Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

2008(?) Henriksen 112

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

A little help explaining shielding with archtop...

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

Amazing Practice Tool! Track Splitter!

After looking at this thread,i think it's safe to say Big Mike likes big Blondes,at least in guitars.Wishing him all the best.

Campellone PSA

good god ..I can hear Wilson Pickett slamming Mustang Sally and seeing skinny girls dancing the "skate"

What are the essential grooves for jazz?

All you can do is make sure a ground is done to the strings. This should be done at the tailpiece inside. Run the ground wire to tailpiece hole.

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Which is fine enough until it leads to unexpected results because bronze strings do actually exist and the 2 winding alloys give a different enough sound that many players will get a hissing fit if...

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Idk send them a email (or a telegram if you prefer.) I would tend to refer to something by the name it is sold under. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Lawyers know as much about AI as politicians know about climate change. I thought 2023 was going to be the end of the world as we know it because of drought in the western states. Then it rained,...

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

Big Mike is not without a guitar this one is one of the Unity's he kept. This 18-inch Special Build and let me tell you it sounds like a miniature grand piano. In particular it has the highest arch...

Campellone PSA

Just purchased an L5 WM 2007, what a sound- my curiosity on the L4 has my interest- also like the versatility…

2008 Gibson L-4CES -carved spruce top, carved mahogany back -MINT

Isn’t it funny when you come across a thread where you posted something say, oh, seven years ago, and you have no idea what you were talking about? And it really seems as if a different person posted...

The roots of chord melody guitar. (Who were the pioneers?)

I think it's quite common to see a line there to some degree. I think that's the place where the fret board extension joins the neck. Eastman model number?

Lacquer Finish Checking

Yeah, many makers call them that (even Thomastik) but 80/20 is brass, not bronze. I'm really at a loss why the confusion would have arisen because I think most people know and can tell the difference...

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

More details re the NL guitar in the link I posted where you can get into the minutiae. Early NL had an arched top, later one were flat. The salient point as far as I’m concerned is we aren’t talking...

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

He was not alone. Alan Carruth has a story about how he visited a fair or something of the sort with I think a teacher, who saw Freddy Green's big Stromberg, "picked it up and struggled to place a...

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

I'm interested!

Aer compact 60/4 $1,450.CAD

We don't want to abuse guitars, but some people worry about every nick and checking. We bought them to be played just like we buy our homes. When new they look the best, it is all downhill after...

Lacquer Finish Checking

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

How bad is this?

AI music, yikes, it's improving fast