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'Treshotka' literally means 'rattle-maker'... and in countryside it was also traditionally used in so-called 'kolady' , traditional folk festivities...

The graphic above is an arguably a forensic analysis of the Viola pdf provided by the OP. The stops in RED are formed from two groups of the F major...

Good advice...I have the dial calipers and one of those wire profile gages where you push it into a profile and it retains that shape. So I can do a...

Lol. That sums it up pretty well. I'm on probation. I was Ichiwa Kai. I shouldn't even think about setting foot in California.

The lighter Tele Thinline is a good idea but it rubs me wrong, too fancy pants. A Tele should be a plank of wood and nearly indestructible.

I think people in general, and guitar players in particular, are disposed to make mountains of molehills, and to find things to disagree about,...

The difference is in the full string length between terminations. When you bend a string, you are not just stretching the sounding string length...

Go on vacation, leave on probation.

Nah, I like both. What I hate is the Tele-Pauls with two humbuckers and a (shudder) Bigsby.

Great post. I dropped out of the regular routine a while back, but have adopted the basic template of soloing slowly over changes 3x for 10 mins as a...

California Got up, 5:30 am, made a cup a coffee, french press. Let the dogs out into the back yard. Played some guitar, my Yamaha RS620, love...

We have our own ideology where I live. The Tao of Gambling. I've achieved social worker status. I try to make sure everyone is happy. Old ladies new...

You could really hear the first 4 bars of the form as twice through the minor "cliche," Gm Gm/maj7 Gm7 Gm6...

The guy I apprenticed to said, "Sam, the first two hundred are the toughest." It's been decades since I've done it but FWIW my advice is to...

The tapping thing is certainly not new: All of Me - Dr Vittorio Camardese 1965 - YouTube

That's career related. It's not like the countless economic refugees leaving. There's a lot of tension the last year because of it. I'm not going to...

I heard Benedetto CEO Howard Paul accompany a saxophonist at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 2016 on a 7-string Benedetto and the Bud. The surrounding...

I hesitate to even participate in Monday-morning quarterbacking someone else's musical choices or efforts... but I have to agree with those who...

When Wes lands on the Bb of the melody over the first G minor chord, I hear that chord as distinctly GmM7. Recording quality is not the best, so...

Yup, and another Wes tune with a deceptive degree of difficulty/speed. John

If I move to California I'll get a 1980's Lincoln Continental and a 'No Lives Matter' T-shirt.

Hello zombie thread. 4 years later, these are still my preferred strings on acoustic archtops. Both the 80/20 and the PB sets are amazing. I even...

I wouldn't hold it against her. I would imagine Olivia Rodrigo and Bahari will stick around California.

That's a sneaky one, ain't it?

What's with all of the many wavy lines in the wood reflecting the light? You know that will be a distraction under lights for you and the...

No Prince and Michael Jackson both grooved, but it was way more technical and stiff imo. Go and listen to James Brown "Payback", "Cold Sweat" or Bill...

Interesting. It always sounded like C blues to me, but he does something similar on Cariba, and I hear that one as Fmin, and am always jarred when...

loved the chord solo too! Did you use this same approach (Gm over C7) with the chord solo? Like adding Gm drop 2 chords where C7 should be?

It’s been a while since I checked in, so I thought I’d pop into the forum with a progress report. As you may know, I’m a few weeks behind everyone,...

Yes but she went to Berklee and moved to Nashville after that. Another California expat.

One application won't be enough. It will take two. The necks are more D than C and are not like a 59 carve. It's surprising how consistent all...

The Bud and Blu are fantastic amps! Enjoy!!

I'm going to have to disagree with Greentone, which doesn't happen much. An L-4 from the 30s is probably much superior to a same-period L50. L-4...

I might keep my gender to myself as well.

As children, here in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, we had toys ("noise-makers") that sounded exactly the same. The noise-making part...

When Henriksen was first introducing the 'Bud', Michael Biller had one that he brought for William Flynn to use for a workshop on Quartal Voicings at...

some fellow Members of this Forum have occasionally shared pictures of instruments by the Swedish Company named Strandberg, here in this circle –...

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Perfect. Bravo! :smile-new:

Fantastic! Prolly the only solo guitar I enjoy listening full hearted.

Cool amp! Congratulations, and play it in good health! :encouragement:

Joe, I'm intrigued with your plans. Where are you based now, and how old are you? I wish you the best of luck. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't...

I really like how he plays solo. It grooves, but it's not beating me over the head with a thousand chords and walking bass and all of that. It...

Welcome to the club ! Ever since I got my Bud - it's about 4 years now - I regularly get comments about the BIG sound this lil' cube puts out,...

I am glad that young Marcin tries different genres. He has energy and enthusiasm. He makes an impression because he plays alone. Let him keep...

Congratulations! Consider adding an upright-facing Toob Metro 6.5BG by Yours Truly as a second speaker, and you have a super rig for the theater pit,...

Sco should release some solo stuff like this. Maybe just do 5 tunes on a digital-only EP, like Pasquale Grasso did, if he doesn’t want to do a whole...

Yes I didn’t like any of the online tracks, so I opened up my old BIAB song for this tune (which I probably created ages ago) and saw I had set up...

I have to confess total ignorance about this ‘candyrat’ business, it has completely passed me by until now. ok looked it up, I see it is a record...

Yeah I have a nice little Suncoast 2-ch preamp for everything from clean bypass, to some dirt, or then hit the switch for screaming leads.

Yeah, it's funny, and maybe it's just from having listened to Wes' version a few thousand times, but I had a hard time with a lot of the tracks that...

Interesting observations. Yet so many dismiss Mickey Baker's book because it's "outdated" and he wasn't a "Jazz" guitarist.

Are you suggesting Prince and Michael Jackson didn't groove?

yes I tend to play Gm and Cm over the I and IV on this tune. Probably because when I learned this tune about 100 years ago directly from the Wes...

I will answer this with messages from the 3 different Mr. Beaumonts. Friendly supportive Mr. Beaumont: Man, he's good. And such a great energy. ...

Hi, I've been making good and steady progress on the build. I've successfully (1) bent and installed the bindings on the f-holes; (2) bent the sides...

Haha, got mine while visiting a Berklee friend in the 70s. Went to someone's apt to get a copy and it honestly seemed like a paranoia fueled drug...

Lawson, got to listen. Lots of good stuff there. Good lines, the chord soloing was quite good and really fun...the only recommendation I could...

It'll probably work well with solid bodies too if you use a preamp pedal with it.

It actually fits perfectly into my gear bag. I am hoping that if/when music theater stuff opens up again, a few pedals in front of The 2-channel Bud...

That would appear to be caused by the delay sending a signal to the looper that somehow gets through the switch, which makes it seem to me more...

Very nice. I love old L7’s too. My dad had a nearly identical guitar for over 50 years. It was a great sounding guitar. Keith

I believe i used this one UNIT 7 chord progression - Backing Track Play Along Jazz Standard Bible 2 - YouTube

Congratulations Marty! Those guitars are thirsty for some Virtuoso! Those are hefty necks. Just like I remember them. I love the sunburst because I...

Congratulations WS! So much for going ampless!

Serious question: What are you guys doing that you all run into trouble with Feedback? A) In most instances i don't even need to use a mic to be...

I know what you mean, but unlike most, who started with line playing, I started jazz from an addiction to its wonderful chords. I was playing pretty...

Pretty good chord soloing there, I thought! Got a Wes flavour at times. I know how hard it is to do those, I tend to be wary of trying them on a...

Yes! I wasn't aware of it until I showed up to get it but I am very, very glad it was already done.

The L50s with the carved maple backs sound and play like L4s. Think of them as dot neck L4s. Years for the L50s like this are 1937-1940.

My L7 came with an endpin-jack already installed, so I wired my pickup to that. Is yours is setup that same way, with an endpin jack?

The jazz language used by JS is the most recognizable among guitarists. Still my nr 1!!!

Yes, so cool! I think the minor 3rd shift idea is also useful, at least for me, to get a handle on Mickey's 'Cmi run over D7' habit (Blues no. 2,...

Beautiful!

I'd want my own amp. But I'm not coming from the "acoustic archtop jazzbox/lets get it to sound as acoustic as possible" camp, but from the "the...

Good grief. Alright jazzers, let the flaming begin LOL

Wow! Remarkable find. I'm pleased to see that they landed in such appropriate hands.

That's my new release with a fusion band called The Apex. Take a look at our new Lp: The Apex by The Apex - DistroKid The Apex | The Apex Panik!...

One thing I am curious about is how the EHX Grand Canyon delay manages to operate TC electronics looper... it happens occasionally as I said when...

Thank you guys for your comments and advice!

Actually I can easily imagine some kind of cylindric drum with with a handle to rotate and make some purcassive sound.. but I cannot seem to find...

and authentic

Hi Richard, I have Carol's Pro Jazz Phrases booklet (no CD), Jazz Improv Soloing DVD, Guitar Sightreading Studies, Jazz Guitar Guide and...

The sound of a rommelpot in Venice - what could be more romantic?

In my most favourite place in the world))

Here’s a rommelpot in action. Friction drum caccavella - Venice - Italy - YouTube

Ok, so I’m thinking about the Mr Wu order. Below. Is Lora’s response for my request of a 17” archtop with no electronics. It looks like when it’s...

I´ve played a set of Soft Brass 12 gauge strings on my Hofner 455/S acoustic archtop for around the last two weeks, but after two days in which I...

Pat Martino Trio with John Scofield - Sunny - YouTube

Regarding that minor 3rd shift: a V7b9 chord without the root (G)BDFAb - G7b9 - has a diminished 7th chord on top: BDFAb. You probably are aware that...

People are starting to use micropore tape for that application

Well I for one think it should exist. So it’s history’s failing here if it doesn’t.

Well casinos and developers have it all worked out where I live. Go to your job at the moon base casino then go home to your dormitory with no yard....

Though I have no experience with his lessons, I loved his contributions on this forum back in the day; he was always really knowledgeable and he's...

Very nice, lawson. While some passages sound a bit hurried, others are laid back and relaxed. That chord solo is very promising.

The Kent Armstrong PAF-0 floater or the DeArmond 1000 or 1100 are your easiest choices. The 1000 is specifically for bronze strings, the 1100 for...

Alan holdsworth denied it. Many times. And I don’t think he’d forget. Unlike page say who did thousands of sessions Allan was young and would have...

Thought that chord soloing was pretty wicked!

That guy Will Mathews with the Count Basie Orchestra sounds good. I think I would see what he is using these days!:triumphant:

Week 19. Day 3. Blues For Alice in C. Tonight was pretty similar to the last number of practice sessions. The first pass is a getting to know you...

I checked out some Barry Harris things awhile back and had another look at them again today. According to Barry, chords that are a minor third apart...

You must own stock in Blu Tack :cool:

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep I opened my eyes to take a peek To find that I was by the sea Gazing with tranquility 'Twas then when the...

Floating pickups can be attached using cyanoacrylate (superglue), epoxy, screws, double-sided mounting tape, or whatever the person assembling it...

I’ve read the switches are low quality and go out quickly. Some people on forums discussed replacing the switches right away. Again, don’t know if...

I recently had Pete Biltoft make a custom CC floater for my DA and it’s a fantastic pickup. He’s very responsive and I’m sure he can accommodate...

Could be a faulty switch. That could account for all the symptoms. Or it could be a slightly loose connection somewhere inside.

I'm not smart enough to give simple answers. :smile-new: