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Topic: I don't have a music room...I have a music corner in a room! |
Jack Willis
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California, USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2012 10:31 am |
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In a corner everything is within arm's reach...
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Larry Hamilton
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Amarillo,Tx
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Posted 27 Oct 2012 1:12 pm
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Hey Jack, at least you are in the house. I'm in the garage   but everything is pretty much in arms reach. Not nearly as neat and nice as yours. Looks like you do have some nice equipment. 
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Jack Willis
From:
California, USA
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Posted 27 Oct 2012 5:41 pm Amarillo?
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Larry, i see you are from the great city of Amarillo. I went to Air Force boot camp in Amarillo in 1968. I believe it was July and August. You can't brag about the weather during those months.
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Larry Hamilton
From:
Amarillo,Tx
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Posted 27 Oct 2012 7:13 pm
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HOT HOT HOT and the last couple of years have been even worse. I wasn't here in 68, I moved here from OKC in 75. Maybe someday soon I can move again .
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Joe Gall
From:
DeLand, Florida
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Posted 29 Oct 2012 7:16 pm
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Funny this should come up. We recently bought a home and one of the rooms is 24'x28'. This will eventually be our music room. We are going to build a full stage and a full service bar in hopes that we can host a weekly Friday night or Saturday night jam with fellow musicians that we have met here in the area. Our friends are looking forward to helping us build our "bar room/music room" once all the other rooms are finished. We have been in the house three months now and have gone through 33 gallons of primer/paint, replaced every window in the house, installed three new entrance doors, all new interior doors, all new base board, trim & moldings throughout the entire house. The house needed a lot of interior work but the music room is last on the list unfortunately!
The future music room used to be an attached 2-car garage. At some point someone enclosed the attached garage and built a detached 2-car garage out back. So, this previous attached 2-car attached garage will be our "bar/music room".
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/jg093/House/
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 29 Oct 2012 9:16 pm
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Joe,it looks like the old driveway to your former garage is still in place,so people can back right up and load right into the music room/studio/hall.VERY cool!!  |
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Pete Nicholls
From:
Macon, Georgia, USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2012 4:25 am
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I live in a small two bedroom house, one BR is the wife's sewing room, so had very limited options for musical space. I wound up giving up my half of the two-car garage and building a music room in that spot and parking my car outside. It is about 7x12, and is working out great!
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Joe Gall
From:
DeLand, Florida
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Posted 30 Oct 2012 4:38 am
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| Dave Hopping wrote: |
| Joe,it looks like the old driveway to your former garage is still in place,so people can back right up and load right into the music room/studio/hall.VERY cool!! |
The pic you are looking at must be the angle, because there is no driveway in front of the old attached garage on the house. However, there is a side door that comes into the side of the house that comes in through the kitchen and right into the "bar", so yes it will be easy for our musician friends to come in for the jams.
In addition, once the stage is built, fortunately, I have collected enough "stuff" to fully stock the stage with enough instruments and amps so an entire band can walk right in and sit down and play! The stage will run the length of the room and will host the following: drums, keyboard/amp, steel/amp, bass/amp, 3-mics up front. I have my Carvin PA system that I will use for sound.
Once we begin build this room I will start a new thread and be sure to post several pics. Our friends are very excited about helping and are already looking for things to put in the bar such as signs, lights etc.
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Jack Willis
From:
California, USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2012 5:44 pm
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Well, we all got what we got and I for one am very happy to crawl into my corner every day when I get home from work. My corner is my musical jacuzzi that I spend at least an hour a day soaking in.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 31 Oct 2012 10:04 am About those humble music rooms.................
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After moving from our home to an apartment, my wonderful 16x20 sqft music room with over-sized door that would accomodate a fully set-up QUAD-BIGSBY...leading directly into my over-sized double garage wherein my mini-van was waiting regardless of the weather at hand.........
has shrunken to a mere 9x10 ft. dinky bedroom, on the second floor, no less. Photo's of it can be seen on the topic by Bob Muller regarding my Quad BIGSBY that he so graciously set-up much to his delight.
Now Mr. Muller has a music room/man cave that will make any musician weep.......
For photo's, you can check in the EVENTS Section under the title "Portland GATHERINGS".......
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=217072
Bob even has a stage with real theater style curtains and a raised floor with flood lights and all. He has over-stuffed leather furniture along with restaurant type booths and recessed lighting, a fireplace, wall to wall carpeting, attractive photo's and mood setting decorations......about a dozen Sho-Bud pedal steels and a host of Fender, Sho-Bud and Music Man amps that he most graciously invites local musicians to play during his informal musical gatherings that occur every two weeks.
You might want to take the tour.......... |
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2012 10:09 pm A great music room
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| My wife found our house in the country, with a 14x16 out building with it, needless to say, I have taken and insulated, sheetrocked, installed heat and air, and it is the best practice, recording, and working on guitars room I've ever had. Now that I'm retired, I hang out in there everyday. I also have a 20x30ft shop to work on my trucks, and store my big amps with flight cases. Never thought my old age would be this blessed!!! I can play all night, as loud as I want, and never bother a soul. |
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Bishop Ronnie P Hall
From:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 1 Nov 2012 8:18 pm
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Well right now until we get the studio out in the country set up we’re really cramped here.
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Bishop Ronnie P Hall
From:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Jack Willis
From:
California, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 11:20 am
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I guess you are right Ron. Unless you are a drummer. Most parents I know wouldn't let a drum kit in the house. I played Sousaphone for a year in grammar school. My parents let me bring it home one weekend for practice. That mistake was never repeated. At least when I started out on the PSG I could protect the members of my household by wearing earphones. I did this for almost 3 years and just recently I began playing through the amp. I have never seen a phone jack on a drum kit........
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Joe Gall
From:
DeLand, Florida
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 11:23 am
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I can not wait to build my bar/music room! Set my steel up last night, first time in four months since we moved into this house! Oh how I just love this thing. Played it until 4am!
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 15 Nov 2012 1:23 pm
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How about this?
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Alexander Stepanenko
From:
Moscow, Russia
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Posted 19 Nov 2012 3:29 am
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Relaxation room  |
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Quentin Hickey
From:
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 19 Nov 2012 4:28 pm
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| Stuart Legg wrote: |
Well right now until we get the studio out in the country set up we’re really cramped here.
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Stuart, I used to have my computer on that side of me too. I got sick and tired of having to put my bar down to use the mouse and keyboard so I rearranged my whole set up so I could do it with my picking hand |
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Ray Thomas
From:
Goldsboro North Carolina
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Posted 20 Nov 2012 6:30 am Music Room
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My wife requires that I keep the door closed and demands that I let no one see inside the room.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 3 Dec 2012 5:13 pm
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| Stuart Legg wrote: |
| Well right now until we get the studio out in the country set up we’re really cramped here... |
Hey, is that you there, in person, Stuart?
I always thought that you and your dad were cartoon characters. 
| Quentin Hickey wrote: |
| ...I used to have my computer on that side of me too. I got sick and tired of having to put my bar down to use the mouse and keyboard so I rearranged my whole set up so I could do it with my picking hand |
At one time they used to make a large track ball for operation with your feet. I wonder if they're still available. If so, you could put one by your volume pedal and not have to move away from your steel at all. 
http://www.floridamusicco.com/proddetail~prod~Bili_USB_Footmouse~partner~googleb.htm
http://www.enablemart.com/Footime-Foot-Mouse?gclid=CPiAv9_L_7MCFUjZQgodiGQABQ |
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Joe Gall
From:
DeLand, Florida
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Posted 4 Dec 2012 6:56 am
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We have begun the transformation of our music room. One of the previous owner closed in the attached two car garage and built a detached two car garage in the back yard. This added a very large room to the house. The people before us were a husband & wife OTR trucking team and used it as their office.
Well, up until a few weeks ago this was a massive storage area for us from the day we moved in because this house required MAJOR reconstruction throughout the ENTIRE HOUSE, room by room. The house had been gutted to the studs in some places and nothing but bare, newly installed drywall in others. No interior doors, trim etc. So we referred to the storage room as the "music" room knowing that eventually it would become just that. Our music room.
Well, speed ahead almost 4 months later and the "music" room is beginning to take shape. It's been emptied out as the rest of the house comes together. Here is where we are at at the moment. The stage needs to be built and the bar needs to be completed, both will happen after the new year.
We had a jam here this past Saturday and we had 10 musicians and 18 non musicians as our audience. Wow did we ever have a blast!
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Old closet:
Bar in progress:
We have a ways to go with this room. Needs to be painted, bar finished, stage built, swinging doors will hang in the entrance into the music room. The computer desk is coming out, couch is going. We have all of our friends on the look out and rounding up "bar" items, neon signs, lights, mirrors, three 3 person bar heights tables & chairs, 4 bar stools for the bar. A bar sink for behind the bar etc.
Once this room is finished it should be a great place for our musician friends to come and hang out, place some music and for us to enjoy having our friends over. Now that I can no longer drive, bringing all of this right into our home is the best thing ever. This past Saturday night was a blast, we started at 7pm and never once took as much as a five minute break and we played until 1am!
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 4 Dec 2012 4:37 pm
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Wow, a music room with a bar. 
You must have a very understanding wife.  |
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Joe Gall
From:
DeLand, Florida
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Posted 4 Dec 2012 4:40 pm
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
Wow, a music room with a bar.
You must have a very understanding wife. |
You have NO IDEA! She is the greatest ever!!!!!!!!!!!
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