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I'd guess that's the reason why standard tuning became the most popular Guitar tuning. Easier for playing chords. If it wasn't for the Guitar, we could have still been playing the 6 string Bass...
To put the price tag a little bit lower than for a.m. speakers: Jensen Tornado Jupiter LC 10 Both are excellent for clean sounds.
Sorry if someone has already shared this one, but I have to give props to "Triple Play" by Russell Malone. Definitely one of my favorite records in this ensemble format.
I have a eminence alessandro GA-SC64 In a Princeton that is pretty nice for the money. Mine is a 12 but they do make a 10. The Princeton does break up pretty early on the dial. The GA is a bit more...
I have a Yamaha Pacifica that I use for a lot of gig work, in addition to two hollow-body archtops and two semi-hollow archtops. I play all my archtops amplified, so I don't see the need to raise the...
An improvisation from last night in very (very) loose approximation of Pat Martino circa “Special Door”, on one of my Les Pauls: https://youtu.be/-c0xqpdpyX8?si=f4nIW20X1uVijIwH
What BH taught me is to divide the fingerboard in minor 3rds. What I did is add the three finger barre every minor third that creates a first inversion triad every minor third on strings 432: ...
My experience is that you can setup the action on an archtop to be as low or the same as a solid body guitar. (After fret levelling and polish.) But, an archtop sounds better acoustically with a...
I like those sweeps, or 16th note clusters. That's trick I'd like to get down.
The best speaker I have found for my tastes in a Princeton (and indeed many other amps) is the Webers 10A125. The alnico speaker has a certain squishy thing going on with a lovely, sweet high end...
If you ever decide to sell the G&l Asat, let me know. I would be very happy to purchase it. -Charley
I have a '78 Ibanez FA-100 I bought after having gone through 2 Gibson 175s in the late 80's. I got it for a Yes cover band gig and love it to death. I've never had an issue with the binding, though...
Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...
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