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Apparently, according to the notes in the Bear Family CD boxed set, The Honky Tonk Years 1950-1966, his bandmates and recording engineers thought it...

merry christmas to you all. and a happy new year, of course. :smile-new: 1941 Kalamazoo KG-21 with Gibson GA-50 ( amp has been sold...

We were in the studio today recording a Christmas album with the Campus Five, and so I had all my vintage stuff handy: L to R: 1932 Gibson L-5 /...

"Video is 40 min. long ... what oil was it then ?". Ans: Olive Oil

Video is 40 min. long ... what oil was it then ? what I learned on the internet: Rosewood contains some oil in itself, there is no need to oil ...

All I know is I'm driving 50 miles Saturday to pick up a used Henriksen Jazzamp for $250, and if you never hear from me again, you'll know that GAS...

I also assume the 5 means the magnet. The Kent Armstrong PAF 5 is smooth and has less background noise (scratches, pick scrapes etc.) I think it is...

Archtop.com had a round hole L7-C on their site some time back. From memory it was a full depth guitar, with the same carved top etc. like the...

Maybe it would work to think about "absorbing" a tune rather than "memorizing" a tune. So, you learn it the same way anybody learns to sing a...

I also like WWNO's livestream. I've been listening to New Orleans radio stations since the early 60s, when only AM existed. Had to listen at night,...

beautiful playing & arrangement Chris! you just keep getting better & better. i hear Sinatra's version in here. suprised the tone is so...

Thanks Guys! The videos are just my interpretations of classic tunes from the 30s & 40s. I take liberties with many aspects; melody, harmony,...

Can you describe the sound of that Armstrong compared to a typical PAF style pickup? From the 5 I assume it uses Alnico 5 magnet? Asking for a...

I see the same thing on both pics. Combined with the reflections seen on the pic I posted, it really does look like a somewhat shallow arched top. ...

Planning for hole drilling: Traced outside of shell, inside of kerfing, 1/4” washer for buffer, and 1/8” free handed transition zone for...

With all due respect, Rags, I have to disagree with you - I think it swings like a little kid on a playground in summer. I may not have done it full...

My Revstar is not chambered, I bought it a couple years ago before the chambered ones came out. My Ibanez is similar to yours but it is a 1978 or...

Winter i recall it was five figures, yes. Couldn’t remember the amount. But i do remember how embarrassed the gibson rep was when he came in)

You may have been thinking that it didn't sound very good. With a short scale, and a thinner body, they were not particularly great sounding guitars...

Beautiful looking seven string! Things are a bit slow in the market right now, but you might consider putting a price on it as well?

That’s a really cool guitar. I wonder where that one is today. Keith

I always go straight to recording a chord track in a DAW. Then I'd learn your melodies on the guitar. And then from there try a bunch of...

INCREDIBLE playing 2b! You’ve been doing some serious practicing huh? JD

Case candy suggests it’s a Lollar.

JK, if I recall the pre-order was 50K which most dealers couldn't/wouldn't handle

Winter: The dealer and i each had L5Cs on order for delivery in 90. (Got to talk to Jim Triggs a couple of times specing them out, cool guy) Got a...

If I ever ordered a custom archtop from Gibson, it would be in Emerald Green...:

pretty sure I told this story but in '89 I bought a used but mint blonde L-5 from Cintiolli's Music for $1800. they also had a brand new one for...

Get better glasses. It's an archtop. It's carved. Next.

I watched a bunch of those classic country videos last night, there were loads of Super 400's which seemed to be the archtop of choice among a lot of...

Thanks to all for the updated photos which certainly indicate more detail about the instrument. I was thinking it was red, too. I guess Ray needed...

hot pepper: having been bitten twice on brand new Gibson archtops I have empathy for you and that sick feeling. But blonds are more fun...

Thanks, 2b. She clocks in at 6.0 lbs even on my bathroom scale.

Bob Marley :afro: and the Wailers :afro::afro::afro::afro::afro: :smile-new:

Found this pic, full on frontal. Look around all around the edge, my tired old eyeballs think they see the typical flattening of a pressed archtop...

Hopefully no cracks in mine……gulp. Sorry hotpepper. :grumpy:

That’s some beautiful playing wzpgsr! What does it weigh? Thank you!

It's on the cover of his album Night LIfe from the early '60s. I always thought it must have been a one-off special order based on the Gobel. The...

Their playing was of the highest quality, right up to their early deaths.

I remember when you could have purchased one of these for $5k brand new. Congratulations Vinny! She’s going to be Beautiful! ...

Ebony L5s are good looking guitars, When I received my 2022 Ebony L5 CES some weeks ago, I was happy for a few minutes and took this family picture. ...

Best we can tell those early parlors were used with both kinds of strings - and if it wasn't clear, the BV Hybrid *is* a nylon-string guitar. But so...

and sorry to this day I sold it.

Jabbs, Its gonna look more like this.. https://youtu.be/_hGXAbYD0EY In fact, Vinny owned this exact guitar. JD

Sandra Sherman says the gb10em is the best of jazz guitars under 1000 dollars. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L_SYpx6Kamg Its smaller body, and...

No. TMZ did give me a discount also. I live in Ca. so I had to pay 10% sales tax and a extra $168 for 2 day air NY to CA. 5 day free ground is too...

Thank you for that! Unfortunately, in my region it is difficult to have the opportunity to test the instruments! It has to be with the help of videos...

I can imagine Vinny's L-5CES Ebony looking like this.

A few years back I read some interesting books on the art of memory and the techniques employed. You can see how knowing the words to a melody will...

Did the price increase between ordering the guitar and receiving the guitar? I ordered my Le Grand in '93, but by the time I got it in '94 the...

Sylvain Luc : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bz8qhh0qU

There's no easy way to do a chart which specifies exact voicings. Sometimes chord names are adequate, sometimes not. Ex. If you want Eb Ab Db G...

Great, Triple, lovely! Aren't you glad you chose it? :o Do a longer one!

Thanks, I'll check it out. As I said, they're all different. This one resembles nothing I've seen so far. It's only to get the right feel for what...

Bro, You have to add in the cost of the tuxedo that you have to wear everytime you play the new L5. Like our SS always says, "A Life Well Lived".....

For an arrangememt if it's in the chart, play it. If it isn't don't... Yeah, that's what I mean. Well it's a weird bug of the system...

The Multiac Grand Concert is a classic when it comes to acoustic-electric guitars. I had one years ago, and I regret selling it. Beautiful sound.

Wow, wow, wow! What a place!

I did a wiring swap. I used a Emerson Custom ES-335 wiring harness with bumble Bee caps.(relocated the switch) did not reuse the treble drop. The...

In the past, the materials were the big cost item in making a Gibson guitar and as cheaper, less figured woods could be used, Ebony was the cheap...

Well it was about 7 years ago! I probably typed some changes into the app I used for the backing, but I can’t find that version now. The iReal...

Once around improv, no head. I thought there were better backing tracks on YouTube but I couldn’t find any. I used the most palatable one, sorry for...

Thanks R, but I'm looking for an early 19th century style nylon classical, to play Paganini, Giuliani, Sor, etc. Not a steel string parlor. I know...

I could be wrong and I am still waking up, but the quilter vid for the Celestion BN12-300, sounding pretty fizzy to me. The highs were edgy in...

I changed the wiring to a ES-335 system built by Emerson Custom with Bumble Bee caps. (I did relocate the switch) The bridge pickup is a Seymour...

I play their streaming broadcast here in France! The other station I listen to is "Blues & Roots Radio", which has a very nice global concept with...

Cm7=F7. Not quite true, needs wavy equal sign, but, as a practical matter it's a very useful fiction (if I being a little picky about the technical...

OZ was the only station I listened to when I lived in NOLA (2000-2005). I miss it. Tuba Skinny is a lot of fun. Hard to listen to that music and...

I've already skipped the chordal stuff and I'm only doing the solos. I'm already halfway through the first one, it's not difficult. You seem a bit...

Marco ( SS ) is correct. I asked Mark Campellone to build me a black guitar. He didn’t want to do it. He said it is too difficult to get it perfect.

Woody, are you set on this particular model? If not, check out the Dowina Bona Vida Hybrid. It looks a lot more like the 1845 Martin parlor that's...

In a way, this is no surprise to me as Ebony takes a lot of labor to get right. It shows orange peel more than the other colors. A Black car is the...

Black used to be $600 cheaper then wine and wine $500 cheaper then VSB. Blonde was $1K more then VSB. Now ebony is the 2nd most expensive. Good old...

1 more color to have them all :smile-new:

My Le Grand took about 6 months in 1993-94 ... FWIW

That sounds great. Hope this is a good one for you. We'll need pictures, of course. Black L5s can be beautiful ... although I like to see the...

Vinny you’re ahead of the game I waited 28 months for mine in 87-89))) Best of music and jazz for you with that coming baby:flowers:

I have a brand new 2022 L-5 coming from TMZ Thursday. 17 month wait. I got it in ebony that is now a $800 up charge from VSB. Wine and black used to...

Matteo Mancuso sounds good with a Revstar IMHO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIWVyyj2JIU

For a lightweight 12 neo speaker, Quilter uses the Celestion BN12-300. CELESTION BN12-300s Quilter Labs

Shouldn't that be "AAS?"

My wife's mantra: One in, on out.

I believe Medblues is on the right track (Post #6). For Jazz with an archtop, I turn down the 300 Hz knob to about 10 O'clock, leave the rest...

So you guys read Japanese? :smile-new:

Yea... I just disagree... Alter. The tune Barbados was just to help hear the use of Harmonic Maj. Which is one musical source for organizing where...

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By all means have a go, I don’t mind at all. You might want to skip the chordal stuff I did at the end, I don’t think that section will be very...

Your diatribe about drugs and alcohol is full of sweeping statements and anecdotal evidence which lacks evidence. Do you have any evidence that...

I think it might just be too advanced for me? IDK. I'm very used to playing real book standards. I can play my major/dominant/minor 7/9 chords each...

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??????? C'mon G, you're wearing your nasty pants again. Marinero

Terrific pictures! What incredible stories you must have...

For educational purposes, it would be very useful...:smile-new:

I'll try this full breath. Thanks again so much.

"Evidently however, these substances can have therapeutic and creative value" " I know that if Coltrane had suffered from the consequences of a...

Not to dis Sadowsky at all (It's my main guitar), but it seems like the new Comins lam archtops are good competition at around half the price. And...

Wow, old thread. I've always wanted to try that Shadow Zollar pickup, wondering if it gives a more "acoustic" tone.

I tried to tell you that, Christian... I guess it got buried in the second paragraph... :smile-new: I had almost immediately edited the original...

It wouldn't be too difficult and could be put up for public consumption. With your approval, naturally. Or I could give you the 'masters' and you...

I did a search on there this night (was curious about used Breedlove acoustic bass prices) and I think most all the hits I saw where from music...

@mad dog Good to hear your appreciation for the AM93QM. Yes indeed, curiosity can very well easily burn a hole in our pockets too. I'll be...

Test ? EDIT - OK so this symbol doesn't appear to be supported by the JGO site.

Had a very good friend locally in OZ in the 1960s, great musician, who was treated with LSD in an attempt to CURE his heroin addiction, what he...

You're welcome! I miss violin playing; helping others as I can is a nice trip down memory lane for me And there are no stupid questions, only dumb...

On a Mac, the way to get the "almost equal" sign is to hold down the "option" key and type an x. I don't know how to type it on a PC; the easiest...

Yeah, facebook streams started being choppy a few months into the initial covid lockup. Used to be that the replay wasn't. I haven't yet tried to...

People are stealing my licks! At last!

Also (in the 1960s) a jazz star in the same league as Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck, who produced a best-seller (A Love Supreme), which is now a...

I couldn't find a wavy line = sign. Maybe there's a way of getting it. You are technically correct, but I would say this is a level of...

The 13 on a dominant resolving to minor is a lot more dissonant than the b13, as is the use of the half whole diminished scale. So for me it...

A great idea if you transcribe Graham's solo. Maybe you'll change your mind about wasting time doing transcription. Technical proficiency is...

Coltrane=JAZZ

Coltrane was not a compromised soul 'to the day he died' and certainly not because he liked to drop acid! You just need to listen to the music for...

Very nice!

I was not aware that impedance has effect on the tone. I just always match the required or suggested amp impedance and speaker. What are the effects?

Here's another video @ 15:00 where he turns it sideways. I think your tired old eyes are right.... https://youtu.be/yDe4smAkYqc

JVR and others own that tune. JVR is really underrated this forum. Back to the topic, I can not see where is the minor tonic in that blues...

Who shops for guitars on ebay any longer? No good deals to be had and chances of deals going bad remain very high. Stop using ebay, fellows....

I thought it might be an archtop due to the floating bridge and trapeze tailpiece.

I think about 43 of the George Gobel's were made initially. I actually passed on buying one many, many years ago that was one of the few that had a...

This one too. Note: if you choose to order, it will be a chunk of money to send it, but you may also get a discount for the consumption tax. ...

This says it comes with a hardcase. アリア A19C-100N 19th Century-Style | クロサワ楽器店 日本最大級の楽器通販サイト

It depends on harmonic context, I mean the whole chord progression, but usually it sounds for me really out of context. Going from major to minor...

It looks like a Gibson George Gobel L-5 but w round soundhole, definitely a one off custom order. Gobels are extremely rare, made from '58-'62 iirc

Thanks for sharing this video; it was enlightening. I'm a huge fan of Christian and Shepik!

This is a fascinating concept. Thanks for sharing; I'm already in the practice room.

All I have to say is that that model is one of the best guitars I've ever played in my life.

Good question. I “think” That I am leaning more toward authentic era comping and chord melody type sound. Seems 40s-early 50s L5 / 7 is the ticket.

This is a very generous post of information despite my stupid question. I meant Vibrato not Tremelo (thanks Jimmy Smith). However this is very...

Thanks. So yes, I did phrase the op implying that it's objective. I do know that it's an opinion of mine, however I do feel that it's verifiable...

I think we got off on the wrong foot because I thought you were making a joke. It is hard to judge tone on the internet, and I can see why you might...