Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

Spalt Totem

Sunday Family Photo

Cherokee excerpt at 325 BPM with slant picking,...

HBO Documentary: Stax - Soulsville USA

SNL staff guitarist?

GOOD CHOICE -- GARY ZIMNICKI Some examples of Gary's labor of love from his exhibit at Woodstock October 2022 -- I love his guitars! Purple Heart hardwood binding is beautiful on that superbly...

Gary Zimnicki - 1925 L5 Derivative Archtop [Sitka Spruce | Red Maple]

“Blackie’s” love child. Maple board tuxedo. Nice.

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

Well, this is just getting more interesting!

Did Joe Pass NOT care much for his Ibanez JP20??

My condolences to the CS Jackson’s p/u’s. Looks and sounds like you are in good hands with the Jean.

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

I don’t know about THE one, I have a few that are very special to me, but this one has a lot of magic and I feel like we have a very strong connection. Obviously it was made for someone else long...

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

I find it interesting that Allan’s hand was quite pronated. If you look he almost had to reach around his third finger with the little finger. Which is not to say that there aren’t classical...

Bebop Technique

Moffa Lorraine and VB model 15. the Moffa has been #1 but recently pulled the VB back into the mix, great guitar

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

While I can understand that meaning (to be dismissive or even disrespectful), that POV when it relates to one's own legacy is misguided (at best), if not downright ridicules. But thanks...

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Totem X.2-8 - $2,500 Spalt Instruments TOTEM-X.2 8

Spalt Totem

“Four fingers good, two fingers better! All guitarists Are Equal. But Some Guitarists Are More Equal Than Others.” George Orwell, Animal Farm

Bebop Technique

Got everybody polished up this morning - haven't had a group photo in a while. Everything here cures every bit of G.A.S. that I might ever have....maybe....pretty much.....

Sunday Family Photo

My God, you guys are still talking about fingers? 2 was good enough for Django.

Bebop Technique

Well if four fingers was good enough for Allan Holdsworth, it's good enough for my meagre talent. Watch this video of Allan Holdsworth trying to do an advertisement for his signature guitar, it's...

Bebop Technique

By that I mean what it usually means - to be dismissive, or even disrespectful... I think that Wynton may have inferred that by "stooping" (or whatever) to make Pop, Herbie was trashing his own...

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

I’m learning more about the history of the instruments and how they are valued to better understand the market. There’s a sigma on the Gibson Norlin era that is perplexing. I’m in manufacturing...

Benedetto Bravo Deluxe or Gibson WesMo Crimson

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

Bebop Technique

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

Cure for a weak high E string?

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

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

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

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

Another way to look at the fingerboard