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Another Recording of my TK Smith Special

Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise: Jazz Guitar...

CLEAN 1950s French Gypsy Jazz Guitar Sonora...

Nigel Price chats with Peter Bernstein

A couple recent sort of jazz songs

Modes are stupid in this context. It’s a swing tune, it’s C. Also, is the ii V in the tune or just the realbook?

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Different finish, but my one and only is a 16 VOS as well. Done buying, done looking. Swear I spent more money A/B - ing strings, mainly because they all sounded good to me on this guitar, but once...

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

The question wasn't addressed to me, but why let that stop me from jumping in? :rolleyes: IME, the polepieces need to be adjusted more or less as follows to make the strings sound balanced to me. ...

Cure for a weak high E string?

Some might say the same of the guy playing Lydian for four measures over a swing tune. I kid I kid I kid. But for real, the practical difference is “do you play B or Bb” and most soloists on...

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Superb quality guitars. I have a hollow Les-Paul shaped one and it's in regular rotation.

Seventy Seven Hawk Jazz Deep on Reverb

Lovely guitar. That is a very nice burst.

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

While I get the point, and to a large part agree, some of these emulations (and the hardware itself) have a curve you would never come up with on a digital eq. For instance a Massive Passive is...

The Audio Plugin Scam

I think a lot of folks are trying too hard.

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

That just sounds so great. TK has a sound vision all his own. He had it already fully formed when I met him almost 30 years ago and I still hear the same thing today: remarkable clarity but with...

Another Recording of my TK Smith Special

Some years ago I bought a new Danelectro 12 string electric that was shipped that way from the US to UK. It was the cheapest way to post. Strings were cellotaped to the neck. The 4 neck screws were...

Travelling with a Tele (in two parts)

I have added various useful specifications above for the first three of the Roger guitars shown. Mittenwald and later Rogers were standardized with -24 3/4" scale lengths; -17" wide / 21"...

Vintage German archtop with a wide nut

Thanks John! Do you have photo of your 59’…. great sound.. what amp are you using?

Benedetto Bravo Deluxe or Gibson WesMo Crimson

I originally posted this in the transcriptions subforum, but I felt like it belongs here so people can get a sense of how awesome this guitar and these pickups sound. These pickups are so thick but...

Another Recording of my TK Smith Special

Yea.

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

I'm with you about the F but I've been on a thread here somewhere before where a lot of folks consider it's modulated.

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

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

Chord melody problem

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

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

Cure for a weak high E string?

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn