Well, there’s the Tony Iommi route. Worked out pretty good for him. I on the other hand am considering going to a lap steel set up because of how RA has contorted my fingers. I’ve got a dozen guitars and four amps and can no longer play any of them so I kinda know your pain.
That sucks. I'd say you're in a tougher spot than I. Saw a guy the other day that put a hurdy-gurdy wheel on a ukulele... But a lap steel sounds much better than that.
Yeah, my RA came about as a rare “sudden and severe” case. It was like overnight I couldn’t play a simple chord or lead. Fifty years of daily play’n suddenly denied has been a difficult pill to swallow. It has been a year and a half so I am kinda resigned to let it be a thing of the past now.
From what I can tell you and I are a lot a like in that we like to create using various methods, materials and disciplines. Lol, in the dark side of my sixties now, I’ve amassed quite a collection of tools to those ends with a program of tool of the day, tool of the week, tool of the month and tool of the year purchases. With that I have plenty of other skills to try to maintain to fulfill that need to create without try’n to learn a new one. Maybe a lap steel will come into play as I cripple up more, but for now I need to keep the other parts of me active in the ways that I still can. It was bad enough before, but with RA there’s only so much time in a day. It is what it is, I miss it terribly, but there is plenty of joy to be found elsewhere and otherwise. God gives us many ways to enjoy life if we open our eyes to them.
Indeed. Loss, in it's many forms, can be difficult to cope with, but there are many simple pleasures to enjoy, and never enough time for all of them.
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