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Michael, is that you?? is a great band name, dibs!
Don't like the sound or the feel, I like guitars that are not bright. If I was into metal I would consider them.
Rob ~ Just returning from a week off-the-grid and find this news about your health condition. I am saddened to hear this has come about, and I want you to know that your musicianship, mentorship,...
The cutaway on that beautiful Sweet 16 is more the shape of what you see on a 335 - a tighter bend than the average L5 style cutaway, so I can see where it could a problem doing it with solid wood (I...
File under the old “spice of life” adage:)
I retrieved my vintage Gibson that I loaned to a friend for several years in Minnesota. While I visited there last summer, I packed it in the original case with cashmere fabric to completely cushion...
In a word, "no". The suggestions offered thus far all depend on airline employees breaking or bending the rules. Currently, the carry-on size limit for most domestic airlines is 22 x 14 x 9 inches. A...
I had loaned out a copy of a Gruhn book, got it back, and it confirms my internet browsing conclusions. 'Trapezoid' inlays & neck binding were used 1950-1956, unbound with dot from 1946-1949. I...
As a general rule of thumb composers have become more strict in writing down what they wanted rather than expecting performers to share the same conventions re: execution. Not just w.r.t. what the...
I was just being tongue in cheek. Still — Christian would know more about this, but conventions generally spring up for a purpose and figured bass was less capable of fully representing what a...
Convention you mean? Can't see I've seen many of his autographs but use of figured notation had been out of vogue in classical music for some time already during his life...
In monk transcriptions, you’ll often see an instruction at the beginning like “symbols are for solos only, during head Monk plays open fifths in left hand and clusters in right” … sometimes clarity...
Variation 1 - Chick Corea / Herbie Hancock style...
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