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  • staustin

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    December 26, 2021 at 9:20 pm in reply to: May have ruined my guitar….ugh!!

    I recommend one of these for every room you have a guitar in, and you will know what the temp and humidity is at the moment, and the max and min over time.

    https://buythermopro.com/product/thermopro-tp-55-temperature-and-humidity-monitor/

  • staustin

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    December 1, 2021 at 7:45 pm in reply to: Rotator cuff issues

    Another strategy is to put most of your practice time on a shoulder friendly guitar – check out the Fender Telecaster Player Acoustasonic. Thin body, contours that are right shoulder friendly and the tone is very acoustic sounding. For performing you can take out your Martin D-45. 😉

  • staustin

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    December 1, 2021 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Rotator cuff issues

    You may have tried this already, but give the shoulder a different ‘look’ by playing classical style – with the guitar resting on your left leg rather than the right. Might even try standing and playing, and set the strap at different heights to see what feels best.

  • staustin

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    August 29, 2021 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Help Us Wish TONY a Happy Birthday!!!

    Have a wonderful birthday Tony !!! And thanks for TAC.

  • staustin

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    May 23, 2021 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Heroes – Saturday Night VOM performance

    Great playing David! Now how are you doing this? Are you listening to the song in your headphones while strumming along?

  • staustin

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    May 13, 2021 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Repeated Daily Challenges?

    I’ve been here since the beginning, and yes challenges are repeated. The first few years they were always new and the count of unique challenges got to well over 600. But then (I am thinking) Tony said – that’s enough, now let’s repeat the best, about a 1 or 2 year cycle. That has been fine with me since it I get a chance to do better each time they come around.

  • staustin

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    May 11, 2021 at 2:29 am in reply to: Intro Video

    Try the TAC Quick Start course, maybe that’s where you were.

    https://tonypolecastro.com/courses/quick-start/

  • staustin

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    April 30, 2021 at 10:16 pm in reply to: Song Library

    Hi Sylvie – After choosing flatpicking or fingerpicking, click on the title of the song. Then you will see a page that shows you all the videos for that song and on the right side, attachments which includes the tabs.

  • staustin

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    April 26, 2021 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Kicking Rocks (from the old Song Vault)

    Great work Ted ! Let’s keep the Song Vault alive, so many great songs in there.

  • staustin

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    April 3, 2021 at 12:51 pm in reply to: Banks of Ohio and Freight Train

    Well done! Thanks for helping keep the song vault alive. 😉 Nice tone on that guitar – an SJ 200?

  • staustin

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    May 26, 2021 at 2:45 pm in reply to: Wheres the song vault??

    Well I sure hope they do make these songs available for sale to the public again. Tony & team did such a super job of arranging, documenting, producing and lesson-izing these bluegrass/old time favorites it would be so sad not to revive them again.

  • staustin

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    May 24, 2021 at 2:05 am in reply to: Heroes – Saturday Night VOM performance

    Well I have been wondering about submitting a song where I am not singing just strumming along, but thinking I would have to at least have the song playing in the background. But listening to you, it really isn’t necessary for the listener – I can hear Bowie singing it in my head, and yet I can focus on your guitar playing. I still think I would listen to the song in headphones while playing, I will have to give this a try.

  • staustin

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    April 2, 2021 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Testing First name vs nickname in discussion title

    Trying again.

  • staustin

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    March 25, 2021 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Testing First name vs nickname in discussion title

    Still using my first name, which is not unique. But maybe that is ok – for the purposes of posts, if it shows my first name and my photo, that is unique enough. I am using my 3rd grandson as my photo right now, I will have to take a new one of me!

  • staustin

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    March 25, 2021 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Testing First name vs nickname in discussion title

    Well my nickname “staustin” was fine, it just didn’t show up as the title of the post, my first name “Stephen” was used instead. I will post this and see what happens.

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