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What's in my Soundhole Today
StoreTags: guitar, classical, kids, mischief
Author: 11t1 on March 09 2007 Viewed 2052 times. 27 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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So I've got this crappy old pawn shop find classical guitar that I just love playing. The action is ridiculously high, but the tone is nice & rich & I haven't changed the strings in eons.
Lately, my son (just under 2 yrs old) has taken to putting various items in the soundhole while no one's looking. About a week ago, I heard a strange rattling while I was playing, only to discover that he had emptied the contents of a bowl of pretzels into my guitar.
Today, I made another pleasant discovery as I was picking out this tune I'm working on for a kid's album I might get around to one day. Upon emptying the guitar, I found he'd given me a pencil, a multi-coloured plastic straw, and an expired membership card from Costco.
Sometimes I wonder what's going on in his little head. Is this some sort of toddler's postal service, perhaps, or is he offering sacrifices to the strange wooden beast who makes the music. I wish he could tell me.
BTW, the kid in the picture is actually my daughter about 3 yrs ago, but you get the gist. | |
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bbwax
dern, all i've ever found in mine are picks. and a capo one time maybe.
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11t1
He has a tendency to leave apple cores lying around at random. Dreading the day I find one of those rotting in there.
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quip
i sometimes borrow a pa off this nice guy. his kids always put stuff in the scoops and horns. when i sound check i hear a rattle and guess what ? theres a couple of bricks of duplo and a pony in the bass bin. scoops must be like portals to another universe for a small child. they are simply offering there prizes to the gods of bass.
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Roshi
LOL...reminds me of the "kid logic" show on this american life. link
Except that you're canadian. 
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11t1
thx 4 the link - i'll have to make time to listen to that
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mlbot
John Cage Junior and his prepared-guitar technique.
Please, please. Open up your DAW and record a phrase next time you find stuff in your guitar. Save it. Then the next time, write another verse. And then another. Finally, when you have several pieces of rattly guitar music, drop in the vocals.
"What's that in my guitar? (rattle rattle) What's that in my guitar? (rattle rattle) Its 6 pieces of legos and a matchebox winnebago rattling in my guitar!"
"whats that in my guitar? (meoooww) Whats that in my guitar? (meoo Its the family cat, what do you think about that, and he's inside my guitar!"
"Whats that in my guitar? (slosh slosh) whats that in my guitar? (slosh slosh) A cup of apple juice, all liquid and loose is sloshing in my guitar!"
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Roshi
OMG someone should have a band called John Cage Junior.
That would so cool.
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mlbot
or Johnny Cage
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Roshi
Isn't he a street fighter character? :P
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strangus
Maybe he thinks the guitar is hungry.
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lunatinker
my son did that with my guitar when he was two. also. its endearing. i think he wanted to "feed the music" in some way. never really understood. cute stuff thoughs!
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monkvolcano
johnny cage was mortal kombat duh.. :P
cut pic by the way.. it's one of my favorite things to see parents sharing music with their kids..
but yea, obviously your son is just leaving u presents.
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Squeal
Both of my kids did this, and Sean(2) still does. Also in the f-hole of my fake rickenbacker, and in my guitar speaker cab. Basically any hole. Also I can't leave any cables around cause they'll play synth patch madness with everything. I think they see how much I like this stuff, so they figure it ought to do cool stuff. Kid logic. Hmm.
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energygiant
yesssssssssssss sweet picture!!
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11t1
my mixer/pre-amp sits on a table only about 2 feet off the ground. luckily, he hasn't figured out how to yank out chords (because there's nowhere else for me to put it), but he's always twiddling the knobs. I have to double check everything before I turn it on.
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