories are available in the Acoustic Guitar Online
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$30 purchase from
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Looking for a luthier? The Acoustic Guitar Magazine Guitar
Maker Directory is a powerful search engine for locating
guitar makers. Take the plunge at
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New Private Lessons: Your ability to play up and down the
entire fingerboard will depend on your knowledge of movable
chords. Happy Traum shows you the way. And Karen Hogg
teaches you how to adapt Jimi Hendrix-like chord voicings to
acoustic guitar. Both include audio of Happy and Karen
demonstrating the examples.
http://www.acousticguitar.com
Find more great lessons at:
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The October issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine is on
newsstands now. Read these excerpts online:
-- Roger McGuinn of the Byrds talks about folk music,
songwriting, the Web, and touring solo.
-- Reviews of new recordings by Eddie Pennington, Eliza
Gilkyson, Men of Steel, Mozaik, the Clumsy Lovers, the
Honeydogs, Calexico, Hot Club of San Diego, and others.
-- News about a benefit recording for Alejandro Escovedo,
new guitar instruction DVDs, the European Bluegrass Music
Association, classical guitarist Marcin Dylla, and more.
-- The October issue also includes Scott Nygaard's survey
of 'Rockin' Young Stringbands'--the Mammals, the Duhks, and
the Foghorn String Band; John Renbourn, Ed Gerhard, Patty
Larkin, Guy Van Duser, Frank Vignola, and Russ Barenberg
talking about how to achieve great guitar tone; profiles of
Ana Vidovic, Romero Lubambo, and Bozo Podunavac; music to
the Byrds' 'Ballad of Easy Rider' and Pat Metheny's version
of 'Ferry Cross the Mersey,' and more.
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NEW AT STRINGLETTER.COM
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issues, books, and videos in our online acoustic music
store. In addition to our extensive collection of back
issues, you'll find all of our popular guitar reference and
instruction books, plus songbooks and instructional videos
in many styles from many publishers. Whether you want to
master slide guitar, learn a Beatles tune, or polish a song
by Eric Clapton, John Jorgenson, or John Mayer, let
www.stringletter.com be your source.
Http://www.stringletter.com/index.asp
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TALK IT UP!
You can always find lively, opinionated, and informative
discussion about guitars, players, and acoustic music at
Guitar Talk, home of the online discussion forums at
www.acousticguitar.com. Chat about Gear, Players, Playing
Guitar, and more, and check up on events and post your own
in the Gigs, Workshops, and Gatherings forum.
Http://www.acousticguitar.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi
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NEWS AND NOTES
On July 30, New York City posthumously honored folksinger
Dave Van Ronk, known to many as 'the mayor of MacDougal
Street,' by renaming a portion of Greenwich Village’s
Sheridan Square in his honor. The ceremony coincided with
both Van Ronk’s 67th birthday and the Smithsonian Folkways
release of '… And the Tin Pan Bended and the Story
Ended… '--a 24-song recording of Van Ronk’s final concert
from October 2001.
http://www.folkways.si.edu
As the 2003 winner of the European Bluegrass Band Award,
Austrian-Czech band Nugget will represent the European
Bluegrass Music Association at this year’s Bluegrass
Fanfest, October 8-10, during the International Bluegrass
Music Association’s World of Bluegrass convention in
Louisville, Kentucky. The EBMA has recently committed itself
to sending the winning band, determined at the annual
European World of Bluegrass Festival, to Fanfest, and this
year’s winner, Fragment, from Slovakia/Czech Republic, will
perform at the 2005 Fanfest. Find out more at
http://www.ebma.org
and
http://www.ibma.org
As if on a Gypsy caravan of old, such acts as the John
Jorgenson Quintet, Robin Nolan Trio, Pearl Django, and the
Hot Club of San Francisco continue their peripatetic
celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt as they
literally swing into the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
in Langley, Washington, for DjangoFest Northwest 2004,
September 30-October 3. DjangoFest Northeast follows soon
thereafter, October 15-17, at the Sellersville Theater in
Sellersville, Pennsylvania, featuring Jorgenson, the Ritary
Ensemble, Stephane Wrembel, Ameranouche!!, the Hot Club of
Philadelphia, the Gadjo Playboys, and others.
Http://www.djangofest.com
http://www.djangofestnortheast.com
For more news and events, check out the Happenings in the
Current Issue online
http://www.acousticguitar.com
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DVD DILEMMA
Acoustic Guitar reader Dedrick Morris of Springfield,
Illinois, was given the Rosenberg Trio’s 'Live in Samois'
DVD, but it is in the European PAL format. He asks, 'What
options are available to make PAL DVDs playable on NTSC
televisions?'
Henry Kaiser offers this advice: There are two issues
involved in trying to play DVDs from other countries: video
standard and DVD region. NTSC (National Television System
Committee) is the video standard used in the US, Canada,
Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. The PAL (Phase
Alternating Line) and SECAM (Système Électronique pour
Couleur avec Mémoire) standards are what you typically find
in Europe and most of the rest of world. Most DVD players do
convert these standards internally. What you are probably
running up against is an incompatible region code.
Corporations have divided the world into six discrete DVD
regions, and the internal software in a DVD player is
usually set to play only DVDs from the region in which the
player was purchased. This becomes increasingly problematic
as more and more of us track down interesting music DVDs
from other countries. However, many DVD players allow you to
reset the service code to all-region play. An Internet
search (your particular model of DVD player + 'code' + 'all-
region play') should turn up information on how to program
this change. If your DVD player does not allow for internal
standards conversion, you might consider purchasing an all-
region-play or code-free DVD player that will play any DVD.
They can be relatively inexpensive ($100-$200), and it would
cost you almost that much to pay to have a foreign region-
encoded DVD converted to be playable on your current
machine.
Get more tips, advice, and answers to questions about
guitars, gear, and history by visiting the Q&A section at
http://www.acousticguitar.com
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ON THE WEB: RADIO FROM SCOTLAND
You know it’s a new information age when you can tune in to
a radio show that broadcasts from the fishing village of
Ullapool in Dingwall near Inverness on the Cromarty Firth.
(Dingwall is a three-hour drive from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and
John O’Groats, Scotland.) Though the eye-popping web pages
can be difficult to navigate, 'The Medicine Show' webcasts
feature a unique variety of local Scottish musicians and
international artists. A recent playlist included songs by
Garnet Rogers, Inga McIroy, Kenny Brady ('the Celtic
Cajun'), Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, and the Coal Porters
(featuring Sid Griffin). Tune in at
http://rob.ellen.users.btopenworld.com/frontpage/index.html
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM UPCOMING ISSUES OF ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE
Our November gear special, on newsstands October 5, will
include Teja Gerken's review of nine jumbo flattops; a
survey of the coolest new guitars, amplification gear, and
accessories; a trip through guitar stores that offer unique
personal touches; In the Spotlight profiles of James Talley,
the Mountain Goats, and the Subdudes; advice on finding the
right balance in your practice routine and multitracking
guitar parts; and lots of music to play, including Eddie
Lang's 'Blue Guitars.'
-- The December issue will feature and interview with
fingerstyle star Kaki King, profiles of Nick Drake-
influenced acoustic alt-pop musicians Devendra Banhart, Iron
and Wine and Kings of Convenience, and a survey of guitar
instruction DVDs.
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Be sure to include a mailing address in case you win. We'll
award a new prize with each edition. This month's short and
to the point winning entry is from Annette Ryncarz of
Tupelo, Mississippi.
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GROWN-UP GUITARISTS?
'Mommy! Mommy! When I grow up I want to be a guitar player!'
'Now Johnny, you can't do both!'
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