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Originally Posted by Max405
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02-14-2020 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by neatomic
Last edited by MCampellone; 02-16-2020 at 04:50 PM.
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
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Maestro Campellone, i admire very much your work. Sadly in my country (argentina) there isnt a single chance to hear or play your instruments. I recently played in Tokyo an standard model (24,75 scale and floating pickup) in a guitar store and i was amazed by the quality of that guitar.
Regarding your comments about the top vibration altered by set pickups, knobs, etc... I would like to ask you specifically about amplified tone. (I chase the L-5 Wesmo tone and very big dynamic range, i dont like two set pickups versions of L-5 and laminated wood guitars because they dont have that dynamic response, and sadly i need at least a 3/4 nut width).
Is a good acoustic instrument a good electric one? Some top vibration should be avoided? A thicker top is desirable? The positions of tone and volume knobs contributes to that amazing sound?
I play a kind of music in which i need more dynamic response than traditional jazz and the difference between the two pickups L-5 version and the one pickup L-5 are very big.
Thank you very much!
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Originally Posted by MCampellone
Thanks
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Originally Posted by MCampellone
and rest easy, you have achieved that fine quality!!!
continued success
cheers
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Originally Posted by Gustavo Eiriz
I can safely say if ever there were a guitar ordering experience where you wouldn't need a pre- purchase trial, buying from Mark C is one of them.
Dennis
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Originally Posted by MCampellone
Mark,
While I'm not a luthier, common sense absolutely supports what you say. A carved top that's anchored with two mounted pickups, a pickguard resting on the pickup bezels, a toggle switch, and four knobs (maybe even a Bigsby!), is not going to have frequency nuance like an acoustic. It is now an electric guitar that may happen to be adequate acoustically for practice. There's nothing wrong with that type of guitar and a lot right, but don't waste your money trying to get that type of a guitar tap tuned.
I have a couple of guitars that try to split the difference. Two have a single mounted pickup, one with pots on the top and one with pots on the pickguard. Another is a Gibson Howard Roberts with a suspended pickup, an oval hole, mounted pots and laminated wood. They amplify very well and are okay acoustically but not great. There is a lot of workmanship in those guitars. Nonetheless I put them in the electric guitar category.
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Originally Posted by Dennis D
I wish I took Steve’s advice sooner but like I said Gibson blind. Not saying I don’t love Gibson but if you want the ultimate L5 experience and can live without a G on the headstock go with that C on the headstock. It is a G on steroids.
I am the new poster boy for the Campellone Guitar Co. We need to do some photoshop work on my Mr.Magoo face though. Thank God for the digital world.
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Vinny - I was having lunch with my wife yesterday at our favorite Italian restaurant and telling her about your build. She remembers Mark from the early Five Towns shows and always admired his work and thought he was a very kind accommodating builder- which turned out to be true.
As I was explaining his current models - I showed her pics of the Cameo and she said it was stunning . Her next words were” so are you thinking about ordering one “ - of which I replied “ not sure.
But you are right - it’s an equivalent to a Citation - and becoming very tempting. Mark has only made 3, with a pending 4th.
She also feels your blonde would look cool in an aged blonde ( straw color) like an old Gibson - with an aged clear coat over the binding.
She has supported my guitar hobby for 30 plus years - and spent many hours with me In Jimmy D’Aquisto and John Monteleone’s shop.
So happy for your build and the excitement surrounding Mark Campellone’s offerings.Last edited by QAman; 02-17-2020 at 05:48 PM.
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Do not let that woman get away.
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qamans in good company...jim halls wife bought him his first d'aquisto..and was behind the "no binding" look of his later classic d'aquisto arch!
cheers
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Over 40 years ago my new wife, for our first Christmas, presented me with a Martin D28 (I was a folksinger at the time). Amazing woman, we just celebrated our 42nd anniversary.
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
I am lucky too. Blessed.
JD
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My wife and I have been married for coming up on 45 years. She begrudges every penny spent on herself, but doesn't complain at all about what I spend, so I try to limit that. I don't plan on letting her go anywhere either.
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My wife can play the piano quite well (passed grade 8 piano exam when she was at school), she likes playing baroque pieces a lot. We have a good Kemble-Yamaha upright piano in our living room so she often sits down and just plays whatever is on the stand. Currently she is playing some Rameau (La Villageoise).
So I get a lot of little piano recitals all day, it’s very nice for a music-lover!
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My wife plays the cast iron frying pan. B flat when it hits my head.....LOL
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My wife cannot play "Three Blind Mice", but I didn't marry her for her musical ability. She does pretty well with a frying pan, though, but keeps it on the stove. Her greatest fear in life seems to be that I could starve, so she keeps putting massive amounts of food in front of me. As long as I keep her, I'll be assured of having plenty to eat.
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
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Originally Posted by Gustavo Eiriz
To answer your questions, I know I've mentioned this before, but it's probably worth repeating - the archtop guitar was originally designed as an acoustic instrument, before pickups were even invented, and there are qualities in a good acoustic instrument that will create problems if you amplify it with a pickup. A guitar that is very responsive acoustically will usually have very uneven response when amplified, with lots of "hot spots" and "dead spots" in certain ranges. Building the guitar more heavily (with a thicker top and back) will of course inhibit acoustic response, but it will usually help to even out the response when amplified, so you'll get more even sustain throughout the instrument's range, with less hot/dead spot intensity. Having the pickup and controls mounted to the top will also inhibit its vibration, though I don't think that the particular positioning of the controls is much of an issue. Also worth mentioning, I've found that even with built-in pickup and controls, a solid carved wood archtop will have slightly greater dynamic range than one with laminated top and back construction, and many players prefer the attenuated response of laminated archtops for amplified performance.
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Originally Posted by Marty Grass
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Originally Posted by Max405
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Originally Posted by Patlotch
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If anyone's interested in the other side's point of view: forget about husbands and their meals; get a hand-built archtop and go live in Patagonia.
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Zina, my wife feeds me because she loves me, not because I demand it. We both care for the other more than we care for ourselves. I know that isn't always the case in a marriage, perhaps it isn't in most. I don't know, because my sample size is only one, and I do not pry into other marriages. Living alone with a guitar is not an attractive thought to me. I could bear to live without a guitar, but not without my wife. Perhaps someday you will find a man you love more than guitars. Or perhaps not. I believe the former would be better than the latter, as long as he loved you the same.
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