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Listen to Rick Beato’s “What Makes This Song Great” for that Boston song. Brad Delp’s vocals are out of this world amazing. Beato isolates them. ...

I remember diving into a blog that David Valdez wrote about Garzone's "Chromatic Triadic" concept. I spent some time trying to see if I could...

Sorry, Allan, I forget this stuff is serious for you. I'm not used to being taken seriously! Here's the same shells backing and the right notes this...

I played Jazzfest in 2017 and got to spend a weekend in NOLA. It's really glorified busking there. We heard a nice guitar/bass duo in a coffee shop...

Just beautiful!

Thank You All, for the Compliments, and Kindness Shown to Me! I confess to liking the headstock design/style as much as I like the body and...

I was just doing shells and I think the highest was C7 at the 8th. But shells make it all pretty easy. It wasn't that fast either. (And, if I'm...

Probably old news but I just googled Vintage and Rare in Bath and it's permanently closed.

I've been fooling around with a 24" Squier Jaguar, and I'm kinda digging it.

It is My Pleasure to Oblige! :eagerness: (The strap pin is even in the spot that I'd have chosen, if I had been the original owner.)

The pickup spacing shows that it’s a short scale. All of the more modern Byrds I’ve played have had 1 & 11/16” nuts, but one never knows with Gibson....

Check out Dos Jefes in the Garden District if you like good drinks, cigars and live music. Great spot with great local artists.

Sounds great! Weird in all the good ways.

Right, US sales only.....I just added that note to the ad.

Don’t buy crawfish from a half empty cooler. You want em fresh and warm.

Beautiful — but not CITES-compliant?

It'll be interesting to find out what it's like living in a pariah nation, the way things are going so far.

Kinda surprised this isn't gone yet @ the price.

I like to sub the Dm7b5 for G#9 makes it easier. I like the Cm at the 8th fret, but not the 10th fret Dm7b5.

No problem whatsoever. Masaki, over at walkin.co.jp, is easy to communicate with and a very nice fella. The guitar arrived fairly quickly, and with a...

It also makes the one on the right look like a 17"-er next to a 16".

Wow. BUT, all beautiful shapely creations deserve a rear view. :wink-new:

This is a nice simple tune but it's really in the improv that there's a chance to explore stuff. And I suppose the video is just a way of watching my...

Okay, but it’s a $12k instrument. How challenging is it to take a photograph measurement at the nut?

Does it have the short scale? How about the narrow neck width?

hi, see link below. definitely need to see preservation hall, #1 on the list below. last there in 2020, 3 wks before covid exploded there. we...

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Absolutely. Most begin reading the FS pages at the top of the list.

where?

I love Boston. Such a great band.

100 watts is about right. You can really move some serious air with 100 watts.

I actually have nothing against spending more than I have spent. I've just been able to get stuff that I really like at lower to mid-level end of...

You don't need a luthier to carve tops, just a good CnC. Luthier could do the sanding, top tuning (if considered) and brace glueing. I couldn't see...

Do Benedetto inspired archtops have a recurve? Aside from the vibrational properties, I think recurves just look cool.

Lots of semi-hollow guitars but this is the only hollow-body currently on Gibson's custom shop page: Chuck Berry 1955 ES-350T | Gibson

Here's Here's that Rainy day. On the whole minor vs major -- I like to begin the head in major, end on a minor as an ending. ...

I bought this brand new Byrdland from Sweetwater a year ago. They gave me a great deal. $7K + tax.

Here: Are You New? The forum has no moderators. The administrator's name is Dirk, I've never contacted him but someone else here can tell you...

There's a Peach Guitars watermark on one of the pictures, so I'm assuming that Peach is m1austin's local shop. From what I've heard, Peach is one of...

The price has been lowered to $12,000.

$5700

Those Strat Plus guitars are real gems.

So much Byrdland action lately! Still available, this OOS (Old old-stock)!

Haha! I do like a bargain but to clarify, my most expensive archie is almost 45 times the price of my least expensive.:smile-new:

You’re comping four to a bar at 300bpm? I don’t think you need to do that.

Hi Mark, Ingo the newbie here. I have some forum questions starting with how do I ask a question (duh!) Well I can't find the introduce yourself...

I've used a number of boutique American - Benedetto inspired - archtops, and more recently a number of Eastman archtops (also Benedetto variants),...

Mine is always on, volumen 10 o'clock , sag fully cw and drive at 2 o'clock. This with tele or strat into a black face amp. With humbucker loaded...

I have one Gibson LPS which I love and, of all my guitars, it's the one that the general public get to see the most. I'm not really interested in any...

When I was down there I just walked around the French Quarter, by the riverwalk, not Bourbon Street, looking in bar windows. This was like 20 years...

Thanks, you're very kind to say, I'll convey your compliments to the rest of the trio. It's from last weekend, a very nice Italian restaurant. I was...

Les Pauls, yawn ... :smile-new:

That's a beautiful guitar.Did you have any problems ordering from Westville?I'm always leary of ordering a guitar from overseas.

On the club 40 album, Joe is the fatter sounding guitar.

I would give all my gear for those fingers, and a lot more for the musicality that drives them. Thanks again, Mark!

I would be shocked if they had the discretion. Doesn't nut width impact tons of geometry on the guitar (neck width, bridge spacing, etc.?)

Seller is claiming the nut is WIDER than 1 9/16.

Nothing to indicate archtops yet on the gibson.com website. Ten million Les Pauls though! :rolleyes:

And just why are we crying about the demise of archtops when individual luthiers can produce such masterpieces? This one's from 2005 but looks like...

Very puzzling that a new Byrdland should show up in Colchester, UK of all places. Why would no other dealer be privy to such a treasure? Why would...

There are actually two types of carved archtops that Gibson produced in the past. Mounted pickup CES models and floating pickup models (La Grand, L4C...

That is GREAT! Thanks for posting! Super sensitive bassist and drummer, really listening. I must admit that a lot of your written posts are over...

I think there are maybe two parts of this. The first is that seamless integration of the chords with the lines and that’s a really higher order skill...

The problem appears to be less the fingering of the chords (I've been working on rootless grips on the top four strings, which I find relatively easy...

I agree. That’s why I found it so surprising to see a newly built fully carved guitar. The guitar shop owner was very vague about what to expect...

If they are indeed building jazz boxes again, the production process for an L-5 involves a luthier working with a different and more refined skill...

Whoops, yes I meant a 2024 build (as per the 2xxx4001 serial number), and no, I did not buy it. I played it, and it sounded very good, but rather...

PSA: the changes in this one are half time from the way they’re usually played.

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Im sure I was told at Uni that the very first original chord sequence was done in Bb over a Bb pedal. I had them written down somewhere.

Looks like the score he referenced is the same as this one, which is in Eb rather than D Major. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrkohVZAwA

I'm in a trio where the guitar "wears many hats" musically; the result is that the mechanical distinction of comping, chord melody, and soloing are...

I've been through the process with a pre-war instrument. The prior owner failed to grasp the magnitude of the undertaking, and lost interest part of...

So it's a 20-year-old NOS Byrd in unplayed condition? Or did you mean to say 2024?

or even just the guide tones. I love those little dudes so I do that a lot. Super easy to play. The diads themselves are open and kind of dull so...

Destination Moon - Beverly Kenney (Johnny Smith on Guitar) Falling in Love with with Love - Sheila Jordan (Barry Galbraith on Guitar) Comes...

I only have first hand experience with three carved archtops: 2 old German ones from the 50s and a modern Thorell. Both of the German ones have...

Spot on.

Robocoptick, that anger you're nursing is clouding your mind. Unfortunately Jimmy and many other luthiers got sold bad binding material, which...

I have a C20 and have posted a bunch of times about it. It could be the best $150 I ever spent, except it only cost me $89. The few, the proud,...

Nice gear demonstration, Mark! :rolleyes:

Depends on your technique. Playing with my fingers, comping fast fast tempos is easy: thumb on 1&3, fingers on 2&4. With a pick, it's harder for...

Luckily chord punches is probably the most plectrum friendly of all self comping approaches. You don't need to use fingerstyle at all (although you...

Stunning guitar! No reason to deny yourself a great instrument, you earned it!

Hi, m1austin! I don’t see anything in your post that says you bought it, so I’m assuming you did not. If that’s correct, did you at least get to...

Very nice! Congrats, HNATD :thrasher: and play her in good health!

Beautiful! Congrats, HNATD :thrasher: and play her in good health! All I've read about Gibson producing archtops again is that it's on their...

+1 Gorgeous !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YLZtRx3KOQ

…..in most rooms on that guitar at that volume with those pickups, pots, caps, wiring and strings plus that pick, that cable, and that amp. The...

That Cameo Wes! OMG!

hah! Yes, I still like picks though you can see in this video I go back and forth several times between fingerstyle and pick- just because:)

Chitlins Con Carne, Dig Dis, Comin Home Baby. Three blues heads you can comp for yourself over. Here's an old video of me (looking exceptionally...

Hardware installation :smile-new:

That's a beauty.

Beautiful! But……..a pick? Are you OK, Mark? :surprise:

The history of arch top guitars is barely over a century old and as a musical instrument it is unique in how closely its design, concept and...

mmmm, huh?

Hey, that’s my guitar! It gets gigged all the time. An exceptional instrument at twice the price.

Yeah, those Phil Wilkinson tracks are the best ones out there.

At the gig last night I tried a mix of playing softer overall with more attack during solos and I did more knob fussing than I would normally do. ...

I'm resurrecting this old thread in light of this interesting development where Jonathan Huber recently looks at Victor Young's handwritten...

That is a beauty for sure. As a woodworker, I appreciate all the woods and the fine craftsmanship in your guitar. I can only imagine it plays as...

Double stops are cheating. Just kidding, sounds great. That organ backing track is a fun one, isn't it?

Thanks!

I think it does not dominate. He just does what should be done in my opinion. I cannot separate the music from performance. To me the written...

The 'points' of the hex core cause the winding to kink very slightly, and hold the windings in place. With a smooth cylindrical wire the windings...

we’ll talk again about it when this red cat with sunglasses will know how to play a few notes more properly

Man that was so nice. This bro can really play. I always enjoy your clips. Double-stops easily forgiven!

Is it explained anywhere in this thread why a hex core string "binds better"? Is that simply result of a longer circumference w.r.t. the core wire...

There are enough copies of the original L5 around that would presumably reproduce the top and back arches, though not necessarily the (top) plate...