Getting pick out of acoustic guitar

Stuball48

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In my last lesson, I was trying to play Bill and Gloria Gaither's song, He Touched Me, when the pick slipped from my fingers and "swished" the sound hole in my DV52. I just stopped playing and my teacher gave me two pieces of advice:
1. You don't stop playing but continue with thumb and fingers
2. Have extra picks for use on next song.
Then he told me to get the pick out. So I turned the DV52 upside down and began shaking it. After about a minute he said, "let me show you a little trick."
He turned the guitar rightside up and positioned the pick in the upper right corner then spun the guitar over clockwise. He might have had a little neck to back slant. He shook the guitar 3 or 4 times and out it came. Has worked for me many times.
What is your "trick"
for getting out a pick?
 

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Figured that one out by myself a long time ago. I keep a couple of picks in my beater, camping, beaching guitar so that i will always have one when I need one. They never ever fall out on their own.
 

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Pretty much what you're doing - position the pick straight below the sound hole, flip the guitar over, the pick falls right out.

Recently did this and saw a dust ball rolling around inside my D-25M. Haven't seen it again, it's probably hung up on the pickup wiring or something. Elderly Instruments has a whole collection of guitar dust balls in a frame on the wall by their repair center.
 

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Me , I just bump it underneath the sound hole to lower side then flip comes out every time but shaking the living bejeuse out of it is fun to
 

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Bullzeye in the sound hole and flip over quick. My Ovations have a smooth back, so getting it there, is easy. In fact the 12 string has a removable disk for accessing the wiring guts. Of course, it's a lot harder to get a pick in one with the 22 small sound hole thing.
 

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Anyone ever find a rattlesnake rattle in a vintage guitar? The old legend in the South is that a rattlesnake rattle in the body of your Dreadnought or Jumbo guitar is supposed to help ward off evil spirits... and bring a musician good luck! :devilish:

It can even help you win the flat picking contest at a Fiddlers Convention.
 

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Saran wrap over the soundhole. Prevents the pick falling in in the first place.
 

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Take off all the strings, retrieve the pick, give the guitar a thorough cleaning, restring with a new set of strings, tune the guitar and play it like never before!

*If anyone buys that remedy click WTF? :victorious:

Joe
 
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