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Has anyone here ever tried putting in a Charlie Christian pickup on a ES-350, or know of some well-known guitarist who did this?
How did it sound?
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11-09-2021 02:20 AM
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Ummmm? Check the Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow. And pretty much everything by Barney Kessel. But seriously, you would have known this already so why do you ask?
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Barney K as mentioned above. Bruce Forman just released a new album playing this guitar. So if you dig deep enough you can hear two great musicians playing the same style of music on the same guitar- through the same amp! This should give you a pretty good idea how the guitar/amp combo could sound different just by changing the musician.
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Jimmy Raney played an ES150 with a CC pickup until somewhere in the 1960s, which is very similar. ES300 and ES150 are pretty much the same guitar with different trim levels (300 is fancier); ES 350 is the same as an ES300, but with a cutaway.
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Originally Posted by John A.
Here is one played by Carmello Tartamella, a nice italian guitarist I met last summer. Great guy and great guitarist.
Best and take care.Last edited by Fred Archtop; 11-09-2021 at 05:59 PM.
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There were two types of CC pickups. Tal used the notched CC pickup rather than the straight bar back in the 50s.
I don't know which Barney and Bruce use.
On gigs, Tal used a GA-30, I don't know the amps Barney and Bruce were/ are using.
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Originally Posted by John A.Originally Posted by Fred Archtop
Some additional trivia: Just as there was a solid and a plywood 150, there was also a solid spruce top ES-300 produced in the early 1940s. Barney Kessel played one on this Lester Young clip. Unfortunately Gibson never made one with a CC pickup, but that would have been a classic guitar. I played one of these at Retrofret once. I think it was a good guitar, but I couldn't tell because some deviant set it up with flatwounds which made it sound like plywood anyway.
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Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
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Originally Posted by John A.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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What's the difference in sound between the notched CC pickup and the straight bar CC Pickup?
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An attempt to balance the B string, otherwise the same as far as I can tell.
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I have played them both on vintage ES 150 guitars. They sounded the same to me. Superb.
Another way to look at the fingerboard
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