Strumming in Bliss with a G&L Bass Guitar

G & L Bass Guitar

I have always loved the Fender bass guitar for its rich tones and original design. When I saw the G&L Guitar L-2000 in the store window looking almost like a Fender I had to give it a try. After a brief investigation, I discovered the P-Bass style of this guitar is no accident. The founder of electric bass, Leo Fender himself, built it. He formed G&L in 1980 after selling Fender Guitar and moving on to other companies. I guess once you have perfected that design it is hard to get away from it. This G&L guitar has an ash body with a maple neck that bolts on with the classic square heel block. It is a little different from the Fender design in that there are only three bolts instead of four and there is a neck adjuster below the triangular plate. The newer models now have a 6-bolt

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Romanticism Literature

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As a response to the industrial revolution during the second half of the 18th century, the romantic movement emerged. The movement quickly spread all over the world after having originated from Europe. Romanticism contradicted the beliefs that formed the very foundation of the rapid industrialization that took place worldwide, and the age of enlightenment. The romantic movement in literature paid more attention to aesthetics and the surreal, and catered to emotions rather than succumbing to the practical approach that was then becoming the norm. The movement resulted in the creation of other disciplines not only in literature, such as romantic art and romantic music. This period was popularized by authors and poets like Shelly, John Keats, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They believed in creative expression through pieces of prose and poetry, a movement that soon began to affect the world in terms of relationships and emotions. To this

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Medieval Literature

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Medieval literature is basically all written works in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages. Religious writings and secular works compose the literature of this time. It is a rich and complex field of study, from the sacred to the profane and touching all points in-between. The literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genre because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak in general terms without oversimplification. Latin dominated Western and Central Europe and was the language of the Catholic Church, since the Church was virtually the only source of education, it was a common language for Medieval writings. The influence of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox Church however, made Greek and Old Church Slavonic the dominant written languages. The common people continued to use their respective language. Examples are the Old English

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Native American Literature

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The literature of transition for Native American literature started on the 19th century. The bridge between an oral tradition that flourished for centuries before the arrival of Europeans and the contemporary fiction in the 1960s, known as the Native American Renaissance emerged. Nineteenth-century Native American literature was increasingly text-based and composed in English unlike the preceding oral tradition. This was a result of missionary schools that taught Indians the skills that they believed important for them to merge into white society. Native American authors made us of Euro-American literary genres like autobiography and the novel, often combining them with traditional narratives like the trickster tale or creation myth to create hybrid forms. The early writings exhibit the struggle of Indian authors to find a place within American culture, while they refuted the stereotypical depictions of Indians that were commonly read in American literature. Just like their successors, the Indian authors

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