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Wow! Never heard a Squier Tele sound as good as here. And, of course, extraordinary playing from JS.

The Kluson Sealfasts appear to be heavier than any other tuners i know of. They could even be heavier than the Grovers in spite of the plastic...

it’s not a common one

You could check out the truefire course bebop dojo by sheryl bailey. You would learn a lot of arpeggios there.

There are men without hats; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs

As stock, 43.9 lbs (19.91 kg) according to the manual. Heavy enough.

Pat Metheny agrees..

The mere awareness of what pentatonic scale to use is only the beginning of learning jazz music. In my opinion, it is much more important to build...

Lenny Breau used a thumbpick Buddy Fite used fingerpicks because he used to drop his flat pick when he'd play drunk. Rather than stop drinking, he...

Why hate on hats? It's not new: Lester Young and many more wore hats. Jazz is self-expression, it spills over into presentation and appearance. The...

If I was forced to name it rather than just put the four notes on a staff ... b C E G G# might be best notated as C(addb6). When I've...

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I believe I saw a 7 string L5 on eBay once, maybe 15 years ago. The listing said it was in Japan. It did not have the “scrunched” look of this S400....

Congratulations on your new-to-you ES125. Thinline guitars are my favorite body type. Don't know why, but they are. Your playing sounds...

Let's see it :cool:

Why rush it ?

Lovely, looks comfortable too.

The better you are at jazz the less hair you have. Look at Joe Pass, it’s scientific fact.

Spook, by the way, congratulations on the Gibson L5CES. Happy for you bud. Cant wait to see it. JD

Hiding male pattern baldness. Either that or their fashion sense is stuck there. Think of guys playing Dixieland wearing straw boater hats.

Here is a great gadget that keeps books open for you. It is also on Amazon. ...

Yes but it's free shipping! :smile-new:

Good thinking with the meat thermometer Spook! I'll be doing the same in a few months. Thanks!

Someone can ask 35K or 350K but I think these typically sell for around 15K or so give or take a couple grand.

All good stuff. I'd also add that the highest quality 'feedback loop' I've encountered is playing in an group. In rehearsal you get immediate...

Honestly, I have no idea how these should be priced since I was never looking for one. Since there is one in my area, I thought it interesting to at...

Sounds great, totally fits with the sound of the #11. I haven't noticed it in the wild before.

Well, I told my wife I want to go tomorrow and JUST LOOK. She agreed so will make a day of it, getting there and then finding a place to eat since...

This state of affairs can be so true for many of us who opted for a career outside music and then moved on with our lives, especially as we get older...

The Guernsey's auction piece was the first I ever saw about a 7 string guitar in TM's possession. I never read, heard or saw any evidence that he...

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Totally agree!

I came close ... but price was part of my decision to get the other one. Reverb still has a 2016 Citation in Germany for $35K. Are these...

I've had Heritage do some repair work in the distant past. The difference with me is that I would walk into the factory with the guitar and ask for...

@nevershouldhavesoldit, thanks, nice spread of pics and clips! I clipped this one from I forget which magazine and have had it hanging on my...

Whoa Nelly!

So beautiful it deserves a bump.

Packed guitar is quietly resting in the garage after a tough couple of days on the road. Outside Temp: 109 F Inside the box temp: 111.2 F

A high of 72 in Ocean Shores today. Climate change is overrated…this week. No way I’d ever live in Spokane!

Will someone actually spend $18k for the one at Lavonne Music? Seems steep.

There are 4 minor pentatonics you can use over a M7. For CM7 there's Am, Em, Bm (the Bm gives the #11 sound) and Cm (for the blues). If there are...

I agree. Leave it overnight despite the temptation. I purchased a 68 year old archtop a couple weeks ago. Shipped from Seattle where the temp was...

Hey Mark... I always dig your posts. I like the concept... here's a old post from 2011 of How insensitive with reharm etc... with vid and changes....

Great way of outlining the changes!

Thanks! It looks more normal in your pics! I wonder if he ever played it and where it is now.

That guitar was on display in Rudy's when I visited NYC in September 2016. I just found the two photos I took of it, which included a copy of a...

I'd like to take a minute to encourage you Reg, to talk all you want about organization. I happen to like it, even though I don't understand it all,...

thank you Mark..!! I hear much more than just two tune flavors..I hear a bit of Misty and some Monk, Bill Evans and Lenni Tristano. I think you...

LOL If you go, let us know what you think. I was tempted to go with that one for the quilt and abalone inlay.

Thanks Winter. I feel a lot better now. :doh: Though in fact, this is apparently a real issue for the drivers as the trucks lack AC. Going to...

"Still, the truck (and warehouses, et al) has to present a suitable human habitat so guessing the inside truck temperature won't be so high" those...

It's not as cool as the coast where I'm at. 106 outside today and the truck will be out in that all afternoon before a late delivery. Still, the...

Actually pretty nice. It is a different sound obviously on the Vox and Marshall setting. But even the Fender (Round) has a different voicing from...

Good advice.

He was the first real guitar "idol" I had - James Burton got in under the wire as my first inspiration because I watched Ozzie and Harriet. But I...

Now you're making me think... As it happens, I was working on enclosures at the same time I worked on altered ideas, (over a single chord or short...

Making a living with a musical instrument is pretty tough these days. A few who do very well at this can certainly afford whatever guitar they want. ...

You mean the Pacific Northwest. The inland Northwest (Spokane, Boise, Missoula etc.) have had a lot of record heat. Here on the California coast...

Thanks for the cool discussion everyone!!

Please let us know how it goes the Strymon Iridium with the Mambo Amp.

Tony was a studio player. Range of notes can mean your reputation as someone who can play anything and the next guy who's just good. That guitar has...

Thank you. Yes, it’s deep. Only 1/16” shy of 3.5” deep.

I’d open it up immediately. He’s not in the hot humid environment of the NE, but the NW. it’s much cooler here. I had a delivery last week....

Nice guitar there, just looking for a player!

interesting, how summer and winter bring different kind of stress to the instrument. horse glue only came to my mind after you had mentioned it. ...

Kinda hurt just reading that..

The Wicked Pickett! https://youtu.be/7A47uNen5-Q

Thanks ...all good answers! I wasn`t looking but I`m tempted ...would ship to Dallas Paul

always in good spirit. :smile-new: I, among the others, hope that your new instrument will arrive in perfect condition. I think one can not...

Another disadvantage to having the pickups so close together is it limits the tonal range

I love arps. For me, they make sense of scales. Rather than plodding through a G major scale, for instance over a tune, or section of a tune, "using...

Hands down, the D’Aquisto! Made in Japan, and a superbly balanced archtop. I once owned one. Plus, it looks like a copy of the Sadowsky Jim Hall...

the L-50 with the TK-Smith pick-up left me breathless, this, only in direct comparion, leaves me cold. maybe it is just a bridge-change away from...

It also makes the guitar look a little weird, at least to me - it's not as graceful in appearance as it would be with a "proper" neck and pickup...

The mini toggle is the boost switch, also controllable with foot switch. It's fairly subtle and depending on how you set the gain and master can be...

It depends on whether the box has been sitting in 100+ degree temps over a few days or it came from an a A/C environment over a short period of time....

Point taken certainly why risk it but I still disagree unless like I said the box feels very warm. I say with because I doubt the temps get through...

Congrats on your new Citation! Beautiful. But...did you REALLY have to post about this one at Lavonne Music? I recently bought a brand new,...

Looks interesting. I see a mini toggle on the left front chassis. What does that do? Also ... back panel says BOTH on the selector ...does that...

It seems to be the standard BJB mini humbucker. Doesn't seem to be all that different from the BJB mini in my Le Grand. Both of my BJB guitars...

Maj7#9#11 ftw EDIT: the maj13#11#15 is Warne Marsh’s two octave major arpeggio no?

I think in addition to finish damage, I'd be concerned about glue melting. Probably less of a concern on newer instruments but if we were talking...

Good tip - where can the OP find examples of this? David

I've focused a lot of practice time on reading scores without looking at the guitar at all, accelerating the pace over the last few weeks. Here's a...

Yeah. If you are self teaching (and IME ALL good jazz players engage first and foremost in self teaching regardless of how many hours they’ve clocked...

^ Respectfully disagree Mark. Going from a day of 106 temps (it'll be even hotter in a truck) to being immediately opened in an air-conditioned...

I am going to go against all advice. Frankly if the guitar is well packed the guitar should not be anywhere near a hot temperature. Possibly as high...

Killer archtop looking for a player. Priced to sell, not in need to liquidate it. Only trade interest at this point is an acoustic Gibson with...

What do you know about the pickup they used on these? Is it a standard mini-hum bucker? Congrats, it looks great!

Cool! I found a link to some additional photos: Just a moment...

As the selmer macaferri is essentially an acoustic telecaster, this does not surprise me

I would let it sit for a few hours, then open the box and leave it like that overnight, or take the case out and leave it like that overnight. At...

That was great. JS sounds like he's been playing a tele all his life. Knows exactly how to hit it to make it sound it's best.

true for me .... up the Arp down the scale (to a chord tone)

Also. When he bought it it was black, we think this maybe the original finish…? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gee, guys with ideas and the chops to execute them. All done with good humor and an outward projection. Very entertaining!!! Regardless of your own...

Seriously?

@sir-vector have you tried calling the contact phone number on the website? E-mail sometimes gets snagged by junkmail filters and never reaches the...

That's what the block diagram seems to say. I'm surprised by that. I'd have thought that it would have a mono option using both amps. BTW, I had...

Super interesting topic, and so applicable to jazz guitar which seems so difficult to learn. I've wondered about the quality of the feedback loop...

@admins Feel free to mark this one sold. I am the happy new owner :-) @rafdavis is a new member here, with only this single 'For sale' post to...

It does have something extra special about it.

Fortunately, I have been acclimated to the volute by my 70s Les Paul Custom ... LOL

Why 24 frets? Especially when it displaces the neck pickup which is the Sweet Spot?

I like telecaster!:smile-new:

Well it’s a New York City version, so that automatically adds another 30% to its asking price, Lol!

Crazy Prices for guitars nowadays! I get it in a way, but the irony is most of these guitars aren’t even used as tools to make a living any longer. ...

That's really nice. Congrats! Gibson got these right!

Another Bandit user here, long time ago, decades, but it did me right for quite a while.

Cool~ Enjoy it! Sounds real nice~~~

It takes serious to deny/support the existence of someone/something you’ve never encountered. On the other hand, if you have encountered this...

I also have a 2017 175. My understanding is that these have the thickest laminates ever used on the 175 to reduce feedback and improve sustain.

FWIW, I recently changed from Gotoh vintage style with plastic buttons to Kluson Revolution with metal buttons. I've also gone the other way on a...

I report that it was the excellent London jazz guitarist Alban Claret who turned me onto the power of El Bandito as it was the house amp at my local...

Sounds amazing!!! Great classic jazz tone.

Ah OK - I think Hal Galper also used some of those in 'Forward Motion' IIRC which made me think of Berklee as I thought I recalled him saying that's...

But it has that volute that many here scorn! :doh:

Since the subject of this thread has somewhat been obscured by the interesting - and as yet surprisingly civil - discussion, Salman Rushdie himself...

Thanks Jimmy!

Tuners vary a lot in weight, even without any buttons. I've changed lots of them, and I've never noticed any difference in tone before or after.

Yea... moving a little forward. Typically when playing jazz.... that note, however you want to label melodically becomes a chord. Which I could go on...

The D'Aquisto has a balance, acoustic liveliness and more inspiring vibe to it for me. As much as I like the Ibanez, that Jazz Line just feels more...