-
this post has been my experience with every archtop i've ever had, since the day i got them. it's all i do.
my most similar guitar is a byrdland, and i'm still surprised by how aggressive and smooth the bridge pickup can be. for the uninitiated, if your guitar has more than one pickup, there is a switch on your guitar that lets you toggle between them. either move it down or toward the bridge, depending on the orientation of the switch.
but back when these things were invented, there weren't as many distinctions as there are now. it was just a guitar. people used them for early rock and country and whatever else because a guitar was a guitar. they still are, by the way.
-
08-11-2018 10:40 PM
-
Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
Originally Posted by gggomez
Originally Posted by rhoadsscholar
Regarding feedback, I’ve never had feedback issues with this guitar. I don’t usually have feedback problems in genera with archtops except sometimes with my PM100 (that guitar is notorious for feeding back) but I can control it easily. Keeping the amp in the right place has a lot to do with it for me and if I have room to position the amp on my left in a specific spot I won’t ever have feedback.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
-
There was a time when I sold all of my instruments to get a 1920s L-5 with a McCarty pickup. I got the guitar from an aging studio musician and jamming partner of Grant Green. How could I go wrong?
Well, my gigs were rock and blues, and I was just getting into jazz. Feedback was a problem. I had a lot of help though managing it.
Tone was not an issue. With lighter round wounds it worked fine. The same was true with my subsequent guitars: Guild AA, Es-175.
I did one musical with a Howard Roberts and another with an ES-345. They all work.
There are some guitars better suited for certain genres, no doubt. But most guitars get by in most situations.
-
Originally Posted by Dhango
-
Originally Posted by customxke
Jerry Miller | Vintage Guitar(R) magazine
It's named Buelah, and he bought it new from Gibson factory, and he called Gibson every day to annoy them..
Easily mistaken for a 175 due to the Florentine cutaway...
-
Guitar dealer/historian George Gruhn said Maybelle Carter's 1928 L5 was "the most important single guitar in the entire history of country music.”
She could fingerpick a pretty tune, but when needed, she was a drivin' rhythm machine, who could hold her own with anyone.
-
This is a really special guitar, a 2014 L5 Premier. I flew down to Vinny's and picked it up yesterday. I've lusted after one of these and finally pulled the trigger. Being mainly an acoustic player, it knocks the ball out of the park. And it is in perfect condition. I can't say enough good things about Vinny either. The interaction was a pleasure, and I got to play his new Campellone too! Pretty darn special. QAman sold one of these a couple of years ago, and I didn't move fast enough and wasn't about to let this one get away. It's pure bliss, as perfect as a guitar can be, IMHO! Thank you Vinny! You are awesome!
Last edited by skykomishone; 09-16-2018 at 02:14 PM.
-
It just looks RIGHT. Congratulations!
-
Enjoy the visual, aural, and physical pleasure of playing that baby. Such a joy to hear of your pleasure at both getting this and visiting with Vinny!
Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
-
That is a beauty and if I was going to play an L5 that would probably be the one! Play us tune on it.
-
Skykomishone,
Gorgeous guitar and a wise choice. The Gibson Crimson L5's are fantastic guitars , and buying from Vinny insured you the guitar was already critiqued for perfection.
Do enjoy. By the way, did you take the guitar back on the plane ?
Sent from my GT-N5110 using Tapatalk
-
A real classic beauty!
How is it braced?
-
Sky,
Vinny was fond of that guitar and sad to see it go.
I am glad it found a good home and it will get all the hydration it needs to stay perfect for the rest of its life with you.
It’s great to see a terrific guitar go to a great home.
Congratulations.
Joe D
-
Steve,
The pleasure was all mine and a joy to meet you. I really appreciate that you flew down to get it with my shipping fears.
My wife already stoled the money and hired a landscaper to redo our drought dead front yard. Happy wife/happy life.
May that L5P bring you years of joy. It is a special one for sure. Even has the evo gold frets. The fact that it is A braced makes it special too. Gibson will never make these again.
Hope to hook up with you next summer and play some of your sweet axes. I love happy endings.
-
Originally Posted by Marty Grass
-
Great score sky, what an amazing L5. Vinny's great to deal with and has made alot of guitar dreams come true hear on JGF. Enjoy that beauty.
-
As Ralph Cramden used to say, "hamana hamana hamana." That's one sweet L5P. Beautiful finish, and--of course--Vinny kept it in perfect (i.e., mint) condition.
You will enjoy this guitar. It will become your No. 1, I predict.
-
beautiful in every way...tale & guitar
a great story for our forum here..a union of jazz guitar lovers!! all of us!
congrats & enjoy
and hopefully you'll be enjoying that new front garden soon vinny!!! nature inspires!
cheers
-
Originally Posted by Greentone
Jimmy D would like him. He took off my girlie TI 12’s and put on manly 13-56 rounds.
-
An L-5P should sing with 13-56 rounds.
-
Sweet guitar, great story! Only on JGF! Congratulations, and play it in good health!
Also, really fine photograph. You have an eye.
-
Congratulations Steve! That's one beautiful guitar. Okay, I'll have to come over and play that one, and the Campy, and the Anderson, and the vintage '175, and the piano...I might need the spare room!
-
Someone can name this guitar ! Inside the body there is a label with the words Custom Built for Henry Allen by William Malon (or Malone!) March 21, 1969.
What value can it have? Thank !
-
Originally Posted by Dariocing
Paul
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
-
Good evening ! I bought this guitar at the Gardiner Houlgate auction on 12-12-2018, as the guitar sounds great, I just wanted to get to know its story! Greetings Dario
Last edited by Dariocing; 01-31-2019 at 04:37 PM.
Starting a phrase late
Yesterday, 11:19 PM in Improvisation