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  1. #101

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    Whats Bobby playing in this video?

    It has too many strings!!!!

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  3. #102

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    Satin Doll,


  4. #103

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    Keven Eubanks is awesome....Great jazz player.
    Sonny Rawlins can't be overlooked.

  5. #104

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    Nobody mentioned the Epiphone ES-175 reissue. I have it. It's a dream
    guitar! No problems with feedback and a terrific Barney Kessel type
    sound. On the Musician's frend website, the Epiphone reissue is getting
    higher praise than the $2600 Gibson "original."

    El Profe

  6. #105

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    Man, that's a wide open question... kinda like what kind of woman do you like? First off, I'm one that believes every guitar has it's own vibe. Also, it depends what kind of jazz your playing and your style. I think Tele's are cool and they play great but I wouldn't buy one just because that guitar isn't my style even though it's a great guitar. I prefer something big like the L5 or Super that could almost sound like a Hammond B3. Love Gibson because I like the way they look and sound. Also, once you get your hands on something you like, once you have it set up, it starts to take on a personality of it's own. Also, my first jazz guitar was an Epiphone Sheraton. I had the frets polished down a bit and had some nice flatwounds put on and changed the pickups to Gibson 57 classics... I still have it and is one of my favorite guitars in my collection.

  7. #106

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    Makes me think about how a Sheraton might do with P-90s--really get that old 175 sound.

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    Don't rule out an Epiphone Casino..with flatwounds...I got a great Jazz sound out of it and it's very versatile and easy to handle. Also has P-90's

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    I've been very curious about a casino because it is a total hollowbody and you get a warmer sound. Would be very interested in putting 57 classics into one. One of my favorite jazz\funk guitarists plays a Casino but his sound doesn't have the warmth I'm looking for... it may be the P-90's. Look up Eddie Roberts if you get a chance... he's from the UK.

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    I've tried them all and have come the opinion that Gibson deserved its patents on their humbucker pickups. Yes, there are many other guitars with beautiful workmanship and action, but when you plug them in, they just do not have that incredible warm tone. I have an L5 and ES-175 and actually prefer the less expensive 175.

    One piece of advice. Do not buy a new guitar. Guitar makers have long ago run out of their "stockpiles" of aged wood. Everything new is made from "green" wood -- that's why none of them sound as good as a 10 or 20-year old guitar. Guitars made from green wood will "move", no matter how well crafted, and in a year or so, you may end up with problems.

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    I have guitars with humbuckers and P90s and I tend to prefer the P90s (the original 175 pickup) to get what sounds to my ear like "jazz." But how great that we have so many cool sounds and guitars to choose from.

    I would disagree in a minor way with royswan on new wood guitars. My 68 Martin has changed over the years and gets better all the time. The luthiers (hey the spell checker wants to make that "Lutherans") I know understand that wood changes over time, and can create guitars that age in wondrous ways. Perhaps it is true of mass produced guitars, but some of the new hand made guitars are great. In fact, if anyone has a decent "green wood" classical guitar they want to give away, my shipping address is available for a PM .

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    You know, I would really try out a Hagstrom Super Swede or the Swede were I you (the super swede isn't necessarily better than the swede). For $675 (i guess the price has gone up) its worth having a go at it. It has a really dark sound to it, not like Teles or Les Pauls, and its perfect for blues. I believe Hendrix played a Hagstrom Viking, which is also a great guitar. The Super Swede, which is what I have, has a coil tap switch that makes the pickups sound like P-90s. Very versatile, and its a beautiful instrument besides.

    Its the only instrument that I've bought that has remained stock, simply because the original parts are sooo damn good.

    If you're a tele fan, you should also try out the CIJ Jaguar Special, its comes with Tele humbuckers. I switched those out on mine for P-90s, and that instrument is a great blues guitar.

  13. #112

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    Check out PEERLESS...Korean made from a company that used to make all the guitars for the big guys now started on their own in Korea....Cremona is top of the line...They are really beautifully made . Along the lines of a Benedetto but far less expensive. I also have an Epiphone and they seriously sound like a jazz guitar if you add the heavier strings and the heavier pick...It really has more to do with the PLAYER not the guitar.After you realize that, you won't care so much...great guitars make great players sound great and help crappy players emphasize all their shortcomings.BUT , a great guitar gives the new player incentive to play better.

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    It would take alot to make me give up my all mahogany Godin LG after taking out the hot seymour duncan SP3 90s and Loading it with a pair of very early 60 model Gibson P90s. I love that guitar I mean love it. I sold one of my ES335 gibson to a dude in Austin he makes a living playing Jazz. He played my Godin and wanted it more then the gibson and I wouldnt sale it. Just couldnt let it go. I just couldnt imagine not playing it. It pleases me.

  15. #114

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    Quote Originally Posted by X-500
    GUILDS, GUILDS, GUILDS!
    LOL ! Yeah, I like them too. Here's a Rhode Island made SF III that I bought new some years back. It has a sweet sound, feels nice and looks very sharp !

    I had reservations about the cast aluminum bridge when I first obtained the guitar - even bought an ebony bridge to replace it, but I haven't done so fifteen years later, even though it would take only two minutes.

    For those who are not familiar with Guilds, this is a hollow archtop, not a semi-hollow like a Gibson ES-135/137 ... never had feedback problems.




    cheers

  16. #115

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    Wholeheartedly agree with the Guilds!

    I have a Westerly SFIV and X-170. The x-170 gets a great jazz sound through my '73 Princeton Reverb.

  17. #116

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob32069
    Wholeheartedly agree with the Guilds!

    I have a Westerly SFIV and X-170. The x-170 gets a great jazz sound through my '73 Princeton Reverb.
    Nice !!! It's great to see these other beautiful Guilds, I have never encountered another Guild player in person.

    I've also never played a Stuart, like X-500's, but I understand that they are very special - why they aren't priced to run with the Gibsons is a mystery.

    I bought (new) my SF-III about fifteen years ago for around $1000 US and bought a Gibson ES-135 three years or so later for the same price, also new. But the Guild is several times the value of the Gibson IMO.

    It's a full hollow body with the consequent richness of tone that the semi-hollow Gibson lacks. It has full binding (the Gibson has no neck binding) and FWIW, it has the Bigsby tailpiece. (I use it in the same manner that a vocalist uses a trailing vibrato. It's very effective for ballads ...)

    As X-500 said, VERY under-rated guitars, superb value for $. I have a number of Gibsons too, and I enjoy them immensely but the Guild has a very distinct sound, very sweet.

    cheers
    Last edited by randyc; 09-26-2009 at 12:50 PM.

  18. #117

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    So far it appears that nobody has mentioned the great, semi-hollow Yamaha SA2000S . This is similar to a Gibson 335, but with the smaller horns seen also on John Scofield's guitar made by Ibanez, and coil taps on the humbucker pick-ups. The Yamaha is a superbly made guitar - at the top of their range. I bought mine in 1991 after sampling one at a trade show in London when ordering guitars for a music shop owning friend. It has the lowest and cleanest action that I've ever played, with a perfect neck - check out the reviews on Harmony Central, with lots of USA guitarists saying this guitar wipes the floor with a Gibson. Mine's a beautiful sunburst, with gold hardware. In the UK some excellent and affordable jazz guitars are on sale under the Peerless brand name. Having praised the Yamaha, my favourite guitar for all styles, including jazz, is my USA Fender Statocaster Deluxe, with the S1 switching system allowing me to find a really wide range of tones.

  19. #118

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    Although I love my Eastman 905 in most situations a tele suits me just fine- and has the versatility to go for more pointed rhythm sounds and crunch also.
    I had one of my teles rewired lately for a jerry donahue wiring with a 5 way switch, which in addition to the traditional tele positions give me a start quack sound and a setting that sound more like a humbucker. while the normal tele neck sound is a fine and transparent jazz tone which never gets muddy, the new setting gives a more midrange-powefull sound thus suited for some lines that need a little more punch. all this achieved by a switch and a few resistors.

  20. #119

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajaypea
    So far it appears that nobody has mentioned the great, semi-hollow Yamaha SA2000S
    Those are hard to find, aren't they? Is the SA2200 the latest iteration of the 2000?

    My G&L strat with the S1 has that wide range you mention. It is a fine axe for all styles.

  21. #120

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    does anyone have insight of the TOKAI AFA 180 rendition of the Gibbo ES 175?
    i am considering buying one pretty soon.
    thanks
    patrick

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    Hi there
    my gtr dealer currently stocks the follwing ES175 copies (second hand) :
    -Ibanez AF100
    -Heritage H575
    -Antoria ES175.
    I am simply craving for a 175 type gtr and I am a bit confused over the choice offered, givne that I also have a Tokai UFA 180 in sight.
    Any comments on these models that would help me make a decision???
    surprisingly enough, the Ibanez is the most expensive of the lot.
    rgds
    patrick

  23. #122

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    My "perfect" jazz guitar is these 3 Washburns and 2 D'Aquistos. If I had to choose just one, I couldn't. I would have to have one electric and one acoustic. Even an acoustic D'Aquisto with a floating pup, which is PURE tone, just isn't as versatile as the Washburn J-9 on the left and I tend to get bored with limited tone when playing live, so if I had to choose just one, it would all depend on what I needed it for. So, I guess the "perfect" guitar greatly depends on what you want to do with it. What do y'all think?

  24. #123

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    Quote Originally Posted by jaxson50
    Whats Bobby playing in this video?

    It has too many strings!!!!

    Hofner 8 string Jazzica I think... sweeeeet!

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    hi vikinin,
    Tryed to answer, but i was logged out. Ibanez AF-100 has difrerent cutaway than ES 175, but FA-100 is a copy of gibbon, but not a "lawsuit", couse hedstock is different. Try to get one, you will not be disapointed.

    Tokai is a japanise brand, guite expencive and quality stuff, no experience. It is the same with Antoria, it is the same factory than Ibanez used, but the brand was to UK markets

    Heritage L-5 modell I have seen to be played, and it was loud using mesa boogie studioamp. No experience about your H575. Harmony´s opinions were from here to there.
    Regards
    juuso1
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    P.S. You Squint have very many nice guitars. I agree you, that different guitars are for different places to play...
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    Just had to put my Washburn props out there.

    Goes to show, good guitars are where ever you find them...