Ground wire

[NickC]

I've been searching everywhere for some Canare Star-Quad type cable in 10 gauge with paisley jacket, for my twisted tube heater string. Anyone know of a source?

[Jana]

Try ebay. You might be able to find some NOS.

You might have to buy Star-Duo and double it up.

[Leo_Gnardo]

I've been searching everywhere for some Canare Star-Quad type cable in 10 gauge with paisley jacket, for my twisted tube heater string. Anyone know of a source?

Paisley jacket - didn't Donovan wear those? - might be found in antique clothing stores say on Kings Road, London. I prefer polka dot - gets those Buddy Guy blooze tones.

[NickC]

I've been searching everywhere for some Canare Star-Quad type cable in 10 gauge with paisley jacket, for my twisted tube heater string. Anyone know of a source?

Paisley jacket - didn't Donovan wear those? - might be found in antique clothing stores say on Kings Road, London. I prefer polka dot - gets those Buddy Guy blooze tones.

Buddy Guy's tone is awesome. He really makes it work. But polka dot jacketed wire can be tricky. More often than not (Buddy Guy being the most notable exception) you end up with Tuba-Ooompa-Band overtones that can't be gotten rid of with any amount of filtering!

[Leo_Gnardo]

But polka dot jacketed wire can be tricky. More often than not (Buddy Guy being the most notable exception) you end up with Tuba-Ooompa-Band overtones that can't be gotten rid of with any amount of filtering!

One of my customers hosts the polka show on local college radio. Always good for a change of pace when DX'ing the FM band. I'll save the polka-dot jacket for him.

How about plaid? Or would that make everything sound like a bagpipe? If I needed to help Big Country get their guitar tones, that would be perfect.

[NickC]

But polka dot jacketed wire can be tricky. More often than not (Buddy Guy being the most notable exception) you end up with Tuba-Ooompa-Band overtones that can't be gotten rid of with any amount of filtering!

One of my customers hosts the polka show on local college radio. Always good for a change of pace when DX'ing the FM band. I'll save the polka-dot jacket for him.

How about plaid? Or would that make everything sound like a bagpipe? If I needed to help Big Country get their guitar tones, that would be perfect.

Bagpipes? Funny you should mention that.

Attended an after-party, jam session till dawn, after a gig once. There was a guy there with bagpipes. Several of us tried to jam along with him, but nothing was in tune. He messed about with the reed trying to adjust the pipes to us. Didn't work. And I tried tuning to him. Even worse. As far as I can tell, bagpipes are inherently out of tune with everything ..... but if you get enough pipers together ...... it all works out in the mix.

Moral of Story: Never try to jam with a piper. It's an exercise in futility. And I suspect Big Country have an engineer well acquainted with Antares Auto Tune or Celemony Melodyne.

[Leo_Gnardo]

I suspect Big Country have an engineer well acquainted with Antares Auto Tune or Celemony Melodyne.

Back when they were having their big hits - the song Big Country for instance - they got the bagpipe tone from a guitar. I watched closely to see how they did it (BC opened for Bowie in Sunderland UK 1987 and I was just @ 15 feet away on the stage) but I couldn't figure it out. I'll credit the skill of the player. Now - if there was only a stomp box that could do it...

Auto tune makes me sick - no likee! Fast change of radio stations when I hear it. Robot voices to entertain robots. Ick. I'm very disturbed to hear it on African and Mid-East pop music. Oh well, latest toy, wave of the future. Others may disagree - that's OK - there's something for everyone out there.

Someone should invent a box & call it "Outa Tune" to fix up those Auto Tuned tracks that bug me.

Now back to the program already in progress.

[Reeltarded]

Bagpipes have more lowend than a nuclear attack. Instruments of war.

D or G chanters. Stay off the flat keys!!

[Bob S]

Have a listen to the Northumbrian pipes.
I might be biased...
Leo - Sunderland in 1987 ???
You were close to God's country.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Leo - Sunderland in 1987 ??? You were close to God's country.

You bet. Got a little too close the day before. We had a day off & 4 or 5 of the crew drove to Edinborough. After a fish n chips lunch & hike up & down the streets to see the sights, headed uphill to Edinborough Castle. It was a couple of minutes to five. We zoomed up to the gate - and the guards raised their weapons towards the car. Well we stopped and piled out, they put their shooters away and we all had a big laugh. It was almost closing time @ 5, and the way we were comin' at the gate they thought we might be a car full of terrorists. No matey, we're tourists not terrorists. No castle tour that day but we grabbed a spot of dinner & drove back to Sunderland.

Hotel in Sunderland was The Swallow. Nice smallish kind of place near the beach. They had a bar of course, and games room called - the Swallow Fun Club. Gave us all a free tee shirt, with that printed on it. What a larf!

[Reeltarded]

I lost a friend at sea in a plane crash. The US Marine pipers played the memorial in a chapel much to small to hold that sound. There is no place big enough to hold that sound. Just a hint and I feel like I belong there amongst the sons of Saxony. It feels like patriotism, only real.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Moral of Story: Never try to jam with a piper. It's an exercise in futility.

A couple minutes to 8, Sunday nite, walked in after visiting my geriatric neighbor & the radio was tuned to Fiona Ritchie's Celtic show on NPR. Some rockin' bagpipe music, so sonomagun, it CAN be done. Reasonably in tune for pipes and not only that, the player was knockin' out guitar licks! Dang! I didn't catch all the credits but it was a live show with piper Gordon Duncan. Shouldnt' be too tough to track his work down, for the intrepid listener.

BTW I think the German word for bagpiper is a hoot: Dudelsackpfeifer. Straight ahead translation - doodle sack piper.