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[bunkalar]

I played the guitar before my accident. I just got it out the other day and tried to fiddle around with it. Any quads with finger impairment tried playing guitar?

[Illinois Boy]

bunkalar, on Dec 1 2007, 03:42 PM, said:

I played the guitar before my accident. I just got it out the other day and tried to fiddle around with it. Any quads with finger impairment tried playing guitar?

I used to play a 57 stratocaster and fiddle, after my wreck in 82 I bought a lap steel..... I turned it to an F chord, made a splint to hold a pick in my right hand and one to hold a slide in my left......
It was OK, I could play some sloppy George Thorogood songs..... It just wasn't the same.
Haven't messed with it in 25 years......

Jim

[jaison13]

bunkalar, on Dec 1 2007, 09:42 PM, said:

I played the guitar before my accident. I just got it out the other day and tried to fiddle around with it. Any quads with finger impairment tried playing guitar?

i won't be jamming any blazing solos but in drop d tuning you can play cord by holding down the first 3 strings. you can play tons of rock with that tuning.

[knight]

I like to play guitar but how do you do it just the use of one hand

[silone74]

Hi i dont know if this will help but i was watching QVC shopping channel and a guy on there had a thing i think was called guitar magic and it is a block that you hold in ya hand and can use to change cords it looks good and he used it to play and it was really good you dont need to move ya fingers it fits into ya hand,i will try find some info on it and get back to you. It might av been ideal world shopping channel
Ok found it its called guitar wizard http://www.guitarwiz.co.uk/ see if this may help i saw it on tv and the presenter played after a few goes
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Silone74

Edited by silone74, 04 February 2008 - 03:38 PM.

[Zammo]

I see, so youopen tune the guitar and then this device creates a barre chord for you. A bit like an advanced kapo.

As a para that's one thing that I am thankful for, that I can still get to grips with my Les Paul.

I feel for you guys that can't use them anymore. That stinks

[Illinois Boy]

Found these pictures when going through my grandma's photo albums after she passed away, got my 57 Strat on my 6th birthday..........

Jim



One more........
Jim

[woodman]

bunkalar, on Dec 1 2007, 11:42 AM, said:

I played the guitar before my accident. I just got it out the other day and tried to fiddle around with it. Any quads with finger impairment tried playing guitar?

In another life, I was once familiar with works by Weiss, Ponce, and G. Sanz.

Five years ago, I was volunteer at the rehab hospital where I did my time. A para had a guitar that was slightly out of tune and I tried to correct it, but I couldn't remember the proper reference order for accurate tuning. It took me damn near forever to figure it out.

I use a single-string method to minimize tuning errors that will usually compound if using the more widely practiced consecutive-string method to tune the instrument. Since my right hand is out of commission, I'm reduced to sounding off notes using clumsy thumbnail free stroke to strike each string.

It's ridiculous, so if this is what I've gotta do to merely tune the guitar, I'll stick to playing the f*ucking radio.