--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Someone wrote yesterday (sorry I cannot not recall > who it was) that Joni is > unable to play guitar any more. I have not heard > this so was wondering if > anyone else knew anything about it. I can see how > painting might require a > different amount of fine motor dexterity than guitar > ( I think) so she can > still do that. The original writer had pondered > that. I am curious about > this.
I haven't heard that she's not able; just that she's having some difficulty due to post-polio syndrome. I think the problem may be more with the left hand than the right, which might explain why she uses different tunings for every song and with the VG8 she just has it programmed to sound like these tunings without having to retune every time. If you use the open tunings, usually you only have to hold down one or two fingers of the left hand on the strings, or else bar across the whole thing or just the top few strings, depending on what chord she's playing. She doesn't hold down a lot of full bars, at least not one right after the other, so I guess that doesn't strain the left hand as much as it could (maybe her guitar is strung at a low tension too so she doesn't have to press to hard?) This makes sense if she's right-handed and I presume she is. I think her right hand is fine. So she can paint and do all her interesting right-hand fingering on the guitar. If she's a lefty, my theory is blown to hell, but I don't believe she is - I remember in the PWMAM video that she held the pallet in her left hand and painted with the right. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
