Plectrum is the object. Picking is the verb. You pick with a plectrum. Fingers are the objects. Picking is the verb. You pick with your fingers. Sometimes you're picking your guitar strings. Sometimes you're picking your nose. I suppose a plectrum could be called a "picker," but that could be confused with the person (picker) who picks with a plectrum...or fingers. Just don't use your plectrum on your nose.
Excellent Silly Moustache. I agree, it's the finger nails which rub on it. I don't scratch the pick guard much, because I don't use a pick that much. Wow you have a set of gorgeous (Collings are pretty pricey) acoustic guitars... I'm 61 and started 6 years ago. I could only afford one guitar a Martin 000-15M. I love it. Very interesting videos, thank you 🎶🎶🎶
The scratch plate does catch some plectrum. It depends on what and how you play I think. I have nearly played a hole into the top of my early 70’s red label Yamaha in the same spot as Trigger has a hole. 😂lots of love in that guitar
Yes, I understand, but if you hit the guitar top or scratch-plate / "pick guard" your picking method is inefficient and could benefit from modifying yuor playing style.
Lol I swear I never even seen this video as on your most recent vid I asked this question about how I could never see you scratching your guitar with a pick. As always Andy you have everything covered👍
Andy, you said that if you are hitting the pickguard with the pick “it must be a problem with technique.” Not necessarily so. Fifty years ago I badly scratched up the top of my Martin D-28 with a pick. It wasn’t a problem with technique. It was a problem with beer! Speaking of pickguards, what do you think about the “dalmation” pickguard Collings offers as an option? I was looking at a DS1 that had one, and I can’t say it is to my taste. But then I like my pickguards understated--preferably clear. BTW I was looking at that guitar because I was lusting after one like yours. I almost bought it, pickguard notwithstanding, but settled on a D1T because I just love the sound Collings gets out of its “traditional” (T) models. Unfortunately, they don’t yet offer the DS1 in the “traditional” build.
Hi, I won't comment on the beer issues! The DS1 is a great guitar, and I have an email from Steve McReary saying that they have no plans to do "T" versiona of the DS series. I have two DS1s as you may know. the "18" style simplicity has its own elegance. No, don't care for the spotty pickguards either. All the best with your 14 fretter!
Would love to show you my new Brook Taw, which I picked up for a good deal on Gumtree. The bloke who sold it me said the pick guard had been added, but I dare not start peeling it off, for fear of the colour underneath. It’s a 12 fret slot headed Taw. Could I have your email perhaps to show you some pics and get some advice maybe?
my email is on my about page - chipickers2016@gmail.com. If you wanted to do a zoom meeting to discuss it we cod arrange that too. Andy (the moustache one!)
Super, ill get some pics taken and will have to get in touch via my mother’s email and RUclips account as my account here has ended up an antiquated version of RUclips. I can also use zoom on my mother’s ipad.
The "teardrop"-shaped plectrum defender has always been associated with Martin 00's, to my knowledge, and the easiest way to spot a 00 from a distance. I like the look, great job, SM! I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on the eventual and I believe inevitable finish-checking around the accessory, and the slightly, but usually noticeably, less response you get from the top?
Hi, finish checking? Why would that occur unless the instrument undergoes rapid and radical temperature changes? Nothing to do with the very thin pick guards I've thought about the reduction of resonance of the top, but it really is so negligible with a thin item like this, and size "0" and "00" models really aren't about massive volume, so I wouldn't worry. Thanks for watching and for your comments, I always welcome them.
@@SillyMoustache thank you, sir. I've not had a chance to play any guitars with and without the guard. I imagine it's especially negligible if you're anchoring some fingers on the top whilst playing (as I often do). My 07 Taylor grand symphony, western red cedar top, no guard, no checking. '12 Martin hd-28 with a guard, checking around the guard only, nothing major...BUT my '20 Taylor 814ce DLX, builders edition w/ a zirocote guard began checking around the guard & the beveled armrest before the summer was over! The guard is noticeably quite thick. None have been exposed to anything drastic or sudden and I've always kept humidipaks whilst In the cases and humidifiers in the home and studio to maintain close to 50% during the winter months. The martin had been on a 2 day camping trip in moderate heat and very high humidity.. I shamefully admit that my other lower end acoustics have been neglected at one point or another.
Flamenco folks call them tap plates and they are on both sides of the strings. They do protect the light top from finger damage from the vigorous strumming and tapping that takes place. Your noticing of finger stuff on the pick guard (after all I am American) is good. That happens whenever the right hand uses fingers as a guide or an anchor. This is not approved technique. To quote an old classical guitarist I knew - "keep your hands off the table!". This was and interesting diversion! Thanks!
Hi Joel, always good to hear from you! You are referring to Flamenco guitars ci? There must be a Spanish term for them ..... google and you shall learn! Golpeadores!!Not actually pickgaurds as it was for percussive use. I don't anchor my fingers on the scratchplate (for I am British) but my trailing fingers touch the top a little. How you guys doin'?
@@SillyMoustache I have been thinking about this and what do you think of the relationship between pick guards on f-hole guitars and their appearance on flattops? BTW we are good! Wish I could play out...
@@joelgevirtz6181 Hi, interesting point.I confess I'm not big on pickguards on archtops or mandolins. Whether they came before pickguards or not .... not sure.Glad you are doing OK. I'm missing playing out too!
I finally pulled the trigger so to speak, and got a mint condition E10-OO from a guy on Reverb, and a friend very generously brought it to me here in Ecuador from the USA. I'm just blown away by the sound, best guitar I've ever owned. Your video is so timely, as this guitar came without a pickguard. I've been debating getting one, as I've already started noticing a few small scratches from my fingernails on the soundboard. I really like the looks of the one you put on your E10P. I couldn't quite understand the name of the supplier where you got yours - would you please respond with it in writing here? Thanks in advance, Andy.
Hi, I's Tylor Mullins trading as Holter Pickguards in Chattanooga.You can find the company name on him on Facebook. Tell him you want one like that Crazy Englishman!
To confuse the issue further, did you hear about the irish roadworking labourers ? the foreman decide to pull a gag on some of his workers, he proceeded to put several shovels into a hut and invited three or four of his irish workers to go into the shed and take their pick. boom boom yet another 70s joke when all jokes were well, just jokes. I am old school, the joke will have told you that already, i always called the thing used to make sound on the strings a plectrum, or the slang term plec, never used the word pick, also the sound hole positioned piece of plastic or tortoise shell i always knew as a scratchplate not a pick guard, so obviously over the years someone, ( bet they were american ) has introduced this new terminology without reference to the older generations of guitarists, I prefer and still use the term plectrum, plec and scratchplate, i have no intention or need to change it. This type of historical name changing has been happening on pretty much everything over the last 30 years. Maybe i am just getting old should i even care ? I still wont call a plectrum a pick, does that make me a bad person, no, lol, probably me just clinging to my bygone younger days and ways. Your scratchplates look great on all your guitars and really enhance the look, a quality finish on quality guitars. as for re designing the scratchplate with kitchen scissors, What is this black art you put before me, i think you would have been great on blue peter. great video i thoroughly enjoyed it. Cheers. Andy.
Haha -Andrew might I assume that you are a Brit? I'm not so firm, and use both terms particularly to a wider audience sch as this, and most forums. My point is that we shouldn't be hitting the top with our picks really. Anyway thanks for watching my humble videos, and there's more to come! Andy
@@SillyMoustache Hi Andy, you can assume I am a brit, born in Balham more years ago than I care to remember, started playing guitar in my late teens so 1970 ish started with an old satellite electric bought from bells music store in Surbiton many years gone now, they were a military instrument and accordion store who begrudgingly sold the odd guitar, it was an utter dog, there wasn't one part of the guitar that didn't cut me or stab me. I was asked by 3 of my pals to be the guitarist in the band they were forming, so we had a drummer who couldn't play a bass player in the same condition, a singer that constantly wore a pork pie hat with his jacket collar turned up as he thought it was ultra cool, singular problem was, he couldn't find the right notes to the music we couldn't play, over a period of months practicing in a wood mills canteen, we finally found that we were completely hopeless and the row we could produce should be never ever be inflicted on another person's ears outside of the four of us . Shortly thereafter we stayed friends but decided together music was a no no. All this spurred me on my guitar journey and after many years of playing and teaching myself, I was able to join a band doing covers in pubs clubs e.t.c., the last work I did was performing with a 4 and 5 piece band mainly doing corporate gigs at prestigious venues like gleneagles and the Hilton, this of course was a job and not musically satisfying for me, I now have my own recording facility and absolutely love being able to do what I want when I want. I truly admire your outlook and style keeping it simple and effective, doing songs you really love, it shows massively. Sorry to ramble on here. Cheers. Andy.
@@andrewreynolds2647 Hah! I was in a blues band that at one time would practice in a warehouse in Balham! Was there an OXO or Marmite factory there somewhere? I was a drummer - mentored by a bloke called Charlie Watts, and I later helped the Saturday boy in Marchalss in Ealing - his name was Mitch Mitchell. I started getting tired of drums as the amps got bigger and louder and when they wanted me to mic my drums i thought -bugger this! and after seeing Tom Rush at a folk festival decided to become a smooth sexy singer-guitarist. That didn't happen with my first "B&M jumbo (£16 new from Alberts Music shop in Twickenham, but it kinda did with my third guitar - a Harmony sovereign, as I started gigging with two guys who could sing/play and I mostly drove. Then I flat shared with a guy who introduced me to bluegrass , and I moved out of Hammersmith to Hertfordshire, and was pretty soon playing guitar, Mandolin and dobro - no teaching, just listen and try to do something like those old Flatt & Scruggs records. Later I started singing and playing in a duo, then, solo then, and then, and then, and suddenly I'm 73!
@@SillyMoustache you are correct it was an oxo factory, you seem to have been chosen by royalty Charlie Watts no less, great drummer and much underrated for his obvious ability, have you checked out Jerry Rosa at Rosa stringworks, he is a luthier but runs his own bluegrass band playing mandolin, very enjoyable to listen to simple but you can tell they really enjoy playing their music, oh, just like you do, I try to play stuff now that pleases me, tends to be the more melodic slower style, I am pretty much up for listening to any kind of music and trying to play it, try being the key word here lol. I have had to change all my guages stringwise on my acoustic and electric, gone from 46 to 10 on electric to 42 to 9 thou. on the acoustic I have dropped from 52 to 11 down to 50 to 10 thou not heard huge tonal change on the acoustic but easier to play, the electric, wow couldn't believe the ease of playability and sound it is great. Arthritis is taking over my hands now with the accompanying pain and lack of precise fluid movement, hopefully the measures taken in dropping guages will reduce the strain to allow me a few more years playing. I remember years ago someone rather flippantly saying o me you play guitar like you have Arthritis, I said what do you mean he replied it sounds painful 🤣 and here we are reality has knocked upon my door. life's a funny thing. Cheers. Andy.
@@SillyMoustache of course it is - hence the smiley face on the end of my comment. I have many US friends, having lived there for a number of years, and the language differences were a constant source of banter. It more you dig into it, the more and more differences there are in the language, there is far less overlap that one would think! And most americans will claim (wrongly I'm sure, though I've never looked into it -- why let facts stand in the way of good banter) that their spellings and pronunciations are the original and English-English (as opposed to US-English) has changed in the last couple of hundred years and therefor they're right and we're wrong.
@@enumclaw79 Hi, I think the truth of it is that in the 1700s there was far less emphasis on "correct spelling" and so many spelled/spelt as they saw in whatever bible they read, while/whilst many other spelt as they pronounced words. I'm quite interested in philology, but apparently we can't even agree on the definition of that!
As an American living in the states of Michigan and Indiana, I'm definitely a Yankee.. Before watching, I'd have said it's "technically" called a plectrum but somewhere along the way it was shortened to the slang, or abbreviated "pick." We're lazy speakers over here! lol.
@@jonahswager4892 We're pretty lazy over here too. We 've shortened all kinda of words over the years without even bothering to change the spelling. Drives my polish wife nuts sometimes when she pronoounces a word as it's spent and I'm like "yeah, but like that, but leave out half of the vowels". Americans seem to do that a LOT less. "Less" being a good case in point - when it's on the end of a word it's almost always shortened to l'ss here eg hopel'ss - no e sound at all. And he "borough" in David Attenborough or middlesbrough (slightly different spelling but same pronunciation) has become just 'bruh'. It sounds very stange hearing an amercian saying davids name and not saying Attenbruh. You guys might change words or pronunciations, but at least you bother to change the spelling while you're at it :) All joking aside, it seems to me that the actual root cause of most of the differences bewtween US-English and English-English (there's not such thing as British English, which would be very quickly apparantly to you if you spoke to someone from Glasgow,; the term is an american invention designed to lend equal validity to the idea of amercian english) is that our language has more french is it and yours has more Spanish and Italian. Probably due to our proximity to France and your mix of immigrants. This is really obvious in things like vegetaeble names, eg those veg that the English and French call courgette, but Americans and Italians call zucchini. There is a huge amount of herb and veg names that are different that run across those lines. Even the classic Tomato pronunciation is driven by it - you have a hard italian style AY in there where we have a softer longer french style 'aaah'.
Plectrum is the object. Picking is the verb. You pick with a plectrum. Fingers are the objects. Picking is the verb. You pick with your fingers. Sometimes you're picking your guitar strings. Sometimes you're picking your nose. I suppose a plectrum could be called a "picker," but that could be confused with the person (picker) who picks with a plectrum...or fingers. Just don't use your plectrum on your nose.
Nice one! I may quote you! Thanks for watching! Andy
Excellent Silly Moustache.
I agree, it's the finger nails which rub on it. I don't scratch the pick guard much, because I don't use a pick that much.
Wow you have a set of gorgeous (Collings are pretty pricey) acoustic guitars...
I'm 61 and started 6 years ago. I could only afford one guitar a Martin 000-15M. I love it.
Very interesting videos, thank you 🎶🎶🎶
Hi Nicole, thanks for the kind words. 61? a mere stripling! Nothing wrong with your Martin! Thanks for watching, Andy
I have clear one on my Yamaha TA which you can see the beauty of the guitar.... but that being said I dont use a pick.... really like your videos
Hi Wanda, well, as I said, I don't think many guitarist actually hit the guitar's top with picks, more with fimgernails. Thanks for watching!
Started playing guitar in the 60’s in San Francisco, never heard the term scratch plate!
That's because San Francisco isn't in Europe - not that one anyway. Ive been to the one in CA and in Andalusia.
The scratch plate does catch some plectrum. It depends on what and how you play I think. I have nearly played a hole into the top of my early 70’s red label Yamaha in the same spot as Trigger has a hole. 😂lots of love in that guitar
Yes, I understand, but if you hit the guitar top or scratch-plate / "pick guard" your picking method is inefficient and could benefit from modifying yuor playing style.
Why do I think I’m about to relearn everything I thought I’d learned 😂
haha! Please ask questions ! They give me ideas for future videos!
Oooh maybe you could or should help me put one of those on my Blueridge BR341...🤔
Nice video as always.
I could do that! Actually got a spare!
@@SillyMoustache cool. I will give you a ring some time soon to sort out a plan for a cuppa
@@lewisford1541 OK!
Lol I swear I never even seen this video as on your most recent vid I asked this question about how I could never see you scratching your guitar with a pick. As always Andy you have everything covered👍
Haha! I try!
Andy, you said that if you are hitting the pickguard with the pick “it must be a problem with technique.” Not necessarily so. Fifty years ago I badly scratched up the top of my Martin D-28 with a pick. It wasn’t a problem with technique. It was a problem with beer!
Speaking of pickguards, what do you think about the “dalmation” pickguard Collings offers as an option? I was looking at a DS1 that had one, and I can’t say it is to my taste. But then I like my pickguards understated--preferably clear. BTW I was looking at that guitar because I was lusting after one like yours. I almost bought it, pickguard notwithstanding, but settled on a D1T because I just love the sound Collings gets out of its “traditional” (T) models. Unfortunately, they don’t yet offer the DS1 in the “traditional” build.
Hi, I won't comment on the beer issues! The DS1 is a great guitar, and I have an email from Steve McReary saying that they have no plans to do "T" versiona of the DS series. I have two DS1s as you may know. the "18" style simplicity has its own elegance. No, don't care for the spotty pickguards either. All the best with your 14 fretter!
Would love to show you my new Brook Taw, which I picked up for a good deal on Gumtree.
The bloke who sold it me said the pick guard had been added, but I dare not start peeling it off, for fear of the colour underneath. It’s a 12 fret slot headed Taw. Could I have your email perhaps to show you some pics and get some advice maybe?
my email is on my about page - chipickers2016@gmail.com. If you wanted to do a zoom meeting to discuss it we cod arrange that too. Andy (the moustache one!)
Super, ill get some pics taken and will have to get in touch via my mother’s email and RUclips account as my account here has ended up an antiquated version of RUclips. I can also use zoom on my mother’s ipad.
The "teardrop"-shaped plectrum defender has always been associated with Martin 00's, to my knowledge, and the easiest way to spot a 00 from a distance. I like the look, great job, SM! I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on the eventual and I believe inevitable finish-checking around the accessory, and the slightly, but usually noticeably, less response you get from the top?
Hi, finish checking? Why would that occur unless the instrument undergoes rapid and radical temperature changes? Nothing to do with the very thin pick guards
I've thought about the reduction of resonance of the top, but it really is so negligible with a thin item like this, and size "0" and "00" models really aren't about massive volume, so I wouldn't worry. Thanks for watching and for your comments, I always welcome them.
@@SillyMoustache thank you, sir. I've not had a chance to play any guitars with and without the guard. I imagine it's especially negligible if you're anchoring some fingers on the top whilst playing (as I often do). My 07 Taylor grand symphony, western red cedar top, no guard, no checking. '12 Martin hd-28 with a guard, checking around the guard only, nothing major...BUT my '20 Taylor 814ce DLX, builders edition w/ a zirocote guard began checking around the guard & the beveled armrest before the summer was over! The guard is noticeably quite thick. None have been exposed to anything drastic or sudden and I've always kept humidipaks whilst In the cases and humidifiers in the home and studio to maintain close to 50% during the winter months. The martin had been on a 2 day camping trip in moderate heat and very high humidity.. I shamefully admit that my other lower end acoustics have been neglected at one point or another.
Flamenco folks call them tap plates and they are on both sides of the strings. They do protect the light top from finger damage from the vigorous strumming and tapping that takes place. Your noticing of finger stuff on the pick guard (after all I am American) is good. That happens whenever the right hand uses fingers as a guide or an anchor. This is not approved technique. To quote an old classical guitarist I knew - "keep your hands off the table!". This was and interesting diversion! Thanks!
Hi Joel, always good to hear from you! You are referring to Flamenco guitars ci? There must be a Spanish term for them ..... google and you shall learn! Golpeadores!!Not actually pickgaurds as it was for percussive use. I don't anchor my fingers on the scratchplate (for I am British) but my trailing fingers touch the top a little. How you guys doin'?
@@SillyMoustache I have been thinking about this and what do you think of the relationship between pick guards on f-hole guitars and their appearance on flattops? BTW we are good! Wish I could play out...
@@joelgevirtz6181 Hi, interesting point.I confess I'm not big on pickguards on archtops or mandolins. Whether they came before pickguards or not .... not sure.Glad you are doing OK. I'm missing playing out too!
I finally pulled the trigger so to speak, and got a mint condition E10-OO from a guy on Reverb, and a friend very generously brought it to me here in Ecuador from the USA. I'm just blown away by the sound, best guitar I've ever owned. Your video is so timely, as this guitar came without a pickguard. I've been debating getting one, as I've already started noticing a few small scratches from my fingernails on the soundboard. I really like the looks of the one you put on your E10P. I couldn't quite understand the name of the supplier where you got yours - would you please respond with it in writing here? Thanks in advance, Andy.
Hi, I's Tylor Mullins trading as Holter Pickguards in Chattanooga.You can find the company name on him on Facebook. Tell him you want one like that Crazy Englishman!
@@SillyMoustache Thanks, I'll do that. I just now saw your video from July 12 where you talk about it in detail.
sir, that is not a pick! that is a string pull mechanism.
Ah well ! A string hitter, plucker, stroker or even caresser!
To confuse the issue further, did you hear about the irish roadworking labourers ? the foreman decide to pull a gag on some of his workers, he proceeded to put several shovels into a hut and invited three or four of his irish workers to go into the shed and take their pick. boom boom yet another 70s joke when all jokes were well, just jokes. I am old school, the joke will have told you that already, i always called the thing used to make sound on the strings a plectrum, or the slang term plec, never used the word pick, also the sound hole positioned piece of plastic or tortoise shell i always knew as a scratchplate not a pick guard, so obviously over the years someone, ( bet they were american ) has introduced this new terminology without reference to the older generations of guitarists, I prefer and still use the term plectrum, plec and scratchplate, i have no intention or need to change it. This type of historical name changing has been happening on pretty much everything over the last 30 years. Maybe i am just getting old should i even care ? I still wont call a plectrum a pick, does that make me a bad person, no, lol, probably me just clinging to my bygone younger days and ways. Your scratchplates look great on all your guitars and really enhance the look, a quality finish on quality guitars. as for re designing the scratchplate with kitchen scissors, What is this black art you put before me, i think you would have been great on blue peter. great video i thoroughly enjoyed it. Cheers. Andy.
Haha -Andrew might I assume that you are a Brit? I'm not so firm, and use both terms particularly to a wider audience sch as this, and most forums. My point is that we shouldn't be hitting the top with our picks really. Anyway thanks for watching my humble videos, and there's more to come! Andy
@@SillyMoustache Hi Andy, you can assume I am a brit, born in Balham more years ago than I care to remember, started playing guitar in my late teens so 1970 ish started with an old satellite electric bought from bells music store in Surbiton many years gone now, they were a military instrument and accordion store who begrudgingly sold the odd guitar, it was an utter dog, there wasn't one part of the guitar that didn't cut me or stab me. I was asked by 3 of my pals to be the guitarist in the band they were forming, so we had a drummer who couldn't play a bass player in the same condition, a singer that constantly wore a pork pie hat with his jacket collar turned up as he thought it was ultra cool, singular problem was, he couldn't find the right notes to the music we couldn't play, over a period of months practicing in a wood mills canteen, we finally found that we were completely hopeless and the row we could produce should be never ever be inflicted on another person's ears outside of the four of us . Shortly thereafter we stayed friends but decided together music was a no no. All this spurred me on my guitar journey and after many years of playing and teaching myself, I was able to join a band doing covers in pubs clubs e.t.c., the last work I did was performing with a 4 and 5 piece band mainly doing corporate gigs at prestigious venues like gleneagles and the Hilton, this of course was a job and not musically satisfying for me, I now have my own recording facility and absolutely love being able to do what I want when I want. I truly admire your outlook and style keeping it simple and effective, doing songs you really love, it shows massively. Sorry to ramble on here. Cheers. Andy.
@@andrewreynolds2647 Hah! I was in a blues band that at one time would practice in a warehouse in Balham! Was there an OXO or Marmite factory there somewhere? I was a drummer - mentored by a bloke called Charlie Watts, and I later helped the Saturday boy in Marchalss in Ealing - his name was Mitch Mitchell.
I started getting tired of drums as the amps got bigger and louder and when they wanted me to mic my drums i thought -bugger this! and after seeing Tom Rush at a folk festival decided to become a smooth sexy singer-guitarist. That didn't happen with my first "B&M jumbo (£16 new from Alberts Music shop in Twickenham, but it kinda did with my third guitar - a Harmony sovereign, as I started gigging with two guys who could sing/play and I mostly drove. Then I flat shared with a guy who introduced me to bluegrass , and I moved out of Hammersmith to Hertfordshire, and was pretty soon playing guitar, Mandolin and dobro - no teaching, just listen and try to do something like those old Flatt & Scruggs records. Later I started singing and playing in a duo, then, solo then, and then, and then, and suddenly I'm 73!
@@SillyMoustache you are correct it was an oxo factory, you seem to have been chosen by royalty Charlie Watts no less, great drummer and much underrated for his obvious ability, have you checked out Jerry Rosa at Rosa stringworks, he is a luthier but runs his own bluegrass band playing mandolin, very enjoyable to listen to simple but you can tell they really enjoy playing their music, oh, just like you do, I try to play stuff now that pleases me, tends to be the more melodic slower style, I am pretty much up for listening to any kind of music and trying to play it, try being the key word here lol. I have had to change all my guages stringwise on my acoustic and electric, gone from 46 to 10 on electric to 42 to 9 thou. on the acoustic I have dropped from 52 to 11 down to 50 to 10 thou not heard huge tonal change on the acoustic but easier to play, the electric, wow couldn't believe the ease of playability and sound it is great. Arthritis is taking over my hands now with the accompanying pain and lack of precise fluid movement, hopefully the measures taken in dropping guages will reduce the strain to allow me a few more years playing. I remember years ago someone rather flippantly saying o me you play guitar like you have Arthritis, I said what do you mean he replied it sounds painful 🤣 and here we are reality has knocked upon my door. life's a funny thing. Cheers. Andy.
If pick guards protect against damage from the pick then prison guards aren't doing their jobs properly.
arf arf!
Hear hear, put them yanks right on their flakey command of our language :)
Hi Ralph, I think this is just plyful banter between our American cousins and us Limeys.
@@SillyMoustache of course it is - hence the smiley face on the end of my comment. I have many US friends, having lived there for a number of years, and the language differences were a constant source of banter. It more you dig into it, the more and more differences there are in the language, there is far less overlap that one would think! And most americans will claim (wrongly I'm sure, though I've never looked into it -- why let facts stand in the way of good banter) that their spellings and pronunciations are the original and English-English (as opposed to US-English) has changed in the last couple of hundred years and therefor they're right and we're wrong.
@@enumclaw79 Hi, I think the truth of it is that in the 1700s there was far less emphasis on "correct spelling" and so many spelled/spelt as they saw in whatever bible they read, while/whilst many other spelt as they pronounced words. I'm quite interested in philology, but apparently we can't even agree on the definition of that!
As an American living in the states of Michigan and Indiana, I'm definitely a Yankee.. Before watching, I'd have said it's "technically" called a plectrum but somewhere along the way it was shortened to the slang, or abbreviated "pick." We're lazy speakers over here! lol.
@@jonahswager4892 We're pretty lazy over here too. We 've shortened all kinda of words over the years without even bothering to change the spelling. Drives my polish wife nuts sometimes when she pronoounces a word as it's spent and I'm like "yeah, but like that, but leave out half of the vowels". Americans seem to do that a LOT less. "Less" being a good case in point - when it's on the end of a word it's almost always shortened to l'ss here eg hopel'ss - no e sound at all. And he "borough" in David Attenborough or middlesbrough (slightly different spelling but same pronunciation) has become just 'bruh'. It sounds very stange hearing an amercian saying davids name and not saying Attenbruh. You guys might change words or pronunciations, but at least you bother to change the spelling while you're at it :)
All joking aside, it seems to me that the actual root cause of most of the differences bewtween US-English and English-English (there's not such thing as British English, which would be very quickly apparantly to you if you spoke to someone from Glasgow,; the term is an american invention designed to lend equal validity to the idea of amercian english) is that our language has more french is it and yours has more Spanish and Italian. Probably due to our proximity to France and your mix of immigrants. This is really obvious in things like vegetaeble names, eg those veg that the English and French call courgette, but Americans and Italians call zucchini. There is a huge amount of herb and veg names that are different that run across those lines. Even the classic Tomato pronunciation is driven by it - you have a hard italian style AY in there where we have a softer longer french style 'aaah'.
BPM....black pick guards matter
...... and save the faux tortoise!
No such thing as American English. There's just English and English spoken poorly.
Not getting into that here!
@@SillyMoustache I a.ready did. 😆