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I'm no expert, but it does look like the top, near the neck has "collapsed".....bringing the neck down with it....:grumpy: Ray

Oh wait a sec. You thought this was from Gibson? Oh, no, sorry. I guess you missed the binding of the lower section. It’s from Verve’s...

New set of strings?! Congrats! They looks great!!

I don't know anything about this subject, so take this with a grain of salt. As I look at the neck pickup, I see it screwed down flush with the...

Because I learned from records back in the stone age (pre-internet), I happily play 13b9 into a minor if I think it sounds good, or major ii-V into a...

Well done, that fugue is a bit of a monster to get through in one pass! I have hacked my way through it a few times but that’s all. Sure you had...

I’m going in a totally different direction. I just try to hear cool melodies in my mind and play them by ear. If I play a dom13b9 once and then a...

So now Julian has released his own White Album? Groovy!

It's significant that the maple block under the bridge does not connect the top to the back, it only reinforces the top under the bridge making the...

It’s a convincing tease? :)

2B you are a tease! L-5 WESMO or L-5C ?

Smart business people sometimes take risks that do not work out. I have had a few business failures among my many successes myself and am pretty...

Bach - Fugue BWV 998 - YouTube There are a few problems with this - the main one being the slightly staccato/clipped phrasing at the beginning,...

yep, a familiar story. In this light I can’t help but feel Gibson’s focussing on guitars that will actually sell is a good thing for dealers, rather...

you can always talk them down apparently because no one buys them Tbh I don’t blame Gibson for not making many archtops. It is a shame though, I’d...

Peter’s solo on this one has some of this going on, right from the start https://youtu.be/zZTK53k6Cjg

Hi all, Please excuse my popping in here, I've never been big on classifications and I'm not a real jazz guy. ...and I'm not just trying to screw...

Thanks for this info. The 15'x10' Room I keep my archtop guitarts in stays between 40&50% humitity year round. I life in the Sacramento Valley Delta,...

Funnily enough I was playing around with this today It’s a great sound. Peter Bernstein likes it a LOT I notice. Things like 13b9 and 7#11b9 in a...

. I put it near the end (around 3:15) before going into a cadenza. That way I could do my own open introduction while recycling the original material.

Thanks for the heads-up. I just ordered the white vinyl from Blue Note's UK webstore.

Jake, thanks so much for all you do! I truly admire your musicality, soulful feeling and genre-blind approach to music. I love what you do on the...

did you leave the orig intro out on purpose? just curious

Many thanks for posting this, Andy. Hawaiian steel guitar and ukulele playing McCoy Tyner, Clare Fischer, Wayne Shorter? West Coast Blues with...

Same reaction! Heart racing! Wow!

Good job. That's why this music theory stuff is so hard. A lot is "Lost in Translation" as these guys have been pointing out... JD

Understood. ≈

You need to use &#8776 with a semi colon at the end Will not hold through multiple posts because the code is not carried. Normally if you do...

BEWARE: Nerdy stuff... That's because the website translates from your text message into an html post (not text). Although your keyboard...

Another vote for uo chikyu hiroshima files. A bit too hard, not tempered enough, but works really well if you are kind to them

The bag came today and it fits...tight fit but it will be fine. Other than being heavy which I expected, it looks to be a very nice gig bag.

It’s too bad Henry J wasn’t one of those smart business people. I haven’t seen any acknowledgment from him that the “new technology” he touted as...

Hey guys. Thanks for all valuable tips. It turns out that there is no "golden" formula or recipe or pattern. This fact opened my eyes and helped...

I haven't even watched the vid you refer to, but I know my ABCs regarding the BN12-300, having installed dozens into my Toob bass cabs. It's a...

Nobody put a gun to Henry J.'s head and made him borrow money from KKR. They are entitled to do what they feel they need to in order to be made...

LP's are cool though I no longer play them. Have a big stack of classical and early rock LP's I wish I could find someone who appreciates them so I...

Exactly. At least HJ cared about building a musical company. These Kolberg Kravits Roberts people in now are heartless MFers. I think i said it...

No Citations either according to Harvey at Rainbow Guitars. I guess that means no Kalamazoo Awards either. :numbness:

Without Henry J. Gibson might be a brand of Asian made guitars today. He saved the company and then lost it. The new management is just holding...

I wasn’t a fan of Henry J till now. At least all archtop models were being made under him. This new J.C. guy won’t even make 175’s. IMO Mr. Levi...

I think the vids are toned and geared toward rockers. I use mine dark and clean with a big band and for music theater, and I get compliments.

Es-225 guitars do not have a center block that connects the top and the bottom... per say like a 335. Es-225s do though have a block attached to the...

Impressive stuff! You should post more on these forums more often!! :cool:

That is a great price, but I would bring my friends Mr. Smith and Mr, Wesson along just in case it is too good to be true and you are walking into a...

The 225 does not have a full length block inside. From the review linked below: "Its body was also made entirely from laminated maple, but it...

Gosh, you know your stuff!

Blu does seem warmer and more "electric" than previous generations, adding more colour. The older ones (post 60w version) are still great though. I...

Happy OGD (old guitar day). AFAIK this model has a soundblock. Such guitars should be fairly resistant to top sinking. The best advises are already...

I just found that on an iPhone or iPad, holding a tap on the equals sign gives a choice of equal, not equal, or almost equal. But it still won’t...

D@mn, that's a wonderful sound!! Then again, playing like that would make a washtub bass sound great. Thanks! FWIW, a sunburst L-5CES was $650...

I use the tilde (~) to indicate almost-equal. I've often seen it used for that purpose.

Changhyun Cho! A wonderful young Korean player.

Goes well with tuner steak.

Also slide your iPhone into the F holes and take some pics or a video to see if the braces are loose or broken.

You would need to measure tha action at the 12th fret first of all. Then lay a straight edge on the neck and check for relief. If the action is ok...

I recommend it with a side of fret dressing.

Lots of knowledgeable comments above. After reading everything, if your like me and scratching your head, just take the guitar to a trusted...

In your opinion is this due to cost, features, sound quality? AKA

That is great, and at a price that is very seductive. I know very little, but the first generations had lower wattage. That might not be a concern to...

I don't see anything there that particularly alarms me. The curvature of the top in your photographs is just the way the top is shaped. People post...

Personally, I like a V13b9 (and the associated HW diminished scale usage) going to a Im chord. At first, I though it sounded "weird" but after...

Thanks !

Action looks high from the pictures and strings seem to be a bit high over the pickup. But actual measurements tell more…. Pictures can be...

It’s hard to know what’s what from pics. The top does look a bit more concave above the neck PU than I think it should, but I don’t know this model...

Also a good fix for 60 cycle hummus.

A standard AM station can be received up to a hundred or more miles away almost any time. Long range reception, however, is usually only possible at...

Thank you!!

Of course - it’s the dressing of choice for that vintage fetacaster!

Action looks really high to me, but pictures can be deceiving. Usually the action at the high frets is dictated by the bridge and neck set. If the...

Hello, M. My point was really about early deaths caused by horse. Just imagine if Emily Remler were still with us. How different might jazz guitar...

Don’t know what all the fuss is about, I’ve been applying olive oil to my guitars for years.

I see. With that in mind, I think there are other books that might help me more. I've got these chords, but would like to improve my voice leading on...

Well said!

Here's the bastard stepson of that guitar. It does an excellent job when amplified.

Hi, C, I just watched your video for a second time this morning . . . and along with my above comments(#4), you have a natural sense of pacing...

:welcome:

No you wouldn't.

:welcome:

"I do think people who don't learn tunes by ear are cheating themselves on the best ear training " ...

Let's hope the truss rod works.

great guitar slinging on the demo who is that kid ?

:welcome: Nice looking guitar! The curvature of the top looks normal to me. Action a tad high, perhaps, and the pickup polepieces are IMHO higher...

I never really liked the sound of the oval hole guitars, In addition to the Style O below, I also had an early oval L4. They sound kind of...

Hi M, You obviously did not read my last post on this thread, nor indeed my previous ones - ergo your above response. I watched the Bird video and...

Hi, i would think that if the top was sunken the action would go lower instead of higher. Maybe the neck has been pulled by the strings and therefore...

Believe it or not, even mayonnaise is recommended by some as a wood polish. But the experts say "Hold the mayo!" There's an old adage in the...

Hi, L, We're usually on the same page but that just wasn't true IMO as evidenced by Bird at the end of his life when drugs/alcohol consumed...

Bruce is great at explaining things, and his teaching content (I presume) is fantastic from what I know of him. Thing is, and I just want to make...

Hi, J, You obviously did not watch the video I linked . . . ergo . . your above response. Watch the video. That's my answer which is the same...

This reminded me. Watching Ken Burn’s History of Country Music on PBS I was constantly rewinding to drool over all the old guitars. Especially the...

Does it offer an explanation of exactly what reacted and how/why?

Someone mentioned the Bruce Forman ‘mymusicmasterclass’ video earlier, I have it and it’s very good. Basically he can play about 1000 tunes just by...

I think the difference in tone between the two guitars can also be due to the pickups on the Ibanez being hotter. I wonder if that's the case?

[ Downloaded it last night (they're making this more and more complicated...). The hickups are probably in the original (and in part due to errors...

is this a guitar salad ? shreddin':doh:

Nice swinging version...+1

Ragman, You promised a few months ago not to comment on other people's playing. This is not okay.

If you know the usefull chords to play the chord changes all along this book, you can avoid the first pages and go directly to the lines examples in...

So, you could by a Murphy flake relic for a fortune or just ruin your guitar on shoe string using olive oil :crazy:

I have never oiled a rosewood fretboard and have had guitars since the 60s. An old friend used to spray his 1949 175 with WD40 after a gig. Don't...

In all of this no one has mentioned the fact that the BLU series (and a few of the older models) only feature ONE volume control whereas the BUD...

First of all. Looks like a real nice guitar !! Congrats. From what I see, I would start at the neck first. String height looks to be on the high...

Okay, but I think you're making it swing, as opposed to it being a swing tune. I don't mean you haven't done it well, of course, you have, but I...

Triple - Thanks for your like. The reason I eulogised it was because, whereas the temptation is to play it like a Hawaiian lullaby (!), you made...

I don't really see it as an either/or. I do think people who don't learn tunes by ear are cheating themselves on the best ear training there is....

Moonglow is one of my favourite old tunes. The last phrase is syncopated so the temptation is for the whole band to play together. I’ve always seen...

Hello, so here are the results, perhaps surprising for many. Guitar 1 : Gibson ES 175 (2012), bought in April 2022 for 2500€. The price was quite...

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...