Sometime during the discussions on bone mechanics with my student this idea, which seemed so perfect at that time, took its final shape that if bones can be easily cut using a wire saw then why can't I use it to take off a little material off the nut of my guitar. I had been pretty convinced that what lied between me and a fluent guitarist is not the ear for music, or agile fingers but the gap between the strings and the fretboard of my guitar. The wire saw was central to the solution.
Most efficiently the student got a wire saw issued on my name, and I headed home pretty determined that it was about time that the guitar was made more suitable for learning music. The sight of me with the guitar in one hand and a saw in the other perhaps perturbed RRS a little but it was easy to ignore the gentle murmur he let out about how I was about to destroy a perfectly working guitar. I took out the guitar from its case and laid it on the bed, and started to unwind the first wire to be able to access the groove in the nut. TONG. The wire recoiled, it had broken at the beaded end! The source of the gentle murmur registered the sound and nodded to my elaborate explanation about how I had tried to unwind thinking that it is a right handed screw and how actually it was anything but that because when you hold the guitar and tune you do it with left hand and all blah blah blah. Having the guitar already 10% injured even before I got down to sawing off stuff did dent my initial enthusiasm to some extent. And after sawing the nut a couple of times the name of that tea we used get in Kanpur 'Runglee Rungliot' flashed in my head which apparently means 'this far no further'.
I packed the saw back into my bag-pack telling myself to be wiser about anything students do efficiently. Really, just because your guide tells you to get a wire-saw, should you? When will they ever learn to think independently and have the confidence to question my judgement but there was no point what was done was done and immediately the net was accessed and a shop was narrowed down and we headed for getting the guitar fixed. To be contd.......
Most efficiently the student got a wire saw issued on my name, and I headed home pretty determined that it was about time that the guitar was made more suitable for learning music. The sight of me with the guitar in one hand and a saw in the other perhaps perturbed RRS a little but it was easy to ignore the gentle murmur he let out about how I was about to destroy a perfectly working guitar. I took out the guitar from its case and laid it on the bed, and started to unwind the first wire to be able to access the groove in the nut. TONG. The wire recoiled, it had broken at the beaded end! The source of the gentle murmur registered the sound and nodded to my elaborate explanation about how I had tried to unwind thinking that it is a right handed screw and how actually it was anything but that because when you hold the guitar and tune you do it with left hand and all blah blah blah. Having the guitar already 10% injured even before I got down to sawing off stuff did dent my initial enthusiasm to some extent. And after sawing the nut a couple of times the name of that tea we used get in Kanpur 'Runglee Rungliot' flashed in my head which apparently means 'this far no further'.
I packed the saw back into my bag-pack telling myself to be wiser about anything students do efficiently. Really, just because your guide tells you to get a wire-saw, should you? When will they ever learn to think independently and have the confidence to question my judgement but there was no point what was done was done and immediately the net was accessed and a shop was narrowed down and we headed for getting the guitar fixed. To be contd.......
