Happy Birthday Berlioz

 Happy birthday Hector Berlioz born on this day 1803. He composed the famous Symphonie Fantastique but he also collaborated with Adolphe Sax and made great use of his inventions and innovations in the world of brass instruments.

Happy Birthday Franck

 Happy Birthday to French composer and organist Cesar Franck, which I assume is pronounced Fronk, born this day 1822

Serenade

 A guitar piece called Serenade I magically transferred to piano.

Mandolin fun

 A little fun with 3 chords, G,C and D

We Three Kings

 We Three Kings, the first Christmas carol in The Guitarist's Way supplement book, played with a pick on the Fender Dread.

Scales X2

 Playing the A scale with a skippy beat, on 2 different guitars.

2019 Valencia hybrid nylon, 2004 Fender DG5 Dreadnought

Starting on the 3rd string (G string), 2nd fret.

Restrung the Fender

 The Fender Dread had Martin Monels on, good strings but they were a bit too heavy (13-56) and the action was a tad high (3.5 mm at the 12th fret)

A friend on the Acoustic Soundboard forum kindly sent me 2 sets of strings, Ernie Ball Earthwood and Newtones customs. I decided to try the Ernie Balls.

Restringing went...ok. Cleaned up the fingerboard with baby oil then went ahead with the re-stringing. But I discovered I'd put the 4th string in the 5th string's tuner, so had to redo that. Then I found that the 2nd string (B) wasn't holding its tuning. The wrapping around the post wasn't secure, so I took it off and re-did it. 

Finally I got it all done and it sounded much better. The strings are very resonant