SpelCheque: bold

2017-09-03T20:55:59Z

bold

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:55, 3 September 2017
Line 1:		Line 1:
	Blert Wheedown is a well-known luthier, guitarist and teacher in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. At the time of the [[Music With Rocks In]] craze, he was briefly swamped with business but soon realised that most of his new customers only needed the ''appearance'' of a guitar. Sound, action and tuning machines that turned were not necessary features. Wheedown's made a ''lot'' of money for a week or so, utilising planks and fencing wire rather than prime treated wood and real strings, until the sudden crash of "Rocks" and the following amnesia.		'''Blert Wheedown''' is a well-known luthier, guitarist and teacher in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. At the time of the [[Music With Rocks In]] craze, he was briefly swamped with business but soon realised that most of his new customers only needed the ''appearance'' of a guitar. Sound, action and tuning machines that turned were not necessary features. Wheedown's made a ''lot'' of money for a week or so, utilising planks and fencing wire rather than prime treated wood and real strings, until the sudden crash of "Rocks" and the following amnesia.

	He got fed up within the first hour of hearing people attempt the chord sequence from ''Pathway to Paradise'', much as workers in guitar shops across [[Roundworld]] would love to be able to enforce a shoot-on-sight policy for anyone beginning ''Stairway to Heaven''.		He got fed up within the first hour of hearing people attempt the chord sequence from ''Pathway to Paradise'', much as workers in guitar shops across [[Roundworld]] would love to be able to enforce a shoot-on-sight policy for anyone beginning ''Stairway to Heaven''.

User: 1 revision: Discworld import

2012-09-23T21:53:18Z

1 revision: Discworld import

New page

Blert Wheedown is a well-known luthier, guitarist and teacher in [[Ankh-Morpork]]. At the time of the [[Music With Rocks In]] craze, he was briefly swamped with business but soon realised that most of his new customers only needed the ''appearance'' of a guitar. Sound, action and tuning machines that turned were not necessary features. Wheedown's made a ''lot'' of money for a week or so, utilising planks and fencing wire rather than prime treated wood and real strings, until the sudden crash of "Rocks" and the following amnesia.

He got fed up within the first hour of hearing people attempt the chord sequence from ''Pathway to Paradise'', much as workers in guitar shops across [[Roundworld]] would love to be able to enforce a shoot-on-sight policy for anyone beginning ''Stairway to Heaven''.

Wheedown is also famous for his primer for beginning guitar students. He employs a promising apprentice named [[Gibbsson]].

==Annotation==

Based on {{wp|Bert_Weedon|Bert Weedon}}. According to the ever-accurate WP, "Herbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon OBE (May 10, 1920 – April 20, 2012) was an English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record on the UK Singles Chart, in 1959, and his '''best-selling tutorial guides, ''Play in a Day''''', were a major influence on many leading musicians".

Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Brian May are among the stars who learned to play guitar from his books. He died on 20th April 2012 at the age of 91.

As for the apprentice, Gibbsson, on [[Roundworld]], a [[wikipedia:Gibson Les Paul|Les Paul Gibson guitar]] is a little bit special.

[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses|Wheedown, Blert]]
[[Category:Human characters|Wheedown, Blert]]
[[de:Blert Zupfgut]]

Blert Wheedown - Revision history

SpelCheque: bold

User: 1 revision: Discworld import