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Location: New South Wales, Australia | This may have been covered before my time but I'll ask anyway. Why do they call it a nut, and do all guitars have one? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Really depends on who the owner is...quite a few are...lol
The nut of a string instrument is a small strip or block of hard material forming a transition between the strings' playing length and the tuning machines on the headstock, or the tuning pegs in the pegbox at the upper end of the fingerboard. Along with the bridge, the nut defines the vibrating lengths of the open strings.
Yes, all guitars have them. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | A bit like cars, the nut that holds the steering wheel lol |
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| Not all guitars have nuts to dictate the string length - a zero fret does the same thing (a lot better in many luthiers opinion) but a guitar still needs a nut to space the strings apart.
Boy you must desperate for a smoke by now. I can tell you a guaranteed way to give up smoking overnight, but you wouldn't like it. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Originally posted by schroeder:
Not all guitars have nuts to dictate the string length - a zero fret does the same thing (a lot better in many luthiers opinion) but a guitar still needs a nut to space the strings apart.
Boy you must desperate for a smoke by now. I can tell you a guaranteed way to give up smoking overnight, but you wouldn't like it. Try me Schroeder...I'm willing to give anything a go...as for my first smoke free day I cracked at about 8 tonight (it's 10.40pm here now) and I'm so pissed off with myself as I'd gone all day without one. :mad: |
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| No you're not willing - it involves a man telling you you have a tumor the size of a table tennis ball sitting on one of your vocal chords and it's entirely due to smoking. And is your preference burial or cremation? 40 a day to 0 a day in 0.2 seconds. Never fails I'm told. Worked for me.
But if it's any consolation in your weakness - I think it's the only way I would ever have given up. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Don't beat yourself up Watto all day is a good start. It's a choice, yes I want one and I choose not to have one.
Mate its not easy, make a choice. James |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | So, you're down to one a day.
Good start.
Don't backslide.
The goal is now > one a day, or less. < |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | When quitting smoking you just got keep at it. There will be occassional backsliding, but that's part of the process. The first two or three days, as it's been explained to me, is the physical additiction, and then after that it's mental addiction.
Remember, for the indians, tobacco was a sacrament, used for special occassions, maybe like going to church once a week. It was not meant for everyday (or chain smoking) use.
Nicotine is a very addictive drug. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | 25 years ago my wife quit smoking by hypnosis. She was only a 1/2 pack a day smoker, but we had just bought our first home and wanted to start a family. One of the MDs she worked with had just gone off and got himself certifid as a hypnotist. The idea being that in the ER he could help people to relax and maybe be less scared of the medical condition or procedure they were facing.
Anyway, he agreed to try to get her to quit smoking, but he had never done that before. I wasn't allowed to be there, but he comes over to the house and my wife swears they chatted for about 10 minutes and he left. Says she was never "under". Well, turns out he was there for over 2 hours and that night my wife slept like an absolute log. I thought she was dead.
She's never smoked another cigatette since. She said she had a slight craving that first morning, but since then she is absolutely repulsed by the smell, sight or thought of smoking. If I had known that the hypnosis would be so successful I would have had the doc program her to be a better cook and keep the house a little cleaner ...
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Ah,Good Food ,Yes !!...and why is it called a Nut...or Saddle..or Guitar..and did Indians smoke Tobacco ??...I thought those were green plants.. :)
Vic
...Well Done Ozzie..one step at the time.. ;) |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Hypnosis..Good Idea..
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Location: SoCal | Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Fortunately for me, my dad quit just after he got out of the service, probably because he couldn't afford it. I was always repulsed by the smell and couldn't figure out why people wanted to smell like that. One time trying it as a kid out behind the barn was enough for me. I couldn't stand the taste of beer then, either, but those tastebuds changed. |
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