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Yesterday, 04:19 PM
Is this guitar ruined? Cheap for a JS
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Yesterday, 02:38 PM
https://youtu.be/IdZFHf1prLM?si=sWlvhwzxV4Ih3WnM
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Yesterday, 06:16 PM
Dear all, I'm pretty new to guitar and VERY new to jazz guitar and have an itch for an archtop. My criteria is one with a single pickup, 3.0" thick...
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Yesterday, 11:57 PM
My favorite is T Monk and Milt Jackson. So spiky, melodic, and colorful. :redface-new:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhWPNQi3VE
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Today, 11:53 AM
Apparently the company Rhodes has relaunched the instrument and are manufacturing a new version of the authentic instrument with tines (tuning forks)...
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Yesterday, 11:16 PM
I’ve been researching Style A/A-1s recently and had some questions. Currently, there are 7 Style A and A-s available for sale on Reverb and through...
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Today, 08:16 AM
Hi All,
posting here for my forum friends. Have an excellent 16-B for sale. Recently got into a vintage Fratello and just don’t need both in the...
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Today, 02:46 AM
I'm posting journals as reflections on my experiences at open jazz jam sessions near where I live in Japan. I hope some of my experiences will...
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Today, 06:41 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8cWlR60bdc
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Today, 12:09 PM
I have mine already (beautiful blonde) but in looking at the Walkin website (to see if they had any of the 175 knockoffs in stock) I saw this, which...
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Today, 01:04 PM
Well done. Nice tone, that's a lot faster than I can play the phrase. :encouragement:
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Today, 01:04 PM
If the dough springs back when you try to shape it, let it rest for a few minutes. That should cause the dough to relax and be more workable, unless...
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Today, 12:52 PM
Will this work (no affiliation)? Base for ABR-1 Style Tunematic Guitar Bridge Rsewd BP-0037-0R0 | eBay
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Today, 12:51 PM
Hope they at least make the new Rhodes a little lighter in weight.My back still has bad memories of transporting them to a gig.
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Today, 12:49 PM
The drool from looking at those pictures just shorted out my key-board. Wow, what fantastic instruments!
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Today, 12:47 PM
I have the Comins-16-1 and I had frozen shoulders. This is an excellent guitar and very comfortable to play. Shoulder pain is no joke and the...
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Today, 12:45 PM
I think you might mean Guild A-150, not A-50 (the A-50 is a vintage acoustic, not a current production electric)? Anyway, the A-150 is a 17" guitar,...
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Today, 12:45 PM
Here's my 180 bpm clam bake. Tried to push it as hard as I could with several new fingerings that I hope ultimately will help me play it a little...
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Today, 12:36 PM
You overestimate how much I care about the opinions of my trumpet friends.
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Today, 12:35 PM
learn how to read it in C, impress your trumpet friends!
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Today, 12:34 PM
The guys who play the first group GASB and swing tunes are the OG realbook haters. That’s what I meant earlier in the thread when I said we don’t...
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Today, 12:15 PM
just my thought as i the poster has removed the post i will leave the name off but wabted to give my thoughts.
i dont live in or near a large city...
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Today, 12:06 PM
Lol.
They sent me Bb
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Today, 12:06 PM
As a Software Engineer, I'd simply open the picture, usually by default in Windows it uses the Photos app for JPG pictures.
Then I'd use the...
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Today, 12:05 PM
That's something I can try, though I've had several resources warn against stretching dough to make it fit a pan (basically it will un-stretch). I do...
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Today, 12:03 PM
It’s $9500. Even Brother Ray would be using a Nord for half of that price.
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Today, 11:57 AM
That’s all true and I agree with you. But it’s not practical for many gigs. These days, almost no one pays for rehearsals for non-recurring club...
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Today, 11:47 AM
^ Oh yeah, that's a great one!
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Today, 11:41 AM
Ogden Avenue
PART FOUR
Learning Phrases
Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Ear
After a few days of listening attentively and Internalising...
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Today, 11:23 AM
As we're doing it, here's another one, no repeat, no blues.
I hope the black and white's not too pretentious. The tune's a little... moody...
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Today, 11:18 AM
Found the first two new real books used for $25 total. First one comes today.
Oops.
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Today, 11:12 AM
Tbh if you have a decent repertoire sometimes tunes are easier to learn by ear on the band stand. Used to be like that when I was playing with dance...
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Today, 11:09 AM
Some more international interest but no real contenders yet .....
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Today, 11:07 AM
Charts are useful when playing cold. But my experience is the music gets deeper once they go away. I hate seeing them on a bandstand. I pride myself...
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Today, 10:28 AM
You've missed this one. Pretty slick, this :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZwXp6fyMc
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Today, 10:25 AM
Thank you for confirming the refret and for the additional info. It is a really nice piece of maple on the back. Here is a picture of the label also....
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Today, 10:18 AM
This is a beautiful classic jazz ballad. I’ll try to put up a track later today. I just finished my restoration of the blonde Fender clone kit that...
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Today, 10:07 AM
Yeah good point. The final shaping is very important for the evenness and the oven spring.
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Today, 10:03 AM
I just PM’d you back.
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Today, 09:56 AM
I‘ll see Bill with the trio next week, in Oberhausen, of all places. Tickets still available.
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Today, 09:49 AM
My daughter worked at GC some years ago, as the rentals manager and later in charge of lessons at a store. I bought some things, because I could get...
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Today, 09:23 AM
This is my beloved ES-330L. The neck meets the body at the 19th fret instead of the 15th as with a traditional ES-330. Basically a fully hollow...
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Today, 09:21 AM
Wow, that beauty goes way back - back to the days when quilted maple of that quality was much easier to get than it is now. At that time, the...
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Today, 09:16 AM
Long reply via PM - thanks.
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Today, 09:06 AM
In this case the guitar is relatively subdued in the kitsch department shreddin'shreddin'shreddin'
(With this one we're getting close to what I...
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Today, 09:00 AM
Yes, but "that much" can be "only" 5 cents (and compensating that can be done by slipping the equivalent of a piece of toothpick under the string and...
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Today, 08:55 AM
No guitars here, but I find this awfully hard to beat. There are lots of great ones though.
https://youtu.be/9dDPVUNk1Mg?si=cEFWfQndag456aNE
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Today, 08:52 AM
The neck alone looks to have parts from at least three different guitars!
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Today, 08:51 AM
As SS pointed out, some 70 GJS had volutes. They actually did them both with and without. Most I’ve seen do not have them.
That said, that one...
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Today, 08:43 AM
I was addressing the OP. I have no disagreement with what you posted. But if an individual string is so far out that it needs that much...
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Today, 08:37 AM
It'd be really interesting to see and hear a proper, in-depth comparison of a number of famous US-made archtops with their counterparts from the...
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Today, 08:20 AM
I put it on when I went to bed last night, but I fell asleep. Have to try again. What I did hear of it, very interesting. I feel like people with...
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Today, 08:17 AM
Yeah, it was decided that 13 and 14 were part of the line started prior.
I like it nice and slow too. Things get too fast and they sound spastic...
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Today, 08:10 AM
I thought I had caught up with the thread, but bars 13-14 seem to have been included with the latest 4 bars.
I'm getting there slowly, but I'm...
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Today, 08:10 AM
Those kinds of radical mods are things you do when you're in need of a very specific functional requirement. They're things you do because it's your...
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Today, 08:03 AM
Of course, and it wasn't my intention to contradict you on this. But the OP only mentions a slight intonation problem at the 12th fret on the lower...
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Today, 07:23 AM
I wouldn't have made these changes, but I have seen similar ones made by a competent luthier. Pete Moreno put a mounted pickup in a gorgeous...
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Today, 07:14 AM
You are welcome, Hammertone! Ploughing through a dissertation is certainly something for a rainy weekend or two.
Btw., as an owner of NOS "Roger...
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Today, 07:06 AM
Once I wrote the melody of Bluesette out in a few ways, just for fun:
bluesette_intervallides_ja_akordides.mscz - Google Drive
It's a Musescore...
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Today, 06:55 AM
Yes, Paul Bigsby is one of the pioneers of the solid body guitar and certainly George Beauchamp and a few more names.
For me, it's not primarily...
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Today, 05:51 AM
His new album Orchestras has just been released on Blue Note. The closest thing to a concerto for electric guitar.
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Today, 05:10 AM
Well the ad does mention "*(top X-brace cut through to mount replacement pickups, interior pedestal installed between top and back, tailpiece...
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Today, 05:01 AM
I agree, it's not that inspiring but it's the song we've got.
The RB has AABA so I did it like that but I did notice that most versions including...
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Today, 03:06 AM
To those interested few, here is a short clip I made when I picked the guitar up in january.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVRUtirc6LI
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Today, 02:57 AM
I frankly don't disbelieve that the best of American archtops are superior to anything else - you guys invented them. And Martin guitars - a recent...
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Today, 02:05 AM
Listening once more to your demo. Now this recalls very obviously to me the sound of the Belge guitarist Rene Thomas.. and the phrasing, airy and...
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Today, 01:58 AM
BK. You mean Barney Kessel ?
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Today, 01:56 AM
I visited their concert in Berlin two weeks ago. It was really short! :)
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Today, 01:53 AM
I own three of John D'Angelico's guitars. I have a 1935 Excel. a 1837 Style A and a 1948 Style B. All are non-cut 17 inch guitars. All are amazing...
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Today, 01:37 AM
It's 4 or 5 hours each way for me (southern Oregon) and I already have a nice ES175. Of course.. if it were close by I probably couldn't resist. A...
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Today, 12:01 AM
My L50 was in worse shape. I'd be interested in using that cut-up guitar for a project like this, but the price is still on the high side for me.
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Yesterday, 11:45 PM
Who knew that there would be homework... I know what I'll be doing this weekend, sheesh!! Thanks, Doc.
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Yesterday, 11:39 PM
Here’s my slow and sloppy first night.
https://youtu.be/kHUqrQFhnnM?si=1lRSfImoseu3wMbL
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Yesterday, 11:36 PM
^ How do you like the song? I thought it was one of those tunes with a narrative but boring melody and uninteresting chords too. But then I ended up...
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Yesterday, 11:14 PM
Ow, my eyes!
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Yesterday, 11:09 PM
How close they are is an interesting question. I'll grab a few measurements from one of the three CES-style Campellones (w/P-90s, below) and a 2016 ...
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Yesterday, 11:06 PM
All in good fun, of course. :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 10:43 PM
@daverepair, thanks for that. I'd considered it and it's probably my best option. Sometimes I just want the easier, softer way and I think your...
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Yesterday, 10:17 PM
Structural integrity seems questionable to me at best! How can the top support both pickups? I wouldn’t chance it unless I was a luthier myself.
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM
I have been baking bread for many years. The ingredients are simple but how you prepare them makes a huge difference in the finished product.
The...
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Yesterday, 09:33 PM
I have played a 70's Johnny Smith with a volute.
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Yesterday, 09:28 PM
I don't know much about '70s JSs, and I don't remember ever seeing a JS with a volute. But the pics of this one seem to show one. Is it there and...
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Yesterday, 08:45 PM
I just picked up a 2014 L4CES which is solid carved mahogany back and sides, but stained darker than natural. I’m assuming they stained it to hide...
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Yesterday, 08:21 PM
The intonation can be set at the 12th fret however high the nut slots are. But the notes at other frets, especially the ones nearer the nut, will be...
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Yesterday, 08:18 PM
Why not take an easily available base, and plug/redrill the threaded stud holes, to fit your Faber base? If you are not experienced to do this, have...
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Yesterday, 08:14 PM
I miss disco balls.
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Yesterday, 08:13 PM
Sounds great Jack. It's no BK of course, but...what is? :)
How's the feel and comfort level?
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Yesterday, 08:12 PM
Alright, so it's more like, another thing to get used too. I can handle that.
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Yesterday, 08:09 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NEZQklp90
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Yesterday, 08:05 PM
All very good Archie! Fun to watch the progression. I want to see some guitars!
Preaching to the choir on vacuum pressing here, as you may...
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Yesterday, 07:51 PM
X brace double cut. Those braces are put in there as an integrated part of a carved top, and it's a deadly compromise on intended design and...
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Yesterday, 07:44 PM
A guitar like that has to be sold at a garage sale price. That means no risk and that price is mighty low I might add.
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Yesterday, 07:37 PM
Brian thanks.
There is also a huge sawmill out in Germany where I hope to acquire my spruce plates.
They also do pre pressed solid arched plates...
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Yesterday, 07:31 PM
I was thinking of buying it and taking it apart for R&D but even at that price, I’m not interested.
Who would you sell it to at £4k?
I could...
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Yesterday, 07:31 PM
I know.
Really complicated. Only for heavyweight techies :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcR6VYJj4bY
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Yesterday, 07:28 PM
Is the back carved and if so, why didn’t they book match it?
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Yesterday, 07:10 PM
House of Guitars has had a few new Gibson archtops in the last few months. It's probably for real.
They have a new L5CES as well.
Attention...
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Yesterday, 07:04 PM
(why didn't I buy a Colling's back when? I even toured the factory and met the man himself)
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Yesterday, 07:03 PM
I for one appreciate the tip, but I'm not motivated enough to drive 5+ hours (round trip) to see if it's worth buying. I have a Japanese 1970's...
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Yesterday, 06:50 PM
I love it when I’m working on more than one area at a time.
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Yesterday, 06:41 PM
Inspiring. You look, sound and play like a very happy man!
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Yesterday, 06:35 PM
I think people get too caught up in originality. Might work as a nice CES
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Yesterday, 06:26 PM
I'm interested in your Comins GCS-16-1. I'm a newbie to archtops so please bear with my beginner's questions. First, I can't tell from the pics how...
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Yesterday, 06:24 PM
Brick and mortar charges a lot. Ebay and Reverb less. Craigslist and Facebook (and Jazz Guitar Forum) are free. But you already know that.
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Yesterday, 06:10 PM
It's not a Johnny Smith anymore. I hope it served the owner well.
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Yesterday, 06:10 PM
Sounds so lovely!
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Yesterday, 05:54 PM
Testing it out using the Buscarino chameleon preamp. It sounded better a foot away than it did Straight against the grill. Guitar by Victor Baker
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Yesterday, 05:45 PM
Before you start planning your trip, please check whether I am at home, as I travel to a lot of International jazz guitar workshops. I play somewhat...
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Yesterday, 05:42 PM
That's bad.
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Yesterday, 05:40 PM
To me it is completely ruined.
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Yesterday, 05:39 PM
I don't think USA built guitars will go away, but perhaps there may be less per year built.....
and that may be a GOOD thing. Let's keep the quality...
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Yesterday, 05:39 PM
For bread I get sourdough at a local bakery. The only thing I really bake is apple cake.
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Yesterday, 05:37 PM
The Three Coins! Tony Oodie (sp?) Sleezy disco ball.
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Yesterday, 05:37 PM
Funnily enough, I saw a recent thread where you were looking for one of these and did a quick search as I really like the Ibanez Metheny models in...
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Yesterday, 05:31 PM
Live Duos with Wayne Horvitz from 1989/1990, released today.
Live Forever, Vol. 3: Wayne Horvitz, Bill Frisell Duo: Frankfurt, Knitting Factory...
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Yesterday, 05:08 PM
Which Pick is similar to the 3mm Dunlop I also like Wegen ..........
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