New yellow Guitar Hero cymbal

 
This is the easiest way to get a working Guitar Hero cymbal – buy one!!!
My yellow cymbal was faulty and I tried to fix it, but couldn’t.  I’m not sure why – maybe I killed the sensor in the process.  So I did some searching and found an eBay stsore, Thumbmonkey, that sold various game [...]

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Guitar Hero Yellow Cymbal broken

That’s it..  My yellow cymbal is forever broken.
I noticed the other day that hits weren’t registering very well.  When playing, Miss 8 said, “Dad, I have to hit it REALLLLLY hard to get it to work!”
So I experimented and found that if I hit the cymbal in a particular direction (along the edge), then it [...]

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Installing a strap button

I’ve been using a shoestring strap on my Seagull S6+CW acoustic guitar for a while and it just isn’t working for me.   As the shoestring is tied around the headstock of the guitar, it changes the tuning of all the strings as the neck is pulled back and forth when I’m playing.  Not good when [...]

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Hank Marvin at the Ellington

We were pretty tired on Friday last week…. and we so nearly didn’t make it to the Ellington.  The lure of sitting on the couch in home clothes with the girls, watching a DVD with the kids was overpowering!  But we had bought tickets, so we pulled ourselves there and what a wonderful night we [...]

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Guitar Hero with the kids

Rockin out on Guitar Hero
My dear wife had another evening rehearsal so I got to spend another evening with the kids.   It was sooo cold tonight that we abandoned our plan to go to Galleria.
But it didn’t stop us from having some gaming fun!  It’s great how the kids are at an age where I [...]

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