Hummingbirds Everywhere

Every time I look at my Hummingbird, I feel happy. This was never on my radar and yet now, I feel like I see it everywhere. Of course, what I see everywhere is the Gibson, which I can't really justify buying, but having the Epiphone is joy. I found myself cleaning my room because I wiped down the guitar and I moved it to the better guitar stand, which meant I would have to stow one of the guitars in the case (I chose to stow the Yamaha). I brought the Washburn back downstairs so I have something to play when I'm down there sitting on the cajon. I need the Epiphone up in the room for recording. And having it all shiny and print-free made me feel like decluttering. This is a good thing.

As to where I'd seen the Gibson, well I finished All Her Fault and started looking for other things to watch on Peacock and I found Songs & Stories with Kelly Clarkson. In the first episode, she had the Jonas Brothers. I told my husband this morning that the guitar Kevin Jonas was playing looked a lot like the one I just got. But when we played the episode back, he had a different guitar! What sorcery?! Forwarding through the episode, I found that he switched to the Gibson midway and he actually switched back and forth between two guitars. They just never showed the switching. They would come back from a break and he already had a different guitar on the stand next to him. 

The other time I saw a Hummingbird was when I was watching a YouTube video of guitarist Rick Beato and he was doing his top 20 acoustic guitar intros of all time. I just searched for it again and I will post the link to the video but here's a curious thing that happened when I clicked on the video, it seemed the captioning was in Korean. Go figure. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNuqYFP-pM

There is something that I've noticed with the Epiphone and the Yamaha though. I feel like if I play for a long time, particularly when I use a pick, my fingers kinda of start to hurt. I'm not talking about the tips that press on to the steel strings but rather like a whole hand kind of ache from the vibrating maybe? I would have to look this up or ask the teacher if this is something that can be remedied maybe by changing the strings or getting a setup. I've contemplated ordering a guitar maintenance kit so I can change the strings out myself and learn to lower the action and other things. It can get spendy if I had to get a setup every six months like the sign I saw at Guitar Center suggests. Not that it isn't already a costly new hobby. With my current instruments, I've never actually changed the strings myself. I always asked Andy if he could do it for me at school, but I did it myself when I had my first guitar. I can't imagine that changing nylon strings will be too different from changing steel ones. I guess I will find out.

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