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Medieval lute similarly was played with a pick. Crawford Young, a member of Project Ars Nova and the Ferrara Ensemble specializes in late Medieval...

Yeah .. The Silent58 is ok, but a bit underwhelming ... But note that PM100 which is the predecessor to the Ibanez PM200, came with a Super58 and not...

Petit essai et grosse fatigue ! - YouTube

Great score. Hopefully the original Oxford speaker is in tact. Those are wonderful speakers.

By using a piece of under seasoned wood that moves after the fact.

Missed this one! Nice take and welcome aboard. Great sound with the bright guitar/fullness of the thumb, and some very nice relaxed swinging lines in...

With a little more time and experimentation, I think this is a solution that can just be solved with hex core, steel flats. The Thomastiks have round...

DB, you are awesome.

Probably because it's in Germany. Could be a good deal for someone in the EU so that they can avoid import taxes and fees.

Thanks guys. I want to do Tune Up quite fast, don’t want to get too relaxed on that one!

LeRoy Aiello makes beautiful custom pickguards. Welcome to AielloGuitars.com

Damn! That's terrific. Great NAD.

Very nice. I got one like that about 35 year ago (which I still own). Mine is not as clean on the outside, but the inside looks similarly like new. I...

I took the silent 58 off of mine, it was too bright for me especially on an all maple guitar. Replaced with a Fralin Modern PAF, which sounds great....

Top notch phrasing - so laid back and relaxed. Excellent grahambop!

He had two siblings - Phil and Estella. All musicians. All children or grandchildren of Fess Williams. Their mother was a Phillips who was a sibling...

Goes to show that it works fine at slow tempo - well done! Very nice mix of long lines and choruses with more space. Well done! And I...

omg... at that price... unbelievable! congrats, good that it went into good hands. maybe put some clip how it sounds!

yeah, Woolworth's -- not sure if they still appended the "5 and 10" then, but they did have a dancing chicken. Always felt sorry for the chicken. ...

Bobby really might be my favorite current player. He's this wonderful bridge between tradition and modern...one foot in the past...but always looking...

Great sound and playing!

John, fun take. There's a "Barney Kessel just on the edge of losing it but staying in control" element to your fast stuff i love. I really do need...

THAT is the problem : by the early 60's Gibson had simply lost the guys who knew how to "size" the plywood for these types of guitars - they also...

I would be afraid of the feedback issues. It’s a big body guitar. I believe Ibanez put the silent 58 for a reason

That was the main instrument of the great Johnny St. Cyr.

Try Paul Fox. He doesn’t have the Super 400CES in tortoise on his website, but I’m pretty sure he can do that for you. Gibson Electrics |...

It's funny you noticed that. I know Chris Whiteman and take lessons with him occasionally. He (along with watching videos of Tim Lerch) originally...

Ah, that makes sense. When I worked at Ibanez I dreaded the QC checks on guitars that came from some Indonesian factories. The wood they used... well...

:highly_amused: I would have missed so many good paying gigs without my banjo ! We do not have a comparable theatre/musical scene over here in...

Expanding your dominant chord facility Symmetrical scales part 2. The whole tone scale. We've come to see that in making a solo, there's a...

Yeah. A slightly deeper bodied Tal Farlow, leave out the scroll and put 2 P90 pups on it and there you go! Should be no big deal. The ES 350 is a...

Baby steps. Have to to ween them off autotune first. The girl at 8:15 is pretty good; Drivers License Cover (Olivia Rodrigo) #2 - Tik Tok...

Week 19 Day 5 Friday Project 6-A Modal Madness in F Speed to the edge of your comfort zone Steady eighths and triplets in the right hand augmented...

Banjoists have a lot of be angry about My real motivation for avoiding is that if word gets out I own a banjo I would spend the rest of my life...

Agree with you Mr B re- Bigsby's - on anything - anywhere. Closest thing to a Cow Catcher in design history! However, love my MIM Player Tele with 2...

If you 're using sounds other than jazz also, more so an hx stomp, i would get an amp with a 12' speaker, as they are more versatile and support a...

Incidentally this is another tune that Miles Davis DIDN’T write. The general consensus (including from Eddie himself apparently) is that it was...

Flight of the Bumblebee played on one acoustic guitar by Marcin partzalek - YouTube

Tenor banjo players are often scathing of guitar players who pick up banjo work using guitar tuning. Back in the day when bands started to want...

nice!

You don’t often hear the words ‘Baden Powell’ and ‘rommelpot’ in the same sentence, but that’s basically what’s going on here (admittedly it’s the...

I’ve had MD’s get a bit snotty about banjo tuning in jazz bands but I can’t imagine most mainstream ones being at all interested. I have gigged on...

Wow! Rudy was your cousin? Too much! Who was the singer Estella?

I saw that book. It's very good, despite the goofy cover.

GT is probably right. I'm a huge Gibson fan, namely their vintage models, but sometimes am baffled at their archtop reissue choices. In the 90s I...

Great playing on nylon strings guitar! Great Tribute Chick Corea. Beautifyll sounding guitar.

Wow, very nice!! I never played a champ but sounds like fun!

I love 5F1 Champs since I built mine! Are you going to change the electrolytes, remove the ‘death cap’ and install a 3-prong chord?

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this but, for anyone who's starting out with Mickey's book and is having trouble getting going, I'd...

This is really nice ... it exemplifies the "less is more" effect. Starting with just nice clean, musical playing. Except for the production...

Is Tal back ?

Tritone Substitution for Beginners Good lesson. Two replies complimenting on tone. Three classic tube amps with lights out. One Quilter all aglow...

I dunno what's more gross, boogers or ear wax... If I ever join a forum for amateur florists, I am going with "Picked_Noses_Smell_It_Better" ...

Thanks. Trust me, though, when I was playing over the tracks that are upwards of 230 bpm, I wasn't able to do much (at least not tonight). This...

I dunno—that seemed pretty breakneck to me and you were all over it, no sweat. Lots of nice runs on all registers of the instrument. (Do you use...

Week 19. Day 5. Modal Madness Part I. It was a very good session tonight. It's amazing how more freely I play over these changes than the first time...

That's a fabulous idea, wzpgsr! I totally concur! Thank you as always, JBN!

I would tend to agree that 10's are fine for Strat jazz - you just have to keep a light grip on the pick and play gently. The jazz tone of an arch...

OK here's mine ... So far as I can recall, I don't think I've played this before (maybe on a jam, but I've never shedded it). The tune itself is...

Tedesco also deserves praise for how well-written his GP columns were. He could write!

One just went up on reverb ... for $5700 ?not a private stock

Thanks Ron! I call my brand of bop "meep bop" as in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4R3kO98Zo0 First day of my interdisciplinary music &...

My latest mini-stack. The Koch Studiotone (with a massive 20 watts of Class A EL-84 tubey goodness) fits perfectly atop the Avatar 1x12" cube, loaded...

Woolworth's, a blast from the past! About discovering the oud, as I recall it was through Hamza El Din's Eclipse, the album produced in the late...

Mine is set to 1.9mm on low E, my own preference. Sounds like you got a defective one... I'd send it back.

Sorry for the confusion as that particular pen is 2 meters in height. Its a display model.

Remarkable! Congratulations!

Two at Moreno's for buffing. They are clean though. I cleaned the last one tonight. I don't think it needs buffing. I don't think the truss rod...

+1 for Jensen Tornado. I have them in tube and ss amps and I haven’t suffered from sterility. And again about the ohmage: if You play medium...

Ragman, good call with the tune! Good version played "In Your Own Sweet Way"! Jeff, really liked the vibrato in there. Reminded me of Phillipe...

Amazing! Congrats! Let us know how it sounds.

Are your talking about cousin Rudy??? Wow. His duster was singer Estella. I’d love to hear stories. Amazing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk...

ok, CGBD is also called Minstrel, as that was the tuning for the 19th century. DGCD is also common in old time music. Would have thought the string...

I love the pen for scale. Always useful to provide a clue for scale!

They'll all made in Indonesia. It is weird how off the neck angle seems to be -- hard to believe it's a design flaw, but I've never heard of a...

Any traditional tenor banjo player using CGDA tuning. Currently mine is in CGDA.-, but it's been in all of the tunings below except plectrum. ...

He said the same thing at a workshop I attended in the late 80's...and had to sight read a guitar duet with him. No one else in a room full of guitar...

Thanks Roy. My back turned 76 this month, damn it! I sold me Deluxe Reverb to a young guy with a young back. as my old German professsor used to...

Good one!..and some of the shows I doubled on banjo, I used "Chicago" tuning...DGBE, guitar/bari uke tuning, like Tedesco et al.

Un-be-lievable score!! True 60+ yr old time capsule. Tweed looks immaculate and you could eat off the guts they're so clean. Looks about unplayed,...

Although I dig Grasso's playing more and more--he plays lap piano and string saxophone like no one else--I think Dan Wilson should have won that Wes...

Send it back. With the bridge on the deck, you should have the strings on the frets. That's just wrong. It needs to be lower to compensate for any...

At some point, the L50 went to a carved back and stayed that way, though I don’t know when. My L50 is a 1960 model and has a carved two-piece back.

63 is the new 33 :-) I have guitars with piezo pickup but I did not try them with the Blu so my argument may be moot. I have used the Bud as a...

I'm waiting for high speed rail to the coast. That should take till about 2080.

Tune Down For What! by Irez87 | Free Listening on SoundCloud I jumped on it! Beautiful day for an upload. I love the smell of jazz in the...

Got to listen... Rag, wouldn't have expected any less...er...more of you:) Sparse, melodic, fun. Ron, cool track. You sound great on whatever...

So I just picked one of these up, and it seems to have a major design or build flaw -- even with the bridge all the way down and the neck perfectly...

I'm not playing amplified jazz right now, but I imagine this amp would cover that too. PRRI SE 12" 15w 33lbs. The clean tones are amazing. I also...

Mu means 1 2 3 5 The superscript 6 is the figured bass notation for 1st inversion (since the mu is not strictly triadic, the 1st inversion is built...

You absolutely deserve the “bop” in your nom de guerre.

I like that beat too. It conjures the era well.

im excited to see yours the f-holes on yours are thinner reminiscent of a gibson Johnny Smith or one of my Unity’s

Thanks! Steve Cropper talks about how "Green Onions" came about. It almost didn't! Great story.

Mine is getting better with age and playing. Plenty of Manouche vibe for me.

Things are looking better. There were already a lot of people from CA here then since Covid, boom. A lot more. Everyone is over the shock.

Yeah, he has come a long way. It's nice to see a young player get better and better. It shows that they're really workin' on it. I too saw him...

I hope you’ll give some thought to the idea of collecting your writings from the various Superchops sessions into a companion guide.

An L7 can be like a sharp looking wife and you scored. But in fact under all the looks she is wisdom, brains, and a keeper. Be on the look out!

Thanks 2B. You are a kind soul! It does have the mojo. And I always try to guide seekers!

Ugh, that's awful! :mad-new:

That faded jacket fits like a glove. The groove really is working with that drum beat. Dig the pattern were every other measure the snare hits on...

I bought a DM1 last January. I began looking for a Sel-mac in 2019, after playing a friend's Craig Bumgarner, which was superb. My local store(for...

Hi. Archtop Eddy here. I lost my account here when I bought a new computer and couldn't access my password. Easiest way to solve the problem was just...

Yeah, my step daughter is actually a Broadway song and dance vet, and she tells me that things are not looking good, between the Actors Equity Assoc...

Yes, much like Russell Malone, he has the whole package. I've seen him live with Joey D. Actually, my playing is a lot like theirs, except for...

Hey now! But seriously, Leavitt helped me to the point that a classical teacher was taken aback by my sight reading of Sagreras studies (in C...

Heavy strings pulling the trem up will heighten the action; string tension causing excessive neck relief will heighten the action. The former can be...

Sorry my fault for going down the wrong Rabbit Hole with Ringo and Bernard Purdie. Either way my poi t was the drummer brings the Feel to the track...

Mine comes tomorrow - 14 miles away at FedEx this afternoon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, Ron and Jeff.

Gonna post my first take and then go back and listen to everyone else so far. First impressions: I don't know this tune nearly as well as I...

I agree, would be helpful to see more (if there is more).

Graham, somehow I missed yours. Perfect capper to the week. Great swinging laid back playing, and great tone too.

Wow, what a great tone! And nice laid-back feel!

Yeah, there's one chord in "Autumn Nocturne" that is unplayable, but sounds great.

I've had an Eastman, and I have two Wus. I sold the Eastman. It's a fine guitar, but the Wu is better. And I have another Wu under construction. ...

Reading abilty exists on a continuum. At the low end, it's the ability to slowly decode notation and figure out what to play. At the high...

They don't know crap about stuff like that.

Here's my go at it! I've been working on some altered lines and playing, and checking out Mike Stern's new book. I tried to not get into that too...

Henry, I just read on your website that you were related to Mingus. Did you ever hear of a guy named Rudy Williams, a sax player? He was a guy I...

:welcome:

BTW the banjo thing is well known. It does get frowned upon a bit because of voicing spacing... but for written parts in ensemble wouldn’t make much...

Never a dull moment with Bernard!:cool:

Nice groove! Now all you have to do is get Tarrantino to use it in a soundtrack.... :cool:

Huh. Tricks of the trade. Mind you, I know quite a few players who have no problem moving between tunings. But if the MD doesn’t care (probably...

Yeah, both of the above mentioned guys. A friend of mine studied with Berliner, and he said that he did it with every string instrument he played-...

Turns out you can buy the thing online Vs London | The Hot Club of Jupiter tune in tomorrow! 6:30 UTC