The vital lead to charge my Variax battery turned up on time last Thursday and I’ve had a bit of time to mess around with all the different sounds. However, now I’ve got the first outing for the new instrument coming up – leading the music at church this Sunday morning – so, as well as thinking about what songs to use, I also need to consider what sounds would work best.

I’ll try to resist too much messing around – probably just one electric and one acoustic sound, and perhaps twelve string models for both electric and acoustic too (no keys this Sunday so there will be room with the guitar / bass / drums basic combo). Electric sitar? No, probably too much in the first instance…