The Builder's Bench

George Benson / Pat Metheny style 2-5-1, using...

Novax 7 string

Ibanez AF95-DA ... A first recording with a cheap...

Gary Zimnicki - 1925 L5 Derivative Archtop [Sitka...

Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold

Obits in the LA and NY Time both say he died in Los Angeles.

Did Joe Pass NOT care much for his Ibanez JP20??

The Super 400 CES is just marvellous- I would urge you to play one if you get the chance. Magisterial and utterly accomplished. Effortlessly great. For me, the trick is to play it...

Benedetto Bravo Deluxe or Gibson WesMo Crimson

I like the sound of the tweeter in my Genzler, but I do turn it down 15% when playing a Heritage Mimi Fox through it. With my Acoustic guitar, though, I level it out. BTW, I generally lurk in the...

Archtop with tweeter - yay or nay?

All I did with this guitar was lower the neck pickup a bit and tune the strings down a step to make it easier for me to play. Other than that I haven't even taken the tags off or removed the little...

Ibanez AF95-DA ... A first recording with a cheap archtop

Blessed. Mr.Campellone placed me on his list today. I have wanted a Campellone Deluxe since the mid-late 1990’s. HooRahh.

Mark Campellone the Archtop building machine

George Benson / Pat Metheny style 2-5-1, using ghosting instead of inside/outside picking There have been a ton of discussions on the guitar forums about how to handle playing cross picking...

George Benson / Pat Metheny style 2-5-1, using ghosting instead of inside/outside pic

I do not know the answer to that.

Did Joe Pass NOT care much for his Ibanez JP20??

No height change. The guitar has always had a great action the neck is excellent. I've always had a really low action. It couldn't be lowered. Prior to removing the AZ I tried numerous strings, even...

Cure for a weak high E string?

That is the first Saguaro cactus ? f-hole on a guitar I have seen. Nice rig.

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

I see. Makes me wonder what it was. Did the height end up different, the eq of the pickup fixed it, something with the mag or magnetism. I wouldn't think a custom shop Duncan would be defective or...

Cure for a weak high E string?

Had one I loved years ago and sold it (?!). Interested in one again. TIA

Novax 7 string

Just decided to experiment with a cheap pickup and it worked. I didn't have to change anything else.

Cure for a weak high E string?

you‘re right re the choices Hanika offers. I found this particular one at the wonderful SICCAS GUITARS store in Karlsruhe where the selection of high end classical guitars is astounding ! Mine was a...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

Check him out. Tronzo does some interesting music. You may like the YouTube videos of the Berklee staff jams also. Good stuff. This was a good night at Berklee. Great playing and music. ...

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

It's new information for me that Joe had a carved D'Aquisto. I had always assumed it was one of the plywood electric models. Shame on me! And apparently he had one of each, even better. Did Joe...

Did Joe Pass NOT care much for his Ibanez JP20??

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?

Bebop Technique

Chord melody problem

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Cure for a weak high E string?

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

Another way to look at the fingerboard