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At some point Bessler knew he had done it. When he did, he didn't jump up and down or shout for joy or go to listen to his contemporary of the time, J. S. Bach in concert. NO. He sat down and played the following on the guitar. I know it to be true. I was there at the time. I was in a previous life.

http://youtu.be/B7sOwYVD_sE
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I am amazed he didn’t play with his organ.
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If memory serves, his organ was on loan, although I can't claim he was loaning it to Bach.
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Jim W,

Enjoyed your latest addition to your video collection. I do enjoy your style of guitar plucking and only wish I could get some use out of my collectors item.

What picking I do is just that picking with pick. Should have taken lessons Chet Atkins style many years ago.

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I invented a time machine, went back and met Bessler too, just when Bessler was about to tell me the secret, Jim came flying through the top window of the castle at Weissenstein. He was flying on a pink unicorn. The toothfairy appeared and taught Bessler to play a tune on his guitar to fool the demon riding the winged horselike creature. The fairy godmother turned the demons steed into a pumpkin, but the leaves on the pumpkin were an odd shape, having 5 points, and which after smoking them, Bessler became paranoid and started to accuse his best friend Gartner of trying to steal his idea. Bessler then climbed to the top of a windmill, where peter pan was waiting for him and told him to fly to his childhood where he would live forever with a beautiful maiden named wendy.......splat.... The End.
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I knew it would come down to a sexual ending, everything leads to sex... what’s wrong with society...
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I time travelled to the end of time and ended up here .
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Jim Williams wrote:At some point Bessler knew he had done it. When he did, he didn't jump up and down or shout for joy or go to listen to his contemporary of the time, J. S. Bach in concert. NO. He sat down and played the following on the guitar. I know it to be true. I was there at the time. I was in a previous life.

http://youtu.be/B7sOwYVD_sE
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I time travelled to the end of time and ended up here .
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AB Hammer

No I wasn't the maid. In my previous life I was just a visiting musician. I would reveal the secret of the wheel, but I just got confused by all of Bessler's mechanical stuff of course.

daxwc

Sounds like while Bessler may have built an organ, you might consider registering as a known organist.
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daxwc wrote:I am amazed he didn’t play with his organ.
LOL!
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daxwc wrote:I knew it would come down to a sexual ending, everything leads to sex... what’s wrong with society...
The fact that everything leads to sex. Which means there are moments where there is no sex. Not enough sex.
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....and that's when you play with your organ
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Got 13 minutes? Play with this. It actually is from Bessler's time and is worth the effort.

http://youtu.be/FpZfvlWJbjg
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