The guitar update

For another update, I am still waiting for the guitar I have to be in my hands and functional. It had one broken string when it came to me and just needed to be sorted out, and basically I know nothing about guitars so thought I’d just take it somewhere and let someone else fix it. The first Saturday after I got it I didn’t make it to the repair shop I knew, which wasn’t open Sundays, so then I had to wait another week, and ending up taking it to a different shop. That was the weekend before last, and I loitered about perusing guitars hoping Glen Hansard might come by, but, alas, my life never is a movie. They didn’t call me all that week so last weekend I called expecting it to be ready. It wasn’t. Then on Wednesday they finally called to tell me it was done, and I can now get it this weekend. Obviously you should learn to restring your own guitar so it doesn’t have to go to a shop for two weeks.

So, sometime soon I should be able to play Bach’s Bouree.

Ah, I’m not serious, I have no such confidence in my potential and no expectation that I’ll ever be able to play that. Watch this improvisation, and love the fact that the guy is performing in sneakers (Bach is at 2.00 mins, but this is more how I know it):