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alpop - I've just put this together. It's not perfect, nor am I the greatest CM player in the world! In fact, the last time I did one was several years ago. But at least it's the tune :-) ...
Reduced sale this weekend.
Financial Times: Yet looming behind the push to rebuild are some difficult questions: can the city afford the cost of rebuilding areas that are becoming uninsurable? Are the worst-hit areas...
The most important thing in any learning is systematicity, passion, perseverance and consistency.
Service and support are the Quilter’s weak point here in Europe. They have only one dealer, Thomann in Germany, and luckily I have not had to try their guarantees.
No. Yes. :rolleyes: To a great extent, whether it makes a difference depends on the player and how much they obsess about this sort of minutia. As long as the braces are intact and the top hasn't...
Don’t know about Eastmans but my secret to be able to play guitar while watching tv with my wife is to play quiet. And I seriously think that it has made me better player! It have schooled my heavy...
Well…eh… isn’t that the whole idea of internet and forums like this?
My tube amps have definitlely needed more maintenance than my solid state amps (with the exception of two different Polytone amps that I've owned, none of my solid state amps have needed maintenance...
Wow, Jim Hall with some hair. And the original pickup and fingerboard on his ES-175. Already his phrasing is different from other guitarists of the time, and his tone has developed. And nothing...
I have played for decades with d’Andrea Pro Plecs. Celluloid I guess? 1,5 mm 358 jazz and 1,5 mm 351 rock. How does Ultex material differ from those?
My attitude to vintage amps goes according to Strinswinger, I would have difficult to own and play and gig something too valuable. And some amps are ridiculously valuable! So I have made my own...
Something you can do on your own to improve on these areas would be to learn to play the melodies of simple tunes note-for-note. Don't start with Donna Lee :-) Four might even be a bit too...
I sold my last tube amp, a 1964 Princeton. The price had risen to a point where the amp was no longer more important to me than the money. I had not gigged it in years. My Quilter and my Milkman...
Jim Hall playing with his thumb in 1957
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