Sorry to hear about the tortoise, Tharg. I won’t speculate, but you have my sympathy.
{{Tharg and Mrs Tharg}}
And what is wrong with a gruff Blues rumble, prithee? Ian Siegal – “With a voice so gravelly and raspy, he makes Tom Waits sound like a choir boy, Siegal bridges the gap between the past and the future of the blues.” And there are plenty of Rock and Roll vocalists who sound like they gargle with nails. Don’t hide your light under a bushel (or any other Medieval measure of dry grain) – You might be an undiscovered Rock Legend. 🙂
Anyway, it took DH 3 goes before he finally got hooked enough to stick out the early stuff, but now he’s still enjoying it after almost 3 years. It certainly comes in handy having someone to hand who has already found a few of the pit falls and knows how to let me bypass them – e.g. when one of the strings wasn’t tuning up a couple of days ago and I thought it was a problem with the tuning key, but it was actually the string binding slightly to the notch in the nut. Applying a bit of graphite to the notch using a 2B pencil sorted it in no time.
Really looking forward to my first guitar. Delivery still a whole week away at the earliest!