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I love the 000 size (I like the 00, too). I played a zillion flattops over the last couple of years while trying to figure out what to replace my...

A different take on this. John johnhallguitar.com

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Nice, John!

That's a classic Martin 18 style look! Simply elegant, elegantly simple.

In the interest of getting it done quickly and more-or-less spontaneously I used what I had. If I ever decide to do a more serious recording of this...

At first glance the sides and back look like a very light mahogany Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Few more pics...

Va3ux de kc2xu... we have reversed end letters...cool! We’re moving soon so I’m all packed up and off the air. SSB voice. TS890s, TS440sat,...

Tim released Melodic Triads course (TrueFire) on 1-10-2021...an excellent course, very helpful for moving into his other courses in understanding...

To echo what others have said, you risk fret sprout, as well as your fretboard cracking if it's unfinished. My old Carvin has bubbles on the sealed...

I know exactly what you are feeling. I'm a lapsed sax player trying to transition to guitar. Transitioning from the instant pitch understanding on...

Very nice score - congrats!

He should have advertised it as an unfinished Chapman Stick.

If you want a dissertation on the topic, head over to the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum. Here's the executive summary. Sort of like why the...

Hi Gregmath Showing my age, there used to one product called faderlube but yea I see CAIG has gotten fancy. This the guy I was referring to: DeoxIT...

Yeah it’s a doggone nice score Marty Hammer those other guitars are all tasty

Thanks for the info, Jeff!

Oh by the way I’m not a fan of TC Electronics customer support. I was never able to talk to a human on the phone about the problem, and their...

I had a Ditto X1 and now have an X4. I liked the X1 for the simplicity but didn’t like the double-tapping to stop a loop. OK for practice, not OK for...

No iron needed! You can do it yourself, I don’t remember if the chassis must be taken out. Before you touch anything unplug the power chord. Loose...

Anybody know where the designation 000 comes from? I have a hard time figuring out flattop sizes and shapes, other than big dread, little dread,...

Hi, check out his website; he asks for 30% down. He uses a very detailed spreadsheet to go through all your specs, to make sure you're getting what...

I still have the LP Cross Country.

The summer is usually 55-60% humidity outside, occasionally higher...the locals say “isn’t it humid today” like it’s a thing, having never been to...

Good buy, I had a Greco variant. Yours likely has a Maxon pickup. Play it in good health

Thanks...stressful start to a year we were all hoping would be less such.

IThanks everybody's! Tommo, I'm a big hippie nerd sometimes, so when I hear "sustainable materials" and such on a guitar my ears perk up. The...

Re: the Godin oud, I saw a guy at a renaissance fair who tied on frets to his Godin and used it as a lute! (He had one of those roland moblie cubes...

1950 Gibson ES-150 w/Lifton Hsc...... 1950 Gibson ES-150 w/Lifton Hsc...... | Darren's Gear | Reverb

Just read about Chicago schools again in the Washington Post this morning. Good luck Jeff, hope you all can agree to do the safe and sensible thing.

Wow, what a great hang. So much history here. I didnt know about Stefan Schultz. Can anyone provide a sample of his playing?

Nothing beats retail therapy .. :D Awesome .. Play it in good health!

I bought my 000-28 brand new in April of 1977, so it's almost 44 years old. And, yes, it's a keeper!

Hello John, Some nice lines with distortion efect....but in my opinion for this kind of backing track/with walking bass/ is too much distortion....

thanks! I’ll have to listen back to see where the tuning shifted. I think it was in tune when I started (checked on my Peterson) but the instrument...

"000 Love Thread, No Dreadnoughts Allowed"

Well, at the risk of looking like a prima donna, and with apologies to those who liked them, I've decided all my previous versions of this tune are...

Happy owner of a 000-28 Shenandoah model here. Made and bought in 1984, Martin's first attempt at reaching to the less affluent customers. Came with...

Pat Metheny - Lesson on Improvisation - YouTube how to get started playing changes - YouTube Sweat the basics. Without that it’s all a house of...

Ok. Thank You. I will try.

Well there’s no thinking. You just play them. There’s no clever concept; just 1 3 5 on every chord all over the neck in half notes through a...

No, I'm not a begginer. I would say I'm intermediate. I play changes but ... mainly with scales (chord - scales, not key center approach). I've been...

Well if fusion is your bag I may not be the best person to ask. I haven’t spent so much time studying that music. but there are a lot triads in...

Christianm77 thank you for the explanation. Now I understand your point of view. Yes, I'm interested in more fusion sounds and I know people...

Not much of a jazz-fusion guitar fan here but I enjoyed your approach nonetheless, John! And thanks to everyone who took time to listen to my clip...

You’ll hear lines that focus for example on the first five notes of the minor scale 1-2-b3-4-5, the diminished tetrachord 1-b9-#9-9 on dominant...

slightly old thread now but I'm delighted to see this! I have a Laney Cub-8 and picked up a WH G8C speaker for it a couple of months ago but with...

To invoke a meme - Yes.

There is a "range of excitement" that includes this: Upward movements are more exciting than downward movements. Larger movement increments are...

After testing a few other speakers I settled for these Pyles in my Twin Reverb because they sounded best! So maybe not exciting in terms of value,...

I bought a gig bag from a member of this forum, who I later heard on a radio talk show, playing in a popular Broadway show that he played the oud in....

John Coltrane was quoted as saying, "We'd all sound like Getz, if we could", in the book Coltrane on Coltrane.

Great player. I caught him live at Bechet's, a club in NYC.

I fell in love with oud back in the '80s, largely through Munir Bashir. I found a decent Turkish style oud at the Music Inn in NYC and had some...

Never seen those position markers on either an L-48 or an L-50...... or on any Gibson for that matter. Replaced fretboard? Custom order? Also the...

Congrats! Looks like a find. Sorry to digress a bit, but the Epi headstock inlay has always intrigued me. It's quite complicated, yet very common...

I wasn't familiar with Charles Altura, but I listened to some of his clips. Very modern sounding, very fluid. It's a style I know precious little...

A few months later I stumbled onto another one in a bargain bin?? Absolute bargain I reckon.

Thanks Docsteve for a nice answer. I think you've hit the point. Yes, I want to make and play music, not act apreggios (that's not an end in itself)....

Hello, I'm hoping to revive this old thread because I would like some input on this guitar. I've attached pictures. It's listed as a 1940's Gibson...

I started playing oud recently-got a Godin Multioud Encore just before Christmas-although I've always loved the sound. The MultiOud plays really well...

Steve Holst has gotten in on the Green Deal as well.

Color-blind jokes aside, it actually is quite wickedly cool. Very distinctive. Some guitars are just born to be green. :cool: Congrats on the...

Hi, jazzkritter. Thanks for the advice. Can you share a link for the right stuff to get? I did a quick search and some of the Deoxit product out...

I think Emerald Green is gorgeous.

2003 Triggs Blue Diamond (I don't think it was ever blue):

I have a one-track mind, but it’s not about guitars... Well maybe that would be the second thing I think about.

Mark Campellone has done a few as well. Here's one from 2015:

Here's Michael Greenfield's Montreux in green - one of the first green archtops, I think:

not to sidetrack this nice 000 thread! but yamaha made some nice acoustics in the 70's...they were martin inspired early on...all the players used...

Well I expect it will move fast. Price has dropped from $12,000 to just $115. I mean, who can resist it at this price?

Cool buy! 60's Japanese guitars are very cool indeed. I always say, Ibanez, MANN, Greco, Firstman -- when only a Fujigen-Gakki will do! ...

"You deserve it..." I second that, & congratulations! :cool: Ah, the satisfaction that is a Martin. I think that all of their stuff is...

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Music Lesson: I know the basic things about the piano. The notes. The white ones — the black ones. The black ones...

Nice to see a bunch of folks here dig the shape. Michael, I have a Recording King parlor...very fun guitar. Not an every day guitar, but well made...

beautiful!...your acoustic playing & tone matches your mind wanderings/improvs better than i ever would have imagined! just check and doublecheck...