Yesterday, Seattle had one of those rare once-every-five-years storms, covering the city with enough snow to ski on. My buddy Jake and I took full advantage, skiing about five miles around Green Lake and taking a pit stop at bar for an Irish Coffee. Here’s the footage. (YouTube Video)
The Heartwood Beat, Issue 11: Tuning Your Guitar
Did you know that it’s impossible to tune a guitar perfectly? I don’t mean impossible as in, “It’s impossible to play an entire gig without some joker yelling ‘Freebird!’” I’m sure that’s happened somewhere. I mean impossible as in, Swedish-physicists-in-lab-coats-standing-around-a-guitar-shaking-their-heads impossible. To fully explain why, we’d need to talk about Greek philosophers experimenting with harps, and Bach’s contemporaries arguing about …
