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What's the saying? "You can always tell a piano player, but you can't tell them much."
Yeah, I'm looking at my Kingpin right now, and the top is about 2mm thick. It's not the most pronounced arch, mind you...but it also hasn't sunk...I've had the guitar about 16 years.
First of all you have to tell it to the piano player. But I'm afraid he/she will stare at you and doesn't understand anything what you want to say. :cool:
And what's odd is the focus here on "Misty" but in fact a ton of jazz standards were originally ballads and became wildly up-tempo barn-burners. "All the Things You Are" is a great example. A very...
I never measured the one I had, but Godin 5th Avenues have the thinnest laminated tops I've ever seen (made from wild cherry), and quite a lively unplugged sound. Might be worth trying to talk to...
It kind of reminds me of hiking in the high mountains of Colorado. You see a summit ahead and think you're at the top, then as you move onto it, you realize it's a "false summit" and only a step up...
In 2017, when Henry J was facing foreclosure of Gibson, he sold many guitars through Chicago Music Exchange to the public at wholesale prices (I am sure his other dealers were furious). Some of...
Big fan of blonde, single pickup laminate guitars. Looks like the Ibanez Metheny models
I've simplified Countdown but maybe not in an acceptable way to some people. The nice thing about jazz is that you can interpret a tune any way you want. Purists might object but that's too bad,...
I decided to try playing this in some other keys, starting with C. This was fairly easy because I had room to move up my fingerings from Ab. This is a sloppy 190, but I'm not giving up on this...
https://youtu.be/Dv2yJSqOoQg Finally made it to 200 bpm! I hit it yesterday but couldn't play it reliably. Today without any warm up or build up, I just fired up the gear and rolled "tape" and got...
By the way, the chord diagram at the end of that vid is misleading, it seems to have done a mirror thing on itself. Should look like this:
Brazilian Rosewood and CITES
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