Tune your guitar online
How the world has changed. Mark is right too, of course, but often the future sneaks past us before we’ve even noticed. Aeons ago, before the interweb and PCs, when I began learning to play bass guitar, if you wanted to tune up (and this was in the days of punk rock, you understand, so it was strictly optional), you would call yourself up on your big, crème-coloured GPO-issue telephone. For some reason, the line was always busy (doesn’t that idiot ever get off the phone?), but that ‘engaged’ tone was a pure ‘G’ and so you could tune your G-string to it — in the days before all the chicks and some of the guys started wearing them, naturalment. Nowadays, you just type ‘tune your guitar online’ into Google and the worldwide web practically tunes the bloody thing for you. Luxury. Our 12-year-old, Joe, is learning to play the guitar and wants to do tricky stuff, such as tune his guitar to a chord, like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and other ancients, areas of which (the top two strings, for example) are beyond the modest span of my expertise. Aren’t we lucky to have the internet?
posted by Chris Bell at 11:16 AM
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