It finally came together this week with help from Roland Canada Music and Dennis Larocque of National Music. No more delayed gratification.
I got this cool synth classical guitar from Godin. I was practicing on it daily until I broke the A string – duh.
The Roland GR-20 Synth was inert: the 13 pin cable was missing. That came on Thursday and I was excited. Plugging everything in according to the book, I was disappointed to see the display light up like a Christmas tree. The numbers kept cycling round and round the 400 + synth patches. Argh! No fun today.
I tried all evening to make it work but hopeless. The only way to make the rolling display stop was to unplug the guitar. That didn’t seem like a good solution. After a Friday AM meeting, I sent emails to Godin and Roland in desperation. I was amazed that Roland responded within the hour. They said check the cable or the switches on the Godin guitar.
I took the Guitar and synth out to Dennis at National. Within a few minutes he had loosened the pcb board that held the electronics. The guitar and synth were in sync. I was ecstatic. I went home and fooled around making my guitar sound like 400 things it isn’t, like a female choir singing “oooh” or the string section of an orchestra.
This is not the first time Dennis has rescued me. I have a 12 fret Martin 000 that no one could adjust the buzzing from, including one of the so-called best luthiers in Atlantic Canada. However, Dennis did it. He has adjusted, fix and set-up all my guitars. He is definitely awesome. He also has great sense of humour – check out the picture.
Dennis Larocque has a big reputation in town as the go-to guy. He’s the best luthier around.
The Roland guy sent me three helpful emails. Godin sent none yet.
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