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03:51, Saturday, February 11, 2012 (UTC)

Hi and welcome! I'm Andrew Alder.

• Personal website (a restricted update wiki of course)
• Facebook (but I spend far more time here than there)

Some of my user space pages here:

• my least important contribution
• What I'm working on
• How I'm doing it
• Where I'm coming from
• Where to talk about it
• user:andrewa/subpages> (the rest of them)

Some other wikis I'm active in

Existing communities

• wikilivres

• wikiHow

• WikiAnswers (formerly FAQfarm)

• Religion-wiki, for all religions and none

• Cerocwiki, the wiki dedicated to (wait for it) Ceroc

• missiontechwiki

• International Music Score Library Project

• Wikitravel

• Wikinfo (not wikiinfo, which has no connection to it)

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Communities going to beta test mode

• Citizendium, a refereed semi-fork of Wikipedia, see Citizendium or Larry Sanger for details

My own inventions

some more useful than others...

• the Online Encyclopedia of Tunings

• Unimpedia, the unimpeded repository for the unimportant

• spamtrap

• cyberchurch

• WikiRhyme

• Oral History wiki

Communities that didn't really take off (yet)

• Wikireason

Nice to look at, hey, these are all very pleasant company

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  2005 Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom. Identical to the successor model the Fender Jaguar Bass VI Custom except for the headstock decal, and not a baritone in anything but name. Note the two pickups, presence of the upper circuit, and fixed bridge tailpiece. It's a typical retro instrument; It's exactly what people think they remember Jack Bruce playing but of course he didn't, the retro is fiction, and it's the right instrument for creating something brand new based on this fiction. Also it's too short for the Jazz Bass case! That was the best Fender Australia could do (it comes in a soft gig bag). I love the Fender Jaguar electrics, other than that I like to keep it very simple.

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  Two electric 12 strings, both fairly interesting. Top is a Shergold Modulator 12. Bottom is a Maton Magnetone TB36/12, only 37 built (including some with three pickups). I loved the concept of the modular electrics, but in practice found them a dismal failure.

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  Anne-Marie I, my musical partner 1973-2009, lost in the St Andrews fire.

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  A Rosa Hurricane and a Maton Freshman. See Talk:Electric guitar#Bad picture redux, Talk:Electric guitar#Rosa Hurricane and Talk:Electric guitar#Gotta Say for some, um, discussion of them. Skiffle reject indeed! The Maton, an excellent instrument, was also lost in the fire. The Rosa, built as a piece of junk but somehow using good components, has with some repairs and other TLC turned out excellent.

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  Eston fretless ABG. Yeah, I did say fretless. Also lost in the fire.

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  The electric mandolin (left) would probably be called semi-acoustic by many, but it had a better acoustic sound than the bowl mandolin next to it, and a better electric sound than the electric mandolin I had played since the 1970s. I wasn't shopping for mandolins really, but I came back the next day and bought it. Also lost in the fire.

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  I don't have a baryton and can't play it anyway, but isn't it lovely?

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