current and future
1. Current: YAMAHA CG151S (Cricket)
Attained around this time last year with my graduation money. My love. It has served me well this year!
Top Solid Spruce , Back & Sides Nato, Neck Nato, Fretboard Rosewood, Bridge Rosewood, Hardware Chrome
2. Current: Samick Ultramatic (Violet Bender)
Attained three years ago while I worked at El Rey Music Center. Paid for it with portions of my paycheck each week over time.
Detail:
The silhouette body on the ULTRAMATIC™, combined with the arch top, makes for a lightweight guitar that has tremendous performance capabilities. The arch top under the bridge adds mass and rigidity to the body. This technique insures that string energy is not absorbed into the body, which kills attack and sustain. The thin silhouette body reduces the weight significantly, making this guitar ideal for the stage performer. The extended top cutaway horn shifts the weight of the guitar away from the neck, making it incredibly comfortable to play.
The double cutaway is designed so that the neck sits deep in the body on the bass side. This makes the neck more rigid and less likely to rob energy from the string.
The alder body with the maple top creates that clean warmth, with bite and definition when you need it.
(Mine is purple)
Future: Jose Ramirez 2CWE Acoustic-Electric Guitar
An electric classical!! If I ever get in a band...drool.
Classical design with cutting edge electronics. Cutaway, Fishman pickup, and onboard equalization make it perfect for the crossover player of jazz/pop/classical or for the performing classical guitarist who's tired of microphone feedback. The most popular Ramirez guitar in the E line, it lends itself well to many playing environments. Sumptuous tone comes from a solid red cedar top while the laminated rosewood back and sides simultaneously keep the price down and look fabulous.
Detail:
Red cedar soundboard
Laminated rosewood back and sides
Spanish cedar neck with ebony reinforcement
Ebony fingerboard
Fustero tuners
Lacquer finish
50mm nut width
650mm scale length
Includes humicase
On a completely seperate note: I registered for my english class next semester. I got into Poetry in Service, but really wanted to get into Writing Humor. Unfortunately, the class was closed by the time it was my registration time. I wrote the teacher an email and requested to be waitlisted and got the response today! It sounded pretty positive; she told me to stop in the first day of class and that there would probably be a few drops. I hope so, that'd be really exciting, I really want to take it!
Poetry in Service: This course moves from the close study of good poetry ? ancient, modern, contemporary ? to the workshopping of student poetry, both in group and one-on-one sessions, and six-week intern-/partnerships with eleven classrooms in Providence. Students work together during the semester as a class, in smaller groups, and in pairs as they embark upon their service. The class is equal parts studio, guild and community service project.
Writing Humor: In this intensive writing seminar, students will explore the ways humor works and does not work in various literary and performative works. In addition to paying close attention to timing, audience, context and rhythm, we will attempt to define the techniques associated with satire, wit, hyperbole, joke, pratfall and other forms. Some writing assignments will critique the mode of humor employed in a given work; others will be exercises in conveying humor