The Builder's Bench

Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold

Gibson ES-335 Sunburst 1988 including OHSC. UK...

Yamaha G100-II / G50-II impedance matching

Archtop with tweeter - yay or nay?

Sweetwater has a Reverb type site

Or maybe it's one of the very few that has been recorded properly? Sadly I'm not aware of any recordings at all of the "classical archtops" Alan Carruth has built. Those are probably the only ones...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

AFAIK he didn‘t record with it but he did make some videos with it. https://youtu.be/J5wOdikpRu8 He might have played it at some guitar shows or demonstrations. I don’t think he toured with it...

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

He had a distinct sound and style. Not sure if you want to put a label on it but I find his music quite moving and has great energy.

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

I’ve heard that story before. Probably from you LOL. Were Pisano and Joe on good terms when Joe was near the end of his life? I’m not aware they had a falling out. Anyway, I don’t see why it’s...

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

In my experience adjusting the tweeter on my Fishman Artist makes little difference to guitars with magnetic pickups, specifically archtops. I have read that magnetic pickups tend to produce...

Archtop with tweeter - yay or nay?

That Dale Unger could be a nice grab. Replace the pickup with your favorite. Free shipping on a '65 Twin? Yikes.

Sweetwater has a Reverb type site

Dave Tronzo is an interesting musician. https://youtu.be/i9415x9NZsc?si=ocyo81kmQzPIANff https://youtu.be/ItSyiMApcRE?si=iXeyMMsGQ9vd0L9F Tronzo walks does a wonderful job of mixing straight...

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

I tend to ramble so I had to chop a lot out, but here’s something. I’ll get into some weirder stuff soon: https://youtu.be/qCOjyzFi0AM?si=KkGOqW1OFWqQDXQu

Bebop Technique

Wonderful tune. Szabo’s music and “Silent Way” sound like they share the same influence. I wonder if some of that because of where the composers were born and raised? Joe Zawinul being from Austria...

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

For me personally, I handle it quite simple. I stay away from guitars built with parts of Brazilian Rosewood without mentioning a CITES certificate in the description. This makes my life easier...

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

I crashed with a bike some years ago and got an undislocated radius fracture. I too managed to drive the 10 kilometers home on the bike. And then there was Tyler Hamilton who broke a collar bone...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

Very well, but not till I've answered the two points you made. First, the line about Derek Bailey was light-hearted. It was a joke. I was trying to make a humorous contrast. Like saying after Sir...

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Welcome here. To answer your questions, guitar amps with a transistor power amp can usually accept a speaker impedance between 4 - 16 ohms. Same will be the case for the Yamaha amps. Also, the...

Yamaha G100-II / G50-II impedance matching

I don't think he cared for the EEJP. Did he ever record with it?

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

I wouldn't worry about the plexus nerve block - that stuff works, and the chances of closed reduction for many of these "boxer" fractures are good. The timing of the operation is ok: most fractures...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

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

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

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

What's The Answer?

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

Another way to look at the fingerboard