Re: Way OT: EM fingers!

["Joshua Carroll" <josh@infinivert.com>]

Or, for a real challenge, how about learning to play Stanley Jordan style?
 That would make good use of your fast right hand!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7942029277711475397

--Josh



>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Sales
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 16:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Way OT: EM fingers!
>
>
>>The woman who's husband I am... (PC anyone?!) crushed her finger with a
>>sledge hammer a few years ago. Lost all the feeling in the finger. She
>>smashed it much worse than you, I can guarantee it - the whole finger was
>>wide open - gruesome.
>
> Yep, I had to clean up the blood before we left for the hospital, it was
> all
> over the new stone tiles and they hadn't been sealed yet!
>
>>Anyhow, after a year or so of trying everything else, the feeling and a
>> lot
>>of the motion was restored with acupuncture.
>
> I'll ask my acupuncturist about this.  She's done wonders for blood
> pressure
> and circulation around injured bits before!
>
>>I think the carpenter might be close to right as far as healing time. But
>>the rest of your fingers work, eh? Remember Django Reinhart?
>
> Er, while I've been tempted by a very fast right hand with the idea of
> re-learning to play Jimi-style, such is a hurdle I'll deal with only if I
> have to.  The middle finger's my main/center point (self-taught, played 
>by
> ear since '71).  I'll tell ya it's a real temptation just to play after
> going to see Fripp today.  I knew it would be a little painful thinking
> about playing after coming home but I really don't want to screw up what
> could be healing interior-wise just by mistakenly using that finger.
>
>>Time to learn how to play slide guitar?
>
> Too late.  Started using a slide in the early 80s, long before learning
> anything about Blues music.  Been thinking about it, frankly.
>
>>My own take on money, after having spent huge piles of it, is that TIME
>> is
>>more important than equipment.
>
> Ah yes, but having had no disposable income - much less income - for over
> six years, and seeing my 50th birthday coming up in December, I've 
>decided
> that time is something that's, as Riff Raff put it, "fleeting".
>
> In preparation for unleashing myself on the public again, I need to find 
>a
> good, inexpensive guitar repair person to fix a grounding error in ol'
> Cthulhu.  In London, someone I can see face-to-face and trust with my
> beloved tool.  After several years of dealing with workmen in London I
> only
> use good personal references.
>
>> Some of the most riveting, entertaining, soul stirring and wonderful
>> guitarists I've ever known just used a Tele and amp... or, even simpler,
>> one acoustic guitar. Just my $.02
>
> I'll try to keep the bar high then, as all I've got is my ol' strat and 
>an
> Oscar Schmidt acoustic. :)  Yes, here's to working within limitations to
> achieve a lovely result!
>
> Thx!
>
>
>>Good luck
>
> richard sales
> glassWing farm and studio
> vancouver island, b.c.
> 800.545.6846
> 250.752.4816
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> www.richardsales.com
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> www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com
> On 13-Jun-06, at 1:41 AM, Stephen Goodman wrote:
>
>
> Okay, I knew I'd ask about this but now have no choice from context
> alone...
>
> The rig has been down for several months given massive works on the 
>house.
> On a weekend three or so weeks ago when I'd just had it and wanted to 
>play
> no matter what, I stupidly crushed the end of my left middle finger
> between
> two big flagstones around 3 weeks ago, splitting the end like a melon.
> Didn't break anything (x-ray check) and it wasn't a center-on hit so I
> kept
> the nail. I can however feel the hard bit inside where the scar tissue is
> forming. I massage the tip most of the time, gently, and the feeling in
> the
> tip still hasn't come back. I've been told by a carpenter who says he did
> something similar that it won't come back for as much as three months.
> Obviously this effects playing - and even if one excludes the nuances one
> obtains through good feeling-control, the hazard of not feeling the
> fingertip becomes one of finger damage through sense ignorance.
>
> I was itching to play before this happened, and have been having lucid
> dreams about playing since a week after the accident. Needless to say 
>here
> is an illustration as to why one should not hesitate before going at it.
> I'm
> going to come into just a little bit of money via my late mum-in-law
> sometime in the next month or so, and have decided that [a] life is
> frigging
> short, and [b] I'm going to get a small, efficient amp system for
> performance purposes and rent a couple of halls in the London area when
> this
> damned finger gets better.
>
> So, guitarists on the list: How long will it take for this to come back?
> Thx
> in advance.
>
> S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Shirkey"
> <jcshirke@midway.uchicago.edu>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 02:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Way OT: EM fingers!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ... but can you imagine how you could use this to feel your way around a
> keyboard, or a guitar.... your house?
>
>
> Actually, no. :) How would this help someone make music?
>
> I currently treat a fractured bone in my foot with EM waves 10 hours a
> day.
> I'm not sure that's something I'd want to feel.
>
> Jeff
>
>