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One of the more SFW stories from Miles’s autobiography “Bird never talked about music, except one time I heard him arguing with a classical musician friend of mine. He told the cat that you...
Well I'll be. Yeah -- never heard that one. Or if I heard it before, I wasn't listening :nightmare:
Apparently, just for some trivia, the C on the score doesn't stand for 'Common' time. It comes from medieval church music where 3/4 was considered the most religiously perfect time signature (tempus...
Decided to mess around with this one...tried to to bring back the sixth into my solo a bit.
If I had to choose one, then single coil. What I think would be cool: a single coil pickup right next to a humbucker, both in the "neck" position. I haven't found a HB pickup that works well when...
The cost of labor here in California is quite high. I expect luthier work to cost $100 an hour or more. And finding a luthier with the skill set to work on archtops is not easy. A vintage guitar...
The wavy grain on the top of that flatsawn bridge base ... with time you'd expect that to sag. Hopefully your person can find a nice quartersawn piece (or skew?). After that, it will be better than...
Round wounds instead of flats. Improperly fitted bridge. High action out of the box. Why is ebony in quotes? Do you believe it's not ebony or you don't like that it's dyed? What do you mean by...
I think folks forget this when recommending 1950's archtops to less experienced players. Vintage guitars sound great. But vintage issues don't map well to the current reality of online commerce...
I appreciate your perspective as a purist. However, I think the choice of pickups, while important, doesn’t fundamentally change the character of a Telecaster. Swapping out the neck pickup mainly...
I was surprised too that the 120 holds its own with the 175. They have a lot of similarities tonally but the playability on the ibanez is head and shoulders better and that's not denigrating the 175...
Mike Stern played the old Yamaha G100 amps a ton as well.
Since there seems to be so much uncertainty about it, it probably doesn't matter much as long as the band knows what's going on. There are lots of vids and whatnot where the lead says 'Ten, six,...
I've written a lot about the pitfalls of vintage instruments. I bought this '63 Gibson Barney Kessel last year and the pickups (billed as originals) had been swapped out and the bracing had to be...
Next, we can debate the sound differences between an oiled maple fingerboard and a lacquered one. Anyways, I can't see how a glued-on strip of rosewood can have a notable effect when laminated...
pitfalls of a vintage archtop
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