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I'm waiting for the FM9 to drop in price to somewhere below a grand. :) I'm curious as to which comes first - that or grandchildren! :smile-new:
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm thinking Gibson made also. It has been refretted, but you can see remnants of the original fret nibs. Below are some photos of the truss rod and its bulbous cover.
Sometimes by individual shapes and sometimes grouped with other shapes if they form a context, like with the diagram I made of maj7 going up the neck. I have to wonder if Walter Becker worked out...
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..... Somebody wake me up when this gets back to folks posting their playing of Donna Lee. Sorry, feeling grumpy today. ( I am legally obligated to apologize because I'm...
Oh c'mon, everybody knows what he means. It's like the difference between typing accurately, and typing poetry ....
Beautiful. How much would I pay for one of those? Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
Been scratching my head a little over this thread and am realising that in a lot of famous pairings, like Gene Ammons v Sonny Stitt, or Sonny Rollins v Sonny Stitt, you are still hearing the...
Here is Chuck's tele hollow general information. The 20th Anniversary ones are special. "These are semi-hollow Teles that sound fabulous and the wood is incredibly special. The body is...
Sweet guitar. That sort of truss rod cover was used by some NY-era Epis. If you look throughFelix Wiedler’s site, you’ll see scattered examples. My NY-era Devon had nibs, until I had it...
I got one or two of his Heritage built Gretsches. I have three total but only one or two came from Randy. The others came from the Gretsch family. As I recall Randy donated guitars to the...
Kirk Fletcher is a good guy. A great blues player with jazz chops also. Here is an interview with another joyous musician/guitar historian/ and all around guitar geek Zac Childs. It is a good...
George Golla and Don Burrows. George is way under recognized for his beautiful playing and together with Burrows, there was an amazing chemistry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtXV4LcokA ...
It looks to me like there’s a weird truss rod cover on it, hiding the truss rod nut. I can’t be 100% certain, but it looks like the frets have binding nibs which would be a Gibson thing. ...
It doesn't appear from the pics to have a nylon nut, which Gibson used from very late 50s through early ( at least) 60s - that one looks like aged bone. Also the truss rod doesn't seem to have the...
Chuck Thornton 20th Anniversary instruments
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