The Builder's Bench

Tips for translating ideas from head to...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

Jimmy Raney - May 24, 1989 - WFPL Radio -...

Mr B program

Possible Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold Study Group...

Why do strings eventually sound dead?In a word, corrosion.

Why do strings eventually sound dead?

Might be the best sounding nylon string archtop I've ever heard...but I still think my $700 Yamaha classical beats it in tone anyday. But I love that Parker is always trying things. He's a true...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

I've been playing jazz for many years. I'm at the point right now where I can come up with ideas/themes in my head (away from the instrument) over a song that I'm happy with ... say There Will...

Tips for translating ideas from head to instrument in real time

Actually, about 18.5" Commercially available, I think only the giant Stromberg was larger.

Any Levin Deluxe Owners Here?

Nothing macho about it for me. I had hip pinned 9 years ago and bladder did not wake up. Went home with catheter for a week way worse than the surgery and hip pinning. General anesthesia has greater...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

Ken Parker has a long continuing series called Archtoppery on YouTube, and his latest included that clip at the end of it. He explained his thinking and the history of that guitar, which he built...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

If you want an extended biog this isn't bad. https://www.dougpayne.com/bio2.htm

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

General anesthesia is safe and effective these days. Despite being given a terrible reputation by the media and police, fentanyl is a wonderful drug. When I was flying EMS, the med crew in the back...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

Totally worth learning a program (I use finale just because that's what i've been using for fifteen years at this point, but it's a dinosaur now). I would keep learning by hand though, just...

Bebop Technique

Nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6E5W-Mjd9U

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

,009 strings on an archtop isn't likely to sound good, and .010 strings are much lighter than I can stand, but I'm not you. I think you've already been given about all the advice we can think of, so...

Ibanez archtop with 0.010 Thomastik strings and rosewood bridge intonation issues

I had one about ten years ago. Smooth neck, killer sound. But it is kind of huge, 18 inches if I remember correct.

Any Levin Deluxe Owners Here?

I'm really trying to keep the 0.10 string gauge, but I think I'm on the end of the road here. My whole style of playing comes from 0.9's but maybe I'll develop something new when learning to play...

Ibanez archtop with 0.010 Thomastik strings and rosewood bridge intonation issues

The Geezer's Paradox: the older you get, the less you care about being cool, which in fact, makes you.... cool.

Bebop Technique

Embellishment. In practice that's what they are. I've been pretty obsessed with articulation generally for a long time, so this is something I've spoken to trumpet player friends about a lot. The...

Bebop Technique

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

Chord melody problem

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

Bebop Technique

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Would like some advice on improving reading from Real Book

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

What's The Answer?

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

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

Another way to look at the fingerboard