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Macbook Screen

Posted on December 31, 2009 | Filed Under Computers, Hardware

Over the Christmas break, Abe’s laptop started doing this:

Not sure what’s causing it but it’s getting this strip of white down the middle. We’re going to the Apple Store Monday to see what’s going on. It’s under warranty so it should be find. I’ll let you know what happens.

New tuning pegs for electric violin

Posted on December 20, 2009 | Filed Under Instruments

Recently Chris, worship musician extraordinaire at our church came to me and asked if i could replace the tuning pegs on his electric violin to guitar tuners. He said that he wanted more control in tuning, I said sure.

During research I learned that guitar tuners wouldn’t work, however I discovered Perfection Planetary Violin Pegs at Musiciansfriend for $69.00. These gems fit the bill to a T. I immediately ordered a set.

Three days later this arrived.

After reading through the instructions I learned that I needed a new tool, a standard tuning peghole reamer. I found that at Stewart-MacDonald for $49.98. The next thing to have on hand was some Gorilla Glue, then the fun could begin.

The first step is remove strings and old tuning pegs, being careful to note the order of the strings and bag them for safekeeping. Next I had to sort the new pegs between the treble and the bass side of the violin, because they actually screw in and the threads are reversed on the treble side. Read more

Step Lights

Posted on December 2, 2009 | Filed Under Hardware, soundroom

Shawn Wilson has installed lights to the steps entering the soundroom. The pictures below are of an LED set we installed but they were too bright and wouldn’t work with our motion detector or our fader. Now there is a regular set installed and automatically comes on when you enter the room. It also has a light sensor so if the lights are already on in the soundroom, the stair lights don’t come on. We’re eventually going to install the LED set under the counter of the soundboard and install an easy to get to switch so we can see when wiring under the counter. Let me know what you think!