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Today, 03:11 AM
In simple terms, your playing doesn't swing, it's like you're playing classical music, a Bach chorale or something. Your technique is adequate, your...
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Today, 03:03 AM
You sound like a really good player, you have a lot of stuff already worked out. I can see why you're frustrated, as you've put in the work but it's...
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Today, 02:38 AM
"However also try to record Jeff's version as that is what this study group is about."
I don't plan to change it much, on paper anyway, just add...
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Today, 02:31 AM
Fully understandable for horns to tune to 442. I play only bigband and IMHO it makes no sense when a conductor insists that my guitar and the bass...
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Today, 02:21 AM
Welcome to the forum.
No, that's definitely not only due to your technique. I can think of 3 problems. It sounds like there could be some tone...
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Today, 02:21 AM
Sorry to hear the details Clem. Clearly worse than it sounded at first. Something drizzled on the neck that can't be wiped off.. what the heck is...
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Today, 01:13 AM
"Just because a Negro plays Jazz, it doesn't necessarily make him a man"... Surely Tristano could not have meant this in a racist way. Without...
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Today, 12:55 AM
Glad you kept that one, Jack, I remember you thinking about selling it a while back (recognize the cool fingerboard).
I love my GB10, just wish...
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Today, 12:47 AM
Shows what looks to be an authentic Sadowsky serial number on the back of the headstock (I have one).... thus, I think the photo is of a legit Jim...
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Today, 12:13 AM
Me too.....4 gigs in a row starting tomorrow thru Sunday. I recorded something yesterday, just the piece as written but didn't want to share it as...
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Today, 12:00 AM
Jeff Novotny JAZZPRJKT - A Caribbean Odyssey
Latin jazz: calypso, bossa nova, salsa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmW2XHXbK9Q
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Yesterday, 11:53 PM
Sorry I'm new, please move this to the correct thread or I can remake it elsewhere if this isn't the right place for my question.
Here's some vid...
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
Very nice feather in the cap of the Mountain Lion of Islip
( I think that's how the late Stan Jay once described him)
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Yesterday, 11:45 PM
This is true. I added Bigsby to my tele, it worked ok, only with 11's. When I needed to go down to 10's I discovered the issues with tension and...
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Yesterday, 11:40 PM
The headstock shape and logo are the two things that are easiest for an independent luthier to protect as intellectual property.
So if it doesn't...
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Yesterday, 11:14 PM
Yes I will try and do it slower. I don't mind playing with some push and pull as long as it is intentional and not because you're pausing to grab...
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Yesterday, 10:52 PM
Yes, I can. I sight sang in college in musicianship class and choir lol. And I still have further developed that ability to look at music and have a...
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Yesterday, 10:49 PM
Telecasters should be strung through the body you say?
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Yesterday, 10:47 PM
There are Sadowsky Jim Hall guitars on the same page going for over TEN TIMES that amount!
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Yesterday, 10:43 PM
You're in a very Take Things Out of Context And Throw Down mood these last two evenings.
Not that I'm in the habit of running to Bobby's aid, but...
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Yesterday, 10:42 PM
I agree completely, Jack - I love my AF207 and still gig with it even though I have 2 “better” carved archtops. With heavy TI Benson flats, it...
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Yesterday, 10:40 PM
Can you read a melody without the instrument and hear inside your head or sing what is written? I do not mean fluently but are you able to figure it...
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Yesterday, 10:21 PM
Are you serious? Seriously go scrub it. I did say the #1 thing was to do ear work. Many distinguished musicians read and don't learn and process all...
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Yesterday, 10:08 PM
Yep, scams are at an all time high. I recently came across a couple 'steals' that had literally been listed 2 mins prior.
By the time I finished...
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Yesterday, 10:07 PM
Watched that clip, yeah wes fretted the chord 1 fret too high. Never seen or heard him mess up before!
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Yesterday, 10:05 PM
Wrong note or jazz, yeah good question.
For me, the sounds come to me in complete phrases. Usually a 4 bar phrase. It comes to be and I play it,...
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Yesterday, 10:05 PM
This IMO is the worst advice you can give to a noob. The most important thing for playing jazz of any style (and music in general) is being able to...
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Yesterday, 10:02 PM
I attended the reception - and it was fun catching up with some old friends. Here are a few pics of the exhibit.
Sent from my iPhone...
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Yesterday, 09:58 PM
Is anyone noticing how pervasive seller fraud has become on Reverb? I have L-5 in my feed, among others, and previously sold items reappear, again...
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Yesterday, 09:49 PM
PSA - A fabulous assortment of John Monteleone guitars are currently on exhibit at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook NY. The exhibit runs until...
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Yesterday, 09:47 PM
I hope you keep this one
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Yesterday, 09:26 PM
For me Swedish Blues is a chromatic chain of II-Vs leading to the II V of the key like in Blues For Alice:
from bar 5: | IV | IVm7 bVII7 | IIIm7...
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Yesterday, 09:04 PM
I was reading one of these discussions once and out of curiosity I took the chest piece off of a stethoscope and used the bare tubing end to listen...
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Yesterday, 08:55 PM
I'm tuning in. I like Stern. I have a lot of peeves but his chorus doesn't bother me. Maybe because I'm not a guitarist.
I must say, it's...
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Yesterday, 08:48 PM
Once again I tried and failed. I cannot listen to Stern's cheesy chorus tone for more than a couple of minutes. I think I'm going to avoid Guitar...
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
Hello Mick-7, appreciate all that you are doing here and looking forward to hearing your new arrangement. However also try to record Jeff's version...
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Yesterday, 08:39 PM
Again, I think you're being illogical admitting that the acoustic properties of electric guitars shape the overall tone, but for some reason the...
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Yesterday, 08:35 PM
Thanks .Cordoba is everywhere.They kind of smother the shopping .probably are good guitars.But no deals anywhere thanks again.
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Yesterday, 08:32 PM
1. I didn't say it doesn't matter, I said it's a question of degrees. A hollow body interacts with the string vibration significantly more than a...
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Yesterday, 08:19 PM
What a pity. There must be several dozens of those on this site that purchased WU’s. But they all require extra work for finishing. This is known...
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Yesterday, 08:14 PM
Opening this up to offers including trades. Let me know
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Yesterday, 07:53 PM
I also don't like buckles, metal, plastic, or any adjustments. A few years back I started using leather mandolin straps - 46 inches between the...
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Yesterday, 07:42 PM
I see what you're saying but you're incorrect. It's an indisputable fact that the acoustic properties of electric guitars affect the amplified sound....
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Yesterday, 07:07 PM
Even Wes birthed a clam on occasion. One that leaps to mind is a live video of this beautiful version of Here’s That Rainy Day.
On the reprise of...
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Yesterday, 07:03 PM
Very clearly a different song, he composed it himself.
Question was "So what kind of blues is this (or not?)".
Whatever kind it was, Steve Howe...
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Yesterday, 07:03 PM
I think the correct answer to this is "try it and see". If you like it, use it, if you don't, then don't. You cannot extrapolate other people's...
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Yesterday, 06:59 PM
The usual way is to put the narrow end at the tailpiece, the wide end at the end of the body. It works fine on most guitars, but one with the strap...
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Yesterday, 06:55 PM
I'd say that with most vintage archtops the end reward when you deal with those niggles is well worth it.
It's not an especially valuable or rare...
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Yesterday, 06:55 PM
The top on my BK Custom sagged so bad, they had to raze the entire top and rebuild it. I got rid of it, because it sounded like a POS.
Jzucker, I...
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Yesterday, 06:49 PM
Is that supposed to be the same piece?
In the course video material Mike clearly introduces it as "my tune Nitpickin'".
A certain Danny Gatton...
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Yesterday, 06:33 PM
But where is the blues bass line, if there is one?
That it uses Travis-picking is quite obvious, and yes, some people do seem to consider that a...
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Yesterday, 06:33 PM
Small world indeed. I’ve lived here since the late 80’s. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to learn that we share common acquaintances. Send me a PM...
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Yesterday, 06:32 PM
Yes there is interactive resonance between the guitar strings and the rest of the guitar, but the question is 1. To what degree do they affect each...
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Yesterday, 06:32 PM
I have never listened to Lennie Tristano other than accidentally; very nice to have this little rabbit hole to run down this afternoon and find out...
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
If I work on thinking ahead of the changes, I hit less bad notes.
The live videos I post are just clips someone else took so they go up clams and...
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Yesterday, 06:08 PM
Steve Howe liked it a lot... from The Yes Album (1971)
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Yesterday, 06:06 PM
The string-through-body design really makes a difference in how a Telecaster handles string vibrations. When the strings run through the body, they...
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Yesterday, 05:59 PM
Years ago I found Jim Ferguson's books on comping and soloing helpful in making the transition from folk/country blues to jazz blues, along with a...
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Yesterday, 05:53 PM
"the note I want"
What is the nature of this note (note name, scale degree, chord tone/extension/alteration, relative interval, fingering, pitch,...
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Yesterday, 05:52 PM
Hey, Spook. I figured you might chime in. I'm still too pissed to really talk about it, but I'll address your points. First off, I thought I was...
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Yesterday, 05:49 PM
I routed both a tele pup and a hum form P90 in the neck spot. I then wired them in series with a spin a split and a phase switch. So you have the...
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Yesterday, 05:47 PM
And if it's not made by the Fender factory, it's not even a "Telecaster." :topsy_turvy:
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Yesterday, 05:47 PM
Really? What about a telecaster that doesn’t have the string through the body design?
Does this really make more of a difference than the pick ups?
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Yesterday, 05:44 PM
Thanks.
I don't know that there's a definitive answer to that.
I look at a lot of jazz Telecaster players (Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Ed...
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Yesterday, 05:38 PM
Purists are tiresome:
"Beans in it?! That aint TEXAS CHILI!!!"
Fine. I don't care what you think. If need be, I'll say it's not chili, it's...
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Yesterday, 05:26 PM
Are you referring to the Jazz Guitar Etudes book, or the multi volume Saxophone etude books?
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Yesterday, 05:19 PM
Blues Blues and Jazz Blues
Chords
Think of the 12 measure form leading into the 4th measure (the big change into the IV chord (subdominant). both...
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Yesterday, 05:17 PM
Off topic I don't like flat top guitars, but Gurian I played from that time period years ago was tremendous sounding flat top.
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Yesterday, 05:17 PM
Wow, gorgeous rosewood neck!!
Shouldn't there be a "10" inked on the rear of the headstock? That DGT has an insane flame maple top.
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Yesterday, 05:05 PM
Probably not your fault because, as I said, some of his fingerings are awkward and unnecessary, thanks.
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Yesterday, 04:47 PM
Here is one of the developers of the amp talking about it:
https://youtu.be/fyBMvjxII-8
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Yesterday, 04:46 PM
When I play live, many of the tunes will have a few wrong notes in my solo. I'm getting the note I want like 99% of the time, but of course I get a...
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Yesterday, 04:44 PM
If you rewrite it, please post your playing. I'd love to hear you play it.
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Yesterday, 04:41 PM
I've been working on this, really hoping to post a clean take by Sunday.
I've got it memorized, but for the life of me I can't play it all the way...
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Yesterday, 04:39 PM
I'm pretty sure mine is a series I. It has no series number on the front plate. It really sounds delicious. I might record a few tracks with it and...
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Yesterday, 04:39 PM
Well, I think garybaldy got close enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8x_1fD5vM
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Yesterday, 04:36 PM
Yes, it’s very Chet, whatever that is. I wouldn’t call it blues or country blues, but it borrows from both.
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Yesterday, 04:36 PM
That has to be it. The whole guitar is a resonant circuit that feeds the sound through the strings into the pickups, and probably some directly into...
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Yesterday, 04:34 PM
I purchased CV-181, EL34 variant, audio tubes from them a year ago. Only thing I’ve ever purchased but they’re still playing fabulously.
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Yesterday, 04:30 PM
Yeah I think garybaldy is right, there's not really a name for it. I asked the bot and he just said country jazz. It's a pretty interesting style...
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Yesterday, 04:29 PM
"It also once fell over forward"
:smile-new:
It would take a bear or similarly large mammal to knock mine over and I do my best to keep them...
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Yesterday, 04:25 PM
Thanks ! In regards to the neck pickups brightness , with my matching PRS DG Custom 30 amp there is NO problem.
David runs his Master dimed , and...
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Yesterday, 04:25 PM
I have a Gurian flat top (70's) with this problem. Will try naptha. Appreciate the insights.
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Yesterday, 04:23 PM
Might even be the same dealer, most of them appear to be on eBay too. Buyer protection with PayPal is much stronger there though if you're so...
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
Some good references there.
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Yesterday, 04:17 PM
You’re in Sac?! I’m from there. Left in ‘73 for the service, returned in ‘78 after stops in Hawaii and Philly, compliments of Uncle Sam, returned for...
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Yesterday, 04:16 PM
Hope you're feeling better...
I think I'll rewrite the whole thing (and post my lead sheet), Arnold changes positions more than necessary, that is...
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Hot Sale Factory Sadowsky Archtop Jim Hall Model Sienna Burst Electric Guitar | eBay
$450?
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
I have the G100-210 (I'd thought mistakenly it was a 212) and it is a super sounding amp. But it is HEAVY. So heavy that it's almost not worth using....
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Yesterday, 04:04 PM
I'd place it in the "old-timey" country blues category a la Reverend Gary Davis (especially) and Mississippi John Hurt.
The average person...
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Yesterday, 04:04 PM
How is everyone doing with this?
I started practicing seriously on Sunday then felt sick on Monday/Tuesday so didn't play at all.
Played...
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Yesterday, 03:58 PM
Double thanks. You got me looking at the Tech 21. Im s big fan of them starting with their original rack Sans Amp in the 90’s and the PS2 pedal a few...
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Yesterday, 03:56 PM
I guess the purists would say it's not really a tele without the single coils.
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Yesterday, 03:49 PM
It's sort of Chet Atkins Travis picking Country style.
It's not the usual 12 bar.
If there's a proper name for the style I'd also like to know.
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Yesterday, 03:49 PM
I bought an 89 L-4 CES recently which had had several top cracks (from an impact) repaired by a well regarded luthier
the guitar had been a...
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
Please check in with Fox Fletcher in Albuquerque. Handmade Electric Solid Body Guitars - Mallory Guitars I highly recommend him. Fox is an...
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Yesterday, 03:40 PM
Actually, Alan Carruth has, at least as properly as he could.
That's why I asked a luthier. But as I said somewhere above, the strings don't...
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Yesterday, 03:39 PM
I have a Yamaha G100 III 2x12, too big for my needs but otherwise a great amp (excellent EQ as stated). I bought it on eBay over 20 years ago for a...
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Yesterday, 03:37 PM
I would also replace base with a full footprint on the top. This spreads the load much better and reduces chance of top sagging or misalignment in...
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Yesterday, 03:37 PM
There are 3 ways to learn how play lines: transcribe, read, and work out the mechanics of the raw materials.
1. Transcribe. Like the others said,...
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Yesterday, 03:36 PM
I hate to recommend Cordoba but they do have 1 or 2 guitars of that size. Whether they fit in your budget is a different question.
The closest you...
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Yesterday, 03:32 PM
I picked up a piece I worked on a few years ago when it was barely playable for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcwebvHKZ2U
It's from...
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Yesterday, 03:30 PM
This is a really timely post, thank OP!
I have a '52 reissue Tele from '99 that I discovered sounded and felt fantastic for jazz. Yes, I know. ...
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Yesterday, 03:29 PM
There is a potential way to fix the sagging. Not complicated and possibly easy given you can get under the top to work with the pickup cavities open....
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Yesterday, 03:13 PM
One of the more SFW stories from Miles’s autobiography
“Bird never talked about music, except one time I heard him arguing with a classical...
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Yesterday, 03:08 PM
Well I'll be.
Yeah -- never heard that one. Or if I heard it before, I wasn't listening :nightmare:
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Yesterday, 02:58 PM
Apparently, just for some trivia, the C on the score doesn't stand for 'Common' time. It comes from medieval church music where 3/4 was considered...
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Decided to mess around with this one...tried to to bring back the sixth into my solo a bit.
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Yesterday, 02:55 PM
If I had to choose one, then single coil.
What I think would be cool: a single coil pickup right next to a humbucker, both in the "neck" position....
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Yesterday, 02:50 PM
The cost of labor here in California is quite high. I expect luthier work to cost $100 an hour or more. And finding a luthier with the skill set to...
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Yesterday, 02:48 PM
The wavy grain on the top of that flatsawn bridge base ... with time you'd expect that to sag. Hopefully your person can find a nice quartersawn...
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Yesterday, 02:44 PM
Round wounds instead of flats. Improperly fitted bridge. High action out of the box. Why is ebony in quotes? Do you believe it's not ebony or you...
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Yesterday, 02:36 PM
I think folks forget this when recommending 1950's archtops to less experienced players. Vintage guitars sound great. But vintage issues don't map...
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Yesterday, 02:35 PM
I appreciate your perspective as a purist. However, I think the choice of pickups, while important, doesn’t fundamentally change the character of a...
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Yesterday, 02:32 PM
I was surprised too that the 120 holds its own with the 175. They have a lot of similarities tonally but the playability on the ibanez is head and...
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
Mike Stern played the old Yamaha G100 amps a ton as well.
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Yesterday, 02:22 PM
Since there seems to be so much uncertainty about it, it probably doesn't matter much as long as the band knows what's going on. There are lots of...
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Yesterday, 02:21 PM
I've written a lot about the pitfalls of vintage instruments. I bought this '63 Gibson Barney Kessel last year and the pickups (billed as originals)...
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Yesterday, 02:09 PM
Next, we can debate the sound differences between an oiled maple fingerboard and a lacquered one.
Anyways, I can't see how a glued-on strip of...
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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
Gorgeous PRS! Wow. Let's see the rear shot of the rosewood neck.
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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
Okay… I admit I’m an old man and a purist, but, in my opinion, a telecaster isn’t a telecaster without single coil pickups. It may LOOK like a tele,...
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Yesterday, 02:01 PM
Jack, you sound great on any archtop you play. I'm not surprised that you love the tone and feel of your PM120. What I am surprised at is that you...
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
Yeah more medium (or less enormous) artists it would probably be the label working out the contract.
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Yesterday, 01:51 PM
you guys with multiple archtops? Which is your favorite? I have a number of archtops including an L4CES, Gibson 175, vintage Barney Kessel but you...
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Yesterday, 01:45 PM
That's right. I've never heard someone count off that way either.
If they counted as 1 2 3 4 then my interpretation would be that they are...
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Yesterday, 01:41 PM
On his website he says it's a Norlin Era L5ces and a Yamaha G100-112. He likes the EQ on the G100.
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Yesterday, 01:37 PM
Many of the guitars fetched very low prices, a few failed to reach their reserve prices, and the rest sold at average market prices, with a few...
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Yesterday, 01:36 PM
I took this last night for a funk gig. And have also played it for jazz. Absolutely killer. The neck pickup is all mid push, the bridge pickup is all...
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Yesterday, 01:33 PM
JRAD at Red Rocks in CO:
And Molly Tuttle with Golden Highway at the Slowdown in Omaha:
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Yesterday, 01:31 PM
My Tele (which I just donated to an auction) had a Seymour Duncan Alnico 2 in the neck, which I thought gave a perfect, fat, warm tone with pure...
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Yesterday, 01:30 PM
WOW - getting a lot of love. Thank you my friends :smile-new:
Hmmm - might be a good time to start downsizing.
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Yesterday, 01:29 PM
Which reminds me of the joke about the muso who named his daughters Anna 1, Anna 2, Anna 3... :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 01:27 PM
It very much depends. There are some venues where it will be an issue even clean. In NYC there were plenty of those. And here in China, what can I...
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Yesterday, 01:25 PM
Metal horns do enlarge a tiny amount as temperature goes up, and this lowers the frequency of the "sweet spot" for notes by a tiny amount. But if...
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Yesterday, 01:25 PM
I'm a Telecaster fan and I've tried a lot of different neck pickups in my Teles over the years. My all-time favorite for jazz is TK Smith's version...
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Yesterday, 01:24 PM
The number of variables that would need to be isolated to really conclusively compare the two is enormous, and I've never seen anyone come close to...
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Yesterday, 01:13 PM
Well, to me the twang lives at the bridge pickup. And classic filtertron is def twangy at that. The neck pickup is fine... but then again I'm not...
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Yesterday, 01:08 PM
You should. At the very least, it should be "one and two and one and two and".
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Yesterday, 01:04 PM
One person I know with formal musical education says that count-ins are always two bars. If there's a pickup of, say, more than a quarter note's...
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Yesterday, 01:02 PM
If you're playing relatively loud in a place with dirty power, yeah, you might still hear some sizzle. I bought one of those Hum Debugger things...
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Yesterday, 12:54 PM
Great info Christian, cheers. Now, how about this story about Bird liking (but not always?) leaning into the IV7 ?
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Yesterday, 12:53 PM
No lingering odor. You can smell it when it's liquid, but it evaporates quickly. Once I wipe with a dry cloth I don't smell anything.
Caveat: I...
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