hago News Archives - 2011

November 2nd - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• British word for gardener - it's, er, gardener! (Actual page since moved)
• Do I make a guitar strong tigher to? - well, it's not something we've ever tried...
• Don't panic requinto guitar - the Dad's Army approach to different sizes of guitar
• G sharp in the bass - yes, it's not unknown
• It's his round t-shirt - we prefer our T-shirts to be roughly rectangular
• Pin on the seat - no, we really have been there, done that, got the photo...
• Soprano size guitar - well actually, none of our guitars are 6 foot tall with a generous embonpoint
• Soundhold back of guitar - we rather like the soundhold - a large space full of sound that we can transport to concerts and let out
• Which words go with country - "and western"
• Words of encouragement gardening - "What a nice pear"
• www.what is the english word of garden - www.we think it mmm.might be "garden"

October 25th - Audience feedback from our Salisbury concert includes..."Really enjoyed the concert"
We'll post the fundraising total here just as soon as we learn the figure.

An improved copy of the podcast mentioned on October 12th, below, is now downloadable.

October 1st - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Bungalow Bill- Odd - we don't have a page with "Bungalow Bill" on it. Well, actually we do NOW!
• Cello lower than guitar - yes, it stands on the floor
• Five string guitar - we've all had one of those sometimes when we open the case...
• Garden in the words - we have a feeling you mean "Garden in the rain" - published 1928, and it did well for the Four Aces in 1951-2
• Guitar qaurts for begginers - as a beginner, we recommend halves first, then move on to pints. Quarts are for the experienced only...
• How can i make my guitar higher pitched? - turn those little peg things
• Lowest highest note - the lowest highest note might be on the Double Bass; we're pretty sure the highest lowest note is on the piccolo
• Prim guitar - Here in hago we regard the electric as improper, so I guess our primes are prim...
• Reaction paper about guitar ensemble - this must be the Litmus test. We must be alkali - we don't play any acid house

September 14th - hago is pleased to support the Portsmouth Music Hub, a portal for music education here in South East Hampshire.

Their website launches tomorrow - Sep 15th.

Click here for their website.

September 1st - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Agile Baritone - we saw one but it dodged out of the way
• Change the scale on a guitar - first saw a piece off the neck
• Corner cobweb - yes, that's where they tend to be at this time of year
• Double hago - it would make the stage a bit cramped...
• Flattened church - when we play in church, it's only our notes that get flattened
• How is requinto guitar tuned - you turn the knobs at the end
• Music to go with gardening - er, rock music for rock gardens?
• Post code for catherington church - we don't have the code, so we can't post it to you

August 3rd - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Are guitars alto? - Alto guitars are!
• Can a classical guitarist get into an orchestra? Jumping off the stage and into the orchestra pit works for us
• Guter strap - if you ever need to strap your guter down, we can help
• How do you play a baritone guitar with a standard guitar? We'd rather you used a plectrum or your right hand fingers
• How many gentle flowers grow sheet music - not any that we've found - the ones near us grow leaves and petals
• I need to park in the Guildhall car park in Portsmouth - yeesssss, and your point is?
• What length are guitar strings? Just, er, long enough to fit a guitar...
• Will any guitar strings fit? That depends on your waist measurement

June 25th - we were delighted to share a concert with Flautissimo last night - check out our photos of the flute orchestra on our Friends Page.

Concert feedback included...

• ...very good it was too! The ease of which hago play belies all the hard work that goes into it! Well done
• ...a brilliant evening! Thanks peeps

hago website - June 2000

June 4th - our website is 11 years old today.

We first appeared on the web in June 2000, with a tiny website containing just 8 pages.

Today, our website contains 496 pages, with a further 487 pages for members only.

On our website today you'll find

• one of the most comprehensive lists of instruments in the guitar family
• details of our concerts past and future
• photos and news of past events from 2010, 2009, 2008...
• soundclips and links to videos on YouTube

In our first eleven years we've served over 5 million pages and 44,000 videos!

June 1st - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Birthday Handles - they're a bit like Love Handles, and they come with increasing age...
• Can a baritone guitar? - not always...
• Country of the words - and the words are "what words, exactly?"
• Do thicker gauge bass guitar strings make a loner tune? - Only if you employ the Lone Arranger...
• How to contact an orchestra - Ring them up?
• Ideas for creating a quintessential english country garden - first play our free trio
• Sirefelle - go on, you can't believe we have that word on our site, but we do!

We also had, so our web statistics tell us, someone who arrived here looking for Browns Hair Lounge Southampton. As our webmaster doesn't have much hair, that really didn't go down too well...

The Race for Life is an event raising funds for Cancer Resarch, and some of our players are Racing and Raising Funds. Do visit their fund-raising page.

Derek Hasted, our Musical Director has launched a new website at classical-guitar-lessons.co.uk to promote his expanding tuition business.

If you want to learn to play Classical Guitar, or you can play but want to improve, do visit it!

May 22nd - our concert last night raised £446.64, split equally between "The Friends of St Peter's" and "The Titchfield Bonfire Boys"

The organiser writes

Thank you all so much for a brilliant evening. I heard so many comments from people saying how much they appreciated your music and
enjoyed your humour
...
Thank you again for your professionalism and supporting us.

May 2nd - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Christ hago - well, sometimes our audience feedback can be rather exceptional
• Country music guitar tabs - we're the wrong site on so many levels...
• Dance school - wrong on so many levels again!
• Food church - well, wrong site again, but we do have lots of photos of us eating food in churches...
• Guitar demisions - is not having a mission statement the same as having a demision statement?
• Let it be guitar quint - Yes Mr Spock, make it so
• What makes a long service awardee - usually, it's having completed, er, long service...
• What strings do you use for a baritone guitar - baritone guitar strings :-)
• Woodcarving - we wouldn't describe our friends at Cambridge Guitar Orchestra as "wooden", but that's the page in question
• Words that go with country - how about "and western"?

April 24th - our videos on YouTube have now been watched 40,000 times. Happy Easter from everyone in hago!

April 2nd - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Bass guitar quarts of everyday - quarts? We find pints more than enough for weekends. During the week a swift half is plenty...
• Classical guitar braces measurements - actually we tend to wear belts rather than braces...
• Definition of scale size in hospitality - see above - it's probably a pint, but maybe, all things considered, it's a quart...
• Dimention of guitar - well, we've thought for some time that our Musical Director is a bit, er, dimented...
• hago still - no, pay attention, it's pints, not spirits - we don't own a still!
• How do I lower my guitar strings - put the guitar on the floor
• One way ticket guitar scale - no, we don't understand this one either!
• Rude garden gnomes - unfortunately not, this is a family friendly site

March 20th - One of the guests at our Petersfield Concert earlier this month was Ernie Swinburn, a professional photographer. We've put a very much shrunk-down version of one of his photos of the concert in our 2011 gallery, plus a link to his website, which is full of photos - enjoy the "Prints for Sale" gallery, with some really wonderful images - you might even want to buy one to hang at home!

March 11th - The Portsmouth Music Festival is running at the moment. The hago cup, which we presented to the Festival in 2004 for "the best performance on two or more guitars" has been won this year by Graham Cleaver and Gilly Slot - well done!

March 8th - we have a final total now for the concert on March 5th - £612.94, going to The Rosemary Foundation. Thank you for helping us increase our total fund-raising to £52,800!

We played at an amazingly well filled Petersfield Festival Hall last night in aid of The Rosemary Foundation. We'll post the fund-raising total as soon as we have it.

From the Hayling Island Forum

"They played a variety of music perfectly, beautifully, passionately and with such entertaining narration. I would have paid triple for a ticket."

March 3rd - we celebrated two special events at last night's rehearsal
The first was our 12th birthday (and yes, there was cake!)
And the second was a long service award to Philip for 200 attendances

See the photos in our gallery...

March 2nd - Here's the trail for our concert this Saturday, March 5th - our most popular YouTube video this month by a large margin!

Visit our concerts page for ticket details...

March 1st - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Can i tune a baritone guitar? - we suspect the answer's yes
• cuthbears curch concstse - there's someone who shouldn't be surfing the web after a night down the pub...
• Gothic home interiors - not sure this page of our website is quite what they wanted...
• Lyrics to the garden gnome song - "Gnome on the Range?"
• What is the capacity of Park Place Chapel Wickham Hampshire? - we think it's several million litres
• Words for the country - "Rural" is a good one to start with!

February 25th - today we're 12 years old!

Click and watch!
Here's a taster of where we are, 12 years on... Danza Cubana, recorded 3 weeks ago, which we're playing on March 5th as well as at our Titchfield Concert on May 21st advertised on the video

February 23rd - we're featured in today's Petersfield Post

February 20th - our YouTube channel has been the busiest ever this month - check out our advert for our March 5th concert

February 13th - We've sent out another newsletter, advertising our March 5th concert. A couple of email addresses are bouncing, so if you've changed your email address, do resubscribe with your new address.

February 1st - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• Aloofness and limited expression - we're as surprised as you are that we have a page with that on it!
• Bye classical guitar - we hate it when someone gives up what can be a life-long hobby...
• Cookery classes in All Saints Church Portsmouth - we played there - it has souper acoustics that meat your approval
• Frunt on drawing pin - we wonder whether by "frunt" they mean the hed of the droring pinn?
• Soundhole tapes - we not sure a cassette tape of just a soundhole would be all that interesting...
• Use of baritone guitar string - the best one we've found is to use it as a string. On a baritone guitar.

January 20th - one of our performances of Liberty Bell has featured on PodShow - on "Running The Narrow Path"...

"I'm a back of the pack podcaster and runner in my fifties, running the roads and paths in my neighbourhood here in Sweden, struggling with my training and the English language"

Happy New Year, from all of us in hago - the Hampshire Guitar Orchestra!

We're looking forward to 2011 - we have some exciting concerts coming up, raising money for a variety of local charities, and we're looking forward to taking our wide-ranging repertoire to some new areas across of the South of the UK.

If you're looking to make some New Year's Resolutions that you'll actually be able to keep, we have some ideas for you....

• Looking for a relaxing evening out?
  Come to one of our concerts - something for all ages!
• Wishing you'd learned a musical instrument?
  Visit our MDs website and read about classical guitar lessons for adult beginners
• Play guitar and want to improve?
  Come to our MD's informal ensemble for intermediate guitar players
• Grade 6 or above and wanting a new focus for your playing?
  Come to a rehearsal - think about joining us - it's a fantastic opportunity!

January 1st - another month, another set of visitors who came to our site from Google who clearly shouldn't have bothered! People searching for...

• A3M service stations - we're not really sure the page Google took you to was quite what you'd hoped for!
• My guitar strings are different lengths - yes, that's because some notes are longer than others
• Portsmouth cathedral toilet - you won't be "flushed with success" at the page Google recommends...
• Rude words for in an english country garden - sorry to disappoint - we're a family friendly website
• Words that go with country - how about "and western"? Not that we do that either!