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If they are indeed building jazz boxes again, the production process for an L-5 involves a luthier working with a different and more refined skill set than the crafty tools needed to put together a...
Whoops, yes I meant a 2024 build (as per the 2xxx4001 serial number), and no, I did not buy it. I played it, and it sounded very good, but rather bright, like other Byrdlands I have played. I was...
PSA: the changes in this one are half time from the way they’re usually played.
Im sure I was told at Uni that the very first original chord sequence was done in Bb over a Bb pedal. I had them written down somewhere.
Looks like the score he referenced is the same as this one, which is in Eb rather than D Major. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrkohVZAwA
I'm in a trio where the guitar "wears many hats" musically; the result is that the mechanical distinction of comping, chord melody, and soloing are pretty diffuse and overlap each other. When...
I've been through the process with a pre-war instrument. The prior owner failed to grasp the magnitude of the undertaking, and lost interest part of the way through, for reasons unknown to me....
So it's a 20-year-old NOS Byrd in unplayed condition? Or did you mean to say 2024?
or even just the guide tones. I love those little dudes so I do that a lot. Super easy to play. The diads themselves are open and kind of dull so they don’t take away from the solo. And they outline...
Destination Moon - Beverly Kenney (Johnny Smith on Guitar) Falling in Love with with Love - Sheila Jordan (Barry Galbraith on Guitar) Comes Love - Billie Holiday (Barney Kessel on Guitar) Oh...
I only have first hand experience with three carved archtops: 2 old German ones from the 50s and a modern Thorell. Both of the German ones have recurves around the edge of the top and bottom...
Robocoptick, that anger you're nursing is clouding your mind. Unfortunately Jimmy and many other luthiers got sold bad binding material, which subsequently deteriorated. They had no way of knowing....
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