Classical Guitar

Luthier help with sound posts in carved archtop

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Manha de Carnaval

Polytone MiniBrute I (Boston area)

Jazz Guitar Book - Acquired of the Angels

Looking for suggestion and experience here. I have a '90 S 16 which was originally acoustic (with floater) X braced and was modified to mounted pickup. It has 3 sound posts added, 2 under the bridge...

Luthier help with sound posts in carved archtop

There are a few differences in the headstock overlay between Coco's Roger as shown in photos, and the auction guitar. We have seen other Roger archtops with that style of headstock overlay, so it was...

Vintage German Archtops

This is a song I can relate to. 'A day in the life of a fool...'

Manha de Carnaval

Alcohol makes you play bad. As a sober musician, I see it all the time. Nobody gets better after a drink. Nobody.

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

I have a Fender keyboard amp, does not work for electric guitars, sounds completely bland and dull, might be suitable for an acoustic-electric but I doubt it.

Keyboard amp for jazz guitar

It went fine and we got the same spattering of applause as the rest of the night.

Bebop Technique

Alcohol is a cough suppressant. So.. relax and have a couple! Also codeine, but that can lead to serious trouble in my experience.

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

I was thinking of getting a didgeridoo, heard it's an effective, inexpensive, and entertaining way to improve your breathing capacity - doubt that I could play jazz on it though.

What instrument to get?

Yes! That is excellent news.

Bebop Technique

yeah , I’ve used a roland Keyboard amp a couple of times at a jam session yeah channel 1 worked sounded (no perceivable output using channel 2 3 or 4 , the guitar straight in didn’t have...

Keyboard amp for jazz guitar

Well, you made it a Abm7b5 chord, which only has one note different than a Gmaj7 (Ab rather than G) and doesn't sound dominant to me. But I suspect you're using good substitutes but...

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

Thank you! I don’t have any idea where all the Bach flavors come from as I’ve never played any classical whatsoever.

Manha de Carnaval

so to update yeah it all worked great the security guy at the airport said “what’s in the bag” about 4 times then re x-rayed it for a while then opened up the bag and said “ok so its a guitar” …....

Travelling with a Tele (in two parts)

I don't think I said anything about lowering the 6th. I said lower the 7th a semitone to the 6th. D7b5 at the 10th fret = D-X-C-F#-Ab=X lower the 7th and you get D-X-B-F#-Ab-X It is...

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

If we want to skip formal study of music theory that defines functional harmony very specifically, we can say that function pretty much comes down to what the listener hears. Separating function from...

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

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

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

Cure for a weak high E string?

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

Are Modern Amps Repairable?

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo?