{"id":109256,"date":"2023-02-21T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=109256"},"modified":"2023-02-21T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:57:20","slug":"the-guitar-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-guitar-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE GUITAR&#8221; \u2013 by Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>&#8220;THE GUITAR&#8221; \u2013 <span style=\"color: #666699;\">By Des Kelly<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJaNMZmBR6E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Written by one\u00a0of my favourite guitarists himself, the late, great Les Paul, who built his own instrument to prove that he could accomplish greater deeds in his own music-instrumentation, that was almost impossible in his day &amp; age. Les Paul was born in 1915 &amp; died in 2009, at 94 years of age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He was considered to be one of the finest guitar-pickers, long before he decided to invent his very OWN brand of beautiful instrument. The rest is Musical history. Two of my favourite guitarists<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">have always been Chester (Chet) Atkins and Les Paul. Both have their individual styles of playing the guitar, both on the too rung, as far as I was concerned. I an a self-taught guitarist as well &amp; have played both rhythm &amp; lead for years until, due to ankylosin spondylitis, unfortunately I had<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">to stop. As a youngster, I was rarely seen without a guitar slung across my back, simply because I loved the instrument, &amp; idolized both Chet &amp; Les., God rest their souls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75857\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Desmond-Kelly160.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond-Kelly\" width=\"160\" height=\"228\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Desmond Kelly. 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