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Beauregard MB Semi Hollow

1944 Levin Royal - pickup/pick guard tips?

Manuscript Notebooks, Anyone?

My Solo Guitar arrangement video of the beautiful...

Randy Vincent cellular approach book

Alternatively, say you are an experienced session guitarist and you come across a pentatonic/blues melody with a little note above saying ‘with distortion’ Are you going to use ‘legit’ Segovia...

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I didn't see it there. It could have been. Cincy

Beauregard MB Semi Hollow

Well the most extreme example is bop lines. People often say they are not guitarist. This is untrue, but it’s easy to see why people think they are. I couldn’t play Donna Lee at tempo till I...

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Excellent article for those interested in scale length. There's more, but this is important. "Let's look at the 25 1/2" scale (Fig. 3) The strongest component, the first four partials, are fairly...

What actually matters in electric guitar tone?

Ha, ha. Sadly, nothing to write home about. But the scene, when they do these things, is pretty positive-leaning and full of people who enjoy the music and aren't there just to drink and chase...

On Green Dolphin St.

FWIW, scale length is actually one of the biggest factors in the whole equation. I played mostly short scale instruments my whole life, and whenever I pick up a tele, it takes my ears a few minutes...

What actually matters in electric guitar tone?

Here’s where I think a solid body has one advantage over a hollwbody ( and I LOVE hollowbodies): some notes on a hollow archtop guitar are inevitably sort of out of phase sounding, die off faster...

Jazz on a Gibson Les Paul?

My impression is that single coil vs humbucker makes a big difference. I'm less convinced that solid vs semi-with-internal-block makes much difference. I'm not convinced that every archtop...

What actually matters in electric guitar tone?

Not my (classical) definition of position. D with 1st finger at 5th fret on A string: 5th position D with 4th finger at 5th fret on A string: 2nd position (5th fret on a string, which one?...

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was this the one that was on reverb for a few years?

Beauregard MB Semi Hollow

I believe it originally was Taku Sakashta who came up with this design model. I’ve also seen a couple other luthiers who have copied it as well. Jazznguitars, has a couple for sale. Love the...

Beauregard MB Semi Hollow

So consider u are playing a D, 5th fret on a string. Key of A, you're in one of two positions. Key of D, you're in one of 2 different positions. That was what I meant if it wasn't clear.

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Yes, this is his wonderful nod to Sakashta-- congrats!!

Beauregard MB Semi Hollow

Beautiful gitter! Is that a 17" with 3" bout?

Holst guitars

Got my order in, and just had to try that AC016 as a B string. Interestingly it's a 0.0169" so 17 gauge. I cannot really speak for its actual tension, but because of its higher flexibility the force...

Plain wire trebles - All equal or some truly warmer (*acoustically*!) than others?

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 69) - Song For My Father

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 70) - Seven Steps To Heaven

Holst guitars

Types of lacquer and the sound of the guitar.

1963 ES-175 or is it a 1967?

Peavey Bandits

Plain wire trebles - All equal or some truly warmer (*acoustically*!) than others?

L5-S Frankenstein

WD Music archtop bridge?

New Amps day

The Blu 6 has arrived

Jaen for sale

Tube Amps - Odd Maintenance?